Russell Westbrook Is Not As Good As You Think At The Rim 

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Fact hater!

because this video can be made on every NBA player in the leauge and these clips are all 2014 and earlier its a stupid video

charla The facts aren't though. They are from the last couple years. Just because the clips are from "2014 and earlier" doesn't dismiss the facts that are presented in front of you through the numbers; he's just an average finisher around the rim.

He said in the video that he is going into his 9th year in the nba. Russ aint stopping now when it comes to his insanity at the rim with difficult shots. As long as that continues Russ won't be an elite finisher like kyrie or lebron. The dude played with the best scorer in the nba and he felt like he had to take ridiculous shots at the rim as shown in the video. Can't imagine what will happen when he is the only option on the team. Total scoring volume will increase and his %'s will drop even further

+Kreze202 great point!

are you dumb lmfao he makes layups on like 3 people

charla That's why i said he's not a consistent great finisher. He can finish over a whole team, but not consistently

But Westbrook is consistent around the Rim, and guess what, he goes through people whilst trying to finish at the rim. he didn't factor in the fact that Westbrook tries to go through people

+Kreze202 yeah but if this video was made on other superstars it would be way worse westbrook is consistent at the rim this type of video could be made on every NBA player in the leauge stupidest video I've every watched lool

His FG% is low because he's not a good shooter. And he's way too fond of taking ill-advised jumpers, and he's only average among guards at finishing at the rim. Considering that Curry averaged better than 45% from outside the arc, Westbrook's 29.6% this season looks pretty poor. But this shouldn't be news to anyone that watches OKC games. I love Westbrook's competitive spirit but I've always thought he took too many shots per game. Given his (relatively) low offensive efficiency, it seems the team would have been better served if he distributed more. To say nothing of how getting everyone involved (which is the point guard's JOB) would have helped his teammates get into a rhythm. They've got to be feeling like Russ doesn't trust them when they are standing around wide open and Russ dives into the paint yet again. However, this year his assists per game jumped up to 10.4, so maybe Westbrook himself is starting to realize a better way to win. Too bad he realized it too late to keep KD in OKC.

​@@Qichar1. FG% is a trash stat. 2. Russ has bad efficiency bc he sucks in shooting in anywhere on court.

i was thinking about Rose too... yet Rose was a turnover king back then too... but he definitely finished pretty nicely back then.But no one beats Parker... as much as I don't like his game.

+slyrundog True, Rose did turn over the ball a bunch in his younger days but a lot of those were off wild passes and botched dribbles. His finishing was rarely off in his prime and when it was Noah was there to clean up. But I feel like Rose's layups were more in control than Westbrook's. But Westbrook is a way better dunker. So that's why Rose was a better finisher. Now though those days for Rose are pretty much gone. He does have too much confidence going to rim as when he was young mostly because of injuries.

+vsc1988 nah. I'd say Rose was a better dunker too

Setofhornsandahalo but he hits em

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LeBron\Westbrook fans can't take the facts man

just westbrook fans what does this have to do with lebron

+Adam Amr lebron fans too

+KOBE BRYANT kobe fans even more

Stats aren't the only thing in basketball tho lol allen iverson led the sixer in the finals with a low percentage and he was also ball hogging. You have to watch the impact of the player in the team not just stats

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Just like they want to hate on Lebron

He still shoot more than 6 three pointers per game and if the 3's don't go in he has a bad game

he gets easy lay ups at the rim thats why he fg is so high evryone is guarding him so closely and he can get past the easily and also because everyone can shoot in gs the defence dowsnt rotate to him a lot of times

Lmao Westbrook stans and haters can be retarded asf, this comments section is hilarious.

chefsteph for3 x kd boi curry takes em but they go in 😂😂

Mr.1400 Curry. You jealous that Westbrook can dunk. I would be too if i was a curry fan.

Russwest likewise could be said about how Westbrook loves to put on a curry imitation, except all he gets is bricks

David Sefuiva lol still mvp

***** what's up

***** I like Westbrook and I think that Coach Nick made him sound like he was a shitty finisher, when really he's still well above average

***** ya. He's the best at getting to the rim, but he just can't put it in for some reason. Not enough touch for how face he's going

***** for sure

+JaMario Fantasia agreed

But the video is all about analytics tho lol

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loool if stat padding was easy everyone would have good stats ... god you're an idiot so you're basically saying if you wanna be a good player all you gotta do it get 10 points 10 assist and 10 rebounds with 5 opposing NBA players trying to stop you

Are you dumb ? Do you know what stat padding is ? Trying to call other people idiots lol

+Stay Icy I'm saying you're acting like stad padding is easy even if he does do which he doesnt

So not go to the best team he can, makes sense.

