Is This The New Russell Westbrook? 

Athleticism is still good but it's his hand

Unstoppable is a reach, it was respectable though which led to hella hesi's

@@MuckNoyadefinitely. eye test had me fooled back then tho lol shit looked like it was money every time

He was never a good mid range shooter. Always inefficient. Idiots like you got suckered.

He never had a great mid-range game, I don't know what you're talking about

I loved Russ game he was one of my favorite until he refused to take any accountability for poor play!

I think he has potential for a comeback season, but i also agree that he needs to work a little bit to clean his decision making and shot selection. If he can shore up those two issues even by a little bit, i think it adds a lot more value to that Clippers team. They have a serious chance to make the WCF with him either way though

Ima laker fan but ill also root for whatever team russ is on, wish he couldve won a ring as a laker , but if the lakers dont win, i hope russ gets his ring

Your favorite is someone who has freakish athleticism with poor shooting and decision making? Who hasn't worked on it his entire career? But plays really hard so makes up for it in other ways mainly by hustling really hard. You're entitled to like whoever but I've always said, if you had nba potential, or even play pick up with your friends, who would you want to emulate? Some guy who has freakish athleticism that you can't emulate, or someone who is less athletic but has honed their skills to the best of their potential? Or if you had a son, who isnt the most athletic guy, who do you want him to idolize after? I go for the dude who worked on his skills and have a thirst to always get better, or a dude who just relies on his athleticism? This is my beef with westbrook. Why congratulate and pat the guy on the back who sure hustles really hard, but isn't actually as good as the others?

@@duc2133 if my son made the Nba and averged a tripple double 4 times and won an Mvp with 2 scoring titles , 3 assist titles, 9 time all star, 75th aniversity team, etc not every player is destined to win a ring lmao look at Ai Charles barkley john stockton and many more all time greats who didnt win a ring

Coming off the bench did nothing the change happened because he realized the Clippers didn't need his inefficient scoring. His playmaking and remembering how he got to the dance is how he carved a spot on the team. Had he been 6thman Russ, or Mr triple double he'd be out of the league.

Russ devoting full energy defensively would be a double edged sword bc he breaks integrity and freelances way too much. Hes incapable of staying solid bc he gambles so much and pretty much does whatever he wants to do. That, along with lack of focus and poor IQ is why hes always been a bad defender despite his physical tools.

​@@mattmannlvcaLakers was a terrible fit. He didn't need to come off the bench, he needed the ball but overrated Bron didn't want to be a spot up shooter.

lol. if he refused to come off the bench with the Lakers, no one would have picked him up after he got waived. @@mattmannlvca

@@mattmannlvcahe won 1 game against the suns without pg and kawhi i think with that block on dbook

Same and I’ve been a thunder fan for 9 years lol

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​@@HoopVenue​ is KGsGOAT coming back?

Maybe good for him bc he can rack up stocks, but not good for his team. Thybulle is solid AND he recovers. Russ does not stay solid at all and gambles way too much. Just watch a full game of russ on defense and see how much he gets caught just staring at the ball and losing his man or taking ridiculous gambles and relying on teammates covering for his mistakes.

I hear the carrying part , but when I hear Steph , I hear lights out shooting. Maybe he was lights out shooting tho , I didn’t watch the whole playoffs.

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Steph can't play defense or block KD. Shut up

Or carry A team

@@Vortex_Feedz he wasnt lights out shooting, dude probly loves steph curry so much he thinks everybody that plays good is "like steph" thats how kids are. westbrook deffinately carried and the 2nd best player is a toss up of normal powell and mason plumlee.. ivaca zubac was once again useless

It was a bad fit because was was/is a losing brick turnover machine player but you dressbrick skirt wearing fans will lie and talk about this dude like he’s a champion.

@@johnjovanovichwick4194you see a letrash fanboy over here

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That’d be so exciting to watch

agree I think Heat is a perfect team for Russ... unfortunately he'll most likely stay in Clippers because LA is his home

@@cornelius8124Yes but Jimmy and Bam are not floor spacers. Maybe if he comes otb for them.

@@CaneCarter-rl1gq if it was westbrook instead of chris bosh then we get a westbrook with ray allen, mike miller, shane battier, rashard lewis and heat lebron who would shoot the 3, wade could save his knees if his ego let him come off the bench like manu ginobili

Jason Kidd would've been the best coach, a coach that would develop his skill set would've been better for him

Meh check out "Thinking Basketball", it's the same thing just original and more in-depth. I clicked this assuming it was "Thinking basketball" visually and verbally identical wtf.

Apart from the white lies. He says stuff like Westbrook developed a lethal mid range. He's been the worst volume mid range shooter nearly every single year in the league. Just because he shoots it a lot doesn't mean he's good at it

@@markhanna3643bro is glazing like he’s getting paid for it

This dude prolly uses a ai generator for his videos and profits 2-4k a week off us but its okay 😂i fw the vids finna do it myself

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Man stop it

Stop bro chill out Russ don’t need the bad juju 😂

Bro has been getting injured so much throughout his career he just a trooper tbh

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Exactly am hoping u and bballbreakdown keep it consistent and upload every week

Still a loser.

