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Mychal Thompson Sees Russell Westbrook Bouncing Back And Proving The Haters Wrong Next Season

The Russell Westbrook experiment didn’t go down as expected for the Los Angeles Lakers in this past season, which had ultimately led to a bunch of trade rumors and speculations surrounding the veteran NBA point guard.

Westbrook averaged 18.5 points, 7.4 rebounds and 7.1 assists per game on 44.4% shooting from the field in his first year with the Lakers. While he could still put up numbers, Westbrook’s fit with the team has been such a major concern that many fans are pushing for him to get traded.

The Los Angeles Lakers in general were a massive disappointment this past season, missing the NBA playoffs with a record of 33 wins and 49 losses. While the Lakers showed a ton of problems, many fans and basketball pundits believe that Russell Westbrook was the main reason the team underachieved.

Darvin Ham, who is the new head coach of the team however, is more than excited to coach Westbrook this coming season. And he’s not the only one who has high hopes on the star point guard.

Lakers legend Mychal Thompson now revealed that he sees Russell Westbrook bouncing back for the Lakers this season, just to prove all the doubters out there wrong.

“Russ has a lot of pride,” Thompson said. “He didn’t have his best year last year, and he knows a lot of people are blaming him wrongly for the Lakers failures. But I think Russ is going to come in with the right attitude to prove everybody wrong.”

“Darvin Ham, the man’s got a lot of respect from everybody, and he’s a guy who’s not afraid to speak his mind, and I think players like Russell Westbrook and AD and LeBron respect that.

“When you have a strong personality like Darvin Ham. And I think Russell Westbrook is going to fall in line and come back and have a strong season, just to prove all the doubters out there wrong.”

“He knows a lot of people are blaming him wrongly for the Lakers failures.”

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— SiriusXM NBA Radio (@SiriusXMNBA) August 16, 2022