Jeez. A great player has a chance to play with a great team after trying to carry an average team...for years. It makes sense to go there. The rest is blah blah to me. WESTBROOK's bad decisions is why they lost in the playoffs. Fuck him already.

Because he doesn't get setup right by his PG. ISO ISO ISO

+Kalu Abay faxxxx

Half the game is mental. KD's team was not doing what he needed to be the most comfortable and be the star player. He's not a team leader like Lebron but that's a personality thing. But typically a leader takes most of the blame, in any situation. Take away Russel's bad shot choices (the ones most would agree on as being bad..forced, hogging, out of control etc) and they would have made it to the finals. That's most likely a statistical fact. And Curry was a no show, I don't blame anyone else for that.

Not guaranteed

+E Boogie yeah it pretty much is

no, you have to factor in possible injuries, chemistry issues or simply just underachieving.

except that it's not guaranteed. no ring is. the Ws will be great, but chemistry issues, a very weakened, less versatile bench, and lack of great defensive bigs like Bogut will cost them.

And dont forget when there were other "guaranteed championship" teams, they usually did not win the ring. For example Miami Heat with LeBron for the first time, or LaL with Howard, Nash, Kobe. But its true, this warriors team is clearly the strongest out of them. Finalist of the playoffs getting extra superstar on its roster, wow.

Coaching could correct some of these flaws if you could get him to listen. He only seems to know one style of play and that's Playground style.

These flaws of Russ have always been their even in his athletic prime & peak and Russ never tried to improve his weaknesses. All of Russ’s flaws are coming back to bite him even now

+topnotch3232 🏀👊👍

Defense definitely overrated, not his passing though

+The Best His passing is overrated. Just because he has a lot of assists doesn't mean he's a good passer. His assists/passing TO's ratio is amongst the worst in the league.

YESSS. I'm sucking of these cretins saying he's so much better on defense than Steph Curry. Just because he's big & athletic doesn't mean he's a good defender.

Agreed! Curry is better than Westbrook in defense! This a fucking fact! Some people are too busy just looking at the player with the ball during live NBA games to notice shit like this. Such an overrated defender...

Facts

Percentage or shots hit?

Kyrie Irving?

Syrupy Curry is a better finisher than Kyrie. Curry has a lot more variety around the rim.

If you watched the tape youll see that curry shppts more and drives less,kyrie is the opposite

Anti-Anti Fun Percentage. In fact, in 2015-16 he was the best in the league... better than big men and LeBron. He took more than 3 layups per game so it's not an insignificant number. If you just watch him take layups in traffic you'll understand why that's the case. He isn't as explosive or flashy but he's crafty and uses both hands really well, plus he has the threat of the floater

it's impossible to have a reasonable discussion with any of them

there mad cause he's telling straight facts

Sports fans are generally not the smartest people around, and tend to have very stubborn views. I used to think that Russell Westbrook, despite me not liking a lot of aspects about his game, was at least elite at the rim, so this was a nice video, nuancing my view quite a bit. Just don't expect some mouth-breathing teen to come to the same conclusion, let alone even watching said video before commenting.

Like Kobe

Sasuke Jaeger r u out of ur mind what drugs do take?!

Its actually true and the only person on drugs is u if u think wesbrick is better than curry

LaughableBadAbraham Gaming did curry Break Oscar Robinson’s 41 Trip Dub Record Nope Did curry average a trip dub for the whole season nope did curry choke a 3-1 lead YES

Air Sharkz Westbrook choked a 3-1 too... Did Westbrick win 2 mvps? Unanimous MVP? Is Westbrook efficient? Does he have 2 rings? Is he a good leader? Does he make his teammates better? Is he the greatest shooter of all time? Did he deserve his MVP even tho he barely made the playoffs and was a first round exit? Nope Is he a statpadder? YES

Coolhands444 KD choked Russ dident really choke KD shot 12-31 and game 7 he shot 10-31 Westbrook averages 10 APG EVEN with pg and melt curry has klay draymond and the best bench in the nba Russ had no one last year all he had was oladipo who only averaged 15PPG as a SG

+Josef Rey Villanueva haha, Thx!

He averaged 23 points 7 rebounds and 10 assists per game and plays defense what are you talking about

He just stated okc # 1 in offensive rebounds. He just ball hogs for those stats because since they most likely get that offensive rebound the team is not getting harmed. His percentage says it all

I couldn't argue both of you. You have good points. I just want his play to elevate from statistical greatness to smarter plays.

Bro........ Donovan Mitchell coached him. *cough* 4-2 win *cough* best player on the Jazz

More than 30 triple doubles is overated ?

