I Thought You Westbrook D*cc Eaters Told Me Oladipo Was Worthless?

[Gil Scott-Heroin]

Harden had a very credible claim for MVP last year.....and even if people felt Russ deserved it certainly was not an obvious choice the way it is sometimes portrayed online

I havent had a chance to watch any Indy games this year but I remember this of Oladipo. Mediocre paint finisher and three point shooter. Definitely not getting full benefit of his athleticism

If Westbrook didn't average a triple-double, Harden probably would've won MVP, which is unfair to Harden and anybody else who has to go up against a flawed narrative. Which is why I keep telling folk to stop using the box score as a measurement of a player's performance, value and impact. It's half the reason there's so many arguments on this board, because folk are stuck in the past and can't think for themselves.

 

[Osmosis]

Yea yea you might have a point if some of us hadn't been saying WB was stunting his growth for 82 games last year

Yeah but didn't you see his rebounding and assist numbers last year? He did it all

 

[BigMoneyGrip]

They certainly didn’t match together whatsoever

Cause WB is a stat padding ball hog

 

[Hiphoplives4eva]

Oladipo has always been a good player and an excellent defender. His shot was improving but still not there yet. Athletically, he’s only a few notches behind Westbrook himself. Westbrook chose not to develop dude and that’s the reason he looked confused all year. Oladipo dropped hints he wasn’t happy all year. Most morons don’t watch the games, so they simply believed the bull shyt narrative that Oladipo was trash and Westbrook single handedly carried the team.

 

[mastermind]

The Fat Lever stans

 

[idonttouchgrass]

it's been like 5 games... bring this thread up at around 30-35 games in

 

[Devil Plisken…CMS]

Lmao...the catch is this narrative can thrown on ANY team. These guys are NBA players...cream of the crop globally. Nobody is a "bum" in the truest sense. On the other hand i watched Oladipo defer to Enes "5 Second Rule" Kanter all season when Russell was on the bench. He played tentative and scared. Sounds like a mental thing more than anything

 

[MikelArteta]

Coli hot takes
Dude is shooting 4 more shots and shooting 47 percent obviously it won't last

 

[Professor Emeritus]

For oladipo no one called him useless, was closed to a neg again

You sure about that?

Oladipo is trash and hasn't lived up to the draft status and semi hype he had

doesn't really do shyt on the court minus score an empty useless 16 per game

Dipo useless on the floor

Oladipo is garbage

Oladipo is trash and thunder handcuffed themselves to that bum

Oladipo trash.

Oladipo needs to not be a trash can with limbs tonight.

Oladipo is horrible

Dion Waiters>Oladipo.

Waiters>>Oladipo

Oladipo is a downgrade from Dion Waiters

Justice Young>>>Oladipo

Oladipo is trash

Oladipo fukking trash.

Oladipo is pretty trash

I hate Wesbrook so I'm glad Oladipo is trash.

Who do you want Westbrook to kick it to? Roberson? Oladipo? I agree he is taking too many right now, but they are fukking trash. They lost a 12 point lead in a min without him

Oladipo was so overrated when drafted. People were acting like he was the next DWade and really he's just another dumb athletic wing who can't shoot for shyt

It's honestly disturbing how pathetic Oladipo is.

Oladipo is straight

Oladipo fukking trash.

Oladipo can't do shyt right

Pacers fukked up so bad for the paul george trade lmaooo just saw the blazers offered 3 first round picks and players
victor oladipo is pretty trash man

I cant believe Pacers GM really traded for that trash..I thought you wanted picks..etc. Oladipo is horrible with a bad contract, and he got no picks. I dont see PG leaving Westrbrook..

