Westbrook's Shooting
Laker Film Room - Dedicated to the Study of Lakers Basketball
Pete Zayas
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🗓️ 24 August 2021
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If there's a reason to down on the Lakers' acquisition of Russell Westbrook, his poor outside shooting -- and proclivity to shoot those shots anyway -- is probably at the top of the list. Pete, Mike, and Darius discuss how much Westbrook's shooting struggles matter, whether they think he'll adjust his game and cut down on the number of jumpshots he takes, and what types of schematic adjustments they think can work to help Westbrook be an off-ball threat when defenses help off him.
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| 0:00.0 | What do you think about the Laker team now? |
| 0:03.4 | You follow the box scores of the games every day? |
| 0:06.0 | Just the Lakers. |
| 0:07.3 | You're kidding. |
| 0:08.6 | That is really a compliment. |
| 0:12.8 | I was pleased to see you smile at the top bar show because once the game starts, you have a game face. |
| 0:17.8 | You don't smile much out there. |
| 0:20.4 | I don't think you have to do things for money anymore. Correct. What's up, Laker fans? Welcome to the Laker Filmroom podcast, brought you by the Blue Wire Podcast Network. I'm Pete, joined by Darius and Mike. And as we continue Westbrook Week, today we're going to discuss his shooting. In yesterday's episode, we talked about his playmaking and his shot creation |
| 0:38.8 | that's based off of his ability to attack the basket and all of the experience and both the |
| 0:43.9 | ability, but also the know-how that he possesses in doing that. But when I first heard the |
| 0:49.1 | Westbrook rumors, I laughed at the idea because Darius, the notion of the Lakers, we shot under 30% in the playoffs this season. |
| 0:59.8 | And the idea was Lakers need to improve as shooters. |
| 1:03.4 | They need to improve their outside shooting. |
| 1:05.2 | And then we trade for Russell Westbrook, right? |
| 1:08.5 | One of the lowest percentage high volume threeume three-point shooters of all time. |
| 1:13.4 | And I laughed because there's a certain, Mike, you always talk about the idea of how LeBron will sometimes reject the premise of a question. |
| 1:21.7 | This is very obviously the Lakers' front office rejecting the premise on some level D that the Lakers needed more shooting. |
| 1:29.3 | Now, mind you, we made other acquisitions that did address that. |
| 1:32.9 | But this is the most important one, man. |
| 1:34.7 | He's, you know, he's making over $40 million. |
| 1:37.2 | He is the third star, the third guy. |
| 1:40.8 | But the conventional wisdom is there for a reason. |
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