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+The Frech Prince yeah he is a stat padder

+Theredman10 if westbrook wasn't with okc they would have been trash

Super Kawhiii yah no doubt

Super Kawhiii kyrie is overrated

Craftiest*

LOLS

rose and kyrie

The thing is. Okc's owner prob ****s with Westbrook. I mean. The man is a mad man. But still didnt trade him off. But traded Harded, made Ibaka leave, KD leave. For what? a *mad man* that just knows how to drive and kick? oh. no? just pure drive? oh. ok.

hes a top 5 player in league and is a superstar.

+David Guzman he needs to slow down...

+ItsMichaelAkin what you dont understand is this video could be made on EVERYONE in the nba

Top 5 player No, superstar Yes. Steph, Harden, Lebron, Durant, cp3 are better

+Hayden Eden Lol harden isnt better and cp3 isn't please stop stats don't lie and all the pro analysis say hes t5 gtfo with that shit loool harden and cp3 better ? tahahhhah

because Curry... he's just a bitch. He's good; great even. But he's still just a little fucker

how is he a bitch

Lol ppl can't even come up with a reason they hate him😂just say he's to cocky for celebrating or they hate his fans

chefsteph for3 x kd boi he had a privileged upbringing.

DDTV KD for example never acts as cocky as Curry does, yet KD is the more complete player.

He is like 11% or 13% on shots to tie or win the game.

+LongJohn Silverthorne that's not accurate

***** u mean the season where MJ came back from playing baseball & wasn't fully in basketball shape??? What happened the next year when they met....... SWEEP!!!!!! An 11 year old wouldn't know this right.... Don't test my basketball knowledge cause you will get schooled EVERY TIME

Penny had 38 18 18 28 for the series that's 25.5 points per game where the part where he "lit up" MJ again LoL & he only shot over 43% in ONE game for the series LoL #ClassIsInSession

*****​ I already KNEW THE FACTS before I presented them to you cause I watched the series in 96 WITH MY OWN EYES..... After game 1 the newspapers was printing was the MJ vs Penny a mismatch in favor of Penny & the rest was history....... Once again a young person wouldn't know this type of information right??? 1st I was 11 now I'm 17 LoL

***** "great defensive players have bad series" are you implying Curry is actually a great defender???

***** Hawks was a top 5 defense as well last year so does that mean Kyle Korver is a great defender as well??? & you just basically said you cant run great defensive schemes with a bad defensive player right.... So Korver great defender yes or no???

Every player has weaknesses, he only posts about Westbrooks weaknesses ...hmm

He wasn't implying he had just weaknesses. He was saying that he was an overated slasher. Won't don't you understand?

Just from the first couple of vids I watched he criticized Jimmy Butler's slashing game, Antetokounmpo's shooting, and D Rose after the injury.

All those guys have one video. Westbrook has like 6

None of those guys are as hyped as Westbrook. The reason he keeps making these videos is because some of the people on his twitter just flat out reject statistics in favour of personal bias towards Westbrook. They see facts proving them wrong and dismiss their ignorance by assuming that Coach Nick hates Russ. Just because you have some sort of bias towards a player doesn't mean everyone does.

Lol what?

The Frech Prince Yes

+Danny Williams ok we will see

The Frech Prince Fair enough

Who gonna be better than him? Westbrick? LOL or Irving with his fluke finals performance? Foh

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W i been saying he got destroyed by an injured Curry in wcf and people still saying he better than Curry? Like stfu dawg

+Chef Curry Russ's weakside defense is troublesome.

BBALLBREAKDOWN even his 1 on 1 defense is poor. He rarely contests jumpshots and also for some reason doesn't stay in front of his man even though he is highly capable with his lateral quickness. he has the tools to be the best point guard defender in the NBA, but isnt.

Commented this ^ before i watched the video, sure enough that was true

Who else has a Chris Paul iq but Chris Paul

MarcusTv dope pro pic of Yusuke lol and true. A better IQ*

if only and then add a touch of steph's shooting just enough to make opponents respect him from deep then we'd bear witness to a goat in the making

Joseph Frantz lol thanks but at this point I don't think russ is gonna change. he's still great and etc but he needs a guy like andre miller next to him. Like a nice backup point guard you can put next to him during crunch time

If he was like Chris Paul they'd be much worse Only players to average 20-10 (ppg-apg) in a playoff run past the 2nd round - Magic Johnson (3x) - 1986, 1987, 1991 - Kevin Johnson (2x) - 1989, 1990 - Steve Nash (2x) - 2005, 2006 - Russell Westbrook (1x) - 2016 Only player to average 25-10 (ppg-apg) in a playoff run past the 2nd round - Russell Westbrook (1x) - 2016 Oh, here's CP3's only notable playoff accomplishment - tied most all star teams (9) without passing the 2nd round, soon to hold this record alone

Try basketball-reference. I haven't checked whether they have it or not, but they have a lot of advanced stats

yea sadistic it doesn't have stats that advanced lol.

synergy. It's not free tho

In my opnion

Your stupid. In my opinion.

lol

I can agree...wall is a better pg overall...just sad he doesn't get as deep in the playoffs as he deserves to be in the WEAKstern Conference.

true his team isnt as good so hes very overlooked

+Mert Bodur that's great to hear! Thx!

