[Highlight] Replays of Victor Wembanyama “Nevermind” defensive possessions, making the opponent have a second thought and give up the shot attempt
“Neverminds” should be a stat lmao
Minnesota podcasters have been trying to make it a thing with Rudy for like 3 years. Wemby might have the popularity to make it happen tho
Yeah people hate on Rudy so much they don’t remember especially at his peak how crazy it was. Several times a game you’d have dudes running downhill with an open lane to the basket seeing him come from the weak side just “nope” and kick the ball out it was hilarious đ
AD as well had the same effect
To an extent. But Rudy has incredible wing span.I love him
7’ 6” vs 7’ 9” wing span. 3 inches isn’t that big a difference at that height. 1.5in per side
Bro 3 inches is MASSIVE wtf you talking about.
I remember the 2018 thunder jazz playoff series. You could see how much the thunder were avoiding the paint just from Rudy being there.
yeah no accident that it’s Grady calling it a “nevermind” in this clip
Obviously not in the realm of those two but Embiid also had a lot of these when he was in his prime
That or âNopeâ
Shot’s deterred
Yeah No Dunks was talking about this last week I think they ended up with ânopesâ being the stat haha
Oh you’re a playmaker now?
I think they should be called âSKDâ for âSkedaddlesâ because the ball handler just skedaddles out of the paint when they see Wemby
âWemby is averaging 4.2 SKD per game in Marchâ
The best way I heard it described was from Zach Lowe who said someone “drove in, saw Wemby standing there, and made a business decision to turn around”.
Players have been making a lot of business decisions around him lately.
Nah, he d farming triple double and we s never hear the end of it :)
That’s why it’s so dumb when they bring up +/- or another random defensive stat. You can’t put into stats what wemby does to the others teams offense. They just hesitate a lot because he’s just too damn long lol.
Intimidations would be a fun stat.
i wonder if there is a stat that counts how many shots opponents take when wemby is the nearest defender, shots taken per opportunity or something.
There’s a guy on the Spurs subreddit(prize possession i think his name is) that will post one of these for every spurs game and they are often between 3-6 minutes long of just players seeing victor in the paint, sighing, then just kicking out defeated.
Ngl main reason I go to the spurs sub.
link one of them, canât find anywhere!
u/Prize_Possession3899
You can check their posts
Why would you lie?Â
I wouldn’t that sub sucks lol.
Why because of big bitches there?
I was just thinking this when watching him the other day. I’ve never seen anything like it, except on maybe a pickup court with huge mismatchesÂ
Watch Rudy Gobert for few games. It happens.
Yeah Gobert basically invented (popularized it? not sure exactly what word to use) it for the modern nba, he’s been doing this shit for 10 years now lol.
Gobert didn’t invent shit lol every top rim protector has gotten these all the time
Just goes to show how young the people on this sub are
Born in the ‘90s so didn’t get to see him live and I haven’t ever been able to find real game footage rather than just block highlights (not a ton of those either) but based on just pure block stats, I wonder how fun it was to watch Mark Eaton back in the day.
Crazy how Eaton almost didn’t make the NBA and then became the top rim protector for almost a decade.
I know you cant read but please at least try man. One more time, go slow.
âBasically inventedâ how can you basically invent something thatâs been happening for like 50 years before you played in the league?
People donât target wemby like gobert
Such a bad take.
Itâs not i donât see perimeter players hunt that wemby match up people like Austin reaves arenât hitting a game winner on wemby
Let him put on a few more years and you will see some game winners on Wemby too.
okay i just think wemby moves better on the perimeter
He does in some aspects.
He does in all aspects, but youâre not wrong generally. Rudy is disrespected for the stupidest sht. Everyone decided he was a genuinely bad defender because Luka happened to make a 35 footer that Rudy heavily contested after the TWolves inexplicably changed an extremely successful defensive scheme. They ripped off the Nuggets defense to keep Gobert home in the key like Jokic, then they stopped doing it for no goddamn reason and Gobert got stuck on the best perimeter scorer in the league. Had they kept the same defensive scheme they used on the Nuggets, Gobert would have faded to the rim, Ant would have rotated up to cover Luka, and Naz Reid would have rotated up to Antâs man and the TWolves would have won that game. Instead, Gobert makes a fantastic contest and forces an absurdly difficult shot and everyone calls him a bad defender for it.
