I hate Mondays wrote:I hope I don't get shot in the head for saying this, but Westbrook is bad for the league right now. I love watching him play, he looks unhuman but basketball is a team game. It's not good for the entire OKC organisation and the entire league if a guy attempts 44 shots a game and also goes to the line around 12 times. He is the definition of hero ball.
That layup at the end of the OT though. I'll give him that.
I understand what you're saying, but the best scorer in the league just left and OKC kinda need a hero right now. At least until the new guys Oladipo, Sabonis, Ilyasova and Abrines have settled in and have learned the system.
I'm not going to overreact to a one-off 44 shot performance in an overtime game. Especially after he shot a perfectly fine 11-21 in the opening game.
At this point I'll give him the benefit of the doubt that he'll find a good balance between scoring and facilitating over the course of the season.