Lakers News: A Very Fashionable Russell Westbrook Breaks Down Two Buzzer-Beating Treys
The postgame atmosphere following your Los Angeles Lakers' dominant 128-109 blowout of the visiting Portland Trail Blazers on Wednesday night was fairly buoyant, as could be seen by both the cool-as-a-cucumber comportment and the fashion choices of $47.1 million backup point guard Russell Westbrook.
Note his excellent hat/shirt/shades combo. The man has always been a fashion pate, and he remains impossibly bold and slick in that department last night while chatting with gathered media members.
During his postgame remarks, Westbrook noted that he "definitely, for sure" felt that his two buzzer-beating deep triples, at the end of the game's second and third quarters, helped motivate L.A. to go on its subsequent runs at the start of the next periods (i.e. the third and fourth quarters, respectively).
Westbrook, never an amazing shooter from long range, connecting on a less-than-great 31.7% of his 4.3 three-pointers a night for L.A.
He has overall performed significantly better this season as a reserve, away from Los Angeles All-Star forward LeBron James for large portions of the game.
Across his 16 bench games for the Lakers thus far in 2022-23, the 15-year NBA vet is averaging 15.9 points on 41.8% field goal shooting (including a shockingly competent 35.7% of his 4.4 triples), 7.7 assists, 4.9 rebounds, and 0.9 steals per night. Los Angeles has posted an 8-8 record in those games (i.e. it lost every game he started or was injured during).
The Lakers very much needed to secure last night's win against a Portland team missing its top player, six-time All-Star point guard Damian Lillard. In his 22:54 of game action against the Trail Blazers, Westbrook shot just 4-of-14 from the field (2-of-6 from deep) for a total of 10 points, grabbed five assists (vs. just one turnover!), passed for four assists, and grabbed a steal.
