Russell Westbrook Would Dominate Allen Iverson| Ticket TV Your Love Affair With AI Makes No Sense

If that was you on the phone and you on the bus, then who was flickering the light? I used to always say he's going to probably go down as the third best point guard ever, but I think he's passed one and he's going to go down as probably the second best. And one is obviously Magic. What he does, there's no point guards ever done it. Nobody. Me personally, I feel like I am the best, you know, playmaker in this league. Is it fair what we're saying about Russell Westbrook here? Are we diminishing what he just accomplished? No. I mean, listen, here it is, right? And when I look at guys that are polarizing throughout the NBA, and when I say polarizing, I'm talking about Will Chamberlain, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Kobe Bryant, Michael Jordan, LeBron James, Russell Westbrook, Shaq. When they game, it weighed heavy on you. Russell Westbrook falls in that category. When I was in Oklahoma City, when I first got there, Troy Weaver, who's now the GM of the Detroit Pistons, told me, he said, hey, Kirk, let me tell you, Russell will go down as one of the best point guards to ever do it. And right now, we are witnessing greatness. Now, is he number two on the all-time list? No. I mean, that could be debatable. I'm not going to judge Scott Brooks on his opinion, because he won championships. He played with greats, Elijah Warren, Barkley. He's seen greatness. He played with them, whatever the case may be. But I'm going to say this, and I feel this type of way. When we talk about CP3, right, and we always say that CP3 is going to finish a top five point guard to ever play this game. He don't have a championship, right? And when you look at Russell Westbrook, he don't have a championship. He's actually been further in the playoffs than CP3. He actually beat CP3 in the playoffs. And I'm not killing CP3 because I love what he brings to the table. But when you look at their career numbers and stats, they are identical. So in my opinion, it's Magic Johnson, Isaiah Thomas, and the rest fall where they may. Russell Westbrook, when it's all said and done, he is a top five point guard to ever play the game of basketball. This thing that we're seeing right now, we would never see this again in the history of the NBA. We would never see this again ever. We got the Hall of Famer, Jerome Bettis, waiting for us. Perk's going to be back with us later in the show. I'm sure you want to respond, Steven, to what Perk just said. Can we get back to that a little later in the show? Because I want to make sure we hit Jerome on time here. All right, Perk, you'll be back with us. This conversation is not done. Give it up. It's FYF Sportsman, it's Lamont. We are back with another podcast episode. And today we got, you know, we got another reaction video, just another ether type video. A lot of you guys have been in the comments talking about this. You know, I do a lot of community posts. And when I do those community posts, whether it's on Jordan, LeBron, Russell Westbrook, Steph Curry, I really just kind of do it to gauge where you guys are at with regards to your basketball acumen. Gauge some of your opinions on some of these players. Is it based off emotion? Is it based off fact? You know, what kind of drive you guys when you make these opinions with regards to sports? You know, whether it's emotion, whether it's fact, there's really no right or wrong answer. Everybody's going to have their favorites when it comes to this game of basketball. But at the end of the day, man, it's about getting out your feelings, you know, and then really trying to break down the game in a non-biased method. You know, regardless of your error, regardless of your favorites, what we do here is we take the feelings out of it and we try to come at you with the facts. And so what we've seen over time and you guys seen it in a number of our debates, whether it's the Jordan debate, whether it's about LeBron, whether it's about Steph Curry, whether it's about Allen Iverson, a lot of people come at these players with emotions. All right, and emotions over facts. So what we come in to do today is we come in to drop facts. But you guys just spam this video to me. So I said, you know what, I'm finally going to react to it because I obviously once again, and unsurprisingly, Ticket TV has made another bad take on basketball, which is going to be proven to be false here within the next week, once the Golden State Warriors make the playoffs. Before we get started with today's video and today's ether video, make sure you guys like, comment and subscribe, hit the notification bell if you haven't done so already. The grind is real. We're grinding to 25k, roll to 100k in 2021. That's the ultimate goal. So salute everybody for commenting on the videos, watching the videos, interacting with all the videos, helping us get that engagement so our content can get out there and reach broader and broader audiences. But you know, as you guys can see right here, we got a video that I'm going to