Around min 40-45 from Podcast P
Russ is Top 25 player - easy
If you genuinely believe this in October of 2023, you don’t watch basketball.
A lot of nba players don’t watch basketball when they are not playing
They play every team lol. Court side view of every player in the league.
They don’t need to watch random games on TV to rate players.
Weird. Teams don’t usually go from the lottery to the wcf by dropping a top 25 player. Something isn’t adding up here
If he was top 25, the Clippers wouldn’t have gotten him for the chump change he’s making.
That said, I do believe he’s got a quality argument for top 50 and it’s the biggest bargain contract in the NBA right now.
No he doesn’t . Austin reaves , given ryss minutes n ryss usage n ball dominance produced at a much higher lvl for us. Russ was like slight negative epm or just 0, after Rudd trade reaves averaged +3 epm or so for rest of year and peaked in WCF as a legit all star tier impsct ( not saying he is but his impact vs Denver is viewed similar to some of the less advanced stats popular all stars ) . Impsvt metrucs like Ingram , demar, lavine , etc I was worried even tho I love the kid he might come down to Earth but watching him in the WC go from ‘ non deserving ‘ to a top 3 player for us and arguably top 1-3 offensively impsct wise anyway was crazy to see.
I live reaves but I think 50-75 is his range not top 50 yet , so how can Russ a guy who played wirse by all metruvs be better? Russ signed fir basically the minimum too n got bought ought. If reaves was on 40m I’m pretty sure jazz don’t buy him out : it’d be a bad contract but like a Tobias Harris type bad , not a zero value player.
lol
Where is Westbrook ranked in terms of salary? He’s not valued and his game is probably not conducive to winning come the postseason.
Hate to say it but I agree with Podcast P. Russ is def a top 25 PG in the league right now.
imagine thinking there’s 93 guys in the league rn that can average 23.6 pts 7.6reb 7.4ast 1.2stl 1.4blk on 4tov playing 38.4mpg against a superior team in the playoffs
for reference cp3 who’s 20 positions ahead of russ in that list averaged 12.4 pts 5reb 7.4ast 1.7stl 0.7blk on 1tov playing 35.7mpg with 5 of the 7 games being against an inferior team and that’s without counting he’s injury prone and can never actually complete a postseason run unlike russ
shouldn’t have cracked the top 100
“That’s disrespectful. We’re also trying to trade for Harden who plays the same position as Russ because Russ is unplayable at the end of games.#Top 25.”
Top 25 PGs maybe
Statpadding pud
He’s not right but he’s not wrong. Russ should be in the back half of a top 50, maybe barely outside it. 80 is way too low.
that’s a dumb take, here, take my dumb take instead.
Yeah then why did every bum team use a centre to ‘guard’ and ignore him ? Including clipppetd n Dame blazers
I wanted to be fair, so I just revisited ESPN’s Top 50.
Honestly, no room for him there. Every single player there is currently more valuable than Westbrook is (in the eyes of coaches, scouts, and front office personnel).
Top 75 makes sense for him. *Shrugs*.