"Thaddeus Brown follows James Butler" "CP3 likes Russell Westbrook" "Anthony Davis now following Kawhi Leonard" "James Butler now following the Miami Heat" Message board posters eat it up, have 20+ page long threads on it Damn, if I was an athlete, I'd troll the hell out of you and start following/liking everything!
In all honesty, I think Presti will work with Westbrook and give him a list of teams (Miami, Detroit, Houston?) he would prefer to be traded to. Question is, which team does he want to play for?
At this point if you can get Westbrook you do it. We get so enamored with fit. Who is to say we don’t use various schemes depending on who we have on the court. For one it would put a wrinkle in our predictable offense that would be difficult to gameplan around. As a coach you should have the ability to fit the game to the player (as we did with Harden) so you do the same in this case. Cap situation would be a disaster but isn’t it already? Add the talent then worry about the rest later.
I think there will be one or two teams that value him highly and a lot of teams that don't. I say that and watch the Spurs get him.
Yup, Herro hasn't signed his contract so he can be dealt. If the Heat are dead set on getting Westbrook, they will likely get him. Leonard and Dragic combine for $30,000,000...... they also have James Johnson with only 2 years left and young players like Bam and Winslow. Also, if you are Russell Westbrook, do you want to go share the ball with Butler......... or share the ball with James Harden AND Chris Paul? Westbrook strikes me as the type to want to control the ball.
Actually Westbrook is capable of defending a lot of 3's. He has a 6'9" wingspan. He tends to defend bigger players better. PJ Tucker has a 7'0" wingspan if I remember correctly.