be playing momentarily. And again, we're just going to be reacting to, you know, we're going to listen. This is what we like to do. We just kind of like to listen. And then we will go about dissecting some of these things. And so in this conversation today, we're going to do, we're going to eliminate, we're going to kill two birds in one stone. We're just going to eliminate this notion that Allen Iverson is better than Steph Curry. And we're most definitely going to eliminate this notion that Allen Iverson is better than Russell Westbrook because he is neither. And he's done nothing in his career to lead anyone reasonable to believe that he is better than either of these players. And we're going to break that down, not just with the facts, but we're also going to use the analytics. We're going to go through everything to dissect all of these things. But again, we're going to sit back and we're going to listen first. We're going to see, we're going to, we're going to see what bad basketball take he has for us now. And then we're going to go to ether in these points. Curry, man. He ain't on AI level. He's an all time great, but he ain't better than Allen Iverson. And once again, it's proven they cut their ass out here and got the hell beat out of them tonight. Got the hell beat up. Them fools was down by 30 at the half, bro. 30, but he's sitting over there celebrating the fact that he passed Reggie Miller and they got their ass kicked by 30 at the halftime. Where's super wack defunct. I need you super wack defunct to bring your punk ass in the channel tonight. You was talking all that ----. Y'all was going to make the playoffs. A hundred million dollar man. Where the hell is he at? Where are you at? Superman? They're scrubs. Steve Kerr is getting ready to bench Kelly Oubre Jr. He's unplayable. What's all that ---- you was talking about? Oh, Kelly with all his defense and ---- like that. That's what I want to know. Huh? And I don't want to hear nothing about over Curry. Curry. No, no. He got his ******* ass kicked. Point blank period. He got his ass kicked tonight. Once again, you guys are out of the playoffs. You're not going to make the playoffs. And listen, I always knew Curry was an all time great. Means a lot to dissect right there. A lot to do to really break down. It really not, not necessarily too hard to break down the first bad take. And obviously we all know this is a horrible take right here. The Golden State Warriors will not miss the playoffs. The Golden State Warriors are firmly implanted into the AC right now, potentially can get to the seventh seed, but they're definitely firmly implanted into the, in the play in games, which is considered the playoffs. And then everyone believes that if the Warriors can get to that eight spot, they're definitely going to get in because even if they lose that first game in the play in tournament, let's say to the Lakers or even to the Dallas Mavericks, depending on who falls to that seven spot, they're going to have another opportunity to play the winner of the 19 game to move on to the playoffs. And I don't expect Stephen Curry to lose two games in a row to lesser teams in the NBA. That's just not going to happen. The Golden State Warriors will be in the playoffs this year. All right, probably at that eight seat with a very good opportunity to upset the number one seat. We've seen how they played the Utah jazz and the Phoenix suns this year. They've been highly competitive in all of those games. And with both of those teams at the top, dealing with their own issues with regards to injury, there's a real possibility that the Golden State Warriors can upset them. So I think is, again, this is emotional and irrational when you make a reaction, when you make a reaction off of one game, when you, and again, this is consistent. This is a consistent ideology with 90s fans. They take one game, they live in single moments, which determine the outcome of a player's career, or just how they look at a player in its entirety. They never look at a player based off the full, you know, whether it's a full season or full career. We see this with Jordan. We see how 90s fans judge Michael Jordan on just six seasons. He's not judged outside of those six championship seasons. They always judge things in a very small bubble. And it's usually a bubble that fits their narrative. And this is what's really happening with Steph Curry, which we know he's an all time great. He's in the MVP conversation. We really don't even have to ether him on that right there. But even when you compare Allen Iverson and Steph Curry, there is no real comparison right there. You know, Allen Iverson has a playoff record of, I think, 30 wins, 30 wins, and over 40 losses. He has a losing record in the playoffs. Steph Curry has 77 wins, and I think 35 losses in the playoffs. He's been a winning player, whether it's regular season or whether it's in the playoffs. He's a two-time MVP. He's leading the league in scoring right now, at the same age Allen Iverson was when Allen Iverson was really headed out the league. We have to stop the