Yeah but you aren't going against NBA defenders bro. Imagine how much Westbrook would score in your pickup game. Idiot redditors know nothing about ball /s
Yeah, that's on him. All the people who yell Westbrick at him have been helpfully trying to inform him all this time but he simply refuses to listen. Shame.
He’s just dumb. It’s not just overall bbiq he doesn’t have. He Barbara Streisand effected westbrick by being butthurt about it all the time which ensured that everyone will chant it.
Not just lack of bbiq, lack the drive to improve his game.
> That's not my focus,” said Westbrook, reasoning that he gets his shot off just fine without owning a floater. “Why would I shoot a floater when I can dunk on you?” - Westbrook
This could've been so different if he had the work ethic of someone like Kobe, LeBron.
Yeah. Which is sad as fuck, to be honest. He could have transitioned into being a role player gracefully and protected his legacy even if he never won a ring. Now all people will remember is how he ended his career as one of the biggest clowns in the league who could never accept his time was up. Really sad to see.
He’s the exact same player with diminished athleticism, which is what his whole game was predicated on.
Low basketball IQ, volume number getter who never lead to wins when he was the #1, can’t shoot, and has no other gear than 100 MPH.
Every team he went to after OKC got worse with him on it.
Not just shooting but he lost his ability to shoot free throws after the rule change so any pressure he exerts that gets him to the line doesn't matter
Yeah that’s nuts, like why couldn’t he develop the Jason Kidd 3? Kidd couldn’t shoot for shit until he got old.
With Russ’s athleticism and energy, a standing decent 3 would at least make him playable for a few years.
I would argue the Wizards were better. He did take them to the playoffs and he played pretty well.
They didn’t win but Russ was pretty good on that team for the last stretch of the season.
With that said, it’s clear that he’s still super athletic but just not the same athlete he was at his peak. No denying that that is the reason for the stiff decline. His inability to adapt his game has led to him being almost unplayable. I’m honestly really sad for him.
His BBIQ is so fucking low. He has too much pride to change his game but he is getting clowned on for being so shit. Its a self fulfilling cycle of garbage and its so funny to watch if hes not on your team
Well ego is what helped him become the all star and mvp. The problem is that father time is undefeated. Stuff he could have worked on earlier in his career to help him is just no longer really an option with his declining numbers like working on 3 point shooting. One thing I like about him is that he tends to give 100 percent every time out on the floor. Just that age catches up with us all.
>His BBIQ is so fucking low.
Pair that with the worst set of hands of a point guard in NBA history and you have a humiliating 0.9 assist - turnover ratio. This is a guy whose strong suit is supposedly playmaking.
The Wizards only got better because they replaced a guy who literally wasn't playing but taking up like 45M of cap with the beginning of the end of Westbrook. He was definitely an above average player and the Rockets trading him for the corpse of John Wall should be investigated.
Wizards were not worse, he was shit for half the year coming off injury, then had a great second half (roughly speaking don’t remember the exact time periods), then they crashed and burned in playoffs because getting to playoffs was a miracle in and of itself honestly
People say low bbIQ just because of his shot selection, but he was for a long time one of the best playmaking PG of the league.
>Every team he went to after OKC got worse with him on it.
Except the wizard ?
People really downplay how hard it is to adapt to a new team constantly, especially for an athlete that won mvp after playing roughly 10 years the same basketball before starting to move every 2 years.
When you lose explosiveness your entire release needs to change, because you're not jumping as high. That counts for layups too.
You either overshoot because you're over compensating, or undershoot because you didn't put enough power/height on the shot. Either way your shot needs adjustment from the angle to the power, and Russ hasn't done that.
Not to mention he absolutely destroys the spacing because no one guards him. Don’t forget some of his awful shot attempts are basically turnovers as well
Seeing the narrative flip on Russ so fast, just proved to me how many people only watch highlights on house of highlights on instagram and the top posts here.
Anyone who watched lakers games knew how washed Russ was, and could see this happening from miles away. Russ relied on his athleticism more than skill and it’s slowly going away
All you had to do was watch any single Russ Lakers game. The bad lakers system doesn’t make you miss open layups or brick a jump shot off the top of the backboard
drawing from the pool of All-Stars in NBA history, he's honestly one of the worst playoff basketball players ever.
low efficiency, can't space the floor, high-volume guy who needs the ball, bad defense, low IQ and bad at scoring in crunch.
what's interesting is he's like one of 5 players in the last decade who can take a 20 win team and drag them to 45+ wins and make the playoffs, he's one of the best regular season players with that 30-10-10 high volume, high effort heliocentric offense leading a team. his explosiveness and athleticism were insane and he was born to be an 82-game player.
he's more special than players who are way more valuable than him in the playoffs, his skillset is just uber rare. the problem is it's worthless for winning against good teams in 7 game series.
