I’ve been an advocate of trading this man as much as the next guy, but give credit where credit is due. Not saying he’s been great, but Russell Westbrook has exceeded expectations. His success is the Lakers’ success.
by paradauxs
@Los Angeles Lakers
41 Comments
Can we get the W first before we start talking?
Would definitely trade him in the right deal. But they don’t have to like we thought they did going into the season.
It’s great seeing the buy in for the team on defence, and accepting we’re not an outside scoring team.
We are in overtime can you stfu with this shit until we win first?
It’s not about him specifically. It’s about the fact that his gigantic contract is the only real avenue we have towards improving this team’s depth.
Blew the 15 point lead classic us
Your mother
he out here bricking everything in OT n you say this ??
AD again missing clutch free throws that would’ve won the game
If you’re going to post upvote bait at least do it with someone who deserves praise.
I don’t know about that
Aaaaaaannndd he choked in overtime.. Terrible
This aged well. 🙄
Lakers didn’t trade him when his value was high. Big mistake.
No
Exceeded? For 50 million I expected a competent player, he hasn’t exceeded Jack shit
He’s still not conducive to winning. A bunch of hollow stats.
Thanks for the jinx
His salary man. No good
47 mil, 7-19 fg
“Give this man some credit!!!”
Russ stans live in another plane of reality, I swear.
Lol OP desperate for upvotes. Westbrick played in the 1st half, played better in the 2nd half, but was nowhere to be found at the end the 4th when the team needed some scoring.
The disrespect they showed this man by leaving him wide the fuck open in OT 😂
He ruins everything good about him by jacking stupid threes. I’ll never understand
Bruh
I just opened reddit after the game to this, why man why did you do this
40 mil is still WAAAAY too much to pay a sixth man of the year. Which he is not. Trade him if you can. Please.
Seconds before disaster
Fuck this man
This dumbass chucked 3 shots in OT and had nobody guarding him while letting the Celtics pack the paint.
He needs to go. $47 million for a guy you can’t play when the game slows down.
You are not a very smart man
Nope. $47m. He ain’t ever gona live up to that.
$15m WB I’ll embrace all day.
r/agedlikemilk material here.
Milk
He exceeded WHAT?
Russ did well. OT everyone was just gassed. He stepped up unlucky to miss his 3s. Game was lost once we were in OT.
Lol this is too sad. $47million for this “feel good” post? Someone who gets paid that much don’t need these posts
Couldn’t believe how he came out in green shoes and played like trash to begin with. He did pick up the energy a bit in the 2nd half but he just does so many bad things as well, and then to end the game he can be guarded by a center camping in the post.
Had 4 fouls and got away with 2 hacks that counted for blocks, fouling out of the game would have been more indicative of what he added to the game defensively.
Darvin Ham needs to stop making Bron our go to option late. Let Lonnie do the scoring. He has more gas in the tank. It’s just better imo since Bron never was Kobe anyway so stop playing against ur self. And serve others as Lebron can do the best. So end of game fresher legs. Only reason we lost is the run had us out of gas
SELL HIGH
Love him coming off the bench just not for 47M yknow
The Lakers are 11-16. Last season they were 33-49.
They have had nothing but failure since Westbrick arrived.
His has a 40.3% FG%, 28.4 3PT%, 44.5 EFG% and 48.6 TS%.
These are far lower than his atrocious numbers from last season.
His playmaking has been better. But, the Lakers have been 6.1 points better per 100 possessions, with Westbrick off the court.
He is one of the worst players in the NBA and is eating up $47 million in cap space.