theres just not enough ppl in the league that can guard him without massive amounts of help. like wat is grant williams and moose supposed to do?

one of the reasons i really hope we can get bam/ware pairing to work cuz its one of the few times ive seen a frontcourt be effective defending him

He just wants to play ball. I would if I was this gifted 

I kept thinking “Wow, he must still be fatigued, he looks a bit off and his shots aren’t falling.” Then I’d look at the box score and WTF…

No that can’t be true ! He is an average offensive player !

Thats why hes MVP in my eyes. Even when he doesnt put an amazing offensive statline up he has giga impact on defense.

On a per minute basis Wemby is top 5 scorers in the league this season, tied with Jokic, Brown, Ant, and Mitchell. All this on top of his ridiculous defence. The only thing holding him back from consensus GOAT would be health and availability

Because he’s top 5 two way players in the NBA

Dudes averaging like 17/7/5 as the 3rd option while also giving all defensive team level play on the other end, as a SOPHOMORE

He’s very quiet as a person.

But yeah, should have been the number 1 overall.

He’d be going for 25/8/8 as a primary option imo

As a Spurs fan, that’s surprising to me. He’s widely known as a top perimeter defender in the NBA, especially after locking up SGA this season in a prime time matchup. I’ve even been hearing since last season ppl say he might end up as the best player in his draft class. I heard buzz about him as all star replacement instead of Fox this season too. He won ROTY, and he has a nickname combo with the face of the NBA.

When I see ppl talk about the Spurs young core, its always Wemby/Castle/Harper in that order.

He’s getting overshadowed in the all defense team talks.. like Wemby is obv dppy if he plays enough games but he’s not the only reason the team is a defensive juggernaut

Bro castle has been making life miserable for other teams superstars. Bro is so fun to watch play

It’s San Antonio

I wish they talked about how much better castle is than fox and how Harper is better than fox right now as well. I also wish they talked about how much fox makes and will make next year.

I hope someone takes Fox in the expansion draft.

I think Wemby matches well against traditional bigs like the flat foot 5s (except Gobert), but you send someone like OG anunoby, evan mobley, scottie barnes or draymond green someone quick enough and whose lower body is strong enough, he is gonna get bothered off his dribble. I mean ive seen Herb Jones able to defend wemby’s post-up effectively at some points (not all the time since wemby can just shoot over him).

Jacob Poetl seems to have guarded him well recent game between spurs and raptors. Bam adebayo too (at least better than Kel’el Ware).

Our last matchup was like a month and a half ago lol

I think it’s mainly because he had yesterday off lol

Surprised he stayed in so long

11 total.

Yeh that’s true, just an all around great performance from Wemby once again.

See it all the time on X and a bit on reddit as well..

I think it’s a stupid take myself, even if he only averages 3 assist a game for his career (which is unlikely and will keep going up). Every other aspect of his game is enough to get him mvps in the future in my opinion.

People were saying a lot of dumb shit about Wemby lol

Like how he was a bust after 1 summer league game, he won’t be able to shoot a 3 because his 3pt% sucked in the French league, etc etc

Oh sorry, forgot that just because shiv101 on reddit has never seen it, it means it’s never been said before.

Just because you haven’t seen it, doesn’t mean it’s a false narrative and has never been said before.

I’ve seen plenty of people bashing his assist numbers compared to Joker

He’s already there, and it’ll be consensus come playoffs. He’s not at his peak but that doesn’t mean he’s not on that level

The numbers don’t show it because he sits when spurs get a considerable lead. When he has games like the pistons game where they need him, he puts up ridiculous stats.

I mean top 1 is in play with health

Dude, if he just plays at his current level for 10 years he’ll be a top 10 player of all time.

A bit unfair to lump Jokic together with Shai’s defense, but I get what you’re saying.

where tf have you got 80-90% from lmaoo, he’s averaging 74% of SGA’s ppg, 44% of his assists and 123% of his turnovers, his on/off on offense is 3 times lower, his efficiency is way lower despite being 7’5, and i won’t even talk about Jokic’s offensive ability because we both know you just be yapping at this point

I think if MVP wasn’t so unambiguously just the “OPOY - Offensive player of the year” award he’d be the consensus pick and it isn’t close. Even ignroing his 1-of-1 defensive contributions there’s still an argument he deserves it

An individual player can impact the game offensively much more than defensively. Hence why Curry (incredible offensive player and mediocre defender) is top 10 all time and Gobert (incredible defensive player and mediocre offensive player) hasn’t ever been top 10 in a single year

he should be 0th on the mvp ladder - default winner until someone takes it from him

People forget this man is 22 coming off a shortened season and off-season with the blood clot issue. He needs a bit more time in the lab, but the talent alone is greater than any other player in history.

In a normal season, he’s a runaway

shai is averaging 67% TS as a guard, Wemby is otherwordly but no need to downplay how genuinely insane sga is either

People really need to retire this narrative about SGA’s scoring being free throw-driven. Sigh. He’s simply a playmaking machine.

Yeah SGA is a lot less dependent on FTs than people like to believe, he definitely deserves to be in MVP conversations this year

Honestly the strongest narrative boost is gonna be from the playoffs depending on how it goes this season

Boo this man