Victor Wembanyama on a possible 3-1 comeback: “Everybody knows we’re gonna do it. I think it’d be a mistake to waste our energy on multiple games. It’s one game at a time”
What y’all expect him to say lmao
“We are going to lose and I blame it on DeAaron Fox. OG Anunoby is San Antonio father. All we are doing now is kicking and screaming into that good night. I am not LeBron James, mon coeur.”
“Mitch Johnson is also a terrible coach. A random fan in San Antonio that has never coached a day in their lives could’ve done better in game 4. Doc Rivers would’ve done a better job.”
“Also Mitch is in my head and I probably shouldn’t talk shit and proceed to shoot 3⁄14 in a historic second half comeback and miss the biggest free throws of my life I promise I’ll stop shooting 3’s and use my 7’12 height to my advantage”
He probably learned the lesson of not getting into empty heads. Hard to get out.
Wemby gains an inch every comment that mentions his height
random fan would have also called a timeout in game 2
Had me reading that last part in the voice of Frenchie from The Boys
Lmfaooooooo
OG: “ Oi Oi Oi, cunt cunt cunt”
Nah this isn’t a what yall expect him to say moment. Dude literally said everybody knows tf😭
I took it to mean everyone within the team
After my initial reaction of laughter I realized that yeah I think he means the team.
Nah nah all 8 billion humans know. Sentinel Island bros even know what’s up. Spurs in 7.
It’s incredibly clear if you watch the entire video from the beginning. The 30 second video that is linked to 15 seconds into it lol
It’s not even up for interpretation. It’s obvious to anyone who actually watched the clip that he’s talking about the team.
You vastly underestimate how stupid the average internet user and sports fan is. I guarantee you there are people who watched this clip and thought “HOW COULD HE SAY EVERYONE IN THE WORLD KNOWS THEY ARE GOING TO DO IT?????”
This is very obviously what he means, yeah
Pop: “LEBRON JAMES BUILT THIS COMEBACK IN A CAVE WITH A BOX OF SCRAPS”
Wemby: “Well I’m sorry I’m not LeBron James”
“FE-nomenal” reference
He’s talking about the team’s perspective.
Did you even watch the video?
You know they didn’t.
You guys will get mad about anything, damn
Which was in response to the question about the team and clearly referencing everyone on the team believing…knowing, they can do it.
I mean, he’s obviously speaking about the Spurs team..
You have the comprehension skills of a 6 year old if you think he was talking about anyone except the Spurs.
What he said at the end: “We’re going to take it one game at a time.”
“I want the lame and boring answer”
These people really want the PR response instead of the fun one.
If the script is already written then why ask the fucking question?
People legit want PR lmao. I don’t get it. I thought we all knew this was entertainment
It’s genuinely so funny to me that people seem to want the same canned answers they have heard 100s of times. That comment demanding the canned answer has all the upboats lol. But why? :D
Because it’s comforting. Humans love being comfortable.
Bro skips content to watch the ads
Hell no, that’s boring. I love to hate this dude and his confidence is part of what makes that fun.
For real. But you know how these idiots get when they get a hate boner for someone. It’s kinda like a real boner, all common sense just goes out the window.
Shai did say it comes for everyone…
100%, I just thought they’d wait until after his first championship to start hating on him. But you know what, the Spurs are ahead of schedule so I guess it makes sense that the hate for Wemby is ahead of schedule as well.
It’s also just a matter of who he’s facing. Knicks have a lot of fans, Thunder fans are still mad. That’s a lot of hate to come at him..
But the noise has gotten loud enough that I don’t expect that change. Now that the narrative of Wemby as a dirty, entitled player has gotten traction, every clip going forward that can possibly be fit into that will do numbers, reinforcing the narrative.
Agree. People want to see him say “ we all gave up” of course he will not say that
Reminds me of that CP3 clip where the reporter asks him if CP3 thinks they’ll be back in LA for another playoff game.
CP3 says “What do you expect me to say? Nah, seasons over?” lol
Wemby on De’Aaron Fox: “He gone.”
