[Highlight] Karl-Anthony Towns tries to post up Russell Westbrook
He takes hate but I love Russ. Not too many guards doing that.
Great player, plays with passion, very entertaining to watch.
Every 3 he takes is an adventure.
You just never know if it’s in Narnia, or the Normandy on D-Day.
Only player in NBA history to shoot 20% on wide open 3s and 50% on deep or contested 3s. I have no idea of this stat is real, but real in my heart.
He’s lowkey still a beast in 2k too, they didn’t drop his speed.
Russ is also hyper athletic too
But can he make a mean ham sandwich though?
I don’t think we’ll ever know how tall he is though.
Got his card in myteam and dont need anything else
any player whose iq is their weakness seems better in 2k bc you can play smart with them
Great point.
All those athletic guys that can shoot well in the midrange became goated because of this. Not that all these guys had a low IQ rating, but these guys could go to to toe with anyone: JR, Shump, Iguodala, Green, Rudy Gay, Jeff Green, etc
Dude I know.. I fuck with Russ. Russ actually fucking cares
Let Jeff Teague tell it. story about Teague’s interaction with Westbrook. Lol
THATS THE PROBLEM!!!!
This pops up in my head anytime someone says they don’t care about something. 😂 Teague/Westrbook rent free in my head.
Lmao
You mean Jet? Lmao
Jeff Teague is a great storyteller
I swear some ppl in this sub used to comment to me why are you posting his shit, I didn’t understand them, he’s funny af
I’m bout to trip him had me rolling
Until he doesn’t and he’s pouting and behind the play. Fake hustle and scowl. People love the fake hustle and scowling.
Ok ok
He’s straight up fouling the shit out of towns
My immediate first reaction. This is about 3 immediate fouls on Russ.
I mean yeah, he spent most of his career in OKC. That’s how they play D.
I mean Kat is allowed to use his forearm for post position I think Russ is allowed to be as physical on the defensive end.
What fouling? 😂this is a foul clear as day. The man is actively using he forearm to push this man. I fuck with Russ but we can’t endorse this.
Nah it’s bodying for position. It just looks worse because the 7 footer is too weak to get to his spot against a guard
Kat also trying to use his forearm to help back down but can’t move Russ
Yeah looks like he’s flopping lmao
OMGAUD
Fuck I could hear it as I read it lol
The nba lets people get mauled on the inside but touch someone on the perimeter and it’s 2 FTs.
Westbrook Grabs Towns’ shoulder and puts two hands on him which is an automatic foul when you’re posting up
This is absolutely correct. It’s sad that fans of the game don’t know enough about it to know what’s a foul vs not a foul.
Guys use a forearm on guys backing them down constantly. Probably because it’s legal.
This is an example of legal contact by a post defender. The post defender, Robin Lopez, places one hand with a bent elbow and one forearm onto the back of Nikola Jokic, the offensive player with the ball and his back to the basket. This contact remains legal as long as the defender continues to maintain his legally obtained position.
the issue is when he uses 2 hands to push him. But I love the condescending laugh and it’s clear as day comment while citing something that the rule book specifically says is legal.
You’re citing the rule verbatim as if this is what is happening in this video. ITS NOT. Russ is pushing him, not simply placing a bent elbow or forearm onto his back. It’s a foul.
I love that man, too. I wasn’t thrilled about his signing, but he was key to the nuggets season. I am a ride or die now.
There’s Jason Kidd and Westbrook and I can’t think of any other point guards.
One of the most entertaining primes ever as well, dude was insane
He takes criticism
He’s from a different era that’s why
Great to observe on another teams
When he was a Laker, Russ got a stop on Prime Embiid. I think it was the game where he got fouled on a game winning attempt and it wasn’t called. Westbrook is strong as shit, regardless of his size and age.
Lakers Westbrook yammed it on Gobert too
its funny Lakers/Lebron fans said Westbrook lost his finishing ability but his FG% at the rim on the Lakers was higher than his OKC career
Lakers: 62.3% at the rim
OKC: 58.8% at the rim
Being 1st option vs N-th though.
Holy shit this is amazing.
Haha breh I don’t even know who the fuck Russell Westbrook is and this guy layin NBA stats down on reddit
Bro he was shit.. multiple games wit 1⁄11, 1⁄12 shooting
Westbrook is strong as shit. Backing him down is gonna be extremely difficult if he’s putting his effort in.
That being said, he sucks on defense for his physical gifts. One possession doesn’t change that.
Pretty bad off ball defender and often ball watches, but he is elite at denying and fronting in the post
He’s elite at playing the defense he wants to.
Favorite Russ memory last year was the multiple strips and defensive stops on Wemby when Spurs played Nuggets back to back.
Compilation
If russ have no fans, it means ive died.
There were a couple of month where he looked really happy playing with Jokic and it was a joy to watch.
insert kat and demarcus cousins pic
At least KAT actually scored on that possession.