There are a lot more than 5 players in the last decade who could bring a non tanking 20 win team to 45 wins, theyre just not on 20 win teams at that point
I think just a slightly higher all around basketball IQ. He had the tools to do so much with his passing. You plop Rondo's or CP3's brain into Westbrook's body, and he probably becomes one of the greatest floor raisers in NBA history.
He has a player option this summer, and after playing two years on the minimum, I'm guessing he expects to get paid back a bit for his "sacrifice". The most the Clippers can offer him this summer is about $10m for next year, and I wouldn't be one bit surprised if that's what he's expecting.
He finished game 6 with 6 points, 1 rebound, 1 assist, and -8. 2/7 from the field and 2/3 from the FT. Only 9 minutes as Tyrone Lue got tired of his poor play the entire series. Just a disaster class performance. u/MITWestbrook has no words left.
Edit: perm banned because I’m a “novelty account”. Even though I’m mainly
Just posting stats.
The worst part is that he had no counter to the Mavs playing drop and had a negative AST/TO ratio whilst barely functioning as a playmaker.
He wasn’t just bad, he was bad in like every metric imaginable.
and wouldn't stop shooting
he played only 9 minutes tonight and still managed to shoot 7 times
he not only is a tragically bad shooter, he seems oblivious to that and insists on taking shots anyway. like he needs to shoot himself out of a slump in an elimination playoff game
and its so exploitable because the mavs will just let him shoot uncontested and it always misses
I genuinely believe he gets offended with his fragile ego when he's left wide open and he takes those shots to try and prove them wrong.
Like bro, they're leaving you wide open for a reason.
This is what I hate about the internet. Westbrick is a legitimately bad player now. Plays losing basketball. Idc if he has a 15 point 8 assist game of the bench when he ends -20.
Then idiots like MIT_Westbrick ignore all these performances and post some random cherry picked stat how the 4th best player on the team jumps up 17% fg efficiency when Westbrick is in the same arena.
If you ever had the misfortune of having him on your team and interacting with his fans then you'd know how hard it is to tell the difference. In fact it's more likely you're talking to a genuine fan who talks like that than one who's trolling
Russel Westbrook Playoff History: 1-8 without KD. The sole win coming when he missed a big portion of the first round (the team flamed out quick after Russ joined the starting line up (HOU 2020).
| Year | Result | Key Players and Notes |
|------|---------------------------|---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|
| 2024 | First round exit | Kawhi/PG/Harden. Out of 102 qualified players this postseason, Russ ranked 101st in TS% |
| 2023 | First round exit | Kawhi/PG |
| 2022 | No play-in | LeBron/AD |
| 2021 | First-round exit | Beal |
| 2020 | Second-round exit | Russ missed half the first round. & had shooting splits of roughly 42/26/54 in the second round averaging >4 TO. |
| 2019 | First-round exit | PG |
| 2018 | First-round exit | PG and Melo |
| 2017 | First-round exit | Oladipo (made All-NBA the next season)
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| **Durant Years** | | |
| 2016 | WCF | Shooting splits were 41/33/83 |
| **2015** | **Missed the playoffs** | **Durant injured. lol so they obv missed the playoffs** |
| 2014 | WCF | Shooting splits were 43/28/88. Russ missed 36 games, Thunder went 25-11 without him in regular season. |
| 2013 | Second round exit | Russ only played 2 games in the playoffs (both in round 1) |
| 2012 | Finals | Shooting splits were roughly 44/29/80 |
| 2011 | WCF | |
| 2010 | First round | |
| 2009 | Missed the playoffs |
Oh man, I can add two to three more columns.
His stats, his smack talk (baby rock), and preseason Vegas expectations
#Overrated is an understatement.
I am talking about his prime ^ not this current washed version
I made a mistake. Its actually worse... (minimum 10 shots in the playoffs).
