Niang is 8/35 this postseason. I feel like a lot of teams have at least 1 player who is just awful in the postseason. At least Westbrook gives energy on defense.
Yeah I remember when Harris from Brooklyn was scorching hot during the regular season and then just shit the bed in the playoffs. Feels like it happens mostly to 3-point specialists and... my boy Brick š
Yeah but it's still really bad. Niang was 37.5% from three over the past 5 postseasons. And he's shooting 11% from three this postseason. I don't think I've ever seen such a drop off before.
dont worry, it's not a Clippers issue as much as it is a "this is who Westbrook always been" issue
you're lucky he's chucking at a much lower volume now. his prime was attempting more shots than KD, Wade, Harden, Lebron, Bosh in a playoff series while shooting 13% from 3PT. or the time he missed more shots than the rest of his team COMBINED in an elimination game in 2019
I want to know the stats for the minutes they played together. having seen Mason Plumlee basketball far too often over the last few seasons, I simply can't think of a worse fit for Russ across the entire league, in terms of play style and skill.
Itās the ~~Lakers~~ clippers fault, heās not on the right fit team for him. ~~Lebron~~Kawhi is asking for him to do things that donāt fit his game and it took his joy away. Russ is still a good player just wait til he gets ~~off that max contract~~ to Charlotte where heās really valuedĀ
yeah I mean the Clippers rotations were absolutely cooked with Kawhi out/being 10% of himself and Russ being completely useless as the backup PG. Definitely were not able to field the lineups they wanted to lol
think Theis was injured too or something because the Plumlee minutes made no sense whatsoever.
Pretty sure they got Theis because nobody else wanted him but he was much better than Plumlee all year except against certain teams where the clippers really needed that size
Plumlee supposedly took a paycut as well. Only reasonable explanation is that Ty Lue felt bad about Theis taking Plumleeās job due to an injury and gave him his spot back. Or he promised him the backup spot so that he would re-sign.
The man is 34, about to be 35. He canāt bring the A game every night, but Iād say 16/13 is pretty good when youāre suppose to be the third guy but are asked to do a lot more.
Iām not a harden guy and he has an abysmal playoff record but I think he stepped up in multiple games this playoffs, the team just didnāt do it with him.
He shot 19/30 in Games 3 and 4 while basically single handily winning 4 for you. Heās 34, he canāt put the team on his back every game, but I get the disappointment after being eliminated
harden was a 16 ppg scorer all season that bumped his averages up to 21.2 points a game on 62% TS the entire round
games 1-4 he was elite and lead the league in scoring efficiency for anyone averaging over 25ppg
game 5 was a bad game.
game 6 was a bad scoring game, matching his regular season point average but on bad efficiency (still miles better than WB) but also had an elite playmaking game with 13 assists and 1 turnover and he lead the team in steals+blocks
you are clowning around if you aren't going to give him the credit as the best player on the team when he was meant to only be a facilitator lol
WB fans do not understand basketball man. it's crazy. their downfall from "RUSS SHOULD BE STARTING" to "YEAH BUT RUSS IS COMING OFF THE BENCH SO IT DOESNT MATTER IF HE SUCKS" has been brutal to watch
Nah Harden honestly played pretty well overall. He did his job but everyone else that mattered kind of left him hanging. Its probably really hard to be aging out of your prime and try and run an offense when everyone around you is just missing in action just about every game of the series. I think he is definitely the least of the clippers worries
What do you mean it's not russes fault ? He is a professional basketball player , it's his job to make baskets . Also it's not like they aren't leaving him wide open , 4-32 , hell I could have hit a shot or two with the looks he was getting
I agree, I was thinking of the only possible things that weren't his fault lmao
Tbf if an NBA team wanted to pay me $4m a year to stink it up I would do whatever they told me to do
Fuck all that, if they pay me 4m to wipe players asses, I will be the best ass wiper this planet has ever known. Gonna be so clean you could eat off them
Itās funny bc when Russ was in the H everyone said he was still elite bc of his numbers, but then I saw whenever he went to the bench, the team had a higher net rating despite his 27ppg. I truly believe replace Russ with a guard that can shoot, and Houston could have gone 7 against the lakers in 2020
Both of those can be true. He was still a good (tho declining) player, and Houston played even better when he was on the bench.