+M0ebius Thx!

+Walter White such a great point

Cp3 is criminally underrated it's not even funny

People sleep on CP3 because LAC aren't so big compared Cleveland and Golden State.

Do you see what happens when he matchs up against them especially curry?! That's why...

+dope thing$ Yeah he plays just as well as them, if not better. He's just not as flashy when does it so people don't give him credit

no its just cp3 been getting exposed by curry everytime they've played. Since curry crossed back in 2014 2015 he's been getting crossed by curry everytime theynplay

And an analysis on Bryant's overrated scoring.

cough cough 35 points a game with kwame brown on his team. 3rd in allltime scoring

Kobe's a top 3 scorer all time. Hold this massive L

cough cough 45FG%, 27 shots and 10 FTs a game. 1st in alltime missed shots

Simon And 3rd all time in scoring, 1st among non-big men. And even then, the only guys above him are Malone (played his whole career with stockton) and KAJ (played part of his career with Oscar and another with Magic). Meanwhile Derek Fisher is the best PG Kobe ever played with, yet still topped Jordan in all time scoring. Also Kobe didn't play many minutes as a rookie and played injured in his last few seasons. Those seasons aside he averaged 27 ppg over a 15 season stretch (that's longer than MJ's entire career). And MJ's 37.1 ppg season was very similar. 28 FGA and 12 FTA per game, 48% shooting, 18% 3 point shooting, and a lower eFG than 06 Kobe (48% to Kobe's 49%). I suppose MJ is also an overrated scorer by your metric ? And the ppg difference is even smaller if you consider pp100p, which strips MJ of the advantage of a higher pace than 06 Kobe. Their usage rates and true shooting percentages were even identical. There is literally no way to call Kobe's scoring overrated without directly implying that MJ's is also.

Preeeeeeeech ain’t seen nun bout stephs shooting or anything we just HAVE to find something wrong with a determined and aggressive player such as Russ

lmfao

Woah, Curry is not the best finisher in the leauge man. I would give the best guard finisher to Kyrie Irving without a doubt. Kyrie finishes in harder situations, and has a vast array of finishes. Not to take anything from Curry, he's good and all, but as good as Kyrie at finishing.

+Fabrice Uwihirwe kyries a great finisher but he doesn't have the absolutely unreal floater that curry has. Dude can throw it up 40 feet high and it will still go in. Stats don't lie he has the highest driving layup percentage in the league

Curry doesn't drive in much and steals don't mean you can play defense

+Mo Lester But holding the opposing PG's lower than their average shooting % is.WTF?

+realitities2 haha! Well, I'm putting a fair amount of brain energy into this election, so fingers crossed!

+BBALLBREAKDOWN lol when will you stop hating on Westbrook? Is he erratic at times? Yes. Is he attempting tough shots? Yes. Why don't you break down Currys choke job in the last 2 finals?

+BBALLBREAKDOWN lol when will you stop hating on Westbrook? Is he erratic at times? Yes. Is he attempting tough shots? Yes. Why don't you break down Currys choke job in the last 2 finals?

Lol the fact that he didn't expose Curry doesn't mean Curry doesn't have his problems too. And the fact that he used statistics to expose Westbrook doesn't mean he's hating on Westbrook. And Curry chocking in the finals is common knowledge. why would he have to spend time talking about a topic that's widely known instead of having interesting discussions on other more counterintuitive arguments?

+Jasper Jamm the lay ups that Russell attempts are alot harder than a regular attack that most guards do. It's that a fault of questionable shot selection? May be. Or is it coaching fault that he is not put into a position to succeed? For the shots that Westbrook is forced to take he is shooting a pretty great %. Can u imagine if a good philosophy was instilled in Okc? Where Westbrook could get easy cuts to the basket like steph get and everybody on GSW gets? Or if Westbrook had a better big man to whom RW could drop the ball to could finish around the rim incase the defense is pluggin up on him? This guy never gives Westbrook credit for anything. With all his flaws Westbrook is a top 5 player in the league and it's pure blind haterism to deny him that title

+R u b e n R o d the stat I showed was that he drives a little bit more than Russ per game... I don't remember if he shoots better...

Im sleep

bruh Im scleep

That's 2k nigga... You really gonna listen to a video game

+Ricky Martinez hell yeah , There's a reason why LeBron is rated higher than curry

+Michael E. You're a fucking moron

+Tyrone Van Wees what the heck does this have to do with Curry?

This video had nothing to do with curry stop hating so hard

Ur too salty

i like green eggs and ham

you know we can all make comments that have nothing to do with the video tyrone, fuck off