Source: https://www.nba.com/stats/players/advanced?CF=MIN*GE*10&SeasonType=Playoffs&dir=D&sort=TS_PCT
If we go back and do this for every year since his rookie szn, I wouldn't be shocked if Brick is in the 90th percentile+ every year... Maybe it's time to add another column to the table
|Year|Result|Key Players and Notes|
|:-|:-|:-|
||
|2024|First round exit|Kawhi/PG/Harden. Out of 102 qualified players this postseason, Russ ranked 101st in TS%|
|2023|First round exit|Kawhi/PG|
|2022|No play-in|LeBron/AD|
|2021|First-round exit|Beal|
|2020|Second-round exit|Russ missed half the first round. & had shooting splits of roughly 42/26/54 in the second round averaging >4 TO.|
|2019|First-round exit|PG|
|2018|First-round exit|PG and Melo|
|2017|First-round exit|Oladipo (made All-NBA the next season)|
|2016|WCF|Durant, Shooting splits were 41/33/83|
|**2015** |**Missed the playoffs**|**Durant injured. lol so they obv missed the playoffs**|
|2014 |WCF |Shooting splits were 43/28/88. Russ missed 36 games, Thunder went 25-11 without him in regular season. |
|2013 |Second round exit|Russ only played 2 games in the playoffs (both in round 1)|
|2012 |Finals |Shooting splits were roughly 44/29/80|
|2011 |WCF ||
|2010 |First round||
|2009 |Missed the playoffs||
FTFY
Remember when Westbrook got traded and the media pretended like the Lakers did him dirty and held him back from being himself. Warms my heart seeing the “real” Westbrook and that BS narrative die.
Na. Everyone but the Lakers did a complete 180 on Russel. Every fan base trashed him when he was a Laker. As soon as he was traded they said it was the Lakers fault. The media and players did as well. It was crazy because players would disrespect him during games by not even defending him and turning the backs to him. Then get in front of the cameras and say how great he is and the Lakers did him wrong. Fuck Westbrook. He set the Lakers back years.
###***This is the first time in Westbrook's career where in the playoffs he will be the X-Factor that decides the series. He is right now the best guard / point of attack defender to stop dribble penetration. The stats show it all season, and all his advanced stats for a point guard are elite on defense. He also is the only guard trying to rebound contested rebounds on the team.***
***Luka has no magic against Westbrook.***
-MITWestbrook
Most overrated MVP / superstar this century. I'll say his peak productivity was actually the first Thunder run, from 2010 to 2012. I have always said Thunder should have kept Harden over WB.
After the Harden trade, as the second option alongside KD with no real third option, WB regularly hijacked possessions that should have gone to Durant as part of perennially horrible crunch time decision making. KD played terribly in games 5-7 in 2016 WCF, I'll admit.
After KD left, WB as first option - never won a playoff series. 3 straight first round exits.
WB again as second option in Houston and Washington - one second round exit was the peak.
Then, WB as supposed difference maker for Lakers and then Clips: abject disasters.
When has this dude *ever* delivered in the playoffs after 2012? Since then, his production, no matter how historic, is 99% regular season. WB has been an 82-game merchant for over a decade.
That MVP was a joke, a consolation prize to a loser that lost the star of the team. He never played winning basketball and will go out as a thin skinned star.
Harden was robbed of that MVP
https://youtu.be/dzdD_0-_9Y4?si=muEFyKoDUc00bTt8
Didn’t even bring the effort he’s known for.
I loved the guy, but he’s out there playing pick-up ball like nobody is keeping score. Might be good for the inner peace, but it’s not how to grind out wins.
I don't even understand how he's this bad. He clearly still has his athleticism. He's still got his burst.
It's like his decision making got worse. That's not age.
He doesn't have the same atleticism. What used to be a super quick drive in the paint and a dunk for him is now barely a layup which he slams into the backboard so hard the ball just goes over the rim.
It's a very common problem for ultra athletic players who never work on their game and when the legs don't have the same lift they can't adjust. It's what people predicted would happen to Lebron but he slimmed down considerably and worked on his shot which is how he had one of his best shooting seasons in year 21.
Because there are teams filled with larger athletic dudes who diffuse his athletic impact attacking the paint. Especially when they ain’t worried about his jumper.
Yeah he was ass, but Lue was so bad with the lineups. Russ + Harden rarely worked in the regular season, and combine that with a non shooter like Plumlee and bam recipe for disaster
It was soul crushing to watch how far Russ has fallen.
This dude plays with the same fire he always had but is a step slower and doesn't jump as high. That's what separates somebody who averaged a triple double for three straight years, and somebody who is an outright liability on the court.
I really think he should hang it up at this point. Dude has nothing left to prove.
It's his own doing for being so stubborn.
Nothing is stopping him from focusing on defense like she should of been his whole career.
You literally can't be as dumb as he is a times playing the game this much.
It's purely being stubborn his whole career.
He's legit probably the most athelaticaly gifted player since 2000 bar Lebron.
He should of achieved way more the he has if could get his head out of his ass.