The funniest part is that the poster ripping on Oladipo the most was previously saying that Oladipo would be a "nice piece" for the Cavs and that the Hawks should have traded Teague for him because they needed a slasher. With Westbrook dominating the ball, everyone acted like the forgot that Oladipo could create offense and get buckets all sorts of ways when he was actually given a shot:



0:48 - Rolls off the pick-and-roll to get a bucket in traffic
1:02 - Shows he can run the pick-and-roll too to get Sabonis a bucket
1:42 - Starts with the ball well above the three-point line to work it inside and make a tough jumper
2:34 - Good ball movement to the open shooter
3:48 - Hits a three off the dribble
4:04 - Drives in and then finds the open shooter outside
5:39 - Starts to take the ball in, then pulls back for the step-back three
5:58 - Great quick pass to find the big man cutting in for the easy hoop inside
6:12 - Takes the ball in and breaks down the defense to get the mid-range jumper
8:28 - Gets a handoff and drives into the lane to make a floater
9:00 - Splits the double on the pick-and-roll to feed the roller

When he was with Westbrook, people were saying all sorts of shyt about how Oladipo can't shoot, can't run the offense, can't create his own buckets. He's proving he can do all three, he was just stuck in an ugly situation with someone who was dominating the ball as much or more than anyone in basketball history.

 

[Professor Emeritus]

Yeah, this isn't true at all. Oladipo is definitely NOT a great two-way player (by any stretch of the imagination),

Name all the shooting guards in the NBA right now who are better than Oladipo at both offense and defense.

I'll start. Klay. Then you have....?

There are some better offensive players than him, but they don't play D. There are some better defenders, but they aren't scorers. Hardly anyone is above-average on both ends.

Westbrook did his best as did Donovan to get Oladipo involved in the offense

That only makes sense if what you mean by "did his best" is "did the best that Russ can do and that's not particularly good". Look at the difference from that Pacers gametape and the kind of bullshyt possessions he kept getting in OKC.

He was absolutely hopeless in that Rockets series.

He was mentally a wreck by the time the playoffs came. It's what happens when you get put in terrible positions by your leader all season long, can't stand how he plays, and yet you're the one consistently blamed for it while being expected to excel at things that aren't particularly strengths for you.

(and yes, I'm aware enough of your broken-record posting style to know exactly where you'll take that)

Yeah, but not both offense AND defense together, which you should know all about considering the Cavs role players were much of the same.

That's just at one position though (SF). They had two-way players at the other three positions in Oladipo, Gibson, and Adams.

You can survive a strong one-way player at one position if you have strong two-way players at the other 3-4 positions.

Westbrook did force-feed his bigs all throughout the season (but not always in accordance to making the right play, but for stats - which we agree on). Defense, obviously there was a big issue with the way they'd let Westbrook do what he wanted - that we too agree on. He did let his role players shine, but not always in the way that was conducive to winning, which we're both on the same wavelength about.

He did force-feed his bigs at certain times, but could have done so more often AND more efficiently. Crashing into the lane and then dumping it to Adams or Kanter was one of his most effective plays when he was hunting assists.

In principle, we agree with the nature of Wesrbrook's triple-doubles and the [negative] effect they had on the team, but where you an I differ is, Westbrook still had ELITE impact and did "drag" his team to the playoffs even despite him playing for box score numbers.

Westbrook still had "elite" impact, but he shouldn't have been MVP. Harden, Kawhi, Lebron all had a greater impact on the bottom line, Curry/Durant would have been ahead too if they hadn't forfeited consideration before the season started.

 

[42 Monks]

So I'm supposed to dismiss a whole career over 4 games

Homie is Jeff Green at SG I ain't got time for this

 

[Rigby.]

Cause WB is a stat padding ball hog

Well Westbrook meshed with KD prior and is meshing with Melo and PG afterwards, so its not that he just doesnt give up control to other players. He just didnt believe Oladipo was worth being a co-star, and based on Oladipo's game to that point, his shot clearly wasn't hitting and his game in Orlando was essentially the same shyt Westbrook wants to do on the court. Its hard to have two ball dominant non shooters eat in a system of offensively-sparse players.

 

[NoHalfWay]

Coli hot takes for 200, Alex.

 

[LurkMoar]

Indiana is a lottery team

 

[Serious]

it's been like 5 games... bring this thread up at around 30-35 games in

ol let's wait for the facts ass nikka