Russell Westbrook is a creature of habit in the most extreme sense. His routines have routines, such as yawning after "twilight's last gleaming" during every national anthem, setting up pregame layup lines at precisely the same moment before each game, or eating the same pregame meal -- peanut butter and jelly, sliced diagonally.
For Westbrook, the details matter. Throw one routine off and it can disrupt the entire cadence. Case in point: Westbrook's puzzling struggles at the stripe.
An 82.3 percent free throw shooter the first nine years of his career, Westbrook sits at 62.