He isn’t, you are correct, but I don’t think making a poor and inaccurate comparison helps that point
You can't increase your pace without increasing the other teams pace. So you aren't getting "extra" possessions. Playing at a faster pace doesn't give you more possessions than the other team, it gives both teams more possessions.
What good are rebounds if you miss all those shots? Of course there are rebounds..so many MORE of them becauase Westbrook can't shoot. Capela's uptick has to be fueled by all those Westbrook misses. DD
I wish people would recognize the trade wasn't about talent, but personality. Harden wanted CP3 gone. That's all there is to it. If the man don't want him there, the man won't have him here. Turn your hatred toward CP3 & Hardens inability to coexist as acquaintances, and not toward Westbrook.
I dun really care if he is hated or not. I always liked him as a person, just not the player, I can differentiate.
Ehh Thus far Westbrook has been bad. The trade was made. Sounds like it had to be made, but Westbrook has mostly been bad. If this were Harden there would be 12 trade Harden threads. Westbrook doesn’t get a pass for being bad just because Harden and Tilman forced the move. Now, we have seen a handful of games where Westbrook’s peak has shined through and it’s obviously higher than CP3s current peak, but CP3 on the whole has been steady and better overall. SO FAR. A lot of season left. Hopefully Westbrook can continue to play better and do it more frequently.
Nobody said Westbrook has a free pass to be bad, and you continue to miss the entire point. It does not MATTER if CP3 has been more consistent thus far than Westbrook. Even if Tilman and Morey had a crystal ball & could see this from July, the trade would have still been made. Harden. Did. Not. Want. Him. Here. Again, direct this toward Hardens inability to coexist with CP3. None of this is Westbrooks fault.
The increase is disproportionate as the other team plays a slow pace by design. If you increase your pace more than your opponent increases their pace then obv you generate more points. We know this because there is a pace ranking in the NBA and the team with the fastest pace has a large diff with the team with the slowest pace. If your theory is correct then all teams would have the same pace as the slower pace team would increase their pace to match their opponent's. Clearly that's not the case. You can see here Houston has 9 more possessions than Orlando which has the lowest pace in the league. That's a 18-27 pt diff per game given the same efficiency: https://www.teamrankings.com/nba/stat/possessions-per-game
No, that's not how it works. You can't "increase your pace by more than your opponent", and you won't "obviously" generate more points. If you look at any individual game, both teams in that game always have the exact same pace. Feel free to check it out if you don't believe me.