“I’m just ready for the offseason, son! Can’t wait for Cabo. Let’s just go out and have fun this one final game and see what happens. Either way I’m golden!”
We are going to do our best or a standard response everyone knows it’s going to happen is wild
If he said that you’d get people saying they’ve checked out lmao
Is it really sounds like something Ant would say
Yeah I hate questions like this lmao. Should be an obligatory CP3 answer every time
“There’s a reason everybody’s in here laughing” lmao that shit hurt me just watching
“are you a smart guy?”
Sounds like he’s saying “everybody” on his team, not everyone in the world. The reporter is asking about his team’s mentality.
That was obvious to me without even watching the video tbh, some basic benefit of the doubt has to be extended to people
so much of “clickbait” titles is just people taking the most cynical view of headlines
Yeah. It especially gets magnified during the NBA playoffs because when a team wins, their fans come here more and when a team loses, their fans avoid here more. So the most cynical spins on anything the losing team says or does gains even more traction because the readership at that time is not as inclined to find a more benign interpretation of the actions/words.
I remember watching this dynamic play out in the 2016 playoffs, the sub has only gotten bigger since then so the dynamic is much more pronounced now.
While that’s obvious, It is funny to think that Wemby is 100% confident everyone on earth thinks the Spurs will come back
Na arrogant fr**** mf
/s/^maybe
Need to have that level of borderline delusional confidence to even make it to the league . Can’t even hate.
Could’ve said it in a more PC way but it’s a free country. We’ll see if his game will back it up
The top 25 players in the league likely all think they’re the best player in the league
i think austin reaves said it an interview, something like: you need to be delusional confident about yourself to be good in the nba
There’s an ex nba player vlogging on YouTube (couple years nba, majority of career abroad) that said he practiced 5 hours a day, every day, since age 11. Didn’t miss a single day and didn’t count team practice in the 5 hours. And after all that he was still barely hanging on my a thread in the league.
He’s Joe Alexander. Old heads actually know about him.
Yeah that’s him
Mountaineer legend. We’d have been so good the year before our final four run if he’d have stayed one more year.
its just crazy that the top 450 people are playing in the nba and there is still a huge gap between like top 20 to top 5
Most sports are like this tbh, which is fucking wild. Look at tennis. 3⁄4 dudes dominated for two decades and the top 100 spend every single minute from age 10 on practicing.
I once sat in on a lecture with a guy who worked with Australia’s top 200 tennis prospects. He said once you reach that level, everyone is more or less the same physically, but the consistent winners are those who have the resilience to play through unforced errors or disruptions. The mental component of professional sports is far bigger than the average person realises.
Feel it’s the opposite. At the top everyone has similar drive but some people are just born with god given physical attributes. I was at the US Open final 15 years ago when Del Potro at 6’6” beat Nishikori. It was very clear that Nishikori was far more skilled at tennis but just didn’t have the same size and reach.
Yeah, I don’t care how dedicated you are. Someone who’s barely 6 feet is not gonna be able to guard Wemby lol
Good point, I’d say the gap from 20 to 50 is closer than ever too
Active players for sure. But even lookin all time, so many good players in the modern era that legit 20-50 is arguable. Shoot outside Bron and MJ it’s pretty arguable.
It’s not just the NBA. It’s anything you want to be the best in. I was a top baseball prospect (for my state, not the nation), and if you would have asked me who the 6 guys in front of me were in high school, I would have told you “bums” and meant it. I was literally delusional lol.
Think Draymond said something similar about being the best defensive player in the league. Something to the effect of “If I don’t think I am the best defender, how can I expect anyone else to think that either?”
Same goes for any level of competitive basketball
I think the same goes for top level performers in general, whether you’re an athlete, musician, actor etc.
