I’ve hated this Thunder season. Nothing about it has been enjoyable except the stretch of eleven or so games heading into New Orleans before the All-Star break. This teams stands for nothing, but that’s not completely fair to the entire team because they go as their point guard goes.
My Russell Westbrook – NFL analogy is simple. You can’t win games in the NFL if your QB is throwing four picks at just the wrong moments in close games. Russell Westbrook is a four pick NBA point guard. Nothing has changed and he’s now thirty-one years of age. The face of your franchise can’t behave like a child.
It’s that simple. You don’t need a metric for this. The truth is simple…Russell Westbrook’s teammates and his coaches cannot trust him to make the right plays when a safe play needs to be made.
I was thinking of this today and this song kept coming into my head thinking of the way Russell Westbrook plays basketball.
To me…this is the Thunder season in a nutshell. Billy Donovan and his team can’t trust Russell Westbrook when it matters. I wish he would prove me wrong.