OKC Thunder season review: Analyzing Russell Westbrook’s complicated season

The “shot”

Russ, in his 10th season at age 30, might’ve produced one of the worst seasons we’ve seen from a supposed “star” player. He was easily the worst high-volume scorer in the league this year, scoring 22.9 points per game and posting a 50.1 true shooting percentage – a feat that’s almost impressively bad.

To make matters worse, he was below average in all but one play-type category in NBA.com’s database with the one exception coming as ‘Cuts’ which made up 1.5 percent of his profile. There were long stretches of the season where he became a parody of every flaw people saw in his game.

Despite being one of the worst of all-time at it, he took pull-up three’s in transition that rarely went in for little to no reason. He’d take drives into the lane where he was so out of control that it felt like even he didn’t know what he was doing. He’d pass up open catch-and-shoot three’s to back his man into the mid-post and shoot a bad 15-footer. And in close games, it didn’t matter if he’d missed two shots or 20; he was going to take a shot and it was probably going to be bad.