[Highlight] Victor Wembanyama “steals Camara’s soul”
Some guys go for heat checks on offense. Wemby’s heat checks are on defense
This is so true and it’s so badass
How does that even work?!
and also on offense, when he shoots silly 3s
I wouldn’t be surprised if his 3pt % was above 80 immediately following a block
I doubt it’s still true but at one point a few months ago, for the season his 3pt percentage immediately after a block was literally 100%.
Dude. Vic may just obliterate Timmy blocks record if we get to the finals.
edit for context: Timmy had 32 blocks in 6 games - 5.3blocks a game in the ‘03 finals.
hakeem In ‘94 has it for a whole playoff run:
getting way ahead of myself here of course.
edit2: also Kelly Olynyk was not impressed hahahaha
I hope you guys do make it all the way. Easy team to cheer for
This is gonna be funny to look back on in a few years when the Spurs are dominating the league and become the most hated team in the association
Yeah, perhaps. But for now, I’d take them all day over the other contenders.
As a longtime Sixers fan I thoroughly enjoyed watching:
Why not acknowledge our next dominant player and just enjoy watching it while it happens?
When did Kobe get a boat 😏
Nah OKC will still be most hated and for a long time, SGA+Chet+Dort are so fucking unlikeable. Wemby+castle+fox are so wholesome
Is Chet so unlikeable? He seems ok. Dort is dirty as fuck and shouldnt even be in the league. SGA is still fine to me, hes so good outside of the foul baiting that allows me to overlook it for now. Caruso is annoying af, and big Jaylen Williams is annoying, other Jaylen Williams seems cool
that being said spurs are way cooler by a mile
Yeah it’s all wholesome until their favourite team runs into the Spurs in the playoffs
The guy commenting is a Portland fan
and not s single portland fan held any hope of watching them in round 2.
nah i aint a hater like that, wemby can beat us like lebronto did, but i will still appreciate greatness
We saw the same thing happen to the thunder over the course of like 3 years
Very true, but I don’t see the Spurs devolving into what the Thunder have become. Wemby hates that style of play.
I don’t think Victor is that “hateable” compared to Jokic. The man has passion for the game and we may even have years of great all star games with him in it.
I bet Wemby will still be a good dude though.
It’s the ethics
Yeah in a world of Anthony Edwards and Ja Morants I’ll gladly cheer for Wemby when my guys are out.
Typical Blazers fan W.
9 years ago you guys were running that beauty of a backcourt with CJ and Dame. I remember every single fan out there wanted you to win against the Dubs and even though you lost the backcourt delivered a great series.
5.3 BPG is absolutely bananas.
How is it possible to average 4 blocks per game but not 4 in any series?
Nope you’re correct, I missed the second series average. 4.6 blocks, editing top comment now.
Beat me to it. It’s not.
You either average over 4 blocks in some series and under 4 in others, or you average exactly 4 blocks in every single series.
Wemby’s 13 blocks in the span of 2 playoff games tied for 8th overall in NBA history
Surprised not to see Wilt on there.
wilt retired the season before blocks started being recorded
That makes sense then. If they were recorder earlier I’m sure this list would look a whole lot different.
Wilt and Bill will fill up top 1-100
They recovered his retirement season (lot more weight, bunch of surgeries, older) and he averaged the second highest recorded BPG season just behind Mark Eaton
He was prob averaging 8 to 10 blocks a game in his prime
That’s crazy. Where can I find that?
On his bbref page his last year has blocks per game now
So 5.4 blocks but in his last season where he only had 13.2 ppg.
That 50 pt season in 61-62, I bet he had 30 blocks a game lol
Cool stat thanks dude stats
Wilt, yes, but also Russell, who by contemporary accounts was the superior shot blocker.
They both would have put up some tremendous numbers.
I thought about this actually when Shai beat his 20pt game streak this year. If blocks had been recorded in his career he would have taken them so seriously and would no doubt be one or two all time behind Russell most likely. But with Shais 20pt game streak, if Wilt even knew this was a thing they would bring up in 60 years , he would’ve done it 500 times in a row on principal.
Wil played until 72-73 season
Blocks began being tracked in 73-74 season
mr. cheat code retired and then they decided to keep track of records lol
Technically they were already tracked it just wasn’t an official stat until that season
Bill Russell’s numbers would have been insane too
If Wilt wasn’t there, then it wasn’t recorded back then haha
Russell’s numbers were probably just as crazy
He is
In an era where volume 3’s are a thing.
