auragin_boi Member since Aug 01st 2003 20939 posts
Fri Apr-26-19 08:36 AM
70. "George's stats for this series were virtually equal to his reg season" In response to In response to 67
Except for 3 spots. He didn't shoot as well from 3, his steals were down slightly and his TO's almost doubled.
PG was balling. OKC should have won this series IMO. I think Russ (while stacking up his normal stats) just ran into the reality that his inefficiency equals death in a 7 game series.
And to your point, he played like this all year. So to everyone else's point, Russ is mostly the catalyst here considering dude has a 31% usage rate he refuses to diminish/defer a portion off.
Truth is, Russ should be a SG who drives to score or drives and kicks when he has the ball and should have around a 22% usage rate. They should have a distributor next to him who can shoot the 3 in the upper 30's at minimum.
As it stands, he's a guard who relies heavily on his athleticism to carry him and he's on the wrong side of 30 for that to be his game's crutch.
Hopefully, he'll tweak a few things, work on his J, watch film, realize Schroeder or PG can carry the load on O more and come back next year for a serious run.