< insert veiled homophobic comment here >
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Russ getting revenge on KAT saying his shot went out the window when Russ was on the Lakers and airballed
Don’t forget Kat Randle pic
Those are fouls right? Hes just two hand shoving his upper back lol
As a guard, you’re allowed to legally tackle big men in the post
Reminds me of Caruso on Jokic.
Feel like the last one was for sure a foul, but you can get away with more on a 7 footer
The 7 footer was also carrying with every dribble, so it evens out
Was just about to say this, KAT gets some deserved criticism, but blatant foul to two fouls there for me. Bigger guys don’t get those calls without a good flop though. Used to happen to Shaq a lot. Happens to Bron a bit on drives too. Wemby was getting a bit of that from OKC as well.
This is also why he’s so inconsistent on offense. He’s clearly getting hacked by Westbrook here by the refs aren’t calling it. Then the next time he tries to take advantage of the mismatch he gets called for an offensive foul and everyone clowns him for not being able to score on someone smaller.
KAT does play clumsy but he genuinely gets one of the worst whistles in the league on both ends of the floor
unironically might need to whine more
He’s not clumsy at all, he mastered the art of the drunk master. Those elbows and knees always land exactly where he wants them.
Yeah but it also happens every game. Most possessions probably have a foul if you go back and watch it tbh
Yes and if the refs called them and changed the game then we’d have a better viewing experience. Or change the rules and allow whatever. But this refs get to be vague cuz they can’t call all the fouls is bullshit.
No no no, according to folks here, that rule doesn’t exist and KAT is just weak
Less egregious than the 3 carries
I was thinking the same thing, as a non basketball fan, this just confirms my belief that, in basketball, essentially every play is a foul, just depends if the referee decides to call it.
I ref youth and it’s wild at that level. Some teams are just wacky inflatable men and we could spend all night blowing the whistle until both teams are out of players. Then you got half them no matter what they do are on the ground, complete a pass and on the ground, brick a lay up and on the ground and we’re supposed to be looking out for flopping but then again some games 8 kids are spending quality time with the floor for no reason. Over last few years I’ve just come to accept reffing is hard and probably harder yet in the NBA.
Guards get to do that to bigs look at the size difference.
Brodie is a beast. His physicality has always set him apart
This is less about KAT and more about Russ just being really fucking strong, I remember a clip earlier this season where he hard fouled Giannis to the point where he couldn’t move
Edit: clip
I mean this is also a foul multiple times. its crazy how much contact you can get away with in the post but the slightest bit of contact on the perimeter is a foul
Giannis did overpower Russ that one time tho
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YLkWQKOBhvY&pp=ygUOV2VzdGJyb29rIG5lbmXSBwkJfAoBhyohjO8%3D
Russ also threw all of his weight into a shove on Nene and barely budged him. KAT is just not that strong and has a high center of gravity
It’s less about Russ being strong and more about the refs letting him foul the shit out of KAT lol. You still have to be super strong even for an NBA to do this though
Different kind of clamps. Giannis wasn’t doing shit there.
KAT over the years was pretty notoriously bad at posting up people though. Never made any sense.
How’s that not a foul on Russ?
This was literally every post play in the 80s and 90s
Lmao sigh
tbf, there’s a lot of fouling on russ’s part.
It’s really just one spot where he two hand shoves. One other spot is close and I can’t tell. It’s a foul, but I wouldn’t say a lot of fouling.
Obvious foul for anyone other than KAT
These are clear fouls to be honest.
Point guards get to shove TF out of centers when getting posted up. Y’all didn’t know that? 😂
foul? hello?
If KAT didn’t have the rep he has, that’d be a foul
year 18 baby, on a side note i need to see russ play for okc one more time…even though people on the okc sub think that it would waste a roster spot…we waive someone like ous
I’m sure we’d take a gamble on someone like Ous. Lord knows we’re not winning anything any time soon and our young talent cupboard is bare.
Man it would be nice to see him back on OKC. Maybe he could play a mentor role & be a spark plug off the bench for a few minutes.
Those are fouls. But the homophobes will resort to calling KAT soft.
Wait do people say homophobic things about KAT? Or are you saying that calling him soft is homophobic?
Defense gets a lot easier when you don’t play by the rules and two hand shove the guy in the back a few times.
this gotta be worse than the cousins, how you letting a 6’3 guard do this to you
Cuz it’s KAT that’s how
You don’t body someone like Russ. You shoot over him. KAT got to hit spot, I don’t get why he puts it on the floor there.
That’s a clear foul according to the NBA rulebook
what’s the use of a rulebook if the refs don’t follow it?
He’s fouling him but the refs dislike KAT
Reminds me of this
Knicks fans softer than KAT
Not to many players have the passion Russ plays with
If im seeing it right kat keeps tryna do a push off but russ just keeps redirecting his arm so he loses balance right? Like a foul on foul territory so nothing gets called?