Beef Stew could tie him if he gets five blocks tomorrow, cause somehow he got EIGHT BLOCKS in 17 minutes last game
Who’s that guy in the audience they keep showing?
That would be Félix Wembanyama, Victor’s father.
This is insane. It hasn’t been done in 15 years. He has only played 4 playoff games. Here is how many playoff games everyone above him played. He will be moving up this list and by the looks of it we won’t have to wait long.
251 playoff games for Duncan is actually nuts.
We were so consistently good for so long. Never missed the playoffs in his entire career.
God damn Shaq
the statline (17/14/6) does not reflect the dominance
and it was a pretty damn dominant statline
Why is he in the game
He gets to play 4th quarter as a treat
Consolation Time & Effort
Maybe pick something that doesn’t acronymize into CTE?
for real tho
Blazers didnt want to send the f squad out, spurs were waiting for them to surrender out of respect.
we surrender, we surrender. please Wemby, show mercy
They keep trying him! He doesn’t have to be near the basket.
If you want to waive the white flag just chuck threes. He takes trips to the paint personally
Sorry but this is a foul clear as day
Even after review they said it’s not a foul. Insane
Didn’t Wemby hit the left arm first? How was this not a foul I’m so confused. A lot of contact down below too.
Body, then arm, then ball. But he hit the ball so the refs decided they wanted to go home early
That whole hip and body check is crazy. That’s gonna hurt in the morning.
Vibes-based refereeing.
He jumps across nearly the entire restricted area!
For real lol. No verticality and fouls him hard with the body
This was clearly a foul, but it is Wemby so it’s fair game. This is the future of the league. Wemby will continue get away with a lot. Our Wemby love will turn to hate. Remember how we love the alien while it lasts.
he deserves some gimmies considering he gets fouled on basically every play. look at how you guys were guarding him anywhere inside the 3 pt line, just two hand shoving and grabbing lol
The game was over and it didn’t matter. Honestly I was fine with a no-call until they also didn’t reverse the call after the challenge. If a coach is going to waste everyone’s time challenging a bad call, it doesn’t need to stay a gimme.
rule of cool i fw it
I’m fine with it because the game was basically over anyway. But yeah
Wemby gets superstar calls but on defense
I mean, that’s definitely a foul right?
He’s the anti-SGA.
Bro, that’s gotta be a foul lol
How is that not a foul?
Rule of cool. Def a foul down low.
Yeah not a lot of ball on that block lol
He got ball, but he also knocked the dude over about three feet, slamming into him.
i dont understand how this isnt a foul.
first contact is with shoulder. Wemby isnt vertical.
Verticality is out. Diagonality is in.
Diagon Alley? Is Wemby a wizard now?
Now?
Scrolled too far to find this. Oh well.
It’s a foul, yeah. It’s a pretty awesome play, but it’s a foul
It was challenged and no foul
Ah yeah cause the refs have been doing such a bang-up job this playoffs.
At this point the challenge is just a waste of time since they always come up with some crap.
This is a foul.
They got Doris Burke reffing the game now
How is this not a foul? Genuine question
Yeah lol, why are people acting like this is some great block when he blatantly fouled the guy?
Seriously, that much body contact when I was playing would’ve got me T’d up.
You can only get a foul against another living being. Since Wemby stole his soul, he no longer qualified
Superstar treatment.
I hate this rule but they usually consider body contact incidental if you’re all over the ball like that.
My problem is it incentivizes you to be more reckless getting to the ball.
he isn’t vertical, tho. there’s like 3 reasons why this is a foul but refs were annoyed that Tiago challenged it.
He didnt even touch the ball till after slapping the shit out of camara’s arm
That my DPOY
And everyone else’s.
That’s my MVP
The goat
Not hating at all but did he get some arm first?
For sure. Not hating, but this is a foul, not a block.
I’d call that a foul any day of the week!
Definitely looks like it to me
He blocked with his forearm first then his hand came down
Man.. you should think about becoming a ref in the NBA
https://imgur.com/d5r9GE2
Your soul is mine!
SOOULLL BOX
That first Mortal Kombat movie from the 90s was the cheesiest thing ever and it was great
Correction: Wemby fouls the shit out of a guy and commentators ignore it and glaze him?
