Russell Westbrook has never been a specialist is triple. In fact, toSome analysts consider it the weakest part of your game. Its offensive qualities are indisputable, but its unreliability from triple It has prevented him from settling in the Olympus of the NBA. Extra something his signing for the Lakers (worst 3-point team in the entire NBA last season), but he was the only star within range.
The percentage of triples of Westbrook this season is bad (26.3%), but it’s still better than a handful of NBA stars like the one credited Luka Doncic (25.4%), Trae Young (25.5%), Bradley Beal (24.5%) or an unknown Damian Lillard (23.4%), disappointing from the perimeter at the start of the season. In the last game of himThe Lakers against the Thunder Westbrook hit 50% of their triples (3-6), but his success was not enough and cometi a serious error in the last moments it cost the Angelenos the victory.
The Lakers will be at least a week without LeBron James, with a muscle injury to the abdominals, and Westbrook is bound to step forward so that its absence is noticed as little as possible. For that they signed him and in fact it is the third star of the team after King James and Anthony Davis.
The Lakers will hope that that improvement in the triples that he exhibited against the Thunder is a first step of his improvement from that distance. It will never be Curry, but whatever exceed 30% of correctness be welcome by the Californian franchise.