Yeah saying that a guy is worthless on the perimeter because a great shooter nailed a 3 over him is like saying that someone is a crappy rim protector because Vince Carter put him on a poster once.
Rudy was disrespected way before Luka. When the Rockets went up against the Jazz in the 2018 WCSF, Harden and Paul would take turns at Gobert in iso and pnr situations, like this
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m4nlJy3RwYI
Lol
What aspects doesnât he?
Ant hit a game Tieing shot on wemby
Watch the wolves/spurs game from mid January. Ant got a switch onto wemby in the final minutes and hit a game tying shot over him.
Peak AD had a few of these a game too. Guy would dribble into the paint, look up, and you could see him think ânopeâ. ďżź
i think “nopes” is a better name than “neverminds” honestly.
Embiid was like this for a few years. Saw it a ton
People do this to Gobert as well, but Wemby causes these like every 3 possessions
Ben Wallace was my fav player back in the day precisely because of stuff like this. Offenses would have to completely change their gameplan when against him.
Wemby really averages around 8.21 “oh hell nah’s” per game
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I mean if you combine a stat like that and FG% against, it feels like it could paint a clear picture of defensive impact.
If I was a virgin and a Spurs fan Iâd put together a season long clip of these to try to boost Wembyâs MVP chances
Such hating lmao
But alas, youâre only one of the two, Mr. Heat fan.Â
It’s not the “nevermind”, it’s called the “HELL NAH” stat.
After every game, someone makes a compilation of players avoiding wemby in r/NBASpurs đ Wemby is the only guy who has highlights of other players avoiding his ass in the paint
Strong subreddit culture
When I saw Lebron ( LA match ) and Steph ( Team USA match ) made those corner 3’s against Wemby you wouldn’t believe they would even make the shot. His Slenderman arms fully extended while jumping would really scare tf out of you. đŹ
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Mods, can you ban this guy for causing me mental distress?
The devil named Curry is hurting us
So painful. I went in rooting for both Team USA and Wemby. By halftime, I wanted Wemby to beat those guys so bad.
I’m a hometown traitor anyway (NY based Spurs fan) so I was fully rooting for France. Couldn’t believe how close they got. I’m sure Wemby will be insanely fired up in 2028. Plus by then USA will be worse and France will be better as long as Coulibaly and Sarr develop a little.Â
Victor Wembanyama : aura of deflection (50% chance to altered incoming shots)
Just call em white flags in honor of the two French big men
Oh hey we have one in our roster
If MVP was an award that made any sense, heâd be getting it.
He just so long and so agile for his build it’s insane to watch
Easily DPOY. He making players make business decisions đ
Dad in the driveway shit
And there are plenty of them during all games, check Spurs/r if you want to see compilation game by game by one of ours, that’s crazy
Need someone to just do a shot chart of Spurs opponents with Wemby on/off
MVP
“oh well, whatever, nevermind”
Finally seeing some highlights that remind me of when I played. Even got the demonic center laughing and everything, just like it used to be
Nerf this MFer man
We need a possessions altered player tracking data
I already ordered my DHGate jersey. Iâm sold. Iâm shaking.
If anyone posted a clip like this of Rudy any of the past 10 years theyâre getting clowned. Next theyâll start talking about wembyâs screen assist numbers and suddenly Lowe will think itâs a relevant stat
Brother, this doesnât get posted because itâs something only Wemby can do. Obviously there have been dozens of great rim protectors that have highlight reels like this.
This gets posted because the last highlight was Wemby hitting 3s, and the one before that he was blowing by someone, and the one before that he was hitting turn around jumpers. Rudy is not doing all of that lmao, of course no one wants to see the same highlights every game.
Well then the title is horribly inaccurate because my comment is only regarding ânevermindsâ, not the offensive highlights, which I thought was incredibly obvious
lol the first one was definitely not a shot attempt and the last one was literally a shot that got blocked which isnât ânever mindâ
Edit: and the 3rd is literally Castle draped over him lmao
Rage bait?
Not being a shot attempt is literally the point