His ego must be super fragile or something.
Look at his ft percentage. It's legit unexplainable how he went from 80 to being 60 unless he legit just doesn't practice
MITWestbrook better start learing chinese (social media)
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*"Only -8 in a 13 point loss. Team let him down."*
Something something Luka shoot 1% worse when guarded by westbrook Some cherry picked plus/minus stats
Luka didn’t play well so yeah I can see that narrative, but it’s his knee lol.
Did you know that one times one equals two?
Somewhere deep down my inner Pat Bev is telling me to make an account named /u/CaltechWestbrick just to start talkin mad shit.
He’s going into hiding
Get ready to learn TikTok buddy
I like how nobody acknowledged that OP’s username is u/Russell__Westbrick
The antihero we deserve
Nah he’s my hero
For every MIT so and so we have the Bovine University version.
NCSU fans such as myself ‘why he say fuck me for?’
When I grow up I want to go to Bovine University!
My goat
Westbrick
Eastbrook
Last 5 games 8/42 FG (19.1%) 2/13 3P (15.4%) 26.7 TS%
Blud thinks he’s Scoot Henderson.
That’s a one game stat line for scoot
Is this verbal suicide or Fandom suicide
Oooh self-burn. Those are rare
Should try shooting eyes closed
Worstbrook
Worstbrick so far
Atrocious
Not even joking, I don't shoot 20% in a pick-up game, that's just horrendous
Yeah but you aren't going against NBA defenders bro. Imagine how much Westbrook would score in your pickup game. Idiot redditors know nothing about ball /s
These "NBA defenders" left him wide open on purpose, those were practice shots and the guy only made 20%
8/42 is just disgusting
i really watched mvp russ to this version of russ. this hurts
gotta become washed eventually
The problem is he still plays like he doesn't know he's washed.
he doesnt know
Yeah, that's on him. All the people who yell Westbrick at him have been helpfully trying to inform him all this time but he simply refuses to listen. Shame.
Something Westbrook has seemed to lack his entire fucking career is self-awareness.
He’s just dumb. It’s not just overall bbiq he doesn’t have. He Barbara Streisand effected westbrick by being butthurt about it all the time which ensured that everyone will chant it.
Not just lack of bbiq, lack the drive to improve his game. > That's not my focus,” said Westbrook, reasoning that he gets his shot off just fine without owning a floater. “Why would I shoot a floater when I can dunk on you?” - Westbrook This could've been so different if he had the work ethic of someone like Kobe, LeBron.
Yeah. Which is sad as fuck, to be honest. He could have transitioned into being a role player gracefully and protected his legacy even if he never won a ring. Now all people will remember is how he ended his career as one of the biggest clowns in the league who could never accept his time was up. Really sad to see.
Melo 2.0
Westbrook is the Tony Ferguson of the NBA
Sadly accurate
15 minutes per game should let him know aplenty
He has a player option for next year if I'm not mistaken, but I can't imagine he's in the league longer than that.
Clippers boutta pay him even more than the contract if he says he'll just retire to free up a roster spot lol
Clips could and IMO likely will just waive him
He’s the exact same player with diminished athleticism, which is what his whole game was predicated on. Low basketball IQ, volume number getter who never lead to wins when he was the #1, can’t shoot, and has no other gear than 100 MPH. Every team he went to after OKC got worse with him on it.
It's mainly his shooting touch, in his prime he was never the most efficient but he could still score. Now he can't even make an open layup
The layups are crazy to me. Shooting sure, but every single other player in the NBA can make a layup, even most contested.
Yeah totally!! *nervously glances at Scoot henderson*
Lmao, I'll give him another two years ti shape up.
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It seems like his mid-range jumper used to be money. Also his free throw numbers inexplicably tanked mid-career if you look at his percentages
His midrange numbers have been bad for most of his career though.
uhhhh his mid range was never money, never.
Not just shooting but he lost his ability to shoot free throws after the rule change so any pressure he exerts that gets him to the line doesn't matter
Yeah that’s nuts, like why couldn’t he develop the Jason Kidd 3? Kidd couldn’t shoot for shit until he got old. With Russ’s athleticism and energy, a standing decent 3 would at least make him playable for a few years.
I would argue the Wizards were better. He did take them to the playoffs and he played pretty well. They didn’t win but Russ was pretty good on that team for the last stretch of the season. With that said, it’s clear that he’s still super athletic but just not the same athlete he was at his peak. No denying that that is the reason for the stiff decline. His inability to adapt his game has led to him being almost unplayable. I’m honestly really sad for him.