cap. And then when you, and you know, I really wanted to use this show to give Russell Westbrook his appreciation and his just due, because I think he's been getting highly disrespected. I think a lot of people will lie and find ways to disrespect what he's done. And it absolutely makes no sense because in comparison to players of the past, we have not judged other players of the past in this particular manner. And I'm going to give you guys a myriad of examples to really show you why. We all know what Russell Westbrook's done. All right. We know what Russell Westbrook has done. Russell Westbrook just broke Oscar Robinson's record for the most career triple doubles. He stands alone at number one at 182 triple doubles. Oscar Robinson is number two with 181. Magic is number three with 138. Jason Kidd is at four with 107 and LeBron is at 99. Now we look at the other players on this list. When we look at Oscar Robinson, I had Oscar Robinson as number 10 in my all time top 10 list. All right. He's judged off what he accomplished throughout his career. Magic Johnson has 138 triple doubles. All right. He's looked at as an all time great, one of the most versatile players in NBA history. Jason Kidd, the same thing. One of the best point guards in NBA history, one of the most versatile players can do it all on the court. Same with LeBron James. And really LeBron James is the only player active that can sniff Russell Westbrook's record. And the way it's looking, LeBron James won't even come close and he's the best player in the league right now. So now we understand the significance of that record that Russell Westbrook has made. And we know it's very significant because look at where we rank Oscar Robinson in NBA history. In most people's all time top list, Oscar Robinson is usually in the top 20. Now he's at my number 10, but for most people and most basketball aficionados, Oscar Robinson is going to fall at least, he's going to fall at least at the number 20 spot. And that's the lowest you could possibly put them. But is Oscar Robinson judged? Oscar Robinson, is he judged on winning championships? Does he have to win? We place Oscar Robinson in the top 20 all time, purely based off the fact that he did the unthinkable. He went and averaged a triple double for multiple seasons in a row. We don't look at was he winning championships those seasons? Was he winning games? Did he have a great team with him? Was he getting to the finals? Nobody has that conversation when talking about Oscar Robinson. They all just simply respect the fact that he has done the unthinkable. He has one of the most untouchable records in NBA history. He has one of the most untouchable records in NBA history, and Russell Westbrook eclipsed that record. But yet when we look at what Russell Westbrook did, we hear a myriad of excuses when we talk about Russell Westbrook. We hear a lot of people say Russell Westbrook is stat padding. He can't get out the first round. He's a choker. He can't get it done in the clutch. He can't beat LeBron James. He's not better than Allen Iverson because of these things. But are these things that we're stating, and not just me, obviously a lot of this stuff, a lot of this toxicity, and a lot of these fake narratives and fake news, we know where it's coming from. This is where it's coming from right here. We're here to break all of that down today. And the easiest way to break that down is to just simply go to the drawing board. So the really quickly here, we're just going to run through these player profiles and comparisons. Let's just see what we have to work with. When we're looking at two all-time great players, what are we looking at? Because you have a small bundle of 90s fans who are trying to uplift Allen Iverson. They're trying to say that he was a far superior player than Russell Westbrook. But let's look at what the stats say, because generally we have to look at that. 90s fans, a lot of Allen Iverson fans aren't going to really want us to look at this because we know who these numbers are going to favor. But let's just take a look at it anyway. Iverson played 14 seasons in the league. Russell Westbrook is playing 13 and still counting. The way it's looking, it's looking like Westbrook is probably going to play 16 to 17 seasons. And that's probably 16 seasons before we start to see a major decline in his game. His game is not declining. He's still just as consistent as he was three to four years ago. Playoffs play, Allen Iverson in his 14 year career, he only made the playoffs eight times. All right. So when we talk about Russell Westbrook always losing in the first round, which is also a myth. Well, there were multiple years where Iverson just simply wasn't even making the playoffs. All right. Well, what excuse do you have for that? Iverson made 11 all-star games in 14 seasons while Russell Westbrook's made nine all-star games in 13 seasons. So, you know, about essentially equal right there. All right. MVPs, they both have one MVP. Iverson has three all NBA first teams. Russell Westbrook has two. And I suspect that Russell