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Report: Russell Westbrook 'appalled' by Rockets team culture, which revolves around James Harden

Discussion in 'Houston Rockets: Game Action & Roster Moves' started by LosPollosHermanos, Dec 16, 2020.

  1. Pandaemonaeon

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    It's bad if Harden does it.
     
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    Well its a good there were more than one game? What? Bro, he had his best spacing on the court and was still trash. Our offense even during his "hot" stretch was still worse with his own lineups. He was only ever good when he was playing with Harden. Moron, we gave up size because Westbrook cant function with another center on the court, he's ass. The numbers were very clear there. Our spacing was much better than OKC in 2016 but he was still trash and he's regressed since his MVP season. Our 3 point percentage would also be much higher if we shot threes at a normal rate, we dont have bad shooters here, just average ones. Also to suggest Kevin Durant threw a game is absolutely moronic.

    PG had a higher TS% than Westbrook BOTH YEARS in the playoffs. The hell outta here with this BS. Everyone plays hurt during the playoffs. There was no evidence that injuries were severely hurting their games in either series(except PG against Portland). 49 TS% agaisnt Utah and LOL 46 TS% agains Portland LOL. Give me a freaking break. If you watched that Utah series, you saw Gobert give Westbrook all those mid range twos he loves so much and they lost. And Portland did the same thing the next year while Lillard embarrassed him. PG was injured yea lol and HE STILL performed better than Westbrook, especially against Portland.

    Kawhi was able to get PG out of the first round and went to 7 games against the Nuggets, who they should have beat lol. Everyone thought so. Westbrook got washed in the first round. Westbrook has been declining every year since his MVP season.
     
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    Forget about the stars Harden has played with and look at it a different way.
    Harrell, Sweet Lou and Beverley all reportedly complained about the Clippers of last season specifically regarding PG and Kawhai with their special treatment.
    I've not heard anything from those 3 regarding Harden or the Rockets culture.
    Nor have we heard from CP3 about culture.
    The only previous issues heard was regarding Dwight and there was a divide in the locker room.
    And if Harden was such an issue, why would Morey consider trading for him?
     
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    Because Trez and Bev love Harden.
     
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    This goes against what Morey said when he told Harden that Russ deal could not be done and that Harden understood.

    And completely contradicts the story that TF has repeated MULTIPLE times, "his ops team got nervous so [HE] made the call." TF tells this story to take the credit for this trade, no time does he discuss any ultimatums made.

    Tim may think he is right but he was not there.

     
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    If this reporter wants to compare, compare it to those stars that have been on time.

    Comparing him to even more rotten apples like Kawhi in order to make his conduct stand out better..
    .. Really shaking head.

    I bet y'all Kawhi wouldn't have been wanted if he only made Finals once and never won FMVP like Harden.

    He has been courted because of those achievements.

    He is no rolemodel.
     
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    Make no mistake it was part of the Front Office and ownership that wanted Westbrook too apart from Harden.

    It would look even worse if their new acquired gem fizzled out like Carmelo so they made the Capela trade.

    Would have been great if Westbrook went to another team to begin with and never played here.
     
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    I'm appalled by Westbrook's inability to hit wide-open jumpshots...
     
  14. HP3

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    Well....Im sure Stone wanted Westbrook...dont think Morey did. :D
     
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    That's where they had the inside info on how bad the Harden Paul 'beef' really was.

    If Harden felt that he didn't like CP3 no more, guy is gone.

    One part of Morey always conformed to Harden's wishes so Harden's wish is his wish no matter how bad of a fit he envisoned it would be.
     
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    Harden probably indicated major changes to the roster were needed or he’s going to leave. Don’t know if specifically directed them to bring in Westbrook or not, but that seems entirely possible to me.

    I also don’t doubt that there was hesitancy on executing that deal in the front office and Tilman ultimately said to go ahead and do it.

    Nothing contradictory in any of that.
     
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    So did Patrick Fertitta pull the trigger on the Westbrook deal or not?
     
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  18. DaDakota

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    I honestly believe that due to COVID the intelligent people mailed their votes in because it was safer, and it takes longer to count by hand.

    Yes.

    anything else is just dumbass propaganda by a whiner who can’t stand to lose.

    Trump will be too busy trying to stay out of prison for tax fraud. And his fan base will start to realize they were conned all along.

    BTW- there is NOTHING fraudulent about mail in ballots, Trump voted by mail, the Military has voted by mail since the 1860s, mail is as safe as it gets, they check signatures - please turn off the propaganda and research truth for yourself.....it is embarrassing, honestly.

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    Harden was offerd a 50 million dollar a year a extension by the Rockets so no it’s not a big issue for the Rockets. Is harden perfect? No can’t excuse being tardy, but it seems the Rockets had no issues with it when they offed him that extension
     
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  20. vlaurelio

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    so westy is appalled by the same culture which got him out of OKC?
     
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