Paul Pierce confident in Westbrook’s ‘Mamba Mentality’ | NBA Countdown

Paul Pierce and Chauncey Billups react to Russell Westbrook's recent shooting slump.

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[Aceboogie_]

Chauncey is right that mid range use to be money especially on the fast break he’s running full speed and stops on a dime and pulls up from there

[waynetaylor]

Media be like: (Colin, Nick, Shannon)
Westbrook statline: statpad
LeBron statline: he the goat

[infinitymixtapes]

We really can't appreciate nothing. Westbrook is finally deferring and letting someone else be the primary option but all people wanna talk about is his shooting percentage.

[makis]

"Westbrook plays mean. He plays mean like I did. With an aggression"
-KOBE BRYANT
"Westbrook is probably the most athletic player I've ever played against"
-KOBE BRYANT
"Russell Westbrook, and no offense to Steph Curry, Russell Westbrook is unguardable"
-STEPHEN A.SMITH
"If you don't respect and admire Russell Westbrook there's something wrong with you. Let me tell you something. I've been in this league for 30 years, I've never seen a player give maximum effort every single night besides Westbrook. Even Jordan didn't try as much and he's the GOAT"
-CHARLES BARKLEY
"I don't think any of these guards can beat him in a 1v1 game"
-OSCAR ROBERTSON
Just to show the

[samuelpac]

I appreciate Russ and I think he’s developing the mental aspect of the game now that he’s maturing. But, Russell Westbrook has had a lower level understanding of “Mamba Mentality” and evidently so does the great Paul Pierce.

[ruchpat]

I like Russel Westbrook for the same reason why I liked Michael Jordan, why I liked Kobe Bryant, why I liked Tim Duncan, why I like Blake Griffin, why I liked Billups and that is that clutch mamba mentality -and killer instinct they have

[anandviswanathan]

Mamba mentality is another word for inefficiency.

[staymotivated]

Chauncey is right he just needs to start hitting those pull up mid range jumpers again and just make himself more unpredictable which he will just give it time

[Tehui]

Two seasons ago Westbrook was shooting 85% from the FT line, now he's shooting 63%. Something is amiss with his body.

[smwhtunknown]

He just needs to develop a CONSISTENT jump shot. He’s an elite passer, rebounder, scorer, and sometimes an elite defender, once he becomes an elite SHOOTER, the sky’s the limit for him.

[Qik_Jraw_McRaw]

Thunder play in Western Conference. Cavaliers and Heat played in Eastern Conference. As a result LBJ and his all star buddies have won. Kyrie Irving, Kevin Love, D Wade and Bosh. Russ has had to try to win in the Western Conference with the help of only one Allstar and role players.

Russ would have at least 2 titles if he and Durant played in the East for the first 7 years of there career.

I am not saying Russ is better than LBJ. That is just foolish. Russ just has had less help against better competition. There is no rebuttal. 🤓

[JNramirez]

I'm not even a Russ fan, but he has a strong will. He will be ok.

[daetonaltacho]

“Still averaging a triple double” “
Next sentence
“ how will he get out of this slump ?”

[geeerwin]

I was curious an hour ago about what is Mama Mentality doe hahahaha

He's got mamba mentality but misses alot.

[anandviswanathan]

My issue is that instead of taking 22 attempts to find out u r shooting bad, u could’ve tried driving and opening room for Paul George and other shooters to hit a shot.

[xeon]

Beat way to get out of that slump is to realize that you are barely average driving to the rim. So stop that. Also, you can't shoot 3s and never could, so stop that

[stefanivkov]

You know what would be amazing, if Russ won DPOY and PG13 won MVP this season and they win a chip

[MrWowza]

Mamba mentality didn't Kobe kick your ass in the finals 😂😂😂 even the truth is a lie

[blov]

Thunder need another small piece.. idk what but they need it