Westbrook could possibly get to all NBA second team this year. He's in, obviously he's in a Western conference with Steph Curry, looking like Steph Curry is probably going to be that first team, potentially Damian Lillard at the second team. I can see Russell Westbrook in that third team, but he's fighting for these all NBA spots. With a lot of great guards in the Western conferences. Remember he's been in the Western conference his whole career with some of the greatest guards we've seen in NBA history, Chris Paul's and all of these players. So it's been a bit, it's been a battle and a fight for him to get that top spot, but he's ultimately, he's still done it twice. He's in the Eastern conference this year. Probably a little bit easier for him to get to, to own that first or second team, but we'll just see how it pans out at the end of the year. But he's made all nine NBA teams throughout his whole career to Iverson seven. All right. So you got to think Iverson's played in the league 14 years, seven of those years, he wasn't even considered an all NBA point guard. That's an indictment on his career. Iverson has been a scoring leader four times. Russell Westbrook has done it twice. Iverson has never led the league in assists. Russell Westbrook's done it twice. Iverson, Iverson led the league in steals three times. Westbrook none. And Iverson was rookie of the year. Westbrook wasn't. So some bit of the accolades go there to Iverson. Let's go down. Let's look at the stats points per game in the regular season. Westbrook 23 points per game. Iverson 26. But you know, we know Iverson was an elite scorer. So, but the only Iverson three more points a game than Russell Westbrook. Not really that bad, but everything else, we all know all of these other categories are really going to fall in Russell Westbrook's favor. Russell Westbrook has seven rebounds per game, eight assists per game, steals per game, actually 1.7 similar to Iverson's 2.2, but that's actually pretty stellar number. The average 2.2 steals per game for your career. I have to give you something for that. So with regards to Iverson, even though he was a bad defender, the average two steals a game is something that I have to give you credit for. All right. The overall stat totals are what they are. Not really relevant in this conversation. I do like to look at the percentages. All right. Because a lot of people say Russell Westbrook is very inefficient, but when we look at the overall career field goal percentages, Russell Westbrook is shooting a higher field goal percentage than Allen Iverson at 43%. Three point field goal percentage is about the same 31% to 30%. We know Russell Westbrook struggles from the three point line and the same thing from the free throw line. Russell Westbrook, 79%. Allen Iverson, 78%. Essentially equal right there. All right. When we look at their best seasons, Allen Iverson's best scoring season was 33 points a game. Russell Westbrook was 31. Not much difference right there. This is where you see the major differences right here. Russell Westbrook, 11 rebounds per game to Iverson's four, 11 assists per game. Here's Iverson's seven. All right. Steals per game, Iverson 2.8, Russell Westbrook's 2.1 in blocks is really an irrelevant category right here. When we look at playoff stats, look at their playoff averages. Playoff averages, Russell Westbrook's averaging 24.8 points per game to Allen Iverson's 29.7. Russell Westbrook, seven rebounds, seven assists, 1.8 steals to Allen Iverson's 2.1. Russell Westbrook, again, for what he lacks in the scoring, because he's always going to lose out to Iverson in scoring, he makes up massively in rebounds and assists. If you think about assists, assists are actually points for your team. All right. Let's go to playoff percentages. When we look at how effective are they in the playoffs, how effective are they in the playoffs? Well, Russell Westbrook shoot 41% from the field in the playoffs to Allen Iverson's 40%. Russell Westbrook's 29% from the three-point line to Allen Iverson's 32%. Allen Iverson was basically an average three-point shooter in the playoffs. Russell Westbrook has always been a poor three-point shooter in the playoffs. But from the free throw line, Russell Westbrook, 82% to Iverson's 76%. Let's look at their best playoff outputs. Russell Westbrook, 37 points per game in 2017, where they say he choked. When we look at rebounds per game, Russell Westbrook, 12. Assists per game, Russell Westbrook, 11. Steals per game, Russell Westbrook, three. Blocks is another irrelevant category. When we look at the stats, and not just the stats, when we look at the efficiency with regards to percentages, most of the statistical categories outside of scoring are going to heavily favor Russell Westbrook, so he's doing more on the court. Then when we talk about scoring the ball, he's scoring the ball essentially at the same rate as Allen Iverson. It just took Allen Iverson more shots to get there because his field goal percentages are a lot lower. Allen Iverson was scoring more points than a less efficient field goal