Check out his career postseason numbers and think again. He's all about image and less about winning.
To Karl Malone's credit, he was never a net negative postseason player like Westbrook is this year. Malone accrued 234.6 win shares while Westchimp has a paltry 10.2. Malone averaged .208 ws/48 while Russ averages .143 thanks in large part to 2016. Karl Malone has two NBA championship trophies if not for Jordan; Westbrook's only NBA finals ended in a slap to the inferior Miami Heat.
Check out his career postseason numbers and think again. He's all about image and less about winning.
Can you imagine if Lamarcus had Melo and George next to him instead of Green and Kyle??
Russell Westbrook is averaging a triple double and his advanced stats look like this.....
OWS: -.2 DWS: .2 WS: 0.0 WS/48: -0.001 OBPM: -2.3 DBPM: 3.8 BPM: 1.5 VORP: .1 SHOOTING: 29 for 79 (3-14 3pt) .367 FG% +/-: -25.3
B-b-but Westbrook doesn't have any help
If this was prime Parker, the forum would be ripping him to shreds calling for the corpse of Speedy Claxton to save the day.
Last edited by Hoops Czar; 04-24-2018 at 02:04 PM.
He averaged a triple double because for two seasons, teammates have LITERALLY let hundreds of balls hit the floor so that he could skitter in and collect them. People will remember him like Iverson: a great talent but way too self absorbed.
I understand his game perfectly. It's about him.
Iverson carried scrubs to the finals. Though they didn’t win, people still point to that as a testament to his greatness. Not his highest scoring games.
I’m sure casuals will slurp Westbrook the same way they did kobe when he was leading his team to first round exits (but look at his consecutive 35 point games!! )
at at least kobe has the hardware
Westbrook lucked out by playing with Durant for most of his career. If that doesn't happen he ends up having a similar legacy to Stephon Marbury which is a chronic loser that is a stat padder.
When you have to say "winning isn't all that matters!" to defend a compe ive athlete...you need to unwrap your lips from his ballsack.
Look, there are obviously praiseworthy things about the guy...but there are also obvious criticisms about him too. If you find yourself only able to praise him even at his worst moments...once again. Mouth, balls. It's not a good look.
Last edited by Arcadian; 04-24-2018 at 02:41 PM.
To be fair, those East teams were bad. Bucks and Pacers were not much of a threat compared to the West.
The Bucks series was also arguably the worst officiated series in NBA history..it was one of the series' in the Donaghy scandal IIRC..
Porker fluffers probably shouldn't be using the "career postseason numbers" argument, tbh.
Sounds like what you're saying is that every Thunder game is like an All-Star game. Complete with the token nod to actually trying to win.
Tony Parker
#9 all time NBA Playoff points
#5 all time NBA Playoff assists
#7 all time NBA Playoff wins
2007 FMVP
4x Champion
Kiss his balls, HarlemNation.
Reality: Porker is the second biggest choke artist in playoff history.
https://tinyurl.com/yc3eqrsl
I'd take Beastbrook over any version of porker.
And Garnett and D-Rob are top 10. And Rondo is bottom 5.
Does taking stats way out of context come naturally to you? Or did you take a class somewhere?
easily.
Imagine Russ learning the game from Tim, Pop and Manu
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