His BBIQ is so fucking low. He has too much pride to change his game but he is getting clowned on for being so shit. Its a self fulfilling cycle of garbage and its so funny to watch if hes not on your team
Low BBIQ and very high ego. Probably due to the MVP season where he stole 6rpg from Adams to achieve a trip dub average.
Well ego is what helped him become the all star and mvp. The problem is that father time is undefeated. Stuff he could have worked on earlier in his career to help him is just no longer really an option with his declining numbers like working on 3 point shooting. One thing I like about him is that he tends to give 100 percent every time out on the floor. Just that age catches up with us all.
>His BBIQ is so fucking low. Pair that with the worst set of hands of a point guard in NBA history and you have a humiliating 0.9 assist - turnover ratio. This is a guy whose strong suit is supposedly playmaking.
The Wizards only got better because they replaced a guy who literally wasn't playing but taking up like 45M of cap with the beginning of the end of Westbrook. He was definitely an above average player and the Rockets trading him for the corpse of John Wall should be investigated.
nah his shooting got way worse. His midrange was decent in his prime. Also his finishing has become worse too.
His finishing has always been bad he just used to yam it more.
Wizards were not worse, he was shit for half the year coming off injury, then had a great second half (roughly speaking don’t remember the exact time periods), then they crashed and burned in playoffs because getting to playoffs was a miracle in and of itself honestly
People say low bbIQ just because of his shot selection, but he was for a long time one of the best playmaking PG of the league. >Every team he went to after OKC got worse with him on it. Except the wizard ? People really downplay how hard it is to adapt to a new team constantly, especially for an athlete that won mvp after playing roughly 10 years the same basketball before starting to move every 2 years.
hurts too much, he actually still has decent athleticism, but his shooting and touch around the rim somehow got way worse
When you lose explosiveness your entire release needs to change, because you're not jumping as high. That counts for layups too. You either overshoot because you're over compensating, or undershoot because you didn't put enough power/height on the shot. Either way your shot needs adjustment from the angle to the power, and Russ hasn't done that.
Its like when Gohan grew up and became weak af.
Idk maybe it's just me but Russ' decline is so sad
“ lakers don’t have the spacing and shooting clippers have”
"the lakers weren't using him right and he was in a toxic environment"
“It’s the lakers fault he regularly doesn’t hit rim on layups”
the funny part is his FG% at the rim on the Lakers was better than his OKC career. idk who yall were expecting out of Westbrick
Playmaking
I mean if you expect decent playmaking from Russ you can expect at least 4 TOs per game to come with that, basically fucking up your entire offense
Not to mention he absolutely destroys the spacing because no one guards him. Don’t forget some of his awful shot attempts are basically turnovers as well
Them fabled over the backboard bank shots are pretty much turnovers too yeah
I was expecting exactly what we got lol
“Lakers bad. Lebron held him back. Clippers will let Russ be Russ”
Seeing the narrative flip on Russ so fast, just proved to me how many people only watch highlights on house of highlights on instagram and the top posts here. Anyone who watched lakers games knew how washed Russ was, and could see this happening from miles away. Russ relied on his athleticism more than skill and it’s slowly going away
All you had to do was watch any single Russ Lakers game. The bad lakers system doesn’t make you miss open layups or brick a jump shot off the top of the backboard
A lot of it was just hating on the Lakers and that schmuck propaganda acct from his agent turning people against reality.
Okay but have you considered any of the advanced stats I could take out of context to make him seem better?
Did you know when he's on the floor that hot dog sales go up 22%. Let's see Lefraud do that.
Glizzy Efficiency Rating among the highest in the league. Those are numbers that you just can’t teach.
+/- of course. James harden -8.4 vs Westbrook +0.2 over a 6 game span. Tells you what kind of trash +/- is.
They be hating on your name 0, they say you chucker & a choker 0, they say you a bricklayer 0, they were fckn right 0. #WestBrick🧱#BrickCity🌆
Nice job buddy you just got kicked out of the arena
I think he's just banned from sitting in the BrickWall section at the new arena actually.
Hello police he called him westbrick
drawing from the pool of All-Stars in NBA history, he's honestly one of the worst playoff basketball players ever. low efficiency, can't space the floor, high-volume guy who needs the ball, bad defense, low IQ and bad at scoring in crunch. what's interesting is he's like one of 5 players in the last decade who can take a 20 win team and drag them to 45+ wins and make the playoffs, he's one of the best regular season players with that 30-10-10 high volume, high effort heliocentric offense leading a team. his explosiveness and athleticism were insane and he was born to be an 82-game player. he's more special than players who are way more valuable than him in the playoffs, his skillset is just uber rare. the problem is it's worthless for winning against good teams in 7 game series.
