And DPOY

Probably either tomorrow or against OKC on Tuesday. They were considering starting him today, but I’m guessing they opted not to because it’s a B2B.

Due to his minutes restriction — which is for the foreseeable future — I think Johnson said their focus is on when best to utilize his allotted minutes. And they don’t want to waste those minutes at the beginning of the game.

So they won’t start him as long as they are keeping him in that 21 - 25 min realm, which there’s a chance that could be for a couple more months.

If they keep winning and this helps him stay healthy for the season and fresher for the playoffs…

Probably when he’s not on any minutes restriction at all.

But also - there’s a not-insignificant argument that starting him on the bench and let him ramp up into the game a bit slower, seems to actually be working pretty well for him, and it’s also probably better w for the guards to try and get a bit more rhythm early on with one less ball dominant guy to share the ball with. It’s pretty similar philosophy to Manu’s career. Just needs Kornet to be able to hold his own defensively.

I think he will definitely get back to starting at some point soonish - I just dont think the Spurs have any reason to rush it.

I mean fuck it, if we keep winning

as soon as the medical staff allows him to play enough minutes that the coaching staff don’t need to plan his 4th quarter minutes in advance

Unfortunately not true, Pritchard cooked him once.

He has to be the league leader in “opponent U-turns per game”

but his durability might leave him with a resume far short of his actual level of play

You mean his load management

At the risk of repeating myself, I think people’s perception of his durability is a bit worse than the reality.

He played ⁷⁰⁄₈₀ games his first year in the league (missed the last 2 due to tanking). Played ⁴⁶⁄₅₂ before the bloodclot last year. This year is this first year he’s actually missed significant time due to injury. And the 4 weeks he missed due to the calf this year was the most time he’d missed since 2022.

As long as the bloodclot is just a one-off (which everything everyone has said points too) he hasn’t yet shown to have particularly concerning durability issues.

You’re confusing his durability with the teams way overly cautious load management of him.

He doesn’t have the night in night out consistently performing at an absurd level to match Joker or SGA

+15 in 26 minutes in a 5 point win is pretty good

I’m borrowing from myself but the Spurs are pulling off some Milton Berle-type shit with the league right now re: Wemby. 

Yeah he needs some of the Embiid/KD middy post up game so he doesn’t use so much energy. He made a couple nice ones tonight

French Vanilla is still a contextual lineup, we tried it against the Warriors twice and they dissected us from the perimeter twice. It’s not a “Warriors lineup of death” that we can roll out against everyone and expect great success, but it works well on some nights against the right teams

Those are the best because those teams actually try to go at him and those are the nights that Vic had a chance to get 10 blocks

20 points a game + best rim protector in history is diabolical.

Like it was easy money

Yeah like BBQ Chicken, Jordan Walsh had a great job defending him in the 1st half.

Most people don’t even watch basketball.

It matters less when comparing two guards, but the amount that Wemby impacts on the defensive end might eclipse Luka’s playmaking on its own

Dude’s been getting ROCKED in the head for several games now.

He’s always been insanely clean.. That and the ability to keep the ball when blocking instead of just spiking it into the stands (not that he doesn’t do that, too,sometimes..) makes him a really unique defensive monster.

It’s his third game back, he played in both games of the back to back before this game