That would have been us last year if not for Wemby’s blood clots

Doing it against the spooky wolves too

I thought we had a chance at skipping the play in as the 6 seed. But I 100% thought that OKC, Houston, Denver, Wolves, and Lakers were all better than us, and we’d be in a similar tier as the Clippers and Warriors

I was lower on our preseason expectations than most but after our opening night game, I knew yall were gonna be good. And I knew we weren’t winning 30 games lol

I think it was his pod where they were saying it’s usually their 3rd year that huge stars make a huge leap. Accurate

wdymean, pre-season expectations had the Spurs battling for a play-in spot lol

Pre-season expectations for the Spurs were definitely not the second seed and a second round team. They are definitely ahead of their timeline.

No one had spurs winning 60+ games let alone on the verge of making the wcf.

They genuinely look ready to win it all this season its crazy

The alien breaks basketball space time itself

Ironically enough, the poster boy for that exact effect over the past decade in the league has been Rudy Gobert. 

The nope factor

Not like this

Honestly I feel like back then Jokic, Harden, and even somewhat LeBron, Steph, and KD were still all in the MVP conversation. Giannis was dominant for sure but he wasn’t even the goat of his era.

you’re right, after the 2021 ring it was definitely being discussed

I believe the common parlance at that point was “if he ever gets a jump shot, the league is fucked” and everybody would absolutely agree back then.

I think he was more on a track for being in the conversation with Shaq as most dominant player ever and clear top 10 guy.

He’s still unmatched physically in the league but injuries, coaching and team context changed his trajectory. 

Very true the downvotes are egregious

He will change what other coaches/players expect their tall players to do. Dirk makes ppl expect tall guys can shoot. Jokic makes ppl expect tall guys can playmake. Wemby makes ppl expect tall guys can score (all kinds of way, from jump shoot, 3s, dribble penetration and lowpost) and defense.

But I think OP mean those player make the NBA different because they change how opponent construct their teams. Shaq cause teams to hire multiple 7” humans. Curry cause teams to hire mobile bigs that can defend 3s after PnR. Wemby? We haven’t reached that point yet.

Strategies of some sort are gonna have to be implemented on the defensive end for sure. Similar to how teams used to need a big body to guard shack people or how teams with playoff hopes needed a LeBron stopper. On the other end, teams are gonna have to come hup with something to attempt to rival his offensive potency though we aren’t sure what they will be yet.

Sure, Curry may have cemented that the three point shot was here to stay. But nobody found their own Curry either. What he was doing out there didn’t look exactly like Harden or Lillard.

Move all training camps to Shaolin temples.

It will start having big men in pick up games playing the paint again rather than bricking threes 😂

How about this: other people are already doing things we said no one could do but Curry. Curry’s success relies on other great players suurounding him. He may remain the greatest shooter ever, but he didnt change the game, math did. Wemby is already singular. He already changes individual games like (nearly) no one else will or has ever been able, whether or not his teammates are great.

His defense alone is gonna kill the unserious hoops.

Nobody replicated Shaq either, but his existence changed the construction of rosters because you needed multiple big 7 footers on the roster. I think they mean Wemby will change the game more in the personnel recruited to try to counter him

And that has the drive to get better and HATES to lose.

You can’t conjure 7’5 center but I think he will change perception about big men. Wemby moves in ways 7’5 human should not move. I think it is because of much effort he puts to take care of the body and how much flexibility exercises he does.

I remember last couple of years people complaining that he is not playing like a center. We simply had no idea a 7’5 player can shoot 3s and run around like a guard. But now that he has shown it is possible I expect young tall players (destined to be taller than 7’) to start playing like Wemby, instead of just being a standard center.

Similar to how we now baby Jokics (Sengeun and Yang Hansen come to mind).

Give it a few weeks 

You’d be surprised the negative feedback I sometimes get posting that

I mean it’s not uncommon but you have to consider how good the top 10 is that guys like Bill, Wilt, KD, Jokic, Hakeem etc don’t or barely crack it on most lists. The top 10 is super packed with not only incredibly talented but also incredibly accomplished players

Wemby rn is already as good as prime ad lmao.

If you work with ai enough you can tell. I can tell Claude specifically wrote this.

“That moment I kept coming back to”

“Don’t you think this interesting final question is interesting?”

I was thinking about this earlier. Castle needs to develop more touch and work on shooting, Bryant needs to work on consistency and not having metal lapses. 

If they somehow win it this year are those guys working in the off season as hard as last summer? 

I think that’s what made Jordan the GOAT. Dealing with MJ in practice was worse than anything those Bulls players faced on the court despite winning multiple championships. He never cared how much he won, Jordan always cared about what was next. 

Wemby seems to be cut from the same cloth but after time it’s hard for others to always be around that. 

Help defense vs man defense vs Portal Gun defense

Wemby can do both extremely well, he’s bailed out teammates frequently when the defender gets by them and meets them at the rim. And he guards 1-5. Kawhi could do the same but not like Wemby, which is insane considering how good prime Kawhi was

Absolutely it’s a must win and they will play it as such