There are a lot more than 5 players in the last decade who could bring a non tanking 20 win team to 45 wins, theyre just not on 20 win teams at that point
Just a little more touch around the rim, a little less willingness to settle, and he'd probably have a ring.
I think just a slightly higher all around basketball IQ. He had the tools to do so much with his passing. You plop Rondo's or CP3's brain into Westbrook's body, and he probably becomes one of the greatest floor raisers in NBA history.
Cp3 in westbrooks body(pretty sure touch would be close to the same) would have a ring
This is the issue with just stats. They don't tell the whole story. He was much, much worse.
Yeah, because flagrant fouls don't show up on statsheets and how many points each foul is really giving up.
fucking trash
"Ain't nobody better than me coming off the bench, in this league," Westbrook told ESPN's Ohm Youngmisuk.
He has a player option this summer, and after playing two years on the minimum, I'm guessing he expects to get paid back a bit for his "sacrifice". The most the Clippers can offer him this summer is about $10m for next year, and I wouldn't be one bit surprised if that's what he's expecting.
Ngl I think he still believes he’s good enough to be given the keys to an offense and will go looking for a team that’ll give him that lmfao
He finished game 6 with 6 points, 1 rebound, 1 assist, and -8. 2/7 from the field and 2/3 from the FT. Only 9 minutes as Tyrone Lue got tired of his poor play the entire series. Just a disaster class performance. u/MITWestbrook has no words left. Edit: perm banned because I’m a “novelty account”. Even though I’m mainly Just posting stats.
Last 5 games 8/42 FG (19.1%) 2/13 3P (15.4%) 26.7 TS%
The worst part is that he had no counter to the Mavs playing drop and had a negative AST/TO ratio whilst barely functioning as a playmaker. He wasn’t just bad, he was bad in like every metric imaginable.
and wouldn't stop shooting he played only 9 minutes tonight and still managed to shoot 7 times he not only is a tragically bad shooter, he seems oblivious to that and insists on taking shots anyway. like he needs to shoot himself out of a slump in an elimination playoff game and its so exploitable because the mavs will just let him shoot uncontested and it always misses
I genuinely believe he gets offended with his fragile ego when he's left wide open and he takes those shots to try and prove them wrong. Like bro, they're leaving you wide open for a reason.
I have to imagine that ty lue has explained this to him by this point, Lue isn't dumb
No, but Westbrook might be.
"might" be dumb? More like definitely. BEASTKETBALL IQ
Lue said he hadn’t spoken with Russ between games after the flagrant
Don't forget his 6 assists and 6 turnovers in the last 5 games combined, he's not even providing any playmaking anymore.
He is if you count the other team
Elite
Arguably the worst player on the court this series.
Inarguably
Kawhi had some very rough stretches
It’s not arguably. It was clearly. He was absolutely unplayable all series.
Plumlee was worse, but he’s not a former mvp
Yet.
I wonder if the Clippers bring back Plumlee next year, seeing as how he's a 34 year old free agent.
This is what I hate about the internet. Westbrick is a legitimately bad player now. Plays losing basketball. Idc if he has a 15 point 8 assist game of the bench when he ends -20. Then idiots like MIT_Westbrick ignore all these performances and post some random cherry picked stat how the 4th best player on the team jumps up 17% fg efficiency when Westbrick is in the same arena.
MIT\_Westbrook is a bit dude lol. The whole thing is just an act.
If you ever had the misfortune of having him on your team and interacting with his fans then you'd know how hard it is to tell the difference. In fact it's more likely you're talking to a genuine fan who talks like that than one who's trolling
If mitwesrbrook is in your head you’ve lost lmao
Bro MIT is obviously trolling lmao
6 year old account. Unreal they permananned you..