Houston going 7 with LA depends on the caliber of player youād be replacing Russ with more so than simply just replacing Russ with a shooter. LA didnāt trail in that series for like 106 straight minutes. Lakers was also running HOU shooters off the 3pt line throughout that series. Iām curious who do you have in mind? If it was Bogdanovic instead of Russ? Bogi can shoot but LA aināt getting taken to 7 with Bogi in over Russ. If it was say PG instead of Russ, itās possible. Itās a talent and shooting upgrade. Only issue there is PG is very hit or miss in the post season.
I was talking about a player who could shoot that was on the level of a 2020 Russell Westbrook level player if that makes any sense. I think I would even go as far as if you replace Westbrook from that year with Jaylen Brown from that year we couldāve maybe gone six games insteadof five. If we got 2021 Paul George instead of 2020 Westbrook, we win that series in my opinion.
well before he was dominant inside the paint even as a pg with his explosiveness but now he is losing that athleticism, it exposes his weakness outside
Howād harden do with KD? How many finals has Harden appeared in again? How many 32 pt triple double seasons? And Westbrook thoroughly outplayed Harden in 2017, it just wasnāt enough
Harden has won a ton of playoff series? Heās been to multiple WCF without KD. Russ canāt even win a single playoff series without KD. Russ didnāt outplay harden. He kept chucking. 38% FG is horrendous. You were like 10 when the series happened, you definitely donāt remember it well
I was prolly younger lol Iāve watched all 5 games tho. russ was doing everything and the team fell apart when he sat. He put up video game numbers and was actually a + in his minutes, the team was like -50 across the minutes he sat
When he got injured in 2020 it was all down hill.
His defensive effort improved quite since then, but he doesn't have the burst of speed he used to have anymore and it looks like the hand injuries have made him have the touch of playing with oven mitts.
Dude probably needs to do nerve therapy on his wrists to get feeling back, not even just for playing basketball, just for life.
Also I find it infuriating that he becomes inactive when he doesn't have the ball. He doesn't move much, doesn't set screens and repeatedly parked himself in the corner (which limits his potential to drive to the basket, kick it to someone else and he should not be taking threes). Dude is still plenty fast and has the endurance to do that sort of work off the ball and he would add value just by doing that.
Got to respect the guy who built the bank too. One brick at a time.
Actually he really could capitalize on this as an opportunity to corner the market and start a company named West Brick. Known for reliability!
Id invest.
I think the point of this post is to show how far Russ has fallen to be compared with those names. Itās probably time to consider retiring
And I would comfortably rather have the 3 you just listed
He's a back up guard on the minimum, if he was any better he wouldn't be that.
And honestly I'm not sure there's a point in discussing who is the 197th or 201st best player in the league
it doesn't matter if he's on a cheap contract if he comes into the game, gets completely ignored on defense, and refuses to make a play for someone else bricking shot after shot for himself while the other stars on the court are getting doubled
4m players aren't typically black holes the way russ is.
The difference is that none of those bench guys would ever be putting up a shot every 2 minutes like Russ. Every team has backups that opponents will ignore in the playoffs but they're all low usage guys. Only Russ tries to play like he's still an MVP.
I can't fathom how anyone still believes he's a positive NBA player. He hasn't been for a while now, since his Lakers stint. All the clowning Lakers fans got after he went to the Clippers and had like 1 good game was truly pathetic.
You *can* hate on him despite the minimum contract but ignoring his stature due to his prime, this would be like hypothetically getting mad at Sam Hauser or Payton Pritchard for being ass after a Tatum injury. Like, sure they could have been better, but maybe focus on the guy making the big bucks who was unavailable, or the performances of the stars who were on the floor. That said he was awful.
