This season's Westbrook is in a slump, with a lot of playing. Recently, some netizens found a posting record, on April 28, 2011, dream-chasing Green, who was still in college at the time, posted on social media: Westbrook once again threw the Thunder to death.
Let's set the clock back to 2011, when Westbrook and Durant had already made their mark and the Thunder had become a very competitive team. The Thunder played out the Nuggets in the first round of the 2011 playoffs. At that time, the gap between the strength of the Nuggets and the Thunder was more obvious, and the Thunder played 5 games to eliminate the Nuggets. However, in the fifth game of promotion, Westbrook, as the team's main point guard, only had 14 points, 5 rebounds and 4 assists, and only hit 3 goals in 15 shots. No wonder Green said such things after watching the game.
When Green was in college, he had already seen Westbrook's poor shooting ability, and he didn't expect That Westbrook to iron for 11 years. How bad did Westbrook do in the playoffs? In the 2011 playoffs, Although Westbrook averaged 24 points per game, he did not even shoot 40 percent from the field. Westbrook, the only game to win, has yet to play in the 4th quarter of the Western Conference Finals, and Westbrook's entire career average shooting percentage in the playoffs is 40.4%. This efficiency is very low among many NBA stars.
Playing the 76ers in the East in the playoffs last year, Westbrook averaged just 19 points per game in the playoffs, down three points from the regular season. Shooting 33 percent from the field and 25 percent from three-point range, most of the NBA's superstars have one trait: They perform better in the playoffs than in the regular season. James, Durant, Bryant, O'Neal, and Jordan all fit this law. By the playoffs they're either going to be more efficient offensively or have offensive production exploding. James and Durant have made more than 50 percent of the playoff shooting percentages, and more than once. Westbrook's career playoff high shooting percentage was 47 percent. It was in 2010, and that year in the playoffs Westbrook played six games, and the sample size wasn't very large.
Green said in '11 that Westbrook threw the Thunder to death. Maybe Green was just joking at that time, and Green wouldn't have thought that Westbrook's shots hadn't grown at all. Westbrook has been in the NBA for so long, and there has been no significant improvement in shooting. Three-pointers are not mentioned, and Westbrook's mid-range is actually quite stable in 16 years or so. But in recent seasons, Westbrook's mid-range shooting has also gotten worse. Especially in the past two years, Westbrook's shooting has been extremely stiff. This season at the Lakers, Westbrook often has a three-no-stick shot and will hit the timer. This kind of scene is really unheard of.
Considering that Westbrook has played in the NBA for such a long time, it has not practiced shooting. Westbrook's shooting shouldn't grow in the coming seasons. Now Westbrook is playing more and more awkwardly in the Lakers, the team's record has not improved significantly, and its performance has not met people's expectations. Instead, it's dragging down the team and James.
In the 2016 Western Conference Finals, Westbrook also wasted a lot of shooting opportunities, watching the Thunder being reversed by the Warriors. Maybe green and the Warriors knew at that point that Westbrook would one day kill themselves. Dear readers, do you think it's possible for Westbrook to still practice shooting? Feel free to leave a comment in the comments section below the article.