Going back to Westbrook, how does one account for what the eye test suggests was his tendency to make bad decisions and take bad shots that from time to time cost his team games? MVP is a regular season award, so maybe it doesn’t matter, but it would seem that in a short series against elite defenders this tendency (assuming I’m correct) could have (and may well have) been a huge negative.
Going back to Westbrook, how does one account for what the eye test suggests was his tendency to make bad decisions and take bad shots that from time to time cost his team games? MVP is a regular season award, so maybe it doesn’t matter, but it would seem that in a short series against elite defenders this tendency (assuming I’m correct) could have (and may well have) been a huge negative.