What is the obsession with shooting percentage. The difference between him being a 43% shooter and a 52% shooter is literally making two more shots. I'm sure he makes up for those two shots in the billions of other things he's been doing on the court. The hate is strong in this thread.
It takes time to turn the hate into respect. It's slowly happening. The media who used to criticize WB heavily before slowly are praising him. The people I talk to (I live in LA so primarily Lakers fans) now regularly refers to him as a top 2-3 player. Even radio hosts in LA is giving him mad respect.
They were 4-1 with Durant. They other 5 games they won: Pacers (25-34) Nuggets (21-39) Hornets (25-33) Pelicans (32-28) Magic (19-42) They lost to Phoenix & Portland in large part because Westbrook takes too many bad shots. He is a great player, he just needs to either improve his range, or make better decisions, if he wants to lead a playoff team.
He's great. Sure. But I still haven't seen a ball dominant scoring PG win a title since Isiah Thomas.
Tony Parker? Chaucy Billups? They actually matchup well with Isiah Thomas based on usage rate & FGA/100 possessions. Westbrook's usage rate blows those 3 out of the water though.
Still haven't seen a team with with a pass-first PG in recent memory either. Boston's Rondo is the only one in the last 20 or so years.
Obv it's not just you thinks that, WB probably thinks so as well, and his mom, his girlfriend, his brothers etc. You are just a Westbrook fanboy, even early in the season where Harden was beating WB in all categories you still thought WB was the MVP, then you proclaimed that he was the closest thing to prime Lebron when Lebron's efficiency was godly but WB's was pathetic. The short list for MVP this year is down to Harden and Curry, with Lebron making a push. Where the **** is WB in all this, and yet you think he's the best player in the league? By what metric? His PER and averages are inflated by his ridiculously high usage rate, if Harden shot 30 times a night there's not doubt in my mind he'd put up similar if not better stats. Never mind that, if KD put up 30 shots a night and told WB to get in line I think he'd put up HOF level stats. That's just what happens when you shoot 30 times a night, even if less than half of those go in you still end up with a nice number, that's how guys like Iverson, Stephon Marbury and Melo defend their playstyle, Iverson says look I got more than 5 assists a night, I'm a playmaking pg I'm not a WB hater, I don't really care about him but seeing you prop him up time and time again is getting irritating. I admit he is a top NBA player, but to say he is the best in the L is just too ridiculous to be true, in terms of potential, yes definitely WB has so much going for him: toughness, clutch gene, aggressiveness, that alpha personality to just destroy his opponent that's all amazing. But at the end of the day basketball is a team sport, as good individually as kobe is a guy like Tim Duncan who plays nice, listens to the coach and is a total team player and leader is 10x more valuable when it comes to you know, actually winning games. WB needs to prove that his selfish style of play is overpowering enough to lead his team to Ws, all of his team accomplishments right now can be attributed to KD's greatness, because really how many dominating scorers would have let somebody like WB monopolize all the shots on the squad? If KD wasn't around with his crazy efficiency, would WB chucking left and right still lead to OKC reaching the finals? Again, WB is a top NBA player there really is no question about that. But IMHO he is also extremely flawed, if he reigns it in then great. As is though I don't think he deserves to be mentioned in the same breath as Curry, Harden, Lebron and KD. I mean, why not lead his team somewhere on his own first? I will be surprised OKC's record without KD but with WB extrapolated through an entire season is good enough to lead them to the playoffs.
Once again, did I tell you guys that RB is my fav. non Rockets? BeastBrook. Rockets are going after the wrong guy. It should be RB they should be targeting. The guy is All heart. What I wouldnt give to see RB in a Houston Rockets jersey. PS. Harden and Wb are pretty good friends as well. :grin:
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If he keeps getting 3D's he might but I think he missed to many games and still only the 8th seed. JJ Watt might agree with you though.
