Doctor MJ wrote:Seriously?
Look, it wasn't about Reddick. Stop trying to make counter arguments and just look to have a conversation.
You can look to have a conversation without including crap. If I'm having a conversation about medicine and you quote some crackpot that says vaccines cause autism there's no point to paying attention to that is there? No its just muddying up what can be a good conversation. And you're probably going to say that's an exaggeration but honestly Westbrook has put beatings on the Clippers in the last few years. If Reddick did say this and mean this its about as valid to me as when Shane Battier said Melo was easy to stop after Melo dropped 40 on him multiple times the last season and feasted on him in the playoffs.
But since I know it will be worthwhile for people to hear, consider:
1) that was a statement made in 2015, so what are you doing bringing up cumulative records across multiple seasons with drastically changing landscapes? You realize that there was a guy named Durant involved, right?
In 2015 Russ got injured vs the Clippers the first game (8 minutes), OKC lost by 12 in the 2nd game, and OKC blew them out by 23 in the 3rd game.
2) understand that something I factor in heavily hear is offensive excellence, and the fact remains that the Westbrook-only Thunder aren't an elite offense.
I understand about supporting cast. I'm not bringing it up to damn Westbrook. I'm saying that the impression that a player is unstoppable while playing on an offense that is very much stoppable is a contradiction
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Is it? OKC is the best team in the clutch with Westbrook packing in the best crunch time season since 2001. The offense might not be the greatest but Westbrook seems to play like an unstoppable force when the game is on the line. I mean right now I just watched Russ score 10 straight in 3 minutes to turn a 10 point Denver lead into a 2 point lead. How is that not unstoppable?