Russ is strong as an ox. And KAT better facing the basket than behind it.
Immediately knew this was gonna get clipped lol
I hate how they let guards foul the shit out of bigs in the post. As soon as Westbrook put two hands on Towns, it should’ve been a foul. Westbrook straight up grabs Towns shoulder lol idk why people are praising Westbrook for blatantly fouling
Russ is obviously one of the stronger guards in the league (and probably got away with a foul there), but KAT just makes everything on the court look like the most strenuous activity ever.
Never forget this guy played PF in the Pocket Rockets era.
He fouls him multiple times this is not impressive defense you guys just hate KAT.
Embiid would’ve gotten like 6 free throws on this play
Yes, KAT was fouled. Yes, this did look funny.
Russ coulda been a lockdown defender in his prime if he put in the effort
I mean not a big fan of kat but how is throwing both forearms the same time to an offensive player with the ball not a foul lol.
Fouls are always okay as long its the smaller guy.
Low man wins and Russ got sturdy there
Russell Westbrook was fouling Karl Anthony towns! Why is this blowing up as a big thing against kat. This just goes to show that whenever a smaller guy guards a bigger guy he can get away with anything.
Two thoughts, Russ is an all WORLD athlete with great leverage, so physics. Second that’s probably a foul if he weren’t a guard/smaller player.
Clear foul but ok
KAT is so bad built. His high center of gravity means he just sucks at posting people up. He needs to learn how to do hook shots cause that’s all he’s really gonna get
I mean tbh it’s hard to use your strength against someone must smaller than you. Try it against a lil kid and you have make sure you don’t run em over or foul em. Must easier to just ram into someone your own size
Remember when people used to say Russ didn’t play defense
Why does KAT look so uncoordinated
Is jokic the only big man with post game?
flat out pushes him over
“Omg he’s so strong!”
Russ has always been pound for pound one of the strongest players in the league
All he did was stand his ground.
I’ll be the old head… WHY IS HE POSTING SO FAR AWAY FROM THE BLOCK?!
nbacj 12⁄25
It’s a foul on Russ but the way kat was just limping to the side, as I ref I would have called it if kat actually tried to get an advantage, but being man handled like that and not do shit about it i wouldn’t have called it either.
Pound for pound, he’s probably the strongest player to ever play the game. Maybe with the exception of a certain Kiwi.
Russ tried this a couple weeks ago against Luka. Didn’t go quite as well lol. Luka and Russ appear to be chuckling a bit on the way down the floor.
Timestamp 5:10 in case the link doesn’t work for you.
https://youtu.be/aDVG791mrcg?t=311
Kat bro this is so embarrassing 😂
This is why size isn’t everything Russ just turns defense into a personal challenge
This is why size isn’t everything. Russ just turns defense into a personal challenge
After all thaaaat?
That’s not a mismatch that’s just Russ taking it personally
Hey look, Westbrook has cooled off considerably, averaging just 12.0 points on 33.3 percent from the field in his last two appearances after a hot stretch of six games, averaging 22.5 points on 53.2 percent from the field and 3.0 threes on a 41.9 clip
Lmao dude is a beast
Russ > CP3 i dont understan why ppl think the opposite.
Kat is such a bitch
He tried doing that to a washed Tyson Chandler. Same effect.
KAT didn’t get anywhere near the rim, after all thaaat?
Hey, I don’t understand why, but every single streamable link in this nba sub is just Macron speaking at Davos for me. I honestly thought y’all were messing around.
Get your weight up young blood!
Stop skipping leg day Kat.
You can take Julius Randle out of New York, but the next dubious handles arrives just the same. That was a vintage Julius Randle possession from KAT right there
This is like that aura vid with Naz and Podz earlier. completely unforced error
If KAT has no haters, I’m dead.
Why do you hate him?
No Heart Anthony
After all that?
This is really embarrassing.
Yikes
Soft as charmin
He gets so much hate now but I still love him, win or lose, hate or not, I think he still gives his all on the court and it’s something I can appreciate. I was always sad he didn’t work out on the lakers
lb for lb russ is one of the strongest guys in the nba. Dude is a tank.
You’re a soldier, Brodie
Wanted him so bad for the Knicks last offseason
Russ don’t give af
Kat c’mon bro
We’re gonna be seeing this clip and pics of it for the next 5 years or so aren’t we
Jimmy was right!
Cmon man
Lol
Embarrassing 💅
Shaq gonna call him out
Solid.
Lmao no fucking way
Draymond was right about KAT . Hopping like pony 🐎
OhMaiGaHhHH!
#wwwWWHA-T?!
Charmin
I’m just here to see all the “NBA is unwatchable because of all the foul calls” people also upvoting every comment complaining this was a foul.
KAT Bruh has a career highlight of getting bullied in the post lmfao
Towns tall but his ass weak.