Russ plays a significantly more ball dominant style than Hauser or Pritchard though. When Russ checks in, he gets pretty tunnel visioned on trying to finish over everyone and rarely converts. The defense also always changes how they're defending to ignore Russ; they definitely aint leaving Pritchard or Hauser open like that lol
Iām not saying he plays as well as they *usually* do, just that weāre talking about small $ value bench guys who are capable of underperforming. If his name wasnāt Russell Westbrook, we wouldnāt be getting posts long after the Clippers were eliminated blaming a bench player for their loss lol.
game 5:
Harden: 7/4/7 on 16.7/14.3/100 splits
PG: 15/11/4 on 30.7/33.3/83.3 splits
game 6:
Harden: 16/7/13 on 31.25/0/62.5 splits
PG: 18/11/5 on 33.33/20/100 splits
And you're out here blaming the back up pg lol
Sure harden could have played better but not sure why youāre trying to move the conversation to hardens terrible play in elimination games (which is definitely a huge problem dating back to his prime)
We talking about Russ going 4-32 from games 2-5
Russ should start if he's allowed to play his natural position, pg. Ty Lue had Russ being a spot up shooter literally standing still while Harden ran the offense. This would be like asking Zubac to play point guard or brittle Kawhi to actually play games
100% at least Bones is entertaining sometimes, Westbrook is just excruciating to watch. Everytime he took a shot I knew that thing was hitting the side of the backboard
looks very bad until u rewatch the games and see why that was. he was out there playing very tough defense in spurts and had a short leash. he doesn't really even try to score unless it's in transition.
the only shots he took were when the play blew up, or where the mavs damn near *left the entire arena* when they saw him at the 3. he tries to not fuck up the flow by making them respect the 3 but it just sucks.
yea that's the issue though. the play/offense can't progress since he's the weakest link. harden or pg burning seconds off the clock for russ' man to double them or zubac leading to an open russ with 6 seconds left. there's only so many plays to be made from russ in that position
Wrap your head around this, since the 3:20 min mark of the first quater, game 3 between the Clippers and Mavs, when Luka re-injured his knee in a collision with Westbrook (more Westbrook pushing him over);
Luka Doncic shot 7/39 from three for the rest of the series. That's 17.9%!!!
It was only somewhat better than Westbrooks 12.5% from games 2 onwards.
So as much as you may think if another player like Bones, was in and shot better, the Clippers might have won the series, you could also say, if Luka shot league average from 3, it probably doesn't get to a game 6.
The clippers losing wasn't only down to Westbrook's shooting, but it was a contributing factor.
the funny part is that his FG% at the rim this postseason was better than 5 of the 9 postseasons he had in OKC, including his MVP year lol
this is who Westbrick always been
Mate he was put out on the corner without the ball. He played like shit to end the series, but he wasn't put in a position to succeed. He was taking a lot of bail out shots at the end of the shot clock.Ā
If you have Russ you need to have him on ball. He provides nothing off ball at this stage of his career. Taking the ball out of his hands and sticking him in the corner is not only bad for Russ, but bad for his teammates too.Ā
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At least have him set screens or something. But no. Ty and Harden had him sitting in the corner all series, meanwhile Amir Coffey was bringing the ball up on some possessions. I just don't understand it man.Ā
He will never be a spot up shooter. He will never provide spacing, but he can still move the damn ball. I know a full season happened in between, but he was fantastic last year with the clippers. I don't think he lost all of that. Harden just displaced him and the role he had on the clips turned into basically exactly the role he had on the Lakers. It's dumb basketball.Ā
Please Russ, find a team that will let you play point guard or just retire. No sense destroying your body more just to play a role you don't fit for teams that don't trust you.Ā
Bruh leave us alone we been eliminated š
Niang is 8/35 this postseason. I feel like a lot of teams have at least 1 player who is just awful in the postseason. At least Westbrook gives energy on defense.
someone stole the catalytic converter from the minivan
I remember pre-childbirth in 2019 fred was something similar
Yeah I remember when Harris from Brooklyn was scorching hot during the regular season and then just shit the bed in the playoffs. Feels like it happens mostly to 3-point specialists and... my boy Brick š
That's still like twice as efficient as westbrook š
Westbrook is 9/40 in the post season, so they're shooting almost the same
And Westbrook is the 9th highest paid player on the team, you can't put too much of the losses on him.
He has the minutes of a starter.
Exactly, he's doing way more than he's paid for.
You can sign me for 1 dollar and if I make 1 in thousand shots I'm giving you more than you paid for. Doesn't mean I'm helping the team.
You make no sense lol
That's literally double Westbrooks lol
Yeah but it's still really bad. Niang was 37.5% from three over the past 5 postseasons. And he's shooting 11% from three this postseason. I don't think I've ever seen such a drop off before.