percentage. Russell Westbrook is actually scoring a few less points on a higher field goal percentage. If you correlate those things, they're essentially scoring at the same rate. Russell Westbrook's doing much more on the court outside of scoring. He's rebounding, he's assisting, he's also playing defense, which we know that that steals category for Allen Iverson is very, very deceptive. It's very, very deceptive in a sense because Allen Iverson was not a very good defender. When we look at those categories right there, how is Allen Iverson looked at as a far superior player to Russell Westbrook? When Russell Westbrook is playing, let's say the players are head to head equal right now, and which they're not. Russell Westbrook is still playing and he's probably going to play another three to four, maybe five years of high level basketball. His numbers are going to far eclipse that of Allen Iverson. A myth right there, let's knock that myth out of the way. Who's the better player statistically? Obviously, Russell Westbrook's the better player statistically on top of the fact that he's just accomplished something with the triple doubles that nobody's ever done in NBA history. He eclipsed that number. When we talk about the triple doubles, what's the next thing that we're going to talk about? Well, I see a lot of people in my comments. The first thing that they say about the triple doubles is they say, oh, he's stat padding. Oh, those are just empty stats. Are they empty stats? Are those empty stats really? Let's find out. All right. Well, according to Stat Muse, and this was actually on April 28th, so this number's actually increased. Russell Westbrook has the most wins with the triple double in NBA history at 132. That number's now grew to 136. Not only is he getting these triple doubles, they're not empty stats because he's leading his team to victory. Essentially, with the teams that Russell Westbrook's been a part of, he's had to get these numbers to help his team get the win. All right? When we look at his overall record, despite the hypercriticism of Russell Westbrook's game, he's played for winning teams, and his record when he records a triple double is 136 and 45, including 21 and 14 with the Wizards. The teams that Russell Westbrook is playing on, they do much better when he's getting a triple double. These are not empty stats when you have 136 and 45 record when recording a triple double. If what you're doing directly leads to wins, then why would you not do it? On the teams that we know Russell Westbrook's playing on, Russell Westbrook being able to rebound the ball, assist the ball, and score the ball has been essential. On this Washington Wizard team that's been depleted by COVID, that's depleted by injuries, where your second star has also been out with injuries, what else do you expect Russell Westbrook to do? Is he not supposed to go out there and play his hardest and go get triple doubles? Is he supposed to sit around and try to let other guys do these things when they haven't done it in their entire career? We got to stop. We got to stop with the nonsense. There's too many myths circulating around Russell Westbrook. When we get into this conversation, a lot of people say, if you go back and ask all of these other players or these other airs, what do they think about Allen Iverson? Well, what do they really think about Allen Iverson? Some people even contend that Allen Iverson may have been overrated. When you go back, who do we consider credible? Who do we consider non-biased? Well, let's check out what Chauncey Billups had to say about Allen Iverson, because this is a man who also, he played against Iverson, he played with Iverson. He stated, I beat the Lakers 4-1. He lost to the Lakers 4-1. He's an finals MVP. He lost twice in the first round to Denver. I elevated them to the conference finals. How am I not in the hall of fame? That's Chauncey Billups on his hall of fame snub. When we look at how other players view Allen Iverson, was he overrated? Was he overrated? We have to look at it. When we look at Allen Iverson, when you look at his career in a totality, if we look at Allen Iverson's career through the goggles of how 90s fans look at his career, he's played 71 playoff games. Remember, the playoffs for 90s fans and for people who look at Allen Iverson as God, well, the playoffs and winning championships and getting to the finals is the end all be all. Allen Iverson has 30 wins in the playoffs, 41 losses. He has a losing record in the playoffs. Take out the excuses. Take out the emotion. What excuses do you have about that? Are you going to run around saying he didn't have a good team or teammates? When he was in Denver, he had a good team and good teammates. When he was in Philly, he had a good team and teammates. That Philly team is disrespected to a large degree by people who say he wasn't playing with anybody. But when I look at that team, I see a defensive player of the year. I see the league's leading rebounder. I see the coach of the year. I see the sixth man of the year. To me, that's a great team