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The slender men era

Lol it’s the opposite, wemby just bodies chet and any lanky guys. They need big mobile bodies, think PJ Tucker guarding KD, but bigger.

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Trickle-down Shaqonomics

Even after Shaq left his prime, you had a ton of centers who didn’t really do much but set screens and rebound. Eric Dampier and Desagans Diop come to mind.

Honestly the point center approach from a guy who can hit the 3 might be the best matchup against Wemby

Suddenly everyone want to pay KAT 60m

“When a guy is banging you…”

Trevor Winter played 1 NBA game. 5 min, 3REB, 5 Fouls. Was specifically signed for 1 game to foul Shaq lol.

His son Nolan is a really good player for the Wisconsin badgers.

Yo, Todd MacColloch is a legend and a hall of famer (at the Manitoba hall of fame)

Rudy is as good at guarding Wemby as anyone. As always with Rudy, the problem is on the offensive end. He’s a flat out bad offensive player and against Wemby (and any other shot blocker) it killed the wolves because Wemby can just hang in the paint whenever Rudy is on the floor.

Joan needs to learn to shoot as soon as possible

We’ll be seeing the Spurs in the finals soon then, hopefully

Embiid also put 70 on young Wemby. Healthy Embiid would cause him real troubles with his middie game

Mavs fan here- did you watch that first game of the season? Wemby made AD and Lively look like children

Shaq has a very different physical profile and type of game to Wemby but he always said the guys to give him the most trouble as defenders were the relatively shorter, stockier 6’9 PFs and the like, presumably because they were quicker, had a shorter center of gravity and could more easily swipe at the ball and generally be pests. 

The problem with Wemby is he has a more versatile game, like Hakeem with a 3, though I also don’t know if you just throw 7 footers at him. That didn’t work with Shaq cause he’d bully them anyway, and it likely wouldn’t work with Wemby cause he’d outplay them. Largely the reason they even existed with Shaq was to pick up fouls but you don’t want to do that with Wemby either. 

Guerschon???

Boris Diaw is what they need

Yes, the KAT, embiid, Jokic types that wemby struggles defending.

Wemby fucking torched us so badly we decided in a win or go home to start the game with gobert off wemby. Repeatedly throughout the series randle guarded wemby instead of gobert.

Some of my fellow wolves fans have turned absolutely delusional about rudy.

It’s eat or be Ayton

Get the CH Crunk Juice ready 😤😤

Idk how many people are aware, but Wemby has been whooping on Chet since they were like 12.

They’re both children of international basketball players, who have been groomed to play ball since they were born. They’ve faced off with each other many times in camps and workouts, and you can find clips/pics of them screaming at each other as teenagers.

caruso did a really good job down the stretch; it was the same as we saw against jokic last year. he’s strong, disciplined, good instincts/timing, aggressive, i think wemby is just too long for a defender that small and seemingly has an endless motor. the and-1 dunk late in overtime wemby had to pull off a great double move just to get open.

i still think chet is their best defensive option, but having caruso hound him with chet underneath to help was also effective.

Chet’s defense was still so good last night that he was a net positive. Plus even when he’s not scoring he’s at least a spacer at the 5.

He let Wemby get a lot of rebounds over him.

Guys 7 foot too if you actually box out it’s going to work.

Reminds me of all the reactions to Cavs going down 2-0. You would have thought the series was best of 3 the way this sub was reacting.

Especially for Spurs fans since they remember how it was when wolves won game 1. I’m on cloud 9 as a spurs fan but I fully expect this series to go 6 or 7

I’m a little confused, is this not a decent article with some actual basketball analysis? I know the bar is low for sports journalism, but it’s definitely interesting to me that a guy making almost 30 million dollars a year was nearly unplayable due to a certain matchup. There’s obviously been some crazy overreactions on this sub over the past ~12 hours, but this doesn’t seem like one of them

Wemby got way hotter than he did in the regular season too. He didn’t hit 25 once in any matchup. I don’t think that’s gonna be the trend for the series though.

Caruso being amazing is the only reason they were in the game at all. No way he’s going to play like that the whole series.

And if Wemby doesn’t hit one of the craziest shots in playoffs history, OKC likely wins that game in the 1st OT.

People acting like OKC got blown out lol

I just like watching good hoops. Doubt the Finals will be as good and after that no NBA for a couple months.

The spurs will take that over SGA popping off. He shot 30% from 3 the year. Gotta pick and choose what to give up.

I love Caruso. He’s definitely one of those dudes you love if he’s on your team. He probably won’t go ⁸⁄₁₃ again.

Josh Hart is their worst postseason starting shooting, only shooting 27%, but he was 40% during the regular season.

Or the Spurs would just play zone and Wemby would camp in the paint

Ok but then who covers KAT

Yes, there are 2 types of centers you can play against wemby. Big who can bang and shoot 3s (KAT, embiid, Jokic types), or big who can rebound really well (Mitchel Robinson, Steven Adams types) - when wemby helps it’s a free rebound for them. OKC has none (maybe jwill but he fouls too much), while Knicks have 2.

So we match up better against OKC than Knicks.

There’s been a lot of eulogies for a team that lost in 2OT with what most consider to be a poor performance from them

Fair, but I don’t think he was that much of a presence defensively, and was very ineffective on the offensive end

Maybe OKC should have just gone small ball instead?

And while Wemby isn’t an extreme physical force like Shaq was, compared to stick figure Chet he basically is Shaq. LOL

Agreed

Yuki

Maybe you guys finally pull the trigger on Giannis

Why does it feel like the answer to this is a small bald man who comes off the bench to make forty threes like it’s nothing

Why is this downvoted? Jokic always gives Wemby a hard time.

You may be right, but I’m curious to see how KAT does as he can rebound and shoot. Spurs might camp Wemby on hart and leave him rather than KAT. If hart is hitting , New York will have a chance.