How Good Was Westbrook's Peak?

[TinmanZBoy]

Russ was a beast. Top 5 easily.

It’s too bad OKC never surrounded him with the right talent in his prime after KD left. He never had shooters or a good coach. He played with Andre Roberson on the wing!

There were no right talent for him, he is at his best on one man’s mission, with other scenarios, he would not be looked as good as well

[Crizzle]

A more cerebral westbrook could have been the second best player in the league

[The_Hater]

I think I remember, but I want to see what evidence and stats people can use to explain his peak impact and overall abilities.

How good was he between the 2013-2014 season and 2016-2017 (MVP Year)? Personally I feel like people have equated present day Russ with the ones I just listed, but I'm certain they're not comparable.

How good was peak Russ? Was he actually a top 5 player? Where would his peak rank all-time?

Russ was definitely a much better player at his peak then he’s been the past 3 seasons. He was a top 5-6 NBA player.

That said, he was probably the most difficult superstar to build a championship team around from the past 10 years.

[Frank Dux]

Top 5 in the league for a half-decade stretch

No way.

Lebron
Durant
Harden
Curry
Leonard

Have all been better than him over the last 5 years. And then there's guys like CP3, Lowry, Giannis, Anthony Davis, Paul George, Kyrie Irving who have been just as good, if not better.

He's an athletic high usage guy with inflated stats. He has the highest single season Usg% of all time and two of the top four all time.

[ken6199]

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[Woodsanity]

A more cerebral westbrook could have been the second best player in the league

If he had CP3's bball iq....

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Always have heard good things about him off the court. I like him as a person but his brand of bball is way too out of control for me.

[stillgotgame]

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This is awesome. Very cool of him.

[TheBoi10]

Overrated

[vxmike]

Top 5 in the league for a half-decade stretch

No way.

Lebron
Durant
Harden
Curry
Leonard

Have all been better than him over the last 5 years. And then there's guys like CP3, Lowry, Giannis, Anthony Davis, Paul George, Kyrie Irving who have been just as good, if not better.

He's an athletic high usage guy with inflated stats. He has the highest single season Usg% of all time and two of the top four all time.

All those other guys have the same inflated stats due to the pace, gameplay and rules too. Harden isn’t the best scorer since 1987 Jordan, for example.