3 Reasons Rockets’ Russell Westbrook deserved Player of the Month

2. Wins Department

Russell Westbrook led the Rockets to a 7-1 record in the eight games he played, which is good for 87.5 percent. What’s impressive about this is that six of the eight games were against playoff opponents, which is important to point out.

Compare that with LeBron James, who led the Lakers to a 9-2 record, which was an 81.8 percent win percentage. Russ obviously had a higher win percentage that LeBron, which shouldn’t be ignored.

On top of that, the Lakers had a much easier schedule, as five of the 11 games were against non-playoff teams. In fact, both of the games they lost were against playoff teams and one of them was against the Houston Rockets.

During that game, Russ outplayed LeBron, as he was too dominant of a force for the Lakers to stop. In fact, Russ was the leading scorer in that game and had 41 points compared to LeBron’s 18, in spite of the Lakers throwing their best defender in Anthony Davis on him all game.

Russ had more than twice as many points as LBJ when they played head-to-head and had a true shooting percentage of 65 percent compared to LBJ’s 46.3 percent. So not only did Russ have a higher win percentage against a much tougher schedule, but he also immensely outplayed LeBron head-to-head.

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