Stole this from the Wiz board:
I'm still not buying into the Westbrook hype. He's an extremely good player, probably in the top 10, but I don't consider him to be one of the best 3 or 4 players in the game. I'm looking at the gaudy numbers in his recent 4-game stretch of triple doubles and I note that the team went 2-2, beating Philly and Indy while losing to Phoenix and Portland. I also note that Westbrook's usage rate is an otherworldly 48% during those 4 games, but he was actually a net -7 in on/off differential. What I see is a guy dominating the ball to the possible detriment of his team.
Don't get me wrong. The ability to maintain a usage rate north of 40 while still being reasonably efficient is remarkable, and ranks him among the elite players in the game. But I consider him to be equivalent to Carmelo Anthony or recent Kobe Bryant rather than guys like Lebron.
To be fair, some of this may be on Scott Brooks, who apparently doesn't understand how to design an offense other than to give the ball to Westbrook and Durant and let them create.