when you have all of those pieces on your team and you still can't get it done. When we look at Russell Westbrook, Russell Westbrook, remember what I told you, he has a winning record in the playoffs. Russell Westbrook, in less time, played 106 playoff games. He has 54 wins to 52 losses. Russell Westbrook actually has a winning record in the playoffs. He has more wins than losses. All of these things about getting bounced out first round, that may be the case. That actually has happened with Russell Westbrook's career. Either way, he's put up a much greater fight in the playoffs than Allen Iverson did. Allen Iverson's teams have folded, got swept, or got knocked out of the playoffs far more easily than any team led by Russell Westbrook. Again, when you look at the playoff numbers, and you're talking about another guard of this era like Steph Curry, his playoff numbers as far as wins and losses far supersede both of these players. It's not really comparable right there. What we have to start doing and what we have to get back to doing, we just have to start respecting greatness and stop trying to find ways to denigrate these players. When we look at what Russell Westbrook is doing with the triple doubles, it's something that we won't ever see again, probably for the next 20-30 years. People say it's easy to get triple doubles. If it's easy to get triple doubles, then how come everybody else isn't doing it? Rasheed Wallace said it best. Great players, the good players in the NBA, whether you're 90s, whether you're this era, they all respect what he's doing because they know how difficult it is to get a triple double. There are some great players who can go their entire career without even getting close to a triple double. That just tells you how hard it is. To dispel that myth, there's another myth. A lot of people say, well, Russell Westbrook's playing in the era where it's easy to get triple doubles. Well, what era really had the most triple doubles? How about we just go take a look? When we talk about the triple double era, there's a misconception that today's era, there are more triple doubles than we've ever seen before in the past. That's actually not true. The era that's led by far and is not even close with players who were able to get triple doubles, not just get triple doubles, but have multiple triple doubles game after game after game is actually in the 70s. It was led by John Havlicek, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Norm Van Leer, Billy Cunningham, Walt Flayser, Oscar Robinson, Alvin Adams, Sidney Wicks, John Johnson, Pete Barabash, Bob Kaufman, Jerry Lucas, Rick Barry, Elmore Smith, Dave Cowens, Wes Unsell, Sam Lacey, George McGinnis, Bill Walton, Connie Hawkins, Lenny Wilkins, Mickey Johnson, Slick Watts, and Bob Lanier. The 70s was considered the triple double era. How we conveniently forget these things because of recency bias. We conveniently forget these particular stats. People are so quick to say, in today's game, there's no defense. It's much easier to get a triple double, but they don't even look back on the past in the 70s. That's not to say that basketball in the 70s was worse than it is today. That was just the style of play back then. Sometimes, a lot of these players that I named were not on teams filled with superstar talented players. They had to do a lot of the workload on themselves. When we look at these players on this list, when we talk about guys like John Havlicek, he's looked at as an all-time great. When we look at Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, he's looked at as an all-time great, number one overall on some people's same with Norm Van Leer, same with Walt Frazier, same with Oscar Robinson, same with Pete Maravich, Jerry Lucas, Rick Barry, Dave Cowens. All of these players are considered all-time NBA greats. Nobody's looking back on that era saying, oh, they were trash or they were stat padding. How many championships did they win? A lot of people can't even tell you how many championships Pete Maravich has, but he's going to be in the top 50 of all time. A lot of people can't tell you how many championships Wes Unsell had, but he's going to be top 50 in a lot of people's lists. The same thing with a lot of people, a lot of people on this list, this is the era that led in triple doubles as it stands right now. Now, could that be broken by this era? Yes, it could potentially be broken. When we have guys like Draymond Green, Ben Simmons, LeBron James, Russell Westbrook, we have all of these players, Luka Doncic, we have all of these players who are extremely skilled in multiple categories and can get triple doubles any given night. Yes, that record can be broken, but as it stands right now, the 70s leads. The 70s was actually considered, and this was also a report was done by Bleach Report as well. They were considered to triple double error, but we don't look at those players do we discredit any of those players for being great just because they played in the era where it was more prevalent to get a triple double. All of that being said right there, the