I know the way we went out was bad, and the community has every right to be bitter, but attacking the players that actually put their elbow grease into establishing a certain toughness and hard-nosed mentality throughout the year is some sad shit to see. Especially for what he does the community, how he’s become the vocal team leader this squad has needed for years, and gives every game like it’s his last and puts his body on the line. Yes, he’s a flawed player. Yes, he can be very erratic at times. But he’s also one of the best contracts in the league considering the production you get for the contract he’s on. It’s okay to be frustrated, but you’re gonna really be so vitriolic towards a player like that? If he leaves, hopefully it’ll be somewhere his services are appreciated. The switch up is crazy.
by Revolutionary_Law687
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Appreciate the post, but you got to realize the vocal minority is a bunch of haters coming outside the woodworks whenever he has bad games
I especially hate the crowd who downplayed Russ play before Harden came here they went from praising him to saying he trash.
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If you drop these numbers, you are going get criticized. It is that simple. You are taking it personal maybe because he is your favorite player but the reality is Russ had the worst playoffs series in his career.
In a professional league, no matter how much heart you have, you have to be good at basketball first. He is a dog, Tucker is a dog, and Plumdog is a dog. So if we play these 3 40 mins a game are we gonna sweep everyone?
Nobody here hating Russ. He is just an HOF that comes to the end of his career. If you bring MJ out of retirement to join Clippers he’s gonna be bad too because he’s 60. What is the point of denying that? You can argue he’s not in his role and he needs the ball. But for a career 50.5% TS player, is he gonna be 60% TS at age of 36?
I swear we just need to keep Westbrook for all the troll posting. It’s quite entertaining 😂 as long as he rides the pine.
He may be a great human being, but hes a Liability in the playoffs in this point in his career. End of. Energy is the minimum expectation for a playoff team. Unfortunately we have weak minded players like PG who do not offer that. Barring the bare minimum requirement of energy, russ doesn’t offer anything else and is more so a negative in all other aspects of his game. Cant shoot, erratic playmaker, poor off ball defender, below average screener, cant finish anymore, no floater game either, etc. etc. And just like you suggest, I hope he leaves somewhere else if this team has aspirations of winning a chip. I know I’m probably gonna get down voted because that recent Instagram story showed that he atleast cares. But hey, even I care about the clippers, probably much more than russ given I’ve been a fan for as long as I can remember. Doesn’t mean I can contribute positively on the court
welcome to social media discourse
honestly at this point Russ gtfoh and take every single one of his stan’s with him.
Russ fans have to be the biggest victim mentality people in the NBA community. When all teams give up on you, at some point it’s the player. He does so much for the community? Dude nobody is saying he’s not a great human being, he’s just an significantly flawed basketball player without his athleticism anymore. We can’t win with such players in the postseason
https://youtu.be/0SVY38nzCgQ?si=giRm7-bD3RWH0Z3f
I agree with everything this guy says
He did not put Luka through hell on defense. No, no he didn’t dude. Nope. Nada. This is some delusional shit. Cannot wait for this fake Clipper fans who are really Russ stans to get out of our fanbase.
The amount of vitriol is insane. This plucky ass team took the Mavs with Doncic and Kyrie to 6 games without their primary star, that’s a pretty respectable performance all things considered.
It’s time to move on.
Put Luka through hell..lol
Still waiting for the source of the team that was gonna pay him more than us
Sure. He also negatively impacts almost any offense and makes boneheaded plays constantly (on both sides of the ball)
Westbrook has a +8 net rating without Harden in the playoffs.
Harden had a -14 NET RATING without Westbrook.
https://www.pbpstats.com/wowy-combos/nba?TeamId=1610612746&Season=2023-24&SeasonType=Playoffs&PlayerIds=201935,201566