Except, as I said in my post, he has 25 games where he's had 12+ boards. That is more times than the amount of times he's gotten 9, 10, or 11 yet you completely dismiss that.
Because you don't understand statistics, you are failing to understand every time I tell you.
There are a lot of numbers over 12. A few games where he gets 12, a few 13, a few 14, a few 15, a few 17, a few 18. He doesn't literally stop rebounding completely every time he gets 10 boards.
But anyone who isn't trying for a certain number is going to have a random distribution, like Westbrook has at 12 and over. A few at each number
Instead, he rarely stops at 7 or 8 (less than he stops at 5/6 somehow), almost never stops at 9, yet has a TON of times where he ends up with just over 10. That can't be random.
I'm done saying this - you don't understand, you don't understand. Find someone you trust to explain it to you.
He is the best rebounding point guard in the game regardless how many uncontested ones he gets as very capable of getting contested ones as well not to mention he averages plenty of offensive boards too, but lets not talk about that.
He was the best rebounding point guard in the game last year and the year before that too. Funny how that only translated to only 7 rebounds/game back then.
Hell, his first six seasons he was only a 5 rebound/game guy. He ain't even getting ONE more contested board right now than he was getting in 2014, when he only averaged 5.7 rebounds/game. And his career high in offensive boards was way the fukk back in 2015. The ONLY difference between Westbrook's rebounding in 2014 and Westbrook's rebounding in 2017 is the number of uncontested defensive rebounds he gets.
I'm trying to argue that getting stuck at 9 assists/boards or getting 10/11 of them is fukking irrelevant
Because you don't understand statistics. You kept repeating the same numbers like six times in one post.
And ya, he did have Durant and Ibaka last year and didn't average any more assists, but guess what? They were one of the best teams in the league and a game from the finals. Pretty sure that's a lot more relevant. People in here are trying to trash on Westbrook as a player when he's been apart of very successful teams already and was very much part of a contending team last year. He doesn't hurt his teams, that's some nonsense
A guy playing with an actual MVP candidate AND the best group of big men in the NBA was shooting 11-28 with 7 turnovers, 10-27 with 5 turnovers, and 7-21 with 3 turnovers in the last three games. While the two guards he was supposed to be defending were destroying him for 65 points/game on strong shooting.
Yeah, keep saying that it's not his fault. The Thunder were a team that supposedly had 2 MVPs AND an Ibaka/Adams/Kanter frontcourt that could blow through anyone else's big men. Westbrook was on the wrong end of 63 scoreless possessions in the last three games, and you don't want him to take the blame for that.
Why does he have 20+ games with 12+ assists if it only happens in the 1st half and suddenly stops early in the third quarter?
Because after he stops actually trying for assists at 10-11 with 20 minutes still left in the game, he still gets a lucky assist here and there once or twice over the rest of the game It's not like he literally never passes the ball again in 20 minutes. It's just that he suddenly goes from 1 assist every 2 minutes to 1 assist every 10 minutes once he's hit his numbers.
I've watched plenty of thunder games this year, they are very capable of going from hot to cold in their shooting and there's plenty of players on that team that can't convert open jumpers.
You're acting like the only player that ever shoots on the team is Westbrook. Who exactly are you arguing for more shot opportunities on the team?
I can name a dozen teams that only had one guy who could score well. Yet somehow I can't name a single guy other than Kobe who decided that consistently taking 10-15 shots in the last 8 minutes (as long as you'd already secured your 10th assist) was the way to win basketball games. Not surprising that a guy named "Kobe" is going so hard trying to defend Westbrook's ridiculously bad shot selection.
If the Thunder are all such bad shooters, then why did Westbrook give the final five shot opportunities of that tight Suns game to other players?
He ALWAYS takes the last bunch of shots in tight games. So why pass there, five times in a row, when the Thunder are such poor shooters like you say?
It wasn't because he was still stuck on 9 assists, was it?
No idea how many times he's done that, but since you brought it up I'm assuming you do know. Hit me up with the number of times Russ has taken 10-15 shots after he came in with 8 minutes to go in the game or shut the fukk up about it.
Kay, you begging for it, full on "How to prove Russ stat pads" thread is on the table. I'm done with you here because you don't know what you're talking about, you're just in full-on stan mode.
Anyone who legit knows basketball. played it before on any level or has a nuanced understanding of the game knows Russ is stat-padding his ass off.
It's obvious. He's a great player, but a guy like that will never win a ring and co-exist with another star long enough to win one. You think he could be the pg for one of those great MJ/Kobe/Bron led championship teams? Hell no, because MJ/Kobe/Bron wouldn't put up with his reckless playing style and ball dominant ways like KD did for all those years before he finally had enough of it.
And yet the guy above keeps yelling "20+" like it means something.
Dude doesn't play defense and is a ringless overachiever yet you put him on the same level as generational GOATs who were actual 2-way players who loved winning and dominating other teams more than stat-padding on a trash team.
