Sweeping Bullets Off The Floor: Official Wizards (#8) vs. 76ers (#1) Series Thread
Scott Brooks is a shyt coach, him still being employed by the NBA is one of the most mysterious hustle moves of all time
DropTopDoc
20/20 Vision With my Buffs On
Omar Little
It’s all in the Game Yo
From all stadiums to be real
Very Westbrook-like playoff performance
Keep shootin Russ
Westbrook
Westbrook 2-10?God dayum
Westbrook has now lost 22 of his last 29 playoff games going back to 2016 WCF. 23 of 31 if you count the play-in games.
Last 8 postseasons:
FG% are 41%, 42%, 40%, 39%, 40%, 36%, 42%, and now 33%.
3pt %'s are 22%, 28%, 32%, 26%, 36%, 32%, 24%, and right now 00%.
Turnovers are 4.0, 4.4, 4.3, 6.0, 5.2, 4.6, 3.8, and now 5.0.
People trying to call him a top-10 all-time PG and an MVP candidate this year, but honestly would you even want him over Ben Simmons? Simmons has All-NBA defense and won't take the bad shots or make the bad turnovers. What's Russ got over him other than stat-padding rebounds?
Man is the truth
His activity is fukking insane, he swiped at everyone on this play.
filial_piety
Banned
yeah they put in work tonight im happy
Nvm
KillerB88
Superstar
He's still a more prolific playmaker. And he won't cheat you on effort. Ben looked good tonight. But you know he won't consistently bring that effort.
Simmons is a better passer, Westbrook just dominates the ball more some years.
And effort? I'm tired of y'all completely ignoring Westbrook's defense when you claim he always brings effort. This was just the other day and I've posted clips like this from previous playoff series too. He isn't even trying on off-ball defense half the time, he's just resting until he can get stats again.
KillerB88
Superstar
He's not a better passer. They literally track these things and Russ is in the 99th percentile in both the quality and creativity of his passes. You have no metric to support that argument. NONE. The problem is roster construction. Russ is an average shooter. At this juncture in his career and frankly in seasons past-- he should be a contending team's 3/4th scoring option, but their primary ball handler. If Russ was on the Clippers, would they be down 0-2 to the Mavs? Would that increase or decrease their chances of coming out of the West?
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KillerB88
Superstar
Russ has lost 22 of his last 29 playoff games and that's while playing with 5 different rosters on 3 different teams. At some point you can't blame EVERY fukking roster he's on, you have to admit the problem is him.
Claiming that Russ should be the primary ballhandler for a contender flies in the face of the fact that no one can be a contender if their primary ballhandler has WOAT bball IQ. And Russ's decision-making in the playoffs has been consistently terrible.
Also Russ could have been the #3 scoring option behind PG13/Carmelo in 2018, he could have been the #3 scoring option behind PG13/Schroder in 2019, he could have been the #3 scoring option behind Harden/Gordon in 2020. ALL of those players were more likely to put the ball in the bucket than Russ was. Yet Westbrook insisted on taking the most shots on the team in all of those series, he even took more than Harden in the 2020 Laker series when Westbrook was coming back from injury. That's on him.
If you replace PG13 or Kawhi with Westbrook that team would suck ass.
If you magically want to put a max player on the Clips without taking anyone off? Well, right now the Clippers are averaging 112ppg on 49% shooting in this series, offense isn't their problem. Throw Westbrook on that team with his crappy shooting nights and are you really certain their offense would get any better? Kawhi 34ppg on 54%, PG13 26ppg on 50%, Batum 10ppg on 54%, Rondo 8ppg on 56%, Westbrook ain't gonna improve those #'s, all he's gonna do is take shots away from efficient shooters.
And defense? THAT is where the Clippers' problems are, giving up 120ppg on 54% shooting (50% from 3pt).
Russ ain't gonna do jack shyt to help the Clippers' defense.