DPOY for a reason
Unanimous DPOY for a reason
That’s a foul. He jumped into him.
This is absurd
That was a foul.
Absolutely diabolical of Tiago challenging after that and letting it replay over and over on the screen.
NO LOOK BLOCK! Wemby literally just styling on them dudes
If he can lock in on the Kawhi no-look steal, the world is fucked.
Pretty cool block (after the foul)
Fouls doesn’t exist for wemby duh
Foul
I mean…..that’s clearly a foul
Good series blazers, take care of my boys ripsidy and blake
This MFer is just cheating at this point
Wemby enjoying himself out there
Average 👽 play but also isn’t that a foul?
Not even out of bounds tho?
bro thats what im sayin
Shuddup doris
She made the last game unwatchable for me. Wemby is absolutely great but the nonstop Spurs glazing is insufferable. She is the least impartial announcer on a big network. I fucking hate how she picks favorites, and even worse, how she WILL NOT STOP TALKING. Would be interesting if someone could track how much the average color commentator talks vs Doris. SO many great moments ruined by her just gabbing or being flabbergasted that her favorite didn’t get the call. I think she gets worse every year. Was hoping the demotion put her on less of these marquee games but I guess at least she won’t be on the finals announcing squad this year.
Im an insuferable Wemby glazer and even I was cringing at her commentary, like she started glazing the rotation of the ball on his free throw, cmon.
Victor Wembanyama “fouls Camara’s soul”
FTFY
Man is he tall
That was a “target eliminated” style block.
He’s already getting the benefit of some favorable calls at this early stage in his career. There was enough body contact there for a whistle in my opinion.
Wemby just getting excited for Mortal Kombat 2
Why was he even in the game here? Protect that man!
The real Slim Reaper
Weirdest block ever lol. The contact for the block was initially Wemby’s whole forearm getting the hand, which hand is part of hall ig, and almost simultaneously a ton of body contact. Then he palms blocks the ball after. Borderline foul but it’s not a terrible call to let it be a block
The ref was enthralled by the aliens block and just couldn’t blow the whistle
But thats a clear foul though.
Wemby keeps sexually humiliating ppl.
Big balls from Toumani to attack the rim. Respect!
the close-up on that fan was diabolical lmao
it is Wemby’s dad!
Yes, that was his dad.
That’s his (Wemby’s) dad!
Felix Wembanyama
lmao oh whoop. i only know the players
Scorpion dunk but block
What’s amazing is that he is still growing!
Has Wemby been hanging out with Sol Ruca?
The way to defeat Wemby is to have 2 Draymond and 2 Steph Curry in your team.
Shang Tsung type shit!
Another one for the Soul Box
Man it’s going to be so cool when they win the finals and Wemby sheds his human disguise to reveal his true form as a giant mantis from space.
Nice line Doris
im scared of this man and he plays in a different conference then my team does. like what the fuck o.O
Alright, but why would you even attempt that dunk?
Why? Why would you drive to the rim with Wemby guarding it? You expect him to become Luka and ignore you?
Gonna be a LOOOOONG decade for anyone who isn’t a Spurs fan.
As someone who isn’t a Spurs fan (or hater): Fuck.
I read that as “steals cameraman’s soul”
It would have been so much better if Doris didn’t make an attempt of commenting about it.
Víctor “the Dementor” Wenbenyama
He’s fucking 9 feet tall
Did this get deleted? Anybody got a mirror
We just gonna let Space Jam aliens take over this shit or what? Dude is a freak.
How embarrassing
Bless your soul for including the replays.
Wemby snatches Camara’s soul
…pause
I understand we all want some of that D, but there was a contact on shoulder, wrist, then ball. I guess people just don’t care about fair game anymore
WTH bro give it back
6 Blocks. I can’t even do that in a video game. lol
Holy glaze
He wasn’t even close to making that lol. Wemby is built different!
Castle said Coach’s instructions were to “Come out hard and set the Tone at the Start.” It wasn’t “Let’s come out hard and set the tone the entire four quarters”.
That’s a lot of body. Dudes lucky
The refs usually let the players play a little more in the playoffs.
He might be the greatest defender the league has ever known
And now the refs decide not to call a foul? Wtf lol
Ethical, man
quite interesting i dont see the sidy cissoko And 1 on wembys head anywhere here ..
Quite interesting indeed, considering y’all will be sent off to Cancun next game.