Is this maybe the best stretch of games he’s ever had in his career? Just taking a quick look at his yearly stats, 57% FG and 43% from 3 would blow away any of his previous years...it wouldn’t even be close! Maybe it’s just me but with this system it looks like he’ll be able to sustain this production as long as he load manages as well. At this point WB seems to be an upgrade even over a heathy CP3 which I never thought would be the case.
It’s going to take production like that for us to win a championship. We need at least Harden or Westbrook to have career best playoff numbers, maybe both. Then we also need some role players to step up. I’ve pretty much given up on EG at this point but I think our other guys can step up.
Russ should also be in the MVP conv alongside Harden. If they jump all the way to 2nd/1st seed the league should think about a co MVP award belonging to the same team.
Counting stats look good and don’t get me wrong he’s come up huge in some spots but these first two games have been poor efficiency wise, high turnovers. 51.8 TS% 47.1 eFG 104 ortg 120 drtg 15.5 TO% All worse than his season long numbers and well, well below the standard of his crazy good stretch. Only the first two games of a reboot so not going to worry too much. We won and despite his negatives our team is +5.6 with him on the floor in these two games, best of all our starters.
He's recently came back from his COVID layoff. Didn't have much of a training camp, so there could be some rust to shake off. He did look better the second game than the first. 15.5 TO% is about his career average.
Mid third quarter Brodie had a careless turnover that led to a fastbreak and tick tack foul which was Harden's 5th. He got bailed out by tremendous bench play while both Harden and Brodie sat. His horrendous free throw shooting (41.7%) also cost us big time tonight.
