G7 made 0 mistakes in halftime! Beverly Hantto Westbrook: Let him go, he will fight harder than anyone else!

These two people used to be enemies who had been tying each other when they met. When Westbrook was still the boss of the Thunder, Beverly's flying pounce defense directly injured Westbrook's knee, causing him to reimburse the season, which was a feud. Later, Westbrook directly started to criticize: "Beverly will run around and can't defend against anyone at all!" Beverly was not timid either. In 2022, Westbrook played badly in the Lakers, so he directly nicknamed him "Bankrupt Magician". But unexpectedly, these two thorns later went to the Lakers to be teammates! Although they were still quarrels over tactical quarrels at the beginning (such as squirting each other in preseason), the relationship eased down when training and competitions were carried out every day. Beverly later said on the show: "We have long stopped holding grudges." On May 4, the NBA playoffs first round, Westbrook played 7 in the first round, scored 14 minutes in the first half, scoring 10 points, 2 rebounds, 3 assists, and 2 steals, and made 0 mistakes. This time, Beverly suddenly stood up and talked for Westbrook, "regardless of winning or losing in this game, we should agree with the slander of Westbrook. He really gave his all on the court."

Last year, Westbrook came to the Clippers with a basic salary, and went from a superstar with an annual salary of 40 million to a veteran on the bench. This gap is big enough. The regular season data looks OK - averaging 11 points, 5 rebounds and 4 assists per game, but the three-pointer was deadly, with a 27% shooting percentage like a closed eye. It was even worse in the playoffs, with a shooting percentage dropping to 26%, and an average of only 6 points per game. It's so strange, the coaching staff always likes to use him. Why? This guy is really working hard! In one game this year's playoffs, teammates were completely silent. He scored 23 points, 7 rebounds and 7 assists alone, and he had steals and blocks on the defensive end. Some fans have calculated that as long as he plays for less than 20 minutes, the team can win points. But the online trolls don’t care about these things, and they say “Westbrook loses points when he comes on the court.” It’s like although your total score is not high in the exam, the paper is full of writing, so the teacher has to give some hard work, right?

If you want to say that Beverly is righteous this time, he will have some intention of rehabilitating himself. When they were teammates at the Lakers last year, the team lost all their underwear, and the whole of Los Angeles was on the head of these two defenders. Beverly said in anger at the time: "The Lakers treat me as a fork, but I'm obviously a spoon for drinking soup!" Later, he went to the 76ers to play the main force, but Westbrook was not welcomed in the Clippers. Now Beverly said this, he was very brotherly, but he secretly wanted to say, "Whoever came from the Lakers' broken lineup was useless!" Besides, these two players started with life-long defense. Now the league always compares the three-point shooting percentage and real positive and negative value. They are like working dirty and tiring jobs, just like working bricks on the construction site and meeting white-collar workers in office buildings - no matter how hard you work, they think you are rusty.

Westbrook was so glorious when he first came to the Clippers last year. The opening game gave away 13 assists, plus or minus value +30. The media said, "That triple-double man is back." As a result, as soon as Harden came, Westbrook went straight to the coach and said, "Let me play as a substitute." This time, his playing time was from 30 minutes to 19 minutes, and all the ball was given to the young man. In the playoffs, he became a defensive engineer, and he was more active in grabbing rebounds than scoring. The data is ugly, but the team's chemistry is better. Some experts say this is called "the wisdom of a veteran", just like a restaurant chef is willing to cut vegetables to make the whole table more fragrant. But some fans didn't buy it: "Can you just need to just sit down if you get a basic salary?" I asked me to say that it seemed like a demotion, but in fact the situation was opened.

Regarding Westbrook's argument, people who supported him said, "Look at how he must fight every goal, his eyes are glaring out when defending. Can this passionate data be reflected?" The person who blackened him turned up old accounts: "Last year, he played the Suns with a critical battle, and made a fatal mistake in 3 of 18 shots," Beverly became a peacemaker this time, and his meaning was very clear: "Let's not just look at the data, but also see how hard they work!" But there is one thing that is indeed a double standard - when Westbrook got 47 million in the Lakers, he played badly; now he gets a basic salary of 3 million, and the same performance is the case, and some people say "what is the bicycle you want."

These two brothers are almost 35 years old and are considered elderly workers in the NBA. Westbrook has not won the championship yet. He has been traded four or five times in recent years. At the worst, even a small team like the Jazz doesn't want him. Beverly is even worse. He has changed seven teams in ten years. Now Beverly speaks for Westbrook, just like two middle-aged uncles expressing their hearts at the dinner table: "Brother, our efforts in this life cannot be in vain!" They play basketball now like ordinary people at work - it doesn't matter whether they are money or not, they just want to prove that they are useful. If Westbrook could really get a ring in the Clippers this year, the story would be wonderful: from the "triple-double king" who swipes data to the "champion puzzle". What Beverly said now might be writing the beginning of the old guy's counterattack story?