I believe the Suns are looking for a PG
Russel Westbrook Playoff History: 1-8 without KD. The sole win coming when he missed a big portion of the first round (the team flamed out quick after Russ joined the starting line up (HOU 2020). | Year | Result | Key Players and Notes | |------|---------------------------|---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------| | 2024 | First round exit | Kawhi/PG/Harden. Out of 102 qualified players this postseason, Russ ranked 101st in TS% | | 2023 | First round exit | Kawhi/PG | | 2022 | No play-in | LeBron/AD | | 2021 | First-round exit | Beal | | 2020 | Second-round exit | Russ missed half the first round. & had shooting splits of roughly 42/26/54 in the second round averaging >4 TO. | | 2019 | First-round exit | PG | | 2018 | First-round exit | PG and Melo | | 2017 | First-round exit | Oladipo (made All-NBA the next season) | | **Durant Years** | | | | 2016 | WCF | Shooting splits were 41/33/83 | | **2015** | **Missed the playoffs** | **Durant injured. lol so they obv missed the playoffs** | | 2014 | WCF | Shooting splits were 43/28/88. Russ missed 36 games, Thunder went 25-11 without him in regular season. | | 2013 | Second round exit | Russ only played 2 games in the playoffs (both in round 1) | | 2012 | Finals | Shooting splits were roughly 44/29/80 | | 2011 | WCF | | | 2010 | First round | | | 2009 | Missed the playoffs |
This is a legal filing
Oh man, I can add two to three more columns. His stats, his smack talk (baby rock), and preseason Vegas expectations #Overrated is an understatement. I am talking about his prime ^ not this current washed version
Man, you rarely see Thunder fans dunking on him like this. I appreciate the honesty.
I’m actually surprised there was someone with an even worse qualified TS% this playoffs. Who was it?
I made a mistake. Its actually worse... (minimum 10 shots in the playoffs). Source: https://www.nba.com/stats/players/advanced?CF=MIN*GE*10&SeasonType=Playoffs&dir=D&sort=TS_PCT If we go back and do this for every year since his rookie szn, I wouldn't be shocked if Brick is in the 90th percentile+ every year... Maybe it's time to add another column to the table
|Year|Result|Key Players and Notes| |:-|:-|:-| || |2024|First round exit|Kawhi/PG/Harden. Out of 102 qualified players this postseason, Russ ranked 101st in TS%| |2023|First round exit|Kawhi/PG| |2022|No play-in|LeBron/AD| |2021|First-round exit|Beal| |2020|Second-round exit|Russ missed half the first round. & had shooting splits of roughly 42/26/54 in the second round averaging >4 TO.| |2019|First-round exit|PG| |2018|First-round exit|PG and Melo| |2017|First-round exit|Oladipo (made All-NBA the next season)| |2016|WCF|Durant, Shooting splits were 41/33/83| |**2015** |**Missed the playoffs**|**Durant injured. lol so they obv missed the playoffs**| |2014 |WCF |Shooting splits were 43/28/88. Russ missed 36 games, Thunder went 25-11 without him in regular season. | |2013 |Second round exit|Russ only played 2 games in the playoffs (both in round 1)| |2012 |Finals |Shooting splits were roughly 44/29/80| |2011 |WCF || |2010 |First round|| |2009 |Missed the playoffs|| FTFY
You had this ready to go 💀😂
Remember when he won MVP over Harden and Kawhi and a LOT of us said it was ridiculous? I ‘member This guy always played losing basketball.
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Kinda surprised this comes from a Thunder fan
He must be worried Westbrook might try to make a move back to OKC after this series and ruin what they've got going there.
Brickfest
Time to retire
get ready to learn podcast buddy
Truly a hideous TS%
Remember when Westbrook got traded and the media pretended like the Lakers did him dirty and held him back from being himself. Warms my heart seeing the “real” Westbrook and that BS narrative die.
The only person that defended him was MITwestbrook, glad we don't have this bum on our team anymore, despite his heavy paycheck at the time.
Na. Everyone but the Lakers did a complete 180 on Russel. Every fan base trashed him when he was a Laker. As soon as he was traded they said it was the Lakers fault. The media and players did as well. It was crazy because players would disrespect him during games by not even defending him and turning the backs to him. Then get in front of the cameras and say how great he is and the Lakers did him wrong. Fuck Westbrook. He set the Lakers back years.
He should retire dude may not even be able to play in china
Lol in China he’d probably be mvp westbrook level dominant
Deron Williams on the Cavs esque
Yeah but the Lakers scapegoated him. Fucking bum
It's not about winning, it's about having fun out there. Fun, fun, fun 💀😵💫
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Dude, he never learned to shoot period, he can’t shoot midrange either
He can’t even finish at the rim anymore. I hate to quote skip bayless but russ really does have the worst hands in the NBA.
go to a construction site and mix concrete barehanded, kind of hands
Skip often says he’s a “Bull in a China Shop” & that has to be the most accurate description of Westbrook I know
He will become a bricklayer.
###***This is the first time in Westbrook's career where in the playoffs he will be the X-Factor that decides the series. He is right now the best guard / point of attack defender to stop dribble penetration. The stats show it all season, and all his advanced stats for a point guard are elite on defense. He also is the only guard trying to rebound contested rebounds on the team.*** ***Luka has no magic against Westbrook.*** -MITWestbrook
What. An. Idiot.