Yeah but, you're comparing Westbrook to Niang...
dont worry, it's not a Clippers issue as much as it is a "this is who Westbrook always been" issue you're lucky he's chucking at a much lower volume now. his prime was attempting more shots than KD, Wade, Harden, Lebron, Bosh in a playoff series while shooting 13% from 3PT. or the time he missed more shots than the rest of his team COMBINED in an elimination game in 2019
Ah, this makes me nostalgic for the sour stares Russ used to get from KD on the bench ...
He still took the most shots per minute if anyone on the clippers in the postseason. Rate didnāt really go down, minutes did
No y'all have been riding this guy since y'all signed him. It's time y'all get clowned for saying he's good
Fr donāt this grown ass man have a job and diet plan to focus on.
Plumlee+Westbrook minutes were historic
I want to know the stats for the minutes they played together. having seen Mason Plumlee basketball far too often over the last few seasons, I simply can't think of a worse fit for Russ across the entire league, in terms of play style and skill.
HISTORIC! weāve never seen anything like this
His nickname is Westbrick for a reason. Please donāt tell Russell I said that.
You're disrespecting my family.
He disrespects his family with all those bricks
You're attacking my family -Anthony Smith
WHAT
Itās the ~~Lakers~~ clippers fault, heās not on the right fit team for him. ~~Lebron~~Kawhi is asking for him to do things that donāt fit his game and it took his joy away. Russ is still a good player just wait til he gets ~~off that max contract~~ to Charlotte where heās really valuedĀ
yeah I mean the Clippers rotations were absolutely cooked with Kawhi out/being 10% of himself and Russ being completely useless as the backup PG. Definitely were not able to field the lineups they wanted to lol think Theis was injured too or something because the Plumlee minutes made no sense whatsoever.
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Pretty sure they got Theis because nobody else wanted him but he was much better than Plumlee all year except against certain teams where the clippers really needed that size
Plumlee supposedly took a paycut as well. Only reasonable explanation is that Ty Lue felt bad about Theis taking Plumleeās job due to an injury and gave him his spot back. Or he promised him the backup spot so that he would re-sign.
Plumlee and Westbrook was the worst two man duo in the playoffs
and Harden being ass as always as the pressure ramps up late in the series
game 4 and 6 were the two highest pressure games of the series. he carried game 4 and was fine in game 6. game 5 was his only bad game. shut it lmao
He had 16 points on 5-16 shooting in Game 6: donāt know if it qualifies as āfineā even if he did have 13 assists.
fine != fire
The man is 34, about to be 35. He canāt bring the A game every night, but Iād say 16/13 is pretty good when youāre suppose to be the third guy but are asked to do a lot more. Iām not a harden guy and he has an abysmal playoff record but I think he stepped up in multiple games this playoffs, the team just didnāt do it with him.
He shot 7/28 for Game 5 and 6
He shot 19/30 in Games 3 and 4 while basically single handily winning 4 for you. Heās 34, he canāt put the team on his back every game, but I get the disappointment after being eliminated
harden was a 16 ppg scorer all season that bumped his averages up to 21.2 points a game on 62% TS the entire round games 1-4 he was elite and lead the league in scoring efficiency for anyone averaging over 25ppg game 5 was a bad game. game 6 was a bad scoring game, matching his regular season point average but on bad efficiency (still miles better than WB) but also had an elite playmaking game with 13 assists and 1 turnover and he lead the team in steals+blocks you are clowning around if you aren't going to give him the credit as the best player on the team when he was meant to only be a facilitator lol WB fans do not understand basketball man. it's crazy. their downfall from "RUSS SHOULD BE STARTING" to "YEAH BUT RUSS IS COMING OFF THE BENCH SO IT DOESNT MATTER IF HE SUCKS" has been brutal to watch
Don't forget 2-12 in game 5 with 4 turnovers
what do you mean "don't forget" it literally says game 5 was a bad game thirsty mfer
Because compared to his usual elimination game stats, that is pretty good for him!
