Watching Westbrook sabotage the Clips is great comedy. He actually had a really good game tonight vs Sac town 12 for 16 and 27 pts and 10 ast. But he's always gonna do something to keep you from winning - 5 out of the team's 7 TOs.
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Watching Westbrook sabotage the Clips is great comedy. He actually had a really good game tonight vs Sac town 12 for 16 and 27 pts and 10 ast. But he's always gonna do something to keep you from winning - 5 out of the team's 7 TOs.
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Westbrook's career is starting to give off those late year-Iverson vibes. Absolutely devastating prime, followed by a steep decline that he is unwilling to acknowledge.Originally Posted by Manhattan
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That's insulting to AI. Westbrook never carried a team to the finals as the main guy. AI was never the Javale Mcgee-level bonehead stat padder that you tempted to shoot by leaving wide open all game. Westbrook hasn't even lost that much athleticism at 34. His short comings have just become more apparent playing for non-lottery teams trying to win games.
Speaking of stat padding I hope the league takes this rebound away. Lose so much respect for players when they do this:
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Disgusting. Agreed.
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I'm not talking about style. I'm talking about career trajectory. Russ, in his prime, was an otherworld sort of game changer, much in the same way that prime AI was. Then, as he got older he refused to accept that he wasn't a starter and started become a sort of liability to his teams.This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
Westbrook has played for 5 teams (LAL, LAC, HOU and WAS)in the last 4 seasons. Iverson played for 3 teams in his last 5 (3 games with MEM when he more or less refused to play because he didn't start).
Both players are fully capable of putting up really good numbers, even at this stage in their career, but their roles have changed and they refuse to do so.
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Both are pretty stubborn players carrying a lot of ego late into their career. Westbrook never played winning basketball tho. KD and Harden carried them early and OKC was a middling team even during his prime triple double averaging years (with a lot of stat padding i.e. waiting in the lane for rebounds instead of boxing out).
I don't think a Laker fan base has ever hated their own player as much as they hated him.
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