re: Russel Westbrook appreciation thread

He needed the rebounds. He had the assists already

801 in 79 games.

I like Westbrook. Maybe that’s not coming thru in my posts. I wish he was on my team. He might be the only person in the league you can 100% say legitimately wants to win.

Doesn’t make him any less of a stat hog.

Think of it this way, when you start putting up this stat line with your career mode player in NBA2K, you up the difficulty or quit playing because it’s too easy

Russ has some words for people complaining about “stat padding”

He has cheapened the triple double for all other players. Him chasing them has lead to others chasing them and now they simply don’t mean what they once meant. And they never meant much in the first place.

I’m sure he’s probably just annoyed by those who try to discredit any of it. Like he said, if it was easy, it would have been done more than once in 40 years.

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I’m sure he’s probably just annoyed by those who try to discredit any of it. Like he said, if it was easy, it would have been done more than once in 40 years.

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And I completely understand and empathize with that, just I know Russ goes 110% all the time and attempts to do everything because that's the intense, almost maniacal competitor he is and I love him for that despite that it might detract from team success sometimes, I'd have handled that situation a lil differently from that perspective, that's just me.

Just think if every player “chased rebounds”

Like why the frick aren’t you going balls to the wall to grab every rebound

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Essentially saying “my God, he is out here just hustling too much!”

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Pretty much. If it was so easy, stat padders on losing teams would do it. But they can't, shite is insane over 82 games to hustle that much.

I mean of highlights someone made, I saw at least 3 he simply out hustled to the ball.

There was also one that Adams passed up and Westbrook launched a full court pass for a layup. That's a pass Adams doesn't make and an easy 2 points they don't get.

It's just like the shite people give brees and 5k yards. If it was so easy, why don't all these 'losing qbs' ever do it? Ignoring the fact that brees throwing that much still maintains a reasonably below average int% while having a high td%.

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Just think if every player “chased rebounds” Like why the frick aren’t you going balls to the wall to grab every rebound

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Exactly. Getting as many rebounds as you possibly can is one of your main goals as a basketball player. You can’t hate on Russ cuz he actually does that. More players should do it if it’s that easy.