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[Coupé It]

I’m trying to understand how Westbrook has become a worse shooter as his career has gone by. It’s crazy how no matter how hard someone works, they’ll just never become a good shooter. Has to be mental.

 

[akajae]

I’m trying to understand how Westbrook has become a worse shooter as his career has gone by. It’s crazy how no matter how hard someone works, they’ll just never become a good shooter. Has to be mental.

It’s the sleeves

 

[reformeDWS]

I’m trying to understand how Westbrook has become a worse shooter as his career has gone by. It’s crazy how no matter how hard someone works, they’ll just never become a good shooter. Has to be mental.

multiple knee surgeries.

 

[Vincent Van Goat]

I’m trying to understand how Westbrook has become a worse shooter as his career has gone by. It’s crazy how no matter how hard someone works, they’ll just never become a good shooter. Has to be mental.

Looking over his year by year 3 point production, he was never a good shooter so arguably he didn't really get worse he just never got good

multiple knee surgeries.

At the same time, it's odd the past 3 years his FT% has went significantly down. Feel like his knees shouldn't give him a problem there

 

[antidope]

It only Took four years to get to this point. He was never IT.

 

[Zo gif]

If lakers are gonna double harden when russ is the court, Russ needs to catch the ball on the perimeter and immediately go downhill. he's either going to be get a shot at the rim, cause the defense to help and he can kick out, or draw a foul. hell, take a few steps and get that midrange going.

him taking a 3 is an automatic rebound for the lakers. lakers rendered him useless today.

He was doing that
Thats why he had so many turnovers it was predictable

 

[moe200069]

I’m trying to understand how Westbrook has become a worse shooter as his career has gone by. It’s crazy how no matter how hard someone works, they’ll just never become a good shooter. Has to be mental.

asking russ to shoot threes is the epitome of trying to a fit a square peg into a round hole. definitely not his game.

rockets are throwing 40 million at russ. even if he's hurting the team in a series where small ball requires that he hit open threes, it's the hill they have to die on.

 

[Zo gif]

The rockets do it to themselves. They honestly should have won this game once they came back.

They were extremely hot from 3 like 7 for 8 in the first 5 minutes of the 3rd. They had to come back down to earth

 

[moe200069]

Y’all enjoying the playoffs?

1st round > 2nd round

 

[moe200069]

He was doing that
Thats why he had so many turnovers it was predictable

i feel like a lot of those 1st half turnovers were him trying to play iso and beat his man off the dribble only find himself in a clogged paint/lakers collapsing on him

 

[MVP]

Yall kill the Lakers 2nd option for getting 34/10 but then expect teams relying on pg and westbrook to beat them

Mans is putting up 30/11 on 58% from the field and 40% from 3 and they wanna nitpick every little detail of his game yet all the other #2s on contenders been playing like straight garbage the entire playoffs. Makes no damn sense.

 

[Coupé It]

asking russ to shoot threes is the epitome of trying to a fit a square peg into a round hole. definitely not his game.

rockets are throwing 40 million at russ. even if he's hurting the team in a series where small ball requires that he hit open threes, it's the hill they have to die on.

I’m not just talking about 3’s.

 

[reconic supreme]

That HOU 3rd quarter was bonkers but that's definitely been more of the outlier than the regular for them this year.

 

[Zo gif]

That HOU 3rd quarter was bonkers but that's definitely been more of the outlier than the regular for them this year.

Defense and offense were on 100%
Then they teetered to end the quartwe

 

[Zo gif]

i feel like a lot of those 1st half turnovers were him trying to play iso and beat his man off the dribble only find himself in a clogged paint/lakers collapsing on him

Yea he had an open lane fumbled the ball and kept passing to the corner 3.
Lakers were anticipating all his turnovers

 

[reconic supreme]

2012 vs 2020

 

[adamus]

#2 options been playing about the same
(cept for Russ)

 

[freeze]

We built different.

Survived that nuclear 3 pt game from the Rockets that was sure to come.

No circle jerk for ALA tonight.

imagine having this take after this game

 

[freeze]

Good chance that Westbrook is that bad again than the Rockets catching fire like the third quarter again this series.

lol you dont watch the rockets play. They'll have more like that 3rd qtr. That was light tbh. they get 3s in bunches.

Russ may be trash again, he may not. I think he's hard on himself when he plays poorly. He usually had a decent bounce back game.

I definitely expect the laker shooters to miss shots again. And Markieff had his Marcus Smart moment. That's not his game though.

Rockets still looking like the better team so far based on the eye test.

 

[friscostylez]

Can we talk about how Rondo ripped Har_en when he picked him up full-court?

10 pts 9 asts 3 rebs 5 stls

 

[freeze]

Stop man. Houston ain’t winning this series. This **** is cute and all for 2 games but that’s about it.

lol based on what could you think this? and not just assuming. But based on evidence just from these 2 games....what makes you think Houston can't/won't win? Things appear to trend in their favor actually..

 

[goldmember]

Westbrook went from “ fk they talking about “ in front of families to “ im just running around right now “

 

[drewsone]

that was a tough *** W. took that Nuclear bomb and came away with it

Rokcets definitely going to have another game like that though where they get 20 3's or Harden goes berserk.

 

[pmatic]

lol you dont watch the rockets play. They'll have more like that 3rd qtr. That was light tbh. they get 3s in bunches.

Russ may be trash again, he may not. I think he's hard on himself when he plays poorly. He usually had a decent bounce back game.

I definitely expect the laker shooters to miss shots again. And Markieff had his Marcus Smart moment. That's not his game though.

Rockets still looking like the better team so far based on the eye test.

They're a high volume, average-ish accurate three point shooting team on average.

I'll take my chances they won't shoot like that again.

 

[Quincy McCall]

Just watched, grief Russ. But as bad as Russ was, you have to give credit to Lakers defense-- that zone had them looking rabid. D'antoni's gotta find an effective response for that game 3

All-in-all though: Davis went off, Kieff went off, Rondo was serviceable and this was still a winnable game. Says these teams are pretty evenly matched and gonna play at least 6 games