Greyhound wrote:donnieme wrote:Freighttrain wrote:
Did you even see Shröder on the Lakers? He's a terrible fit with LeBron with a poor attitude whenever things don't go his way. He put up donuts in the playoffs. I don't care how good he was defensively, which he was decent at, but I'd rather have the Caruso/KCP combination, so he wouldn't even have the starting position. With Westbrook, we get a guy that can feed lobs to AD at will, create shots for others, is a monster rebounder and his teammates love him, no matter what the fans or media claim. A Westbrook/AD pairing can win us games in the regular season whilst LeBron can finally load manage in the regular season for once. I also think he'll be motivated as hell if we were to match up with the Nets in the finals.
I don't know about his teammates loving him, Westbrook is about to have his 3rd superstar teammate skip town. One loss with him has stars feeling their careers won't go anywhere. The team casts aren't great but 2 mvps should never feel like a hopeless situation if the 2nd wasn't Westbrook. He probably isn't getting AD many lobs when teams are going under screens and doubling AD to dare him to shoot.
His defense is also bad most nights, AD will have his hands full rim protecting for a guard with this kind of effort. It's the Drummond signing all over again. He had a small iq improvement last season where he scaled back his scoring and kept to playmaking, often racking so many 20 assist nights but the player still isn't a winning package. Steer clear, Lebron is no longer young enough to compensate roster irregularities.
He is not ideal but I think he could work in a formation featuring LeBron at the PF and Davis at C.
He would essentially take the place of the non-shooting center that typically lines up alongside Anthony Davis. He can replicate the rebounding while also providing additional play making and ball handling. He will hinder the defense.
Hopefully Davis (playing center) will be able to reach his vast defensive potential and cover for that with a defensive player of the year type season.
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Westbrook tends to create a lot of looks for his centers on drop passes, so I do not think he will be as detrimental to Davis’s scoring as Schroder. He has also never played with a non PG ball handler as smart as LeBron. I can envision pick and roll sets between him and LeBron that can be utilized both ways.
For the record I prefer Lonzo.
That being said, Westbrook’s value lies in his ability to do things that will preserve LeBron for the postseason.
That holds plenty value at this stage in LeBron’s career.
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He would not be my first choice, but in the event he is acquired, I am trying to look at his acquisition from a glass half full point of view.
Well said and agreed. That was basically my thought process as well, but more eloquently put
