WestGOD with the first 50 point triple double since 1975

[Mantis Toboggan M.D.]

I don't think there has ever been a player that plays harder than this guy every night. Not MJ, not Kobe, not Bird, not Garnett, not Isiah Thomas. Russ is 110% every single possession of every game.

Alonzo and and are the only ones that come to mind

 

[Professor Emeritus]

if he didn't shoot 3s he would be 44%

44% on twos is , especially against the Suns. You realize there wasn't a single team in the NBA who shot that bad on twos last year? Even the Lakers were 45% from twos (almost 47% if you don't count Kobe). The freaking Sixers were 48% on twos. Just about everyone else was over 50%.

And Phoenix's defense was 26th out of 30 teams last year in opponent field goal %.

44% on twos is 0.88 points per shot. That's bad. You can't win many games with that unless you're playing some really, really good defense.

Superstars dont have to be stat efficient. thats for role players. only nerds think otherwise.

No troll fg% is overrated a lot of times. Imo this is this is one of those times.

FG% is one of the clearest, most consistent, obviously meaningful stats out there.

If you make your shot, your team gets 2-3 points on that one possession.

If you miss your shot, your team gets 0 points on that possession unless they get an offensive board.


High scoring might just mean you were hogging the ball. Big assist numbers can come from high usage too. Bulking up rebounds might just mean the other team missed a lot of shots, or that your teammates defer to you on the defensive boards. Steals and blocks can come from taking too many risks on defense.

And all five on those things can go up or down with pace, which tells you nothing about wins and losses.

But if your FG% is shyt, you're hurting your team...unless they're all shooting even shyttier than you are.


(And, in this case, the rest of the Thunder shot 46%.)

he really is best player in the league.

But OKC really gotta get some bigs that can score and a tight defender to take the load of russ and oladipo

Only on the coli could you take 44 shots...make 17 of them...to barely beat a lottery team...and somehow that is an accomplishment...

What is the record for most missed shots in a season cause 5678 about to destroy that this year...

I can't wait for 5678 to go about against the spurs and cleveland after the all star break when they are rounding into form defensively...

Yeah, one of those posts makes slightly more sense than the other.

Go 17-44 and dominate the ball in a home game against the freaking Phoenix Suns, and now you're "truly the best player in the league".

The Suns started Booker-Bledsoe-Dudley-Warren-Chandler. Knight, Len, and Criss filled out their 8.

The KINGS beat the Suns by 20 already.

Can you imagine what record Lebron or Durant would have with Oladipo, Adams, Sabonis, and Robeson as the starting five? The question would be what their playoff seed would be, not whether they could squeak by with a close win against one of the worst teams in the league.

 

[DoubleClutch]

its like when rock lee took off his ankle bracelets against Gaara

It's like when LeBron lost his headband that one playoff game

 

[Pimp]

44% on twos is , especially against the Suns. You realize there wasn't a single team in the NBA who shot that bad on twos last year? Even the Lakers were 45% from twos (almost 47% if you don't count Kobe). The freaking Sixers were 48% on twos. Just about everyone else was over 50%.

And Phoenix's defense was 26th out of 30 teams last year in opponent field goal %.

44% on twos is 0.88 points per shot. That's bad. You can't win many games with that unless you're playing some really, really good defense.







FG% is one of the clearest, most consistent, obviously meaningful stats out there.

If you make your shot, your team gets 2-3 points on that one possession.

If you miss your shot, your team gets 0 points on that possession unless they get an offensive board.


High scoring might just mean you were hogging the ball. Big assist numbers can come from high usage too. Bulking up rebounds might just mean the other team missed a lot of shots, or that your teammates defer to you on the defensive boards. Steals and blocks can come from taking too many risks on defense.

And all five on those things can go up or down with pace, which tells you nothing about wins and losses.

But if your FG% is shyt, you're hurting your team...unless they're all shooting even shyttier than you are.


(And, in this case, the rest of the Thunder shot 46%.)









Yeah, one of those posts makes slightly more sense than the other.

Go 17-44 and dominate the ball in a home game against the freaking Phoenix Suns, and now you're "truly the best player in the league".

The Suns started Booker-Bledsoe-Dudley-Warren-Chandler. Knight, Len, and Criss filled out their 8.

The KINGS beat the Suns by 20 already.

Can you imagine what record Lebron or Durant would have with Oladipo, Adams, Sabonis, and Robeson as the starting five? The question would be what their playoff seed would be, not whether they could squeak by with a close win against one of the worst teams in the league.

