His stats for the playoffs so far are ²⁵⁄₁₃.³⁄₂.9 with 5.3 blocks on 55/38/87 shooting splits on 67% true shooting splits. The league is actually cooked when he fully masters his offensive game

BreakingCanks | Spurs

52 | 5 hours ago

That’s why the Timberwolves have to foul him so damned hard. Imagine he gets the calls SGA gets. Even crazier stats

Prudent_Fish1358 | Spurs

12 | 5 hours ago

Edit…. Yooo I complained about The Spurs not having a user flair a month ago and they made one and automatically gave it to me… That’s lit!

Sorry what? I’ve had a spurs flair here for ages.

BreakingCanks | Spurs

2 | 5 hours ago

Oh it might have been a different NBA sub then. I was under the impression one of the subs was missing The Spurs and a few other flairs and me and a few other commentors were pointing it out.

LordBaneoftheSith

5 | 4 hours ago

Imagine he gets the calls SGA gets

Shai doesn’t have a generically good whistle. Wemby is not regularly in the positions Shai gets himself into, and when he is he gets theb calls.

This isn’t remotely about Shai, it’s about the refs just letting them fucking hack people in this series.

birdseye-maple | Warriors

1 | 4 hours ago

I’d say it’s if he got the calls that the best guards got he’d be unstoppable… e.g. the Luka, Shai, Deni ticky-tack calls

LordBaneoftheSith

1 | 3 hours ago

But I’m saying he doesn’t have the skills to get those. He already gets a lot of the calls the great big men get, and the reason he’s not getting more rn is because the league decided this series needed to be played by 2002 rules for some dumb reason

Old_Supermarket_7575 | Thunder

-1 | 3 hours ago

Shai doesn’t get the calls you think he does, he’s just an unstoppable force

You’ll see next series

His whistle was actually quite bad last round

Lou_Peachum_2 | Clippers

48 | 5 hours ago

If J dub is slow to come back, anyone think the Spurs might actually beat the Thunder?

This team is scary with how much depth they got. And I feel they have more initial shot creators than the Thunder

JeffersonTowncar | Spurs

74 | 5 hours ago

I think that, and I’m as unbiased as they come.

BoneDollars | Spurs

19 | 3 hours ago

Can confirm. This person is super unbiased.

ballthyrm | Spurs

8 | 3 hours ago

The fairness doctrine incarnate

Sol_Protege | Spurs

19 | 5 hours ago

OKC depth is seriously more dangerous. They throttle you like a slow poison.

Spurs may have the edge with playmakers, but it hinges on them doubling SGA with their rotation of guards enough to take him out of the game, while making enough shots.

Plane-Gur2798 | Thunder

11 | 4 hours ago

I think the biggest difference will be our depth. Right now the Wolves don’t have enough guys to avoid the droughts. Your series has been a lot like ours against the Lakers in the sense that they keep it close and then they eventually hit the wall and you pull away so it’ll be interesting to see if we can avoid the lulls. You guys are prone to your offense drying up sometimes so we need to take advantage of that and the non-Wemby minutes especially.

CharacterFresh852 | Hornets

2 | 3 hours ago

I think the main difference will be experience. The pressure’s gonna be different when they go against a team like OKC. I could see some of their younger players underperforming, and when two teams are this closely matched, that can completely change a series.

TheMabzor

16 | 5 hours ago

Let’s actually win game 6 first

Mg29reaper | Celtics

11 | 5 hours ago

I have the thunder for 2 reasons. I think the depth they have destroys the spurs and I think Ajay Mitchell or Shai will just pick on fox the whole game

Prudent_Fish1358 | Spurs

9 | 5 hours ago

Fox will be guarding Dort or Caruso and he’ll go under most actions with a catch hedge.

Conversely, who are the Thunder putting on Wemby? How are they going to slow down flare screens with Wemby or him operating out of the high post? Cause we know what happens when Chet tries, and iHart is way too slow.

E_boiii | Thunder

5 | 4 hours ago

We’ve been training our wemby destroyer for months. We haven’t signed his contract yet cause we don’t want him showing up on the scouting report I’ll give you a hint

It’s >!Brooks Barnhizer!<

Not_A_Bot_Am_Human | Spurs

7 | 4 hours ago

Thunder should rightly be favored. But, Fox really does not get picked on defensively. He’s not Castle or Vassell but he definitely holds his own and gets a decent amount of steals.

Mg29reaper | Celtics

-3 | 4 hours ago

When guarded by fox this season shai averages 8.8 assist to 1.4 tovs and 31 on 80 percent true shooting per 75. He gets absolutely cooked

Not_A_Bot_Am_Human | Spurs

7 | 4 hours ago

I mean Shai cooks everyone and I really don’t take much stock in a single season individual 1on1 stats because it’s such a small sample size.

Second of all I was talking about this general narrative that he’s some target defensively

Mg29reaper | Celtics

-7 | 4 hours ago

Hes your worst defensive guard by a mile. Its also not a small sample size its 3 years of data

Not_A_Bot_Am_Human | Spurs

7 | 4 hours ago

“When guarded by Fox this season” your words

Mg29reaper | Celtics

0 | 4 hours ago

I double checked and databallr actually uses 3 years of data my mistake

LoneWolf1134 | Spurs

1 | 4 hours ago

He is, but he’s still not bad at all. Harper and Castle are just obscenely aggressive defenders.

stencil31 | Spurs

10 | 5 hours ago

Even if JDub is back, why is it hard to believe that the Spurs will beat the Thunder? Was the regular season games not convincing enough?

infalliBee | Kings

10 | 4 hours ago

Regular season games under different contexts and different willingness to show your cards are unfortunately not convincing enough to say they “will”

RiloAlDente | Spurs

8 | 4 hours ago

They’re the defending champions. Who are better this year top to bottom. Who were missing one of their most important players in 2 out of the 4 real games Who will be more rested than us

Against a team full of rookies that made it to the playoffs for the first time. Whose veteran players are Harrison Barnes and Deaaron Fox

The odds are stacked against us for sure.

