While this biaseed is getting out of control its perfect for us. We want russell to play like he has no one, and wewant russell to play like he wants to be MVP and prove everyone wrong. Those are probably the main reasons why we won game 2 lol. Lets be real here...Harden is MVP this year but whocares let them take another award away from us as long as we dont let the media's MVP see 6 games and we will be the last ones laughing no matter what they say. Bias is out of control but it feels good up 2-0 so we can just laugh at the tv screens
On ESPN's Mike & Mike Russilo said, "if your only takeaway from OKC/HOU game last night is Westbrook has no help, then you're a Russ apologist" b00m
McNuggets looked like that walk on kid during a pick-up game that nobody passes to. He had his hands ready and was like "I'm here" then after Westbrook bricked his shot he just ran down the court like he knew he wasn't really going to get the ball.
It's hilarious how much the media keeps reminding everybody that this series does NOT effect the MVP voting. The defensive tone is so funny. They know this is making them look bad.
Have you guys noticed in the bottom scroll on ESPN, the HOU/OKC series summary is ALWAYS OKC positive? When the Rockets went up 1-0 in the series, the bottom scroll read something like, "OKC has come back after trailing in a series." When the Rockets went up 2-0, the bottom scroll now reads, "Rockets have lost multiple series when going up 2-0 in a series." Westbrook bias?
Rachael Nicholas literally spent the first few minutes on The Jump today explaining ad nauseum that the MVP is a regular season award. Why does the media even bring this up? Harden clearly shot down any talk of it, by saying the MVP race is over. Can't they just talk about this series just like the other 7 series that are going on right now?
Every show on ESPN said the same thing. Micheal and Jamielle talking about right now. the narrative contortions! hilarious.
they're bringing it up and talking ad nauseam because there is some thick black crow stuck in their throats.
The media needs to realize that last night's game proves triple doubles mean nothing. They wasted their vote. When your "achievements" directly lead to a loss, then it means you were not valuable. It means you are are a selfish, glory-seeking detriment to your team. It means you are Russell Westbrook.
Regular season win shares per 48 minutes, starting backcourts: James Harden: 0.245 Russell Westbrook: 0.224 Patrick Beverley: 0.123 Victor Oladipo: 0.086 Playoff win shares per 48 minutes, starting backcourts: James Harden: 0.345 Patrick Beverley: 0.309 Russell Westbrook: negative 0.036 Victor Oladipo: negative 0.168 This is why I like win shares way more than PER. Look at Russ' PER and it says he's still having a great series. But when you have a 50% usage rate and are scoring at an offensive efficiency that would be league-worst by far if extended to the whole team, you're not contributing significantly to winning no matter how many counting stats you get.
If you watch that 63 point game, Jordan was clutch and efficient. Jordan carried his team single-handedly in 4th quarter and OTs, against an all-time-great Celtics team. And his usg% is 10% lower than Russ's last game.
