Westbrook wasn't on the floor 48mins/game and they were just terrible without him. But I guess, even that was Westbrooks fault.
a) Westbrook has no NBA level backup. Fact, unless somehow someone proves that Christon would earn money anywhere else in the NBA, including Brooklyn.
b) the team has been built badly by Presti in the offseason and Donovan is a bad coach so he did nothing to address an awful situation, he just allowed Westbrook to go ballistic. When Westbrook sits they have no PG on the floor, do you expect any team to play better with no playmaker or ballhandler? It's like you remove Beverley as a backup PG to Harden and put a below-average D-Leaguer in his place...seriously.
c) All his team mates have had a worse year than 2015-16, see any stat you like. Fact.
d) He won fewer games than other 9 teams, which included other MVP candidates. In random order Harden, Kawhi, LeBron, Curry, KD, Thomas, Chris Paul. All of them play the right way putting the team first. That is another fact.
So in short yes it was Westbrook's fault and also Donovan's and Presti's. Nobody else bears responsibility for the above. Not Adams who has been castrated all year and was the 4th best big on the floor when he would have wiped the floor with Capela a year ago. Not Oladipo who's not been developed properly. Not Sabonis who has been thrown out there and given shots every game and now is nowhere to be seen (thanks to Donovan).
stepping up when you have the chance not so much ...
Stepping up when being inefficient is fairly easy. Ask Kobe when he put up 35. As I said elsewhere, Westbrook MVP will pave the way for Devin Booker, another inefficient volume shooter, to take 35 shots per game so he can average 40 points, 'cause, you know, only Wilt did it, only one man before did it ever, it hasn't been done in 55 years and all that rubbish they said about a meaningless record owned by one of the biggest losers in the history of the association (Robertson) a guy who had to go to Kareem as a distant second banana in order to win a ring.
I can wait to see what happens and I can definitely live with every of the mentioned players, no matter if LBJ, Harden or Kawhi gets the award.
Westbrook will win the MVP and those who voted for him hopefully will be publicly shamed for being conned by him and Donovan.
I know more than one OKC supporter who actively hopes his team gets swept by the Rockets, so their front office will have an easy excuse to fire Donovan. That's how painful 2017 Thunder basketball is to watch for them. The Westbrook's show made it barely bearable, but ultimately fans want to win, not to see a circus. There's the Harlem Globetrotters for that. Crippling 14/15 of your team so that 1/15 can show off is not a good recipe to win.
Last edited by Lemonshine at 4/18/2017 4:53:42 PM