People always forget about push off P
Harden 62% TS on 22ppg. Westbrick 34% TS and took more shots per minute than Harden. But go off I guess
Nah Harden honestly played pretty well overall. He did his job but everyone else that mattered kind of left him hanging. Its probably really hard to be aging out of your prime and try and run an offense when everyone around you is just missing in action just about every game of the series. I think he is definitely the least of the clippers worries
What do you mean it's not russes fault ? He is a professional basketball player , it's his job to make baskets . Also it's not like they aren't leaving him wide open , 4-32 , hell I could have hit a shot or two with the looks he was getting
Well, his age isn't his fault. It's not his fault that Lue and the Clips gave him so many shots lol
It's his fault to stink up his team, old or young
I agree, I was thinking of the only possible things that weren't his fault lmao Tbf if an NBA team wanted to pay me $4m a year to stink it up I would do whatever they told me to do
If they wanna pay me $4m to wipe the players asses, sign me up. I got eyelids and can just think of England lol
Fuck all that, if they pay me 4m to wipe players asses, I will be the best ass wiper this planet has ever known. Gonna be so clean you could eat off them
you can't fathom that despite watching him play for a year?
Hes a rockets flair who's frequently in the clippers sub, he was only watching one player lmao
Itās funny bc when Russ was in the H everyone said he was still elite bc of his numbers, but then I saw whenever he went to the bench, the team had a higher net rating despite his 27ppg. I truly believe replace Russ with a guard that can shoot, and Houston could have gone 7 against the lakers in 2020
Both of those can be true. He was still a good (tho declining) player, and Houston played even better when he was on the bench. Houston going 7 with LA depends on the caliber of player youād be replacing Russ with more so than simply just replacing Russ with a shooter. LA didnāt trail in that series for like 106 straight minutes. Lakers was also running HOU shooters off the 3pt line throughout that series. Iām curious who do you have in mind? If it was Bogdanovic instead of Russ? Bogi can shoot but LA aināt getting taken to 7 with Bogi in over Russ. If it was say PG instead of Russ, itās possible. Itās a talent and shooting upgrade. Only issue there is PG is very hit or miss in the post season.
I was talking about a player who could shoot that was on the level of a 2020 Russell Westbrook level player if that makes any sense. I think I would even go as far as if you replace Westbrook from that year with Jaylen Brown from that year we couldāve maybe gone six games insteadof five. If we got 2021 Paul George instead of 2020 Westbrook, we win that series in my opinion.
That team has no shot vs the 2020 Lakers. You're def smoking something else
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So what that he was 4-32 fg, but at least he is out there having fun.
well before he was dominant inside the paint even as a pg with his explosiveness but now he is losing that athleticism, it exposes his weakness outside
Westbrook has never had an efficient playoff run even with all that āexplosivenessā
Heās better than harden without half the foul baiting š¹š¹š¹ Swap westbrook and harden in houston he wouldāve gone all the way
Wild to say about someone who has had no playoff success on any of his 5 teams
Westbrook has been out of the first round once without KD, right? And that was on the back of harden, right?
Howād harden do with KD? How many finals has Harden appeared in again? How many 32 pt triple double seasons? And Westbrook thoroughly outplayed Harden in 2017, it just wasnāt enough
Harden has won a ton of playoff series? Heās been to multiple WCF without KD. Russ canāt even win a single playoff series without KD. Russ didnāt outplay harden. He kept chucking. 38% FG is horrendous. You were like 10 when the series happened, you definitely donāt remember it well
I was prolly younger lol Iāve watched all 5 games tho. russ was doing everything and the team fell apart when he sat. He put up video game numbers and was actually a + in his minutes, the team was like -50 across the minutes he sat
That would be true for basically every superstar outside of Tatum
When he got injured in 2020 it was all down hill. His defensive effort improved quite since then, but he doesn't have the burst of speed he used to have anymore and it looks like the hand injuries have made him have the touch of playing with oven mitts. Dude probably needs to do nerve therapy on his wrists to get feeling back, not even just for playing basketball, just for life. Also I find it infuriating that he becomes inactive when he doesn't have the ball. He doesn't move much, doesn't set screens and repeatedly parked himself in the corner (which limits his potential to drive to the basket, kick it to someone else and he should not be taking threes). Dude is still plenty fast and has the endurance to do that sort of work off the ball and he would add value just by doing that.
Every time Russ touched the ball I wanted him to shoot, that pull up bank shot on the elbow is money in the bank
Got to respect the guy who built the bank too. One brick at a time. Actually he really could capitalize on this as an opportunity to corner the market and start a company named West Brick. Known for reliability! Id invest.
