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Laker Film Room - Dedicated to the Study of Lakers Basketball

Russ the Decisionmaker

Laker Film Room - Dedicated to the Study of Lakers Basketball

Pete Zayas

Sports News, Basketball, Sports, News

4.81.1K Ratings

🗓️ 10 November 2021

⏱️ ? minutes

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Summary

Russell Westbrook had 5 turnovers in the 4th quarter of Monday's win over the Hornets and, while extreme, this represents some of the ball security struggles he's had this season so far. Pete, Mike, and Darius parse some of Russ' turnover issues with his general decision making as a lead ball handler and try to navigate what can and cannot change in trying to get better results without compromising the traits that make Westbrook the dynamic player he is. 


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0:00.0

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0:07.3

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0:12.4

What do you think about the Laker team now?

0:15.7

You follow the box scores of the games every day?

0:18.3

Just the Lakers.

0:19.6

You're kidding.

0:20.9

That is really a compliment.

0:25.1

I was pleased to see you smile at the top part show because once the game starts, you have a game face.

0:30.1

You don't smile much out there.

0:32.7

I don't think you have to do things for money anymore.

0:35.2

Correct.

0:35.7

What's up, Laker fans?

0:36.9

Welcome to the Laker Film Room podcast, brought you by the Blue Wire Podcast Network. I'm Pete, joined by Darius and Mike.

0:41.8

And today we're going to take a deep dive into Russ's decision making now that we've had a,

0:47.3

you know, seen him a little bit on a day-to-day basis with his five turnover fourth quarter

0:52.5

the other night, kind of as the backdrop. A little bit of

0:55.4

X's and O's context. He was pretty good with ball security for the first three quarters or so,

1:00.8

especially with how much he was absorbing of that. And we were doing really well, especially in our

1:05.9

ball screen game. And we were getting downhill. So they'd tried dropping initially. They had tried

1:10.6

switching at one point. And then it's just AD's they'd tried dropping initially. They had tried switching

1:11.0

at one point, and then it's just AD is going to kick your ass. Russ is going to beat,

1:15.5

win a foot speed advantage here and there. We were beating their coverages. And as Mike pointed out in

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