A snapshot of Westbrook's overrated (and Harden's underrated) defense

I'll admit I haven't been clear on one thing. I was wrong when I said that Westbrook should not have been rotating at all. Adams wasn't in a very good position to recover (which I didn't see at first, as I said on the second page), so Westbrook did need to rotate. But I was saying he should have come harder, AND since he did *not* fully commit, he should have at least tried to recover once the ball went to Beverley.

If he's literally incapable of closing out on Beverley, AND he's seemingly unlikely to be able to stop Nene, then he's in no-man's land. Maybe I could have found better examples of his defense, but I think this is still somewhat telling. Beverley has been getting a lot of open looks so far, and I don't think it's a coincidence.

And I don't know what you mean by I "stole" his videos. It's not like I re-uploaded them and claimed them as mine. I'm not allowed to re-share them in a thread of my own? I wasn't aware of that law, my apologies. I skipped the intro because I wanted to get straight to the action relevant to the point I was making. I skipped like the first 30 seconds of the second video. So I also apologize for trying to save people time. I'm just a terrible, attention-whoring, video-stealing person, I guess.

... People on the internet throw around the term "attention w****" any time they have an argument with a thread creator these days.

 

Lol, you make a good point there. I was pretty certain about the baseline three distance. Of course if you provided a link, I woulda believed it. (This is usually the case with any debate that involves actual, provable facts, though.) But in any case, I just very rarely recall seeing offensive fouls in these situations unless someone throws a bow/clears out. A charge is almost impossible. I think Nene had drop on Westbrook if he catches the ball there. I mean Westbrook was in the land of the giants there and was just not in great position even if he could have made it harder than an open layup. Those plays more often than not end up with a two or a FT.

But regardless, maybe it wasn't the best example, but I think it's pretty fair to say that Westbrook did not play that as well as he could. But whatevs, guess I'm in the minority here.