It's very easy to fathom if you've watched him play at any point in the last 3 years
Cool will you to a post about how you can't win with Royce O'Neale, Jose Alvarado or Dante Exum next ?
I think the point of this post is to show how far Russ has fallen to be compared with those names. Itās probably time to consider retiring And I would comfortably rather have the 3 you just listed
He's a back up guard on the minimum, if he was any better he wouldn't be that. And honestly I'm not sure there's a point in discussing who is the 197th or 201st best player in the league
Fwiw heās not on the minimum, I think heās on like 6m annually. Not that itās a dramatic difference, just pointing it out.
he's on 4m
it doesn't matter if he's on a cheap contract if he comes into the game, gets completely ignored on defense, and refuses to make a play for someone else bricking shot after shot for himself while the other stars on the court are getting doubled 4m players aren't typically black holes the way russ is.
Alvarado has a worst ts than Westbrook in the playoffs
The difference is that none of those bench guys would ever be putting up a shot every 2 minutes like Russ. Every team has backups that opponents will ignore in the playoffs but they're all low usage guys. Only Russ tries to play like he's still an MVP.
All them guys are better than russ
The āApril 32ndā line
Russ has won 1 playoff series since Durant left OKC in the summer of 2016.
What was Tobias Haris lol
Had enough bricks to build a mansion in cancun.
He's just earning his moniker of "Westbrick", one brick at a time.
Russ has been trash š for a while.
OP is just karma farming/trolling at this point Who tf is thinking about Westbrook at this point? Especially when heās a bench player?
I can't fathom how anyone still believes he's a positive NBA player. He hasn't been for a while now, since his Lakers stint. All the clowning Lakers fans got after he went to the Clippers and had like 1 good game was truly pathetic.
Some mfers really tried to act like the Lakers were why Westbrook looked so bad on their team just because he had a few good games with the Clippers.
He tries really really hard though that's gotta count for something š„ŗ
That's literally the entire argument around him lmao it's crazy. You don't see that for anyone else.
thanasas tries hard too
Except he doesn't try at things that could help win games
he has that mamba mentality
Hasn't been positive since he left OKC tbh. He had stats in Houston, but the team was worse with him on the floor
Even during OKC era he was hurting KDs effectiveness. He just ballhogged during his triple double era as well. Dude is a negative.
You *can* hate on him despite the minimum contract but ignoring his stature due to his prime, this would be like hypothetically getting mad at Sam Hauser or Payton Pritchard for being ass after a Tatum injury. Like, sure they could have been better, but maybe focus on the guy making the big bucks who was unavailable, or the performances of the stars who were on the floor. That said he was awful.
Russ plays a significantly more ball dominant style than Hauser or Pritchard though. When Russ checks in, he gets pretty tunnel visioned on trying to finish over everyone and rarely converts. The defense also always changes how they're defending to ignore Russ; they definitely aint leaving Pritchard or Hauser open like that lol
Iām not saying he plays as well as they *usually* do, just that weāre talking about small $ value bench guys who are capable of underperforming. If his name wasnāt Russell Westbrook, we wouldnāt be getting posts long after the Clippers were eliminated blaming a bench player for their loss lol.
I fucking despise this goddamn team
He averageed 1 made FG per game in those games. Wow.
they call him westbrick for a reason
I can
It's hard to defend this mf. And I don't mean in game.
Isnāt it like 6-35?
Heās way worse than pj tucker
game 5: Harden: 7/4/7 on 16.7/14.3/100 splits PG: 15/11/4 on 30.7/33.3/83.3 splits game 6: Harden: 16/7/13 on 31.25/0/62.5 splits PG: 18/11/5 on 33.33/20/100 splits And you're out here blaming the back up pg lol
Btw so you know 31% and 33% are almost 3 times more than 12.5% which is 4/32.
4-32 is 12.5%
check out the big brain on Brad! ;P
Harden and pgs terrible game 5 was literally still better than Russ all series
They should be better since Russ is a bench player. Come on man
Russ had a higher usage rate than harden in the playoffs btw.