Are these stat predictions?

@@xlamb7460yup

Tbh i hope he scores 20 ppg again (he easily can btw) and with Kawhi and PG he will average way more apg fs (he can lead the league in apg again) and a lil bit of more rpg because he’s gonna be crashing those offensive boards a lot

@@YaBoiSxntii I get but Kawhi and PG will avg 5 APG eash so that's why similar to CP Draymond Curry

It's not scary actually

He can’t really dunk as explosively if you see any of his clippers dunks it looks like Trae young trying to dunk

@@SammyNotSam480you’re tripping. just watch the game he is still very fast and can clearly rise up high enough he just bricks too many flashy dunks so he stopped going for them as much

@@BIGAMBERFAN I watched all 26 of his clippers games I’m a fan and he is still fast but like

facts, I compare his regression to LeBron... obviously they're athletic freaks at their peak, but they're still athletic as hell, just lost a bit of explosiveness..

Its his right knee as well; which has had at least 5 surgeries. Russ had a much better FT% before about 7 years ago. His basic shot form hasn't been as good ever since.

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he’s recently just changed his shooting form, allowing him to make more open 3’s. but we’ll see where he goes from there.

​@@ImOlympahis obsession with three point shooting will have him out after this year.

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Russ never had a team buildt around him. He had talent but not the kind of talent you need for a guard to succeed and win championships

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I definitely think those small samples can be an outlier, which is why I'm more focused on his "process" than the actual results and numbers he accumulated, I like what I saw from a tendency standpoint.

Yea, Russ steps up defensively against KD in particular.

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I thought that's what he would've been in Houston, but it wasn't completely leaned into.

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Definitely jumping the gun, KD struggled in the playoffs yes but while being trapped on a good percentage of possessions. He still maintained his season average of 29 ppg just on 47% instead of 55%. And in this pre season him and Book have been pretty much even in +/- and points per minute. KD is the more willing playmaker as well

@@ColeSpeaks103 Definitely. Booker getting secondary defensive attention compared to KD played a huge part in his absurd production in the playoffs (plus just some insane shot making that is not sustainable over a bigger sample)

@@Loris71734exactly, you see where they went when Book was the #1 by himself

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He was and prior he was a three star talent, that UCLA remembered at the last day of recruitment they had him once Farmar went pro.

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I think so, I’ve filed a few disputes but the system is *questionable* at best.

One of the worst I’ve seen 😭

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Multiple times at that

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Nothing just being a warm stick of butter in the paint as usual

He’s hoopin

It’s personal 😂

@@HoopVenue damn Skippy been watching those 2 they whole careers

For sure!

Not unless I get my account back, Twitter's support system is fried though.

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I would say it’s 1 of 2 things, the main one is that because he was a former MVP/superstar, he’ll just always be under more of a microscope. Secondly, it’s because he insists on shooting so many jumpers despite not converting much, Giannis gets a lot of criticism for the same reason.

They changed a rule for free throws “the NBA banned players from walking beyond the three-point line between free throws in 2017. “ year 2017-2018 season. But Westbrook has long been a creature of habit and has walked back towards half court between shots since he was eight-years-old. Ever since the rule change, his free throw shooting has plummeted.

In a lineup with Norman Powell that'd be the #3 scorer

That's hilarious

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The difference between 1.14 and 0.99 is not slight, it's gargantuan. In a 100 possession game, that's the difference between scoring 114 points and 99, 15 points worse than the AVERAGE offense.

@@HoopVenue but you aren’t going to score .99 or 1.14 every play, it’s an average. The only way to get better at shooting is to what? shoot !! the more shots he take the more he’ll start to make , the more that .99 will go up. Doesn’t matter how bad he is at shooting

If that were true, 3P% would rise on a linear scale. Russ shot 35.1% on wide open 3s from 2015-17, 34.3% from 2018-20, and 33% from 2021-23, he clearly is not improving so why waste possessions? It's okay to shoot some, but playing into the hands of the defense is not going to lead to good offense in the playoffs, have to counter.

@@HoopVenue i get where you’re coming from but for all those years, he’s shooting 3-5 3PA per game. and if you look at 2017 he shot 7 per game, resulting in the highest 3P% of his career of 34% (which isn’t stellar but the effects of shooting more per game have their positive effects after some time) Passing up the shot and trying to make due with the horrible spacing you’re going to have after that IS playing into the hands of the defense, considerably more than actually shooting the shot. All you need to do is make 1 and the defense is gonna start inching more and more towards u, allowing westbrook to be able to blow past them and drive

@@adzappin_2567y’all both agreeing lol

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The mvp

At their peak, Westbrook clears everything outside of shooting in comparison to Dame, anyone who watches b ball knows Dame is a better shooter, but Westbrooks contribution goes past just scoring, him averaging a triple double is evident of that

Westbrook easily

Westbrook, dame destroyed him in the playoffs tho