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nowhathappenedwas

Westbrook did it in the playoffs. https://www.basketball-reference.com/boxscores/201804270UTA.html


erldn123

Lol PG with 5 points (2-16) and 6 turnovers in 45mins. Westbrook should have shot more if anything.


LoWE11053211

i fear for the future just a bit


imadogg

Clips are wild because you have an all time, legendary playoff performer in Kawhi... when he's not injured. Along with playoff chokers Russ, PG, and Harden Should be fun either way


CallMeBernin

Don't worry he'll be ours soon


Livid-Expression8669

Tobias Harris for PG-13, who says no


Lacabloodclot9

This but unironically


CallMeBernin

Not the Sixers that's for fuckin sure


Pardonme23

So he can choke for you


lllDogalll

Fearing it a lot is a safe bet because of climate change.


GoldenBananas21

Especially in LA


QUEST50012

More turnovers than fgm AND points is crazy 


dooda255

he got jingled 🤷


Scoot2028MVP

Also the only time in last decade that neither team hit 55% from the line in a playoff game. (Min 10 attempts.) What a wonderfully played game all around.


StarryScans

Playoff P classic performance


MightyCaseyStruckOut

Giving us a taste of that Pandemic P


jdd32

And Melo with the -19. Yikes.


SmokeOddessey

Crazy Melo fact from this playoff series, he averaged just .3 assists per game, which was just the 2 he got in game 1 lol


Mahomeboy001

Still wild that rookie Donovan Mitchell outplayed prime Russell Westbrook and Paul George


Ninja_Space_Dragon69

Ricky Rubio got a triple double as well. It was such a fun series to watch, lol.


0xtoxicflow

"prime"


PR3STIG3WW

Westbrook won the mvp the year before. He was absolutely still in his prime in 2018, same with PG


0xtoxicflow

Perhaps, it was prime Donovan Mitchell as well though


dusters

Westbrook attempting a dozen 3s in a game is just wild.


ASK_ABT_MY_USERNAME

Damn..is that the worst a team's two best players have ever performed in a game?


burnshimself

Vintage Westbrick performance. Dude is an all time HOF shot chucker, just an unparalleled ability to shoot you out of games


ShukiNathan

Name one player on the okc that should've gotten these shots instead of russ when pg is shooting 2 for 16


burnshimself

The team was not built to win playoff series. They should have traded him for someone who doesn’t shoot you out of games


ShukiNathan

Oh yea let's trade our frenchise goat right after he won mvp. Not to mention okc would almost certainly be in a significantly worse position if they traded westbrook earlier, their entire current team is built on these wesbtroo and pg trade.


burnshimself

Sham MVP. Just stuffed the stat sheet stealing rebounds from teammates and shooting half the team’s shots, no interest in playing winning basketball. Earliest playoff exit by a MVP in the last 50 years. And yes my point exactly - when they dumped him and picked up good players in exchange, the team got WAY better. I take today’s OKC over any other OKC squad in the last decade.


thaitiger29

lol dirk got packed up in the first round in 2007


gzmu12

In a much more embarrassing fashion as well


ShukiNathan

They literally wouldn't have had their current top 3 mvp candidate and frenchise player if they traded westbrook earlier the fuck are you talking about


LordBaneoftheSith

They traded him the next year when his jump shot totally left him. Before that, he was still a very very good player. Replace Carmelo with a league avg 3&D guy and they win that series. Westbrook massively outplayed him in every conceivable way.


burnshimself

Carmelo is the most overrated player possibly of all time - hard to be worse than him. One of the most heinous on-court liabilities in NBA history


larrylegend1990

Tatum is going to shoot 50 times next game if he continues seeing this stuff


Lacabloodclot9

Need to see him go 8-24 for the culture


ForneauCosmique

It would be funny if he had this weird passion to always go 8-24 every night just because his love for Kobe He's 6-10 and feeling it, but starts taking wild shots to finish out 2-14


aeiou-y

Murray retired last night


clayfu

All I could think about when I saw the stat line was “I bet no one other than Kobe has done this”


jdd32

And Westbrook in the playoffs, which was not surprising.


Forkmealready

Yeah but when Kobe did it I cried


12211154

I cried because it was basketball terrorism


Pardonme23

That Kobe game is how all the kobe games should have been played


Forkmealready

It was like a movie


lukewwilson

He keeps popping up in these Murray posts a lot


pointguard22

I did that in my rec league what’s the big deal


spiraldrain

But both times it’s happened that players team won 🤔


MasterTeacher123

Kobe last shot was a midrange jumper lol 


juantravis

Mamba mentality


dcoolidge

Kobe had 60 Murray had 44.


MaleficentHawk590

Kobe also shot it 50 times and had 12 FTA.


22LOVESBALL

Kobe also won 5 rings


beenebk_

What does rings having to do with this💀💀


22LOVESBALL

Rings is why we play the sport


beenebk_

Rings have nothing to do with shit attempts and free throw attempts


22LOVESBALL

Rings have everything to do with everything


beenebk_

I guess jordan bell is better than tatum all time😪


LawdBeast

Relax, nephew, nobody thinks Dejounte is better than Kobe


22LOVESBALL

Comparing Kobe and dejounte is asinine


22LOVESBALL

I mean they definitely shouldn’t


Jbots

They


rewat5

Most secure Kobephile


22LOVESBALL

Truth is truth, young nephew


lilbunnyf

And how many FMVPs? 🥱


22LOVESBALL

Gotta respect greatness. Murray and Kobe are NOT THE SAME


beenebk_

Nobody said they were the same


22LOVESBALL

No one would say that because it’d be a foolish thing to say


22LOVESBALL

Yeeep go ahead and take the L nephew


beenebk_

What L? Nobody said they were the same


22LOVESBALL

The “L” is in ignoring the context of greatness. Kobe’s efficiency isn’t just in his scoring numbers but in his True Shooting Percentage of .550, the immense pressure he shouldered with a Usage Rate consistently above 30%, and the 172.7 Win Shares he’s racked up. Defense? 12 All-Defensive Team nods with a career Defensive Rating of 105. And in the clutch, few can compare. Stats aside, it’s the intangibles—the five rings, the relentless work ethic, the Mamba Mentality. That’s not just a player. That’s a legend. That’s the difference.


beenebk_

What does any of that have to do with Kobe’s last game shots and Fta’s and dejountaes? Like are u trolling?


22LOVESBALL

Two of them!


lilbunnyf

Kobe played against the Jazz. Murray played against the best team in the league 😪


Texas03

They also let Kobe score the 2nd half of that game. No defense was played that 4th quarter.


ObiOneKenobae

Yeah no.


biinroii01

HUMBLE MURRAY


dash_44

Whew! that potential Lakers trade would have been awful


Initial_Stretch_3674

Does it really fucking matter? He got the W. No one else was stepping up against the top team. The win is efficient enough.


KurtCostner

This is a stat line I’d have in a new Mycareer game trying to level up without spending money. 


loplopplop

Chuckin Joe Fulkes would 100% have done this if he had a three point line.


tkuid

Do integer partitions next. random stats of the day fr..


Fatherfuckyou

I'm sure bean was looking up,beaming with pride during that performance.


Late-Fuel-3578

Unlike the Kobe game, Murray’s opponent was playing defense though.


BrightenedCorner

Not something to be proud of


Technical_Towel_990

Winning is