That's on Harden for being passive when he's not getting foul calls
Sure harden could have played better but not sure why youāre trying to move the conversation to hardens terrible play in elimination games (which is definitely a huge problem dating back to his prime) We talking about Russ going 4-32 from games 2-5
because blaming the loss on a bench player instead of the stars is weak
YOU SAID RUSS SHOULD START ALL YEARš¤£
Russ should start if he's allowed to play his natural position, pg. Ty Lue had Russ being a spot up shooter literally standing still while Harden ran the offense. This would be like asking Zubac to play point guard or brittle Kawhi to actually play games
Russ with the ball makes better decisions than harden in your opinion? Like you rather trust Russ with the ball? In 2024
You're 2 Max players shot better(6/25 combined in G5) than a man on a minimum who shot 9/40 whole series WOW, you should definitely max them again.
PJ Tucker plays defense. I would take Tucker over Westbrick in a NY minute
100% at least Bones is entertaining sometimes, Westbrook is just excruciating to watch. Everytime he took a shot I knew that thing was hitting the side of the backboard
Yāall had to have been on cloud 9 whenever Russ checked in
I wanted nothing but Russ minutes as a Mavs fan. Hoping they give Giddey another chance tomorrow too.
Traumatic flashbacks of Harrison Barnes in G5-7 of 2016.
See "Wagner, Franz"
Age comes for us all at some point
Why is this a shocker? OKC Russ was when he dominated playoff games.
looks very bad until u rewatch the games and see why that was. he was out there playing very tough defense in spurts and had a short leash. he doesn't really even try to score unless it's in transition. the only shots he took were when the play blew up, or where the mavs damn near *left the entire arena* when they saw him at the 3. he tries to not fuck up the flow by making them respect the 3 but it just sucks.
He should not be allowed to shoot 3s period. Itās a win for the defense
yea that's the issue though. the play/offense can't progress since he's the weakest link. harden or pg burning seconds off the clock for russ' man to double them or zubac leading to an open russ with 6 seconds left. there's only so many plays to be made from russ in that position
Wrap your head around this, since the 3:20 min mark of the first quater, game 3 between the Clippers and Mavs, when Luka re-injured his knee in a collision with Westbrook (more Westbrook pushing him over); Luka Doncic shot 7/39 from three for the rest of the series. That's 17.9%!!! It was only somewhat better than Westbrooks 12.5% from games 2 onwards. So as much as you may think if another player like Bones, was in and shot better, the Clippers might have won the series, you could also say, if Luka shot league average from 3, it probably doesn't get to a game 6. The clippers losing wasn't only down to Westbrook's shooting, but it was a contributing factor.
If my grandmother had wheels sheād be a bicycle
Yes and Tyrone Lue is getting an extension
Not Tyās fault his best player is hurt every fucking year. Itās hard to do a good job when ur team is kneecapped every yr
its not his fault he had to play russ to keep his dumbass stars happy
Heās playing a player that sucks whoās fault is that?
Literally canāt even make layups lol
the funny part is that his FG% at the rim this postseason was better than 5 of the 9 postseasons he had in OKC, including his MVP year lol this is who Westbrick always been
Mate he was put out on the corner without the ball. He played like shit to end the series, but he wasn't put in a position to succeed. He was taking a lot of bail out shots at the end of the shot clock.Ā If you have Russ you need to have him on ball. He provides nothing off ball at this stage of his career. Taking the ball out of his hands and sticking him in the corner is not only bad for Russ, but bad for his teammates too.Ā Ā At least have him set screens or something. But no. Ty and Harden had him sitting in the corner all series, meanwhile Amir Coffey was bringing the ball up on some possessions. I just don't understand it man.Ā He will never be a spot up shooter. He will never provide spacing, but he can still move the damn ball. I know a full season happened in between, but he was fantastic last year with the clippers. I don't think he lost all of that. Harden just displaced him and the role he had on the clips turned into basically exactly the role he had on the Lakers. It's dumb basketball.Ā Please Russ, find a team that will let you play point guard or just retire. No sense destroying your body more just to play a role you don't fit for teams that don't trust you.Ā
Heās never been a top 5 player. The fact he got an MVP still remains bizarre, and shows just how much of a villain KD was.
Harden robbed
The OG pity MVP
I donāt believe Russ would be the best player in the G League right now
obviously not
Cmon man as bad as Russ is he would still drop 30 12 12 in the G
Rocket flair Makes sense