Russell Westbrook has not gotten off to the storybook start he and the Lakers were surely hoping for and envisioning when he returned to his hometown team, and his frustration with himself is clearly and openly building towards a boiling point.
There was after the team’s second loss to the Oklahoma City Thunder, when Westbrook snapped at Brad Turner of the Los Angeles Times for asking him about his miscues down the stretch — “You saw it. Don’t ask me questions you know the answers to” — as well as the aftermath of the team’s loss to to the Portland Trail Blazers, when Westbrook turned his ire squarely on himself.