thelesterlee
In 2015, Russell Westbrook had a breakout season in Oklahoma City averaging 28 points a night while Kevin Durant missed a majority of the year with a foot injury. Unfortunately, the Thunder missed the playoffs and fired head coach, Scott Brooks, after the season.
This season, Russell Westbrook was traded to the Washington Wizards to reunite with his former skipper, Scott Brooks. Washington finished the season 34-38 with Westbrook and Brad Beal playing alongside each other which is disgusting in an Eastern Conference where they had the best backcourt outside of Kyrie and Harden.
Once again, Scott Brooks has been fired after a wasted Westbrook season.
At what point do we keep these two men separated from each other forever?
I am in no way a Westbrook fan. I think he shoots his teams out of games, he is too old to be so focused on his final box score and he makes players around him tense on the court because they know he’s hunting assists so they think they need to immediately chuck up shots when they get the ball to keep him happy.
But he is 100000% more valuable to a franchise than Scott fucking Brooks. Any taste of success that Brooks has ever experienced in his coaching career was due to the talent on his roster and those teams won in spite of their bum ass coach.
He underachieved with the Durant/Westbrook squads as well as the John Wall/Brad Beal teams. Last season Brooks won 25 games. They added a former MVP and gained 9 only more wins. Bradley Beal is in the prime of his career and Westbrook averaged a triple-double. 4 games below .500.
Excellent work, Scottie.
Never forget Brooks’s shining moment with the Wizards:
According to Adrian Wojnarowski of ESPN, the team fined point guard John Wall for screaming at head coach Scott Brooks during practice. “After Wall and his teammates had been challenged to raise intensity in that session, Wall fired back with ‘F–k you,’ to Brooks,” Wojnarowski wrote.
Candace Buckner of the Washington Post provided more details: “John Wall and Jeff Green also got into it and their player-on-player verbal altercation led to Coach Scott Brooks trying to intervene and that’s when Wall hurled an expletive at the coach.”
But yea, Scott Brooks has more than overstayed his welcome in the NBA. I have no idea if Westbrook will ever win a chip but I know that his chances to do so are 0% with Brooks as his head coach.
