im not hung up on anything. im just saying thats a flaw with westbrook. players who are better than him have to sacrifice their games to make it work.

and how exactly have you determined that better players have had to “sacrifice their game”?

it would be like if d wade relegated bron to a 2nd option with miami instead of the other way around. its just not ideal

no, it wouldn’t be like that. i don’t think the spirit of piper’s point would be to say that harden will be the 2nd option (yes i realizes he uses the term “2nd role”). But in the overall context of the clip, Pippen is just saying Harden won’t be PG and running the offense. he’ll still be the #1 scoring option.