purpose of this video, again, educational purposes to teach people, to help you understand, to dispel some of the myths surrounding Russell Westbrook, Steph Curry. The fact number one, Steph Curry will be the playoffs. Anybody who really doubted that or didn't see that coming, obviously you don't understand the greatness of Steph Curry, nor are you willing to appreciate it, but now that he's in the playoffs and he has a real possibility, what will you say? This is why you don't want to jump out there on the tangent and try to make statements of certainty without giving yourself an exit way out. The same with Russell Westbrook. Russell Westbrook, a lot of people said that team couldn't get to the playoffs. Look at them now. They're probably going to be in the playing game with a very high likelihood of getting to the playoffs based on how they're playing now, especially if Bradley Beal is healthy, but this is what Russell Westbrook had to deal with his whole career. He's had to play on teams where he's been really the only primary guy that the other team had to focus on. Outside of Bradley Beal, who's the major threat on that Washington team, all of the workload has been given to Russell Westbrook, and he shouldered it. He's burdened that load without complaining, without crying, and he's accepted all of those responsibilities. Look at the coaches that he's had. He's played under Scott Brooks the majority of his career, and then he also played under Billy Donovan, two coaches who we know have underachieved mightily, especially when he was on OKC, and then now that he's back in Washington, he's playing under a coach that underachieved. When he played in Houston, he played with a coach that didn't understand the mid-range game or even how to use his particular skill set. Mike D'Antoni wanted to space the floor and shoot all threes. Russell Westbrook's not even a three-point shooter, so he hasn't really played with coaches favorable or conducive to him having a high level of success in the playoffs, but as it stands now, I just like to appreciate greatness when I see it. Russell Westbrook has broken the triple-double record. I think it's an accomplishment that we will never see again, at least for the next 20, 30 years, and I think we need to spend more time praising these players for what they're accomplishing as opposed to complaining about them and then trying to compare them to players of the past because of your nostalgia. The fact that these comparisons are coming up, that simply means that there's worry, there's doubt, especially in these 90s fans' minds that these players of the day are just simply far superior and just are surpassing them on every given level of the game, and that's what Russell Westbrook's doing. When Russell Westbrook retires, he's going to go down as a top-20 player of all time based off what he's accomplished. If he's able to get a championship, you never know, maybe higher. We see what one championship did with Jason Kidd. We see what one championship did for Oscar Robinson. Just one, and Oscar Robinson, during all those years where he was getting those triple-doubles, he never won one championship. He had to go team up and formulate a super team just to go get his one championship. Russell Westbrook's really never been a part of a super team, and if you want to call that OKC team when they were in their seedling stages a super team, yeah, that's fine. I'll take that, but they were still learning how to win. Those were all still young players still trying to figure out the game of basketball. There's a lot to dissect right there. I want you guys to formulate your own opinion. I base my opinion purely off facts, off the numbers, off the analytics, off the percentages, off how we look at other players of the past, off what other players have said about some of these greats. When we look at it in that sense right there, then you may look at Russell Westbrook in a different light. You got to take the bias out of your argument. Stop saying stat padding, because you cannot stat pad an NBA. That's impossible. It's on the other team to stop you. The other team in the NBA don't care if the clock's at zero, if the clock starts or the clock ends. The other team, it's their job to stop you from accumulating those stats in any given category. It's their job. If they allow you to accumulate them stats, that either means you're a highly skilled player or you're playing against a team that should not be in the NBA. Remember, we don't discredit players of the past for getting their triple doubles, regardless of level of competition or regardless of how you want to define who they were playing with or against. Why are we wasting time trying to discredit Russell Westbrook and what he's accomplished? It's something that's great. It's something that we won't ever see duplicated again. It's just time to start respecting greatness. We wasted time disrespecting greatness when Kobe Bryant played. It wasn't until Kobe Bryant passed away that everybody decided to start giving him his flowers and saying that he's in the top 10 and