Russell Westbrook is known around the league as “Angry Man” and when you have the reputation of being the angry man it’s easy to get your buttons pushed. Well playas…Angry Man got his buttons pushed against Golden State on Thursday night and got ejected during the Houston Rockets’ 135-105 win over the dull Warriors.
Side Note: It’s funny calling the Warriors dull again because they’ve been running through the league for the past several years beating the brakes off of boyz. I had to say that. Now let’s move on.
Young Russ picked up his second technical foul with 6:04 left in the fourth for bumping guard Damion Lee and then having words with duns on the Warriors bench. He’d already picked up his first technical in the first quarter for arguing a foul.
However, what was so funny was that ole boy gave the longest explanation in trying to justify his actions only to say that he’s got to hold himself to a higher standard. Now either you were wrong in acting a fool or you were justified in acting a fool? We don’t care which one you think you are but pick one playa. It’s like Birdman on the Breakfast Club, “Are y’all finish or are y’all done?”
Check this foolishness out. He starts with:
“I think it’s a situation where I hold myself to a very, very high standard. I think the refs, the fans, media, the NBA [is] put in a position now where I’m not really allowed to do much. Obviously, I’m an emotional guy, but if you watched the clip, obviously, I hit Lee, but it wasn’t on purpose. I’m going to the glass, he got hit, he said something to me, I said something to him. I’m standing there, a guy [Juan Toscano-Anderson] came and snatched the ball out of my hands. Guys come running up to me, I didn’t move, but I’m always the one that gets painted to be the bad guy in the whole situation.”
So then he says that the refs told him to back away from the situation but the Warriors kept talking mess to him. Of course playa, everybody knows to continue to throw flames on the fire. You’re known as Angry Man around the league. That was a layup to get to your second technical.
He goes on to say in the longest explanation known to man, “I turned around and said, ‘What did you say?’ So now everybody’s running over to me, then I’m walking towards the thing, then [Kevon] Looney steps in front of me, so I feel like I’m in a position [where people think], ‘Oh well, Russ is being Russ,’ which nobody knows what that means.“
“But I got to do a better job of holding myself accountable to a very, very high standard. And I’ll make sure I leave no room for error to allow somebody and people paint me out to be a guy that I’m not. I just think it’s unfair that after all that, I’m the only one that gets a tech or kicked out. That’s not fair. I don’t care what nobody says. It’s so many other people involved in it that are doing so many things that weren’t OK, but I’m the one that gets the tech, gets ejected, and then everybody else is cool, and goes back and play. But like I said, I take responsibility for that and I hold myself to a very high standard of which I’ll uphold.”
Yo Russ, all of that explaining isn’t necessary bruh. You won the game and the technical with the ejection doesn’t mean all that much if you’re going to do better right? Just play the game and stop being so darn angry because you’re just setting yourself up for boyz to push your buttons. Stop me when I start lyin’!
