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Basketball is, of course, a team sport. But Slovenian youth coach Rok Dežman remembers one individual player who stood out from all the rest from a very young age.
“As coaches we see some little things, like little details that a player has," said Dežman.
He recalls seeing a young Luka Dončić walk out onto the court.
“You see those moves when he was six years old. He was born with the ball. He lived basketball…he didn't practice basketball. You didn't have to tell him, put this leg here, put this one here. He had it naturally," said Dežman.
Early on, little Luka was paired up with bigger, older players in the Olimpija Club youth league in Ljubljana, Slovenia. You can see for yourself how Luka stood out in this clip from the FIBA YouTube Channel. Luka dominated with a 54-point triple-double championship performance when he was just 12 years old.
The kid had mad skills and an uncanny passion. The sort that, “You can't train”. Another of his early coaches, Lojze Šiško, explains, “You are born with this passion."
Šiško showed WFAA the Ljubljana basketball court where Luka put in so much extra practice before and after his scheduled practices that Coach Šiško tried to reduce his court time. He didn’t succeed.
FULL STORY: https://www.wfaa.com/article/sports/nba/mavericks/one-of-lukas-doncic-childhood-coaches-talks-to-wfaa/287-36bdac72-6692-4254-a925-3c93d0170ff0
00:00 - Introduction
00:26 - Rok Dežman interview
15:56 - Lojze Šiško interview
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