On March 12, Beijing time, in an NBA regular season game that ended today, the Lakers defeated the Wizards 122-109 at home, ending a terrible 2-game losing streak. Although the win is worth rejoicing, Lakers star Russell Westbrook's performance in this game is really unsatisfactory, compared to James's 50 points, Westbrook shot 2 of 11 in the game, 5 points, 3 rebounds and 9 assists can be described as extremely bad.
After the game, talking about Wei Shao's performance, Lakers coach Vogel still gave enough face, Vogel praised Wei Shao for sending 9 assists today, only 1 mistake performance, but from the fourth quarter Vogel abandoned Wei Shao, it is obvious that people are more willing to believe that Vogel has not trusted Wei Shao at the critical moment.
And this game is actually a microcosm of Westbrook in this season, this season in the Lakers, Westbrook's overall performance is not good, averaging 34.4 minutes per game, 18.1 points, 7.6 rebounds and 7.2 assists, shooting only 43.2%, three-point shooting rate is even worse than 28.1%, although known as one of the Lakers' big three, but many times his performance is even worse than the team's basic salary signed By Munch and Reeves.
And because of Westbrook's poor performances, he has been subjected to too much criticism and insults this season, which not only forced him to shut down his personal social media, but even received death threats from fans. From a rational point of view, Westbrook's performance this season is indeed bad, but this is not what he hoped, he has been plagued by injuries over the years, especially the knee injury has gradually caused him to lose his original speed and explosiveness, which in turn has affected his entire offensive rhythm.
Unfortunately, many times, some radical fans can't see this, and even Wei Shao has to endure some "sworn enemy" ridicule. If there is any player in the NBA that Westbrook hates the most, it may be The Timberwolves' Beverley. At the peak of the year, Wei Shao was directly injured by Beverley in the playoffs, resulting in the season reimbursement, after which Wei Shao's knee began to be injured continuously, and in a way, Beverley was the player who really destroyed Wei Shao's career.
However, in a recent show, Beverley hit a rake backwards, saying that Westbrook had destroyed his career, because Westbrook had publicly stated that Beverley would not defend, but would only run around and pretend to be fierce. Beverley put it bluntly on the show: "Obviously, after I played a bad game. "Oh, Russell is right. I know this damn guy; the only thing he does is run around and stuff like that. You know, he ruined my career and the coaching staff, the players, the fans all got a lot different way of thinking about me. They looked at me and said, 'You know what, he's not going to defend. He just yelled and ran around. And then stick to that point of view, and some people still do it now. ”
In fact, this is not the first time this season that Beverley has publicly shelled Wei Shao, in February, Beverley once tweeted and taunted Wei Shao: "I remember someone saying that what I did was just run around, and I lied to you." Well, my guy is a real magician this season. ”
Apparently, Beverley has been angry with Westbrook for saying that he would not defend, and he believes that It was Westbrook's remarks that caused the NBA's teams and coaches to question his defensive ability, which in turn affected his future in the NBA. But many fans did not buy this, saying that Beverly really did not even want to face, obviously he was the one who destroyed the peak of Wei Shao, but now he came to bite back, Wei Shao is now so bad, to some extent, Beverley is half responsible.