Beverley chides Westbrook's inefficient scoring: 'Men lie, women lie, numbers don't'

Houston Rockets and Oklahoma City Thunder point guards Patrick Beverley and Russell Westbrook don't really get along, and the two had another memorable dustup in Game 5 of their teams' first-round series Tuesday night.

Westbrook finished the game with 47 points, 11 rebounds, and nine assists, but Beverley's Rockets got the last laugh, winning 105-99 to bounce the Thunder from the playoffs.

Beverley was asked after the game about the words he and Westbrook exchanged during their fourth-quarter fracas, and offered up a stinging report.

"It shocked me because he looked up and said, 'No one can guard me, I've got 40 points,'" Beverley recalled. "I'm like, 'That's nice, you took 34 shots to get it.'"

Beverley then tore a page out of Jay-Z's (or, if you prefer, Dion Waiters') book.

"I'm not trying to bash anybody, but, I mean, men lie, women lie, but the numbers don't," he said.

"Collectively, as a unit, we've done a great job on him. We tried to make him hit shoot a lot of tough shots, and the numbers show."

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Indeed, Westbrook took 34 shots in the game (including a playoff-record-tying 18 threes), and turned the ball over seven times in the loss. Though he averaged 37.4 points and a triple-double in the series, he shot under 40 percent from the field and under 30 percent from 3-point range.

Still, if Westbrook's teammates had played better in the minutes he wasn't on the floor, the numbers might've told a different truth. The Thunder outscored the Rockets by 15 points in the 195 minutes Westbrook played in the series. In the 45 minutes he spent on the bench, they were outscored by 58.