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Stat monkey break.
Westbrook has a true shooting percentage of 49.6%. Holy hell. In the Moneyball era. He's scoring 21.6 points on 18.9 shots, but so long as he averages near a triple double they'll talk about him like he's an MVP candidate rather than the #1 reason his Thunder "superteam" has a losing record. I checked, and there is only a single other man in the Top 20 scorers with a TS% under 55% (Blake Griffin at 54.6%), and 16 of them are at 57% or higher. Compare:
True Shooting Percentage
He's effectively scoring .992 points per shot while Lebron scores 1.314 points per shot. Move that decimal two places to imbue this with a sensible context.
The score between them is a 131-99 blowout in a game with equal shots taken. Russ is a cancer to his team right now: a PGINO (point guard in name only).
Westbrook has a true shooting percentage of 49.6%. Holy hell. In the Moneyball era. He's scoring 21.6 points on 18.9 shots, but so long as he averages near a triple double they'll talk about him like he's an MVP candidate rather than the #1 reason his Thunder "superteam" has a losing record. I checked, and there is only a single other man in the Top 20 scorers with a TS% under 55% (Blake Griffin at 54.6%), and 16 of them are at 57% or higher. Compare:
True Shooting Percentage
- 63.0% = Harden
- 61.0% = Giannis
- 65.7% = Lebron
- 57.6% = Unicorn
- 63.9% = Curry
- 65.0% = Unibrow
- 57.1% = Lillard
- 57.2% = Demarcan
- 64.7% = Durant
- 57.8% = Beal
- 54.6% = Blake
- 58.5% = Oladipo
- 56.4% = DeRozan
- 57.5% = Embiid
- 58.1% = Kyrie
- 55.3% = Booker
- 57.9% = Kemba
- 57.3% = LaMarcus
- 49.6% = Westbrook
- 57.4% = CJ McCollum
He's effectively scoring .992 points per shot while Lebron scores 1.314 points per shot. Move that decimal two places to imbue this with a sensible context.
The score between them is a 131-99 blowout in a game with equal shots taken. Russ is a cancer to his team right now: a PGINO (point guard in name only).