saying that he's this great player. People spent the majority of Kobe's career saying that he wasn't as good as Jordan. He wasn't a great player. He was selfish. People wasted all of Kobe's career complaining about him until he was gone. Let's not wait until the next superstar is gone before we actually start giving them their flowers. Let's just start respecting their game while they're here, while they're playing right now, and there's nothing wrong with that. These players of the past, that's what happens with time. Over time, you're going to get passed up. You're going to get served by even greater players. It happened to the great players of the 70s. All of those players that I named on that list, we no longer talk about them, and nor do you guys even care to talk about them. When I talk about Jerry Lucas, how many of you guys can tell me about the greatness of Jerry Lucas? How many of you guys can you tell me about the greatness of Rick Berry, or Dave Cowens, or Wes Unsell, or George McGinnis? You can't tell me about the greatness about these players because time passed them by. As time passed them by, players from the 80s and 90s usurped those guys because the game got more advanced, got better, faster, stronger. The game advanced past those guys. It doesn't take away from what they did or what they gave to the game. That's just what happened. As the 2000s, 2010s, 2020s are coming upon us, now the same thing is happening to the players of the 80s and the 90s. They're getting usurped, and they're getting passed up by players of this generation. There's nothing wrong with that, and that's just how it goes. Then with the players of this era, over the next 20, 30, and 40 years, these players are going to get usurped and passed up by players who've developed and advanced the game of basketball. It happens with every era. If you're a Jordanite, if you're a 90s fan, your time has come. It's your time to start seeing your stars get passed up and usurped by players of the day. That's just the evolution of the game. I want you guys to let me know what you think about this video. Make sure you like, comment, subscribe. Spam up in the comments, man, your thoughts on Russell Westbrook. Please make sure before you post a comment, try to be a bit more factual in your statements, man. If you're going to say he's stat-padding, at least come up with some facts to back it up. I know a lot of you guys aren't watching Washington Wizards games. You guys weren't watching a lot of OKC games. If you haven't watched every single game, don't tell me he's stat-padding, because according to the numbers, the man has a winning record whenever he gets a triple-double. Not just a winning record, it's like a 75% winning percentage. 136 and I think 45, that's an excellent record. That's an excellent when he gets a triple-double. Come on, man. It's time to stop the cap. You guys got to go do your research. Remember, research purposes only. The merch on the channel, the merch, y'all need to get that merch. Maybe if you wear that merch a little bit more, you won't come into these comments with such bad basketball takes as we saw at the beginning of the video. I dropped that video earlier today, just reminding you guys. You got people like TicketTV running around. He makes bad take after bad take after bad take, but he can psych you guys into believing some of it because he puts that emotion behind it. Emotions aren't facts. Emotions are just to galvanize you, to potentially get you on the side. I just come at you guys with the facts. Whether you like it or whether you hate it, the facts are the facts. Russell Westbrook and Steph Curry are far superior players to a guy like Allen Iverson, who was a great ... He was a great of the 90s, won in the 2000. His talent was limited to merely just being a great scorer. He wasn't a great winner. He wasn't a great leader, but he was a very good player. Outside of that, there's really not much more I can add to Allen Iverson's game. He had a great season in 2001, where he led his team to the NBA finals, where they got gentlemen swept by the Lakers. If you're telling me that the biggest thing that he accomplished in his career was losing in the NBA finals, I think you kind of ethered yourself. Hey, but as FYF Sports, man, make sure you guys spam up in the comments what you think about this video, your thoughts on Russell Westbrook, your thoughts on Steph Curry and the Golden State Warriors potentially making the playoffs. Again, it looks as if they will be in at least the planned tournament. What are your thoughts on all of this stuff? We're also going to be going live tonight, so again, we have an opportunity to even elaborate on this conversation a little bit more tonight in tonight's live stream. Hey, but until we go live on Facebook tonight, and make sure you guys turn your notifications on so you get all of those notifications when we go live, but until then, hey man, it's been another great podcast episode. We'll be back with more sports news and media, but until then, it's FYF Sports. Transcribed by https://otter.ai