People just want to b**** for no reason, last year Cp3 was the most toxic contract ever, an anchor around the Rox's neck and the one signing who gets Morey fired. Now people want him back SMH. I'm as much of a stat geek as the next guy but with WB vs Cp3, 30>34 is all you need to know. Cp3's gonna be 38 when that deal expires and ready for retirement...imagine paying a retiring dude the max lol
The Rockets being pretty consistently statistically better with Westbrook off the court seems to be a reason "No reason" lmao
And I do expect this to improve to a degree as the season goes along, but it's not like Westbrook is having some abnormally bad season shooting the ball. He's been trending down for years. He's not going to return to his Top 10 player days or anything like that.
instead lets pay supermax to a 31 year old, 20% broken jump shot with declining athleticism . yeah much better lol. he has better pre game dance moves. that's funny to see, I'll give him that
no matter what the evidence says, they're going to try to convince themselves otherwise. it doesn't matter what kind of supporting data gets posted on here. Can you imagine the outrage if cp3 was here putting up these scoring numbers. People were getting all upset before. Oh boy if he was here shooting 20% prep for the riots.
If WB has declining athleticism then what about Cp3's declined athleticism? WB 4 yrs from now is what Cp3 is today lol Cp3 isnt Lebron, he isnt ageless its pretty clear he is losing the battle vs Father time and pretty horribly at that. Stats 1/4 into the season when he still has fresh legs dont really matter. Look you and Jsizzle are fighting a losing battle here Cp3 sucked when he was here he will suck even more 4 yrs from now. This thread will get necro bumped for the next 4 years and everybody will have fun roasting you guys for pining for CrippledP3.
Rox just have better Orating when WB sits first of all look who replaces him oh wait its James Harden, aka best scorer in NBA history. Secondly Orating doesnt take into account rebounding or the 2nd posessions having WB there gives the team. Orating is just about efficiency, it doesnt take into account having higher pace which results in more possessions. WB plays almost 30 mins a night, if he was such a drag MDA would have benched him clearly he is doing things on the court Orating doesn't see. At the end of the day you don't win with efficiency, you win with more pts than your opponent. Efficiency does put more pts on the board, but so does higher pace and rebs.
Saying Westbrook’s higher pace helps the offense is like saying it hurts the defense. Efficiency is all that matters.
Efficiency is just making the most of your posessions. If you get more possessions its the same as increasing efficiency. It's the same principle as taking more 3s even if you have lower FG. If you have 4 possessions and you make 3 then you have 75% efficiency and 6 pts. If you get 8 possessions and make 3 you only have 38% efficiency, but you have the same no of pts. Not only that WB has 8.4 rebs a night compared to Cp3's 3.4 last season and those are legit rebs as WB isnt stat padding this year. That's huge how many games we lost last year within a couple of possessions? If we got an additional 5 rebs last year we would have won the championship. Arguing it hurts the defense doesnt make sense as just because you have high pace doesnt mean your opponent has high pace as well. Rox had the slowest pace last year they didnt really increase their pace significantly when they play fast teams.
he can also do this.. and this will help you in the finals... not even harden can do this man let alone cp3
cp3 doesn't depend on athleticism. big difference. one ages much better with actual skills. evident by him still being able to drop 30 on less than 20 shots or so with efficiency. meanwhile westbrick is out here taking 30 shots and can't even hit the 20 pt mark. nah cp3 didn't actually suck. that's the problem. he was held to some standard that cf's just couldn't handle anymore. you can make fun of cp3 all you want. that's what you have to do to make yourself feel better. unfortunate but that's where were at. he's played every single game thus far while westrick hasn't. dude talking about cp3 sucked. and you have a guy shooting 20%. what does that qualify as. if you're inconsistent with your logic then you're answer would definitely tell that
Well if you were consistent with your logic you will realize WB is averaging 21.9 pts on 40% FG so your statement "cant hit 20 on 30 shots" is just false. Chris Paul scored 30 pts on just 1 game the entire season but he averages just 16 a night lmao. If you wanna play the 1 game wonder stat WB had 28 13 10 with +17 thats way better than Cp3's 30 pts. Cp3 was held to a high standard because he asked for it, he wanted and got a max deal he has to produce max numbers. 16 pts 5 ast is not max numbers, that's Eric Gordon numbers. The Rox arent paying him 40M to put up numbers barely better than EG they are paying him to put up franchise numbers. Cp3 right now is averaging 16 4 5 as the sole star of his team. That's his limit already he cant do much more due to his age despite having all the possessions he can handle. WB is averaging 21 8 7 despite being the 2nd banana. Yes his efficiency could be better guess what the dude is coming off arthroscopic surgery. He will get better with time. Playing every single game thus far 1/4 into the season are you kidding me? You're the one who is inconsistent here.
he scored 27 on 13 shots in another. not bad for "washed up" nah he won't get better with time. that;s not what the track record shows for the last couple of years. it doesn't go the other direction all of a sudden. yeah so what. that's the point of the season were at. everyone is just hoping and waiting for cp3 to miss games and he hasn't.
Maybe you are dreading it but I'm loving his heart hustle and activity so far. Harden is too looking at his performance no more massaging the ball for 20 secs every possession.
