You can’t win with Westbrook as your best player

[gladhands]

Originally Posted by wutitiz

I heard a sports talk guy today make an interesting point about triple doubles. He said that if you count only triple doubles where the player shot over 50%, LeBron led the league in triple doubles, not Westbrook.

Westbrook’s triple doubles included a ton of free-throw rebounds. He actually lead the league last season. NBA players often let their opponents get free-throw rebounds. There’s an interesting article about the practice, here: https://bleacherreport.com/articles/...take-plays-off

[wutitiz]

Originally Posted by gladhands

Westbrook’s triple doubles included a ton of free-throw rebounds. He actually lead the league last season. NBA players often let their opponents get free-throw rebounds. There’s an interesting article about the practice, here: https://bleacherreport.com/articles/...take-plays-off

This reminds me I heard another basketball analyst say that it was not necessarily a good thing for a point guard to average 10+ rebounds. You want your point guard ready to leak out early from the defensive end, to get a fast break going, not hanging around the glass trying to rebound.