Denver is totally embarassing OKC right now, and I love it.
1 minute left in the 3rd and it's 66-87
It surprises me how much they miss Westbrook.
Apparently it's night and day when he came back earlier this season.
It absolutely is. The Thunder are 21-4 this season with westbrook, and 6-5 without him after last night--I think that was the graphic that they showed during the game.
Which makes perfect sense to me - Westbrook gets a metric ton of unnecessary criticism, partially because he's a shoot first ball handler and partially because he plays with the "Playing the Right Way" crowd's golden child in Kevin Durant, but Westbrook is a great basketball player.
Two years ago (it's 2014, right), he hit 5,000 points, 1,900 assists and 1,300 rebounds. The only other players who've done that in their first three years? The Big O and Magic. Dude is probably the best "worst" player of all time. We saw it last year when the Thunder only had Durant in the playoffs, and we're seeing it now, but they need Westbrook to be an elite team.
