Russell Westbrook PASSES the Big O Oscar Robertson's Career Triple Double Record of 181!
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Yea.. it's easier than you think it only takes 2 seconds.You want a center to drive to the rim from 25+ ft outin 4.5 seconds
Y'all know I feel about him but
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Amazing 
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Congratulations, dude is the most conscious Stat padder ever but the dedication is commendable I guess 
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Congrats are due. Westbrook is one of my favorite players but I'm torn on how I feel about this....
Oscar got his 181 across 14 years, an average of 12.9 per year. Also a reminder that in Oscar's era the triple double wasn't a thing, and he himself has said he never even heard the term until the 80s. I'm FAR from an Oscar fan but he got his triple doubles organically in a career where nobody recognized it as a feat other than having a great all around game...
In his first 8 seasons, Brodie had 37 triple doubles, average of 4.6 per year. Those first 8 years were with KD and he was part of a winning culture that consistently competed for titles (four WCF trips)...
Everything about him was better in those first 8 years, and in those 8 years he was 21.5/5.6/7.6. Those are still numbers that demonstrate his all around game and he was going to the HOF regardless...
In his last five seasons he's had 145 triple doubles, averaging 29 per year. His triple double rate multiplied over 6x in the last 5 years but he didn't become a better basketball player, he got worse. His statline the last 5 years jumped to 26/10.3/10.1, and he has a winning record when he records a triple double, yet in process of chasing all the triple doubles his teams haven't been better overall. Three straight Rd1 outs, two of which playing with another great player in PG, a second round out with another great player in Harden, and this year with the Wizards...
So I salute his game and effort and he's one of my favorite players ever but at what cost did he sacrifice these triple doubles? It just feels like he reached a point where he resigned himself to not being able to win at a high level, so he went after something everyone thought was untouchable. Which makes it worse to me, every player is chasing a modicum of individual greatness, and Westbrook was already a great player. Even if his triple double rate naturally doubled or tripled in the last five years due to the way the game was played, you don't multiply by over 6 unless you're out here hawking at the expense of trying to win more...
To be clear he aint a loser, he's well accomplished enough and I'm not throwing that shyt on him. I just feel so-so about the record. It isnt all that important and he was already a great player on a HOF track. But congrats to him, no one else can say they've done it the way he's done it...
Oscar got his 181 across 14 years, an average of 12.9 per year. Also a reminder that in Oscar's era the triple double wasn't a thing, and he himself has said he never even heard the term until the 80s. I'm FAR from an Oscar fan but he got his triple doubles organically in a career where nobody recognized it as a feat other than having a great all around game...
In his first 8 seasons, Brodie had 37 triple doubles, average of 4.6 per year. Those first 8 years were with KD and he was part of a winning culture that consistently competed for titles (four WCF trips)...
Everything about him was better in those first 8 years, and in those 8 years he was 21.5/5.6/7.6. Those are still numbers that demonstrate his all around game and he was going to the HOF regardless...
In his last five seasons he's had 145 triple doubles, averaging 29 per year. His triple double rate multiplied over 6x in the last 5 years but he didn't become a better basketball player, he got worse. His statline the last 5 years jumped to 26/10.3/10.1, and he has a winning record when he records a triple double, yet in process of chasing all the triple doubles his teams haven't been better overall. Three straight Rd1 outs, two of which playing with another great player in PG, a second round out with another great player in Harden, and this year with the Wizards...
So I salute his game and effort and he's one of my favorite players ever but at what cost did he sacrifice these triple doubles? It just feels like he reached a point where he resigned himself to not being able to win at a high level, so he went after something everyone thought was untouchable. Which makes it worse to me, every player is chasing a modicum of individual greatness, and Westbrook was already a great player. Even if his triple double rate naturally doubled or tripled in the last five years due to the way the game was played, you don't multiply by over 6 unless you're out here hawking at the expense of trying to win more...
To be clear he aint a loser, he's well accomplished enough and I'm not throwing that shyt on him. I just feel so-so about the record. It isnt all that important and he was already a great player on a HOF track. But congrats to him, no one else can say they've done it the way he's done it...
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I disagree, that shyt is very impressive. If he has a winning record when getting triple doubles then how is his team worse off? Simple explanation is that he was on a better team 8 years with KD. If Lebron achieved this instead of Westbrook y’all blind witnesses would be insufferable with goat talk.
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Also it isnt lost on me that the best basketball he played in years was on Houston last year, career high shooting the ball at 27.2/7.9/7 and he looked completely rejuvenated while recording "only" 8 triple doubles. Which tells me he can play better basketball and help his team win without hawking triple doubles...
No I wouldn't and you gotta stop with these blanket statements and get Bron's dikk out your mouth. You nikkas are insufferable...yet again, the millionth example of me talking about one player and you weird ass nikkas trip over yourself to make it a Bron-centric conversation...
Yall dudes got real issues. Just leave it at you find the record impressive and I dont, all that other shyt is weird and unnecessary...
No I wouldn't and you gotta stop with these blanket statements and get Bron's dikk out your mouth. You nikkas are insufferable...yet again, the millionth example of me talking about one player and you weird ass nikkas trip over yourself to make it a Bron-centric conversation...
Yall dudes got real issues. Just leave it at you find the record impressive and I dont, all that other shyt is weird and unnecessary...
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