By Dionysis Aravantinos / info@eurohoops.net
Scoring, individual performances, including Devin Booker’s 70 point game, three-point shots (Stephen Curry’s 13 made three-pointers), three-point attempts (JR Smith’s 22 attempted three-point field goals record), triple-doubles (Westbrook’s 42 in a single season) and more shots night in and night out have changed the NBA. The game is becoming faster, with more possessions, transition game basketball, and free-throws.
Last year, however, Russell Westbrook shocked the world as he finished the season setting an NBA single-season triple-double record with 42 and averaging a triple-double for the season, becoming just the second player to do just that after Oscar Robertson had done it back in the 1960s.
Point guards are scoring and rebounding the basketball while also handing out assists making plays for their teammates, as forwards use their size and height to facilitate the offense over the defenders but also rebound and score the basketball.
Just some hours after Ben Simmons put up 18 points, 10 assists and 9 rebounds against the Lakers, Eurohoops presents you the players who could replicate what Westbrook did last season and average a triple-double for an entire season.