[Ryen Russillo]There are people around the league who believe that Westbrook is available for trade

Russ had a brain fart yesterday, but our depth is ass. He was playing great consistently for 8 or 9 games in a row. I’ll take 1 bad one out of 10. Our bench needs a serious upgrade though. Tyson Chandler and Gary Clark were unplayable. Thabo wasn’t even an option and for good reason.

 

Westbrook needs to stay. Playoffs will show you how important he is

 

First of all, you don't need to have a single source to logically deduce that Morey would be shopping Chris Paul around after losing last season.
a) Paul and his contract were an albatross hanging around the neck of a team with a rapidly-closing championship window.
b) He's a GM, so his literal job is to do stuff like this. The only person on the team that's essentially untradeable at that point in time was Harden.

Second of all, the fact that he denied it when pressed gives no additionally credibility to the source. It would be crazy to just reveal something like that simply because someone asked. These negotiations are handled discreetly in every sport for a multitude of reasons.

Third, it would be team suicide to trade Westbrook. That is logically deducible as well, because as others have pointed out, that would almost certainly make Harden want to leave as well. At the very least, it would ruin his motivation for the rest of this season. It may very likely be true that there is a nonzero chance that other teams think they can get Westbrook and even a nonzero chance that Morey would consider a trade. However, there's also a nonzero chance that I could just randomly teleport right through the wall next to me.

This sort of crap here, though, is just meant to try to be provocative and stir the pot and create drama, which is literally the job of a self-serving "journalist" trying to create something for him to take credit for. Of course, since there's nothing there, his chances of really starting anything are only slightly better than chances of my quantum tunneling through my wall.

 

That just doesn't really work in our offense though. The reason they got rid of Ryan Anderson had a lot more to do with him refusing to shoot threes than it did about him not making them. Our offense simply doesn't work with a guy out there who won't/can't shoot threes. And watching teams just leave him open and dare him to shoot is pretty painful.

 

Westbrook is the least of our problems. I'd start looking at the coach before I even look at trading Westbrook.

 

Rebuild the whole squad. This one isn’t doing anything significant.

 

Lock this thread up

 

Our depth is the worst it’s been in years. Our owner has yet to show he’s willing to spend what it takes to build a competent roster

 

Lot bigger issues. They need another playmaker and 2 new rotation players. Ego back will be a big help

 

We hope ... of course Ego coming back should help, especially when Harden is double teamed, I don’t think it’s going to be enough to mask the problems this team has when their 3’s aren’t falling. The fact that this offense is so reliant on 3 point shooters making shots and the fact that we really don’t have many great 3 point shooters is a very real problem !!!

 

I say ship him off

We have an outside shot this year and that's being generous

It only gets worse after that and we'll just waste Harden's career

 

Because it's cheap?

 

I’m fairly confident Harden’s soulmate, who also happens to have a bad contract as he physically declines, will not be getting traded.

 

Who would even want him and what could you get back anyway?

 

LMFAO Westbrook has like 9 games in a row where he not only plays at an all-star level, but a superstar level. Even beat the Clippers with PG and Kawhi where he had 40 points. 1 bad shooting game since then, Let's ship him out! I'd take the occasional Westbrick game if he can continue to play at the level he played recently.

Defense was the problem yesterday more than the offense anyways.

 

dont buy into the media trying to create problems in houston with false reports

 

Two words... KNEES SHOT.

next?

 

would you trade Harden and Russ for LeBron and AD? straight up?

 

It's not the bad shooting, it's the terrible shot selection.

 

EGo provides more than just three point shooting, though. He's a superior defender to McLemore and can attack the hoop on a close out. He averaged 20ppg against GS last season. I think he's a great backcourt partner to either Harden or Westbrook which makes every lineup we have more dangerous. This is provided he comes back healthy, of course.