It's disgusting that so many in the media and the rest of the sports "enthusiasts" excoriate a young man after he had one bad game. If this is so important in a negative way for so many people, I'd have to say to these immature, souless harpies, "Get a life." Leave the poor kid alone.

Really, Cowboy? 40 points in 50 minutes. Maybe you should go for a try out.

KD has a long term contract. I don't know if RW does. If he doesn't then he will eventually be a restricted free agent and if not signed by the Thunder will become a free agent. So what will his detractors say at that time?

"We need a real point guard. Let him move on."

or

"You know, the guy's sometimes hard to watch, but he's pretty good too. Let's keep what we have and not take a chance on someone better, or someone worse. He's a big reason why we're where we are."

I bet lots of other teams would love to have him.

Cowboy88: Surely you are joking about thinking you could even step on an NBA floor and score 1 point, let alone 40. Youre probably the guy who sees a PGA player have a bad day and shoots 76 and say 'shoot, I shot 76 at La Fortune last weekend, I could beat that guy.' What a fool. By the way Pick, not all of us lost our mind about Westbrook...Ive though he was our best all-around player all year and im in the minority on that opinion.

Cowboy88 are you really Gretchen Wyler?

When you are 22 years' old you still have a wealth of knowledge to attain....

To have people give up on you when you are 22 is a sad telling statement on the people who toss you aside rather than on the 22 year old....

How does anyone know someone else has a terrible attitude unless they know them personally ????

When I see a 22 year old with the flashy athletic ability that Westbrook has, I'm gonna take the opportunity to give him the TIME to LEARN his craft, because with him on my side at THIS TIME with his shortcomings, he has the THUNDER in position to compete for the NBA title....

Just think what he will do when he expands his game.... and if you don't think he will then that's OK because obviously that's the lessons you failed at & because of your failure, what you learned is what you believe....

Most of the good NBA guards look like they're playing pinball, smallish guys getting banged around in there. Westbrook is big and tough and can take it. One point is, his style of play got the Thunder where it is. He didn't suddenly change. So he had a bad game. Or two. So what. Another point is, the media that has overnight gone from OU expert to NBA expert is a joke on both subjects. Do you ever listen to their picks? Can't pick, can't have credibility.

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Rajon Rondo obviously doesn't have a problem getting banged up. Chris Paul? Nope. Westbrook looks like a skinny Byron Eaton, forcing his way down the lane and throwing up a prayer.

You're exactly right, "his style of play got the Thunder where it is." Digging out of a hole against the Grizzlies, of all teams. Even if they manage get out of this series alive they don't have a chance against the Mavs. They got lucky they only had to play the Denver No-Melos in the first round. I would say that leading the league and turnovers and one of the worst A:TO ratios of all PGs isn't just one or two bad games. I would call that an underperformed season.

Westbrook is still playing because he has the four best support staff to clean up his mistakes.

The Puddles that beat the Thunder twice this year? The Puddles that beat the Thunder in the playoffs last year? Oh yeah, those guys.

Yeah I bought two Tulsa World subscriptions so I could have two different personas on here. You caught me.

So if I'm GW, you must be snoop. Nice try straying away from the topic of this article snoop.