I still see Spurs in 6 or 7.

GrumbleAlong

1 | 4 hours ago

what was the injury status of OKC then?

WoweeZoweeDeluxe | Spurs

1 | 2 hours ago

Nah, playoffs are a different animal and our insanely cold outside shooting and Fox shooting 25% from the floor isn’t going to cut it. Their bench is also better than ours. OKC will beat us in 5 or 6 sadly

WillGallis

1 | 24 minutes ago

Yeah, but Wemby is gonna get the “Chet is on the court so I need to obliterate him” buff.

Dry_Response3527 | Clippers

3 | 5 hours ago

I think they will. One, Wemby will outclass Chet and Hartenstein like he did before. He also stops SGA from any rim pressure. Two, Castle and Harper are certainly good enough to slow down SGA at the perimeter. I also don’t think anyone can effectively guard Fox. If you watch the games he creates plenty of open looks for himself, he just doesn’t always make them.

Plane-Gur2798 | Thunder

3 | 4 hours ago

And what about JDub and Mitchell? You’re just ignoring 2 of our biggest offensive weapons like they don’t exist lol

Answer70 | Rockets

4 | 4 hours ago

I despise the Thunder and their fans with every fiber of my being, but no.

The Thunder are deeper, more experienced, and can beat you at any game you want to play.

Plus they get to mug you on one end, and get phantom calls in the other (sorry, couldn’t help myself).

blur_reqz | Warriors

2 | 3 hours ago

I feel like the Spurs are the only team that can beat OKC. Mainly because they’re a bad match up for them, I’d lean Spurs ⁶⁰⁄₄₀ to win but if the spurs lose, I think it’s pretty much guaranteed that OKC repeat (barring further injury).

TheKeviKs | Spurs

1 | an hour ago

I think the Knicks have a chance to beat them. They are good.

Sad_Skill_3113

1 | 4 hours ago

Even with Jdub close to 100% this should be a 6 or 7 game series that goes either way

ObiWanIsMyDog

1 | 4 hours ago

Yeah they proved all regular season they match up better 1:1 so I expect Spurs in 6.
4-2 feels right, they can’t deal with Wemby

ottespana | Thunder

1 | 38 minutes ago

Yes

Lickmytitsorwe

0 | 4 hours ago

They have a chance of course, but SGA is an MVP and will be the best closer on the floor.

If the game comes down to clutch time, Spurs don’t have a go-to player that can make shots. That’s the only thing I think that makes me lean OKC

night_dude | Bucks

0 | 3 hours ago

It depends on whether they defend SGA as well as the Lakers did, but OKC looked a little vulnerable in the last series, insofar as a defending champion sweeping an opponent can look vulnerable. If Luka hadn’t been out, it could have been a very interesting series. They’re definitely beatable by the Spurs with or without JDub.

DecentDiver458

11 | 5 hours ago

League is already cooked, give him adequate 3 and D guys and a good PG and he set to dominate West like Lebron did in the East for a decade

Edit: yes I get he already has 3 good guards, my point is he just needs one reliable guard regardless of who he is playing with 10 years in the futue

bigdots_3 | Spurs

13 | 5 hours ago

Give him a good PG? Dylan Harper and Steph Castle are going to be top 30 type players in the next few years

Overall_Laugh_3421 | Heat

2 | 5 hours ago

I’m guessing he meant a Fox replacement outside of those 2 guards lol

BreakingCanks | Spurs

0 | 5 hours ago

I frickin love Castle low key more than Wemby. Both of them definitely held down game 4 solid

Kind of like how when I was younger everyone loved Mew but I was loving Celebi

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Fungi89 | Thunder

-2 | 5 hours ago

You rang?

Prudent_Fish1358 | Spurs

2 | 5 hours ago

Sup bb. You worried that the first two rounds weren’t even hard enough to push your guys to elevate their game?

Fungi89 | Thunder

0 | 5 hours ago

They may not have been hard, but I def am

Lawgang94

1 | 3 hours ago

We need proof

Saaammmy

1 | 5 hours ago

He already has a good PG, he has 3 of them in fact. Castle will take some time but he’s very promising.

Michaelangel092

1 | 5 hours ago

No one will dominate the way LBJ did. Not in the West.

dreamweaver7x | Spurs

4 | 3 hours ago

Lebron did no dominating until he joined DWade’s team.

13Keres

7 | 3 hours ago

It’s kind of funny how eventful his playoff run has been so far. A game with a concussion, a game where he beat the all-time playoffs block record, a game where he got ejected for elbowing someone in the face… Basically a lot of memorable that a couple years from now you can refer to by name (i.e. “the elbow game”) and people know what you’re talking about. Absolute cinema.

wavegangx

2 | 4 hours ago

Yeah this series is so over lol

AlfalfaWolf

1 | an hour ago

He’s the most valuable player to their team. Wemby for MVP

SeaPeanut7_

-1 | 4 hours ago

I find it weird that everyone is amazed by this. When he first entered the league, it was clear that he was going to be op in a few years. I even wondered to myself how other teams were even going to stop him. Just the fact that he has that length and agility, plus the touch, made it obvious

Calm_Association5221

-1 | 5 hours ago

mrjonesthegod

-13 | 4 hours ago

I’m sorry he’s great but there’s nothing generational about this

Victor Wembanyama’s Playoff Stats (excl. injury and ejection game) for his first year are absurd. He’s on a generational tear