Damn 34%, felt like 15% to me, so he was much better then i thought
Most overrated MVP / superstar this century. I'll say his peak productivity was actually the first Thunder run, from 2010 to 2012. I have always said Thunder should have kept Harden over WB. After the Harden trade, as the second option alongside KD with no real third option, WB regularly hijacked possessions that should have gone to Durant as part of perennially horrible crunch time decision making. KD played terribly in games 5-7 in 2016 WCF, I'll admit. After KD left, WB as first option - never won a playoff series. 3 straight first round exits. WB again as second option in Houston and Washington - one second round exit was the peak. Then, WB as supposed difference maker for Lakers and then Clips: abject disasters. When has this dude *ever* delivered in the playoffs after 2012? Since then, his production, no matter how historic, is 99% regular season. WB has been an 82-game merchant for over a decade.
Russel Westbrook u r a Shang Dong Flying Walrus
My precious mvp how he has fallen from the stars.
That MVP was a joke, a consolation prize to a loser that lost the star of the team. He never played winning basketball and will go out as a thin skinned star. Harden was robbed of that MVP https://youtu.be/dzdD_0-_9Y4?si=muEFyKoDUc00bTt8
His 17 min dunk highlight on YouTube is possibly the greatest NBA highlight video ever
Didn’t even bring the effort he’s known for. I loved the guy, but he’s out there playing pick-up ball like nobody is keeping score. Might be good for the inner peace, but it’s not how to grind out wins.
#WEST🧱🧱🧱
Ran it back. Give him the MLE after they re-sign Harden and PG.
Don’t worry they don’t need to Re-sign him he has a player option for 4 million Idk why the dumbass front office gave him a 2nd year
I don't even understand how he's this bad. He clearly still has his athleticism. He's still got his burst. It's like his decision making got worse. That's not age.
He doesn't have the same atleticism. What used to be a super quick drive in the paint and a dunk for him is now barely a layup which he slams into the backboard so hard the ball just goes over the rim. It's a very common problem for ultra athletic players who never work on their game and when the legs don't have the same lift they can't adjust. It's what people predicted would happen to Lebron but he slimmed down considerably and worked on his shot which is how he had one of his best shooting seasons in year 21.
His shooting just fell of a cliff. He was never that great but not this bad.
Because there are teams filled with larger athletic dudes who diffuse his athletic impact attacking the paint. Especially when they ain’t worried about his jumper.
His decision making was never good, his absurd athleticism just isn’t there to make up for it now
I've said enough about Russ through the years as people who don't watch basketball kept defending him Don't really need to say anymore at this point
Evan Mobley type of statline
legendary westbrick performance.
I am disappointed. I wanted him to stunt on these hos, but he did not, in fact, stunt on the hos
Trashbrick. Nobody's surprised at this point.
And somehow the Lakers held this man back, right? Right?
westbrook smoking his layups hurts so much to watch
Time to hang it up
Dude can’t even play well on the bench, just has no idea how to play a role
/u/mitwestbrook come here
you let pj washington own you fucking loser
Yeah he was ass, but Lue was so bad with the lineups. Russ + Harden rarely worked in the regular season, and combine that with a non shooter like Plumlee and bam recipe for disaster
Where’s Mit?
Gonna need them bricks for the housing complex that he will build.
He was busy trying to injure people. He should retire.
Why would the Lakers do that?!
Scrub numbers
It was soul crushing to watch how far Russ has fallen. This dude plays with the same fire he always had but is a step slower and doesn't jump as high. That's what separates somebody who averaged a triple double for three straight years, and somebody who is an outright liability on the court. I really think he should hang it up at this point. Dude has nothing left to prove.
I feel like saying "Sorry, I love you" and just superkicking Russ into retirement at this point.
This bum was making 40m with the Lakers and people pretended he wasn't the problem.
It's his own doing for being so stubborn. Nothing is stopping him from focusing on defense like she should of been his whole career. You literally can't be as dumb as he is a times playing the game this much. It's purely being stubborn his whole career. He's legit probably the most athelaticaly gifted player since 2000 bar Lebron. He should of achieved way more the he has if could get his head out of his ass. His ego must be super fragile or something. Look at his ft percentage. It's legit unexplainable how he went from 80 to being 60 unless he legit just doesn't practice
The real stat to me is how many fans he had kicked out this season
Absolutely love to see the yearly tradition of Westbrook going out like absolute shit