44% on 2s is great you retard

 

[Damnshow]

I dont give a fukk how many games okc win this year I just wanna see young sabo beasting like this all season, fukk the fg% and other shyt, this shyt was something else, god damn it a 50 point triple double? Yall nikkas crazy, fukk a KD

 

[Mantis Toboggan M.D.]

44% on 2s is great you retard

League average field goal percentage is usually around 45% and that's including the value of 3's. If you're shooting just that on 2's, that's horribly inefficient.

 

[Professor Emeritus]

44% on 2s is great you retard

No it's not.


The league average for 2s hasn't been below 44% since 1966....fifteen years before the three-point line was invented.

There were 48 guys who averaged 10+ shots a game last year, and only two shot worse than 44% on twos. Dahntay Jones (42%) and Ish Smith (43%).

There were 192 guys in the league last year who took 5 shots or more a game, and only 17 of them averaged under 44% on twos.

Mudjay, Carroll, Kevin Martin, Wroten, Stanley Johnson, Rubio, Burks, Dahntay Jones, Waiters, Nurkic, Len, Jack, Cole, Ish Smith, Gallinari, Randle, and Speights.

That's it.

44% on twos is trash. If you're that bad at twos, you better be hitting your threes. And Westbrook on threes...

 

[Pimp]

No it's not.


The league average for 2s hasn't been below 44% since 1966....fifteen years before the three-point line was invented.

There were 48 guys who averaged 10+ shots a game last year, and only two shot worse than 44% on twos. Dahntay Jones (42%) and Ish Smith (43%).

There were 192 guys in the league last year who took 5 shots or more a game, and only 17 of them averaged under 44% on twos.

Mudjay, Carroll, Kevin Martin, Wroten, Stanley Johnson, Rubio, Burks, Dahntay Jones, Waiters, Nurkic, Len, Jack, Cole, Ish Smith, Gallinari, Randle, and Speights.

That's it.

44% on twos is trash. If you're that bad at twos, you better be hitting your threes. And Westbrook on threes...

chris paul shoots 47% eat a dikk you big dummy.. Thats average for a guard

 

[Thegospel]

Getting to the playoffs is mandatory for Russ to stay top 5. He doesn't have to win a series though. Regardless he'll still be my nig but he won't be top 5

 

[SchoolboyC]

chris paul shoots 47% eat a dikk you big dummy.. Thats average for a guard

Chris Paul is a career 50% shooter on 2 pointers...

 

[KOBE]

The average for MIDRANGE jumpers is lower than 44% and I believe Westbrook is above average in that regard, but for overall 2's it's a lot higher. Westbrook struggles at times to finish at the rim and it's usually because of the amount of traffic that meets him there when he goes in.


And honestly I don't even get this argument. Westbrook got double digit assists. He actually had 8 in the first half and guess what? They were losing. Their biggest problem right now is not how much Westbrook shots or how much everybody else scores, it's becoming an elite defensive team so that they can stay in games and have a chance at beating anyone on a given night.

They have the pieces to be an elite defensemen team and if you're starting guys like Adams/Roberson then you gotta commit to it. You can't be giving up 40 points in the first quarter and forcing yourself into coming back because that's when Westbrook will feel the need to take over.

 

[Geek Nasty]

17/44

And, why KD left

 

[Brozay]

No it's not.


The league average for 2s hasn't been below 44% since 1966....fifteen years before the three-point line was invented.

There were 48 guys who averaged 10+ shots a game last year, and only two shot worse than 44% on twos. Dahntay Jones (42%) and Ish Smith (43%).

There were 192 guys in the league last year who took 5 shots or more a game, and only 17 of them averaged under 44% on twos.

Mudjay, Carroll, Kevin Martin, Wroten, Stanley Johnson, Rubio, Burks, Dahntay Jones, Waiters, Nurkic, Len, Jack, Cole, Ish Smith, Gallinari, Randle, and Speights.

That's it.

44% on twos is trash. If you're that bad at twos, you better be hitting your threes. And Westbrook on threes...

Dahntay Jones played 1 game

 

[Millions]

GOATbrook

 

[Millions]

I dont give a fukk how many games okc win this year I just wanna see young sabo beasting like this all season, fukk the fg% and other shyt, this shyt was something else, god damn it a 50 point triple double? Yall nikkas crazy, fukk a KD

Facts on facts

I do wanna see him carry them to them playoffs tho

nikkas acting like KD ain't struggle without Russ help tho