bro pushed, granted at the back half of their careers, KD, Steph and Bron to their limits as a 20 year old

Same, but Reddit mouth breathers kept thinking he’d wilt like Cinderella at midnight or some shit

There are players you just know are gonna be playoff players and Wemby was always one of them

My issue isn’t that he would wilt. It’s that he wouldn’t be used to playoff basketball and all the little adjustments it involves. Although to be honest I’m not really that worried about Wemby, I’m worried about all the other first time playoff guys on the Spurs. Even Fox hasn’t been out of the first round.

Lights can’t be too bright if you’re taller than the lights

We are comparing him to Kareem, MJ, and LeBron. It feels fair to want a little evidence.

Then they will say he didn’t win enough rings.

Then they will say he had too much help.

sorry I am now moving to goal posts to “let’s see him play a top seed!” /s

I remember several years back in his debut the narrative here was that he was a bust after just 2 or 3 Summer League games lmao. The goal posts will forever be moving.

Refs weren’t interested in calling much of anything on Portland for the last 6 minutes for some reason

Its because the Spurs were winning. I am 100% positive that refs in the NBA call fouls differently for both teams depending on the score. If the Spurs were winning by like 5 points or less, or even losing. They’ll call that.

Is this the first Spurs game you’ve watched all season? That was a pretty typical “refs don’t call fouls on Wemby” no call.

You don’t know why?

On who?

He was about 4 months younger - TD turned 22 late April, while Wemby just turned 22 in January.

what the FUCK do you mean 28 points in 2nd half as a fucking rookie 😭😭😭

they are FEEDING him in the post every possession, they are making ROOKIE do the work 😭😭😭

Who is doing the interview at the end? Has to be a former player since he’s eye to eye with Duncan, but I don’t recognize him.

People forget that now bc he always was a high BBIQ player with kind of an old man style to his game, and he never had massive ups, but he was a crazy all-around athlete, was even a high level swimmer in high school. Great conditioning, quick enough to play SF and guard bigger wings, strong enough to go at it in the post with Shaq and Malone.

yeah it’s probably like dropping 40 points on today’s game

A perfect ⁵⁄₇ is even better

⁶⁄₇ would be sick

The Universe has to make a better player first.

Hard when Robert Williams is the go to shooter

lol

To be fair, San Antonio was definitely funneling the ball into a lot of those guys who were shooting those shots. Outside sharp Camara and deni They’re more than willing to dare you guys to beat them from distance it seems and it’s a sound strategy given your struggles as a shooting team. You guys are going to get those looks all series as San Antonio works to wall off the paint and keep Victor near the rim

The only other two that come to mind are LeBron’s 2007 Detroit series at 22 and Kobe’s 2001 Playoff run. But if you are already in discussions with LeBron and Kobe then you know you have insane potential.

Def not a crazy take.

Other notables are rose winning MVP at 22, Ricky Barry in 1966-1967 averaging 33.3 ppg, and 2016 giannis

Luka had some insane playoff performances at 21 and 22 YO on top of his regular season numbers. They are very different players so it’s hard to compare. Wemby still looks like a young player a lot of the time but 22 year old Luka already looked like a 10 year vet.

Yes, he is up there for sure, Lebron, Kobe, Luka and Magic are also up there

LeBron was better.

He def is

From behind

Dejounte Murray

You know what they say, the roof is the limit

I wouldn’t pencil in the Spurs to the WCF quite yet with Denver lurking in their bracket

Actually think that might be a harder matchup for them than OKC is weirdly enough

You mean 5 games

Helluva ball club.

Bigger number better

Luka has played every single minute he could of the Lakers game. Wemby doesn’t put in the same effort smh my head

I wish he would push my pants

Big if true

“He hasn’t won a series yet”

We’ll put Jared on him for maximum confusion plus the power of friendship

Not much you can do when the POA defender gets beat and you have to choose between contesting the drive or lob threat. Kornet’s buckets that weren’t lobs were tough shots or put backs after tough rebounds, so idk what you’re talking about.

Spurs also ran a lot of off ball actions to get Wemby on a smaller defender and force Clingan into limbo between an open shooter and the paint. Blazers favored the paint, which lead to a lot of open 3s.

Rust, first playoff nerves, whatever you wanna call it. Fact is that the Blazers have some incredible point defenders and are great at poking at the ball and jumping passing lanes. Our frontcourt outside of Fox and DV did not handle it well.

Spurs in 5 at the most though, they just don’t have the offense to keep up and their players were getting visibly gassed by the end of the 3rd.

already is

Damn really? I can’t wait til we get to see his usage crank up. I roll back what I said!