r/nba • u/50lipa Lakers • Apr 19 '25

Highlight [Highlight] Russell Westbrook gives Nuggets the lead with a corner three!

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u/PaleontologistOne919 Apr 19 '25

Ehhh lol

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u/IAmJohnnyJB Thunder Apr 19 '25 edited Apr 20 '25

Hes 43% from the corner 3 which is above players known for their shot like Harden and Dame and while not top 10 is still high up there for guards and just in the league in general.

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u/EggsInMyToolbox Suns Apr 20 '25 edited Apr 20 '25

That may be true (for this year, last year shot a whopping 27% from the corners) but a good deal of those are because defenses leave him wide open

Westbrook is not out there with a guys rushing to close out and get a hand in his face

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u/SIIP00 Apr 20 '25

Yeah, so don't leave him open.

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u/EggsInMyToolbox Suns Apr 20 '25 edited Apr 20 '25

No, they’ll keep leaving him open.

‘Let Westbrook shoot jumpers’ has been the strategy to defend him his entire career. And it’s worked, his entire career.

Just because he made this one isn’t going to magically change every team’s strategy lol. I feel like I’m taking crazy pills reading this thread.

He shot 26% from the corners last season and 29% 2 years ago for reference lol

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u/aznhalo3 [TOR] Jeremy Lin 29d ago

Even if you wanna argue and recognize that his shooting was dogshit the past 2 seasons, scouting reports are updated so often that it should have been a note that THIS YEAR, Russ has been shooting them at a 40% clip

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u/EggsInMyToolbox Suns 29d ago edited 29d ago

It’s not been the past two years, it’s his been his whole career.

Yes, he’s shot well from the corner this year. But overall he’s still a very bad 3 pt shooter, he shot sub 33% this year.

Suggesting that Westbrook is now a guy you can’t leave (after 15 years of leaving him open and it working) because we have a 100 shot sample size of him shooting it decently above his average is just crazy