I think it goes way further down than 25
That’s sort of a cliche, but I feel like being 7’6 and super athletic was way more influential, and the arrogance is probably a byproduct
There’s not a shortage of 5’8 dudes with irrational confidence
It goes hand in hand for sure. But he could’ve also been tacko fall. He still put in the work to get to where he is now
I’m not doubting the work, but even though Tacko was tall as hell he was also just never close to a fluid athlete
You need to be delusional AND be vertically/horizontally gifted in today’s game.
or you know, be born 7’4”
This implies Wemby came out the womb already 7’4 and tbf I’d buy it
He would be like 12 feet tall now. I’m down to see that now!
His poor mother.
I honestly don’t understand what you guys want these players to say? If I was a team owner and one of my players said “yeah were prob gonna lose the series Saturday” I’d want them off my team the next day.
Such a tired cliche imo.
Most guys deal with plenty of self doubt. There are exceptions like Anthony Edwards that seem to possess the borderline delusional confidence you speak of, but it’s not table stakes to make it in the league.
Kevin Love’s a good example of a guy that’s spoken about his self doubt. Guys may publicly do everything they can to project pure confidence, as it’s good for team morale, good for their pride, etc, but they’re human.
He’s French tho
What wasnt PC enough about it?
Wish he would have just said “nah, we are going to lose and go enjoy the summer” to shock reporters and have 24⁄7 news cycle around it before the game.
Fans love calling players soft and then threads like these show how fans will forever be softer
Reddit NBA fans are some of the softest people I’ve ever seen. They cry at everything. They turn on Wemby for a shove, then turn on New York because in a city of millions of people, a dozen fans assaulted a Spurs fan. Just a miserable bunch of people.
Bots// Trolls// Miserable Anons (no life?)// Children//
This is the majority of social media and it still manages to disappoint further!!
Most of the people here are sheltered, socially inept nerds
This has been an amazing playoffs but the subreddit has just been nothing but whining for most of it. Goes to show how many people come here just to be dramatic instead of actually wanting to discuss a pastime.
Someone give this man a medal please
Like product, like fanbase
I didn’t take 6 blue chews today just for a Redditor to call me soft
What is he supposed to say? “Yeah, we’re probably not gonna do it”
Of course he’s confident and believes they’ll win. I wouldn’t want my team leader to feel differently.
Every pro athlete answers with that sort of vague confidence. They are literally trained to do it. People here are just getting offended because it’s trendy to hate Wembanyama right now
I believed Kobe when he said we’d come back from 0-3 against the 2011 mavs… it ended 0-4 😎
Yep, if it was MJ or Kobe saying this, everyone would applaud it.
Jordan and Kobe famously never had haters and everybody loved them
Jordan just had that ‘mentality’. Wemby does it: ‘lol is this guy for real?’
Imagine if they heard how Larry Bird talked, everything he said probably would’ve been clipped
Not if MJ or Kobe came up in this social media era. No one is safe from these miserable social media fucks
Goomba fallacy
Eh, not exactly. It all started when he said that “Ethical hoops” shit. People are now just understanding Wemby’s not the ideal guy they got infatuated with.
I don’t know something closer to “we believe as a team we can do it” vs “everybody knows were gunna do it”
My goodness, what would it take for y’all to just watch the clip and understand the context for once. The dude literally asked him about what their group thinks. He’s answering it in context of that, it’s very obvious from the clip that “everybody” means his group here.
He also says that it would be dumb to think about multiple games at a time and just go one game at a time.
No, absolutely not. The 1st statement gives that they are not sure they can do it, the 2nd says we are doing it no doubt. ill much prefer him to say this than anything else.
Like, now’s not the time to lose confidence in yourselves.
The 2nd statement puts way more pressure on his teammates.
As long as wemby is still delusional I will also be delusional. Spurs in 7
Fuck it, Spurs in 4
analytically
If you look at the advanced stats, we basically already won the series by game 4. Right now we’re just playing for the views
Thats true but the Cavs still got you guys beat for the Analytic Cup.
I missed the origin of this meme and it bothers me. Where did it come from?
Kenny Atkinson said that after going down 0-3 or something like that
Lmao are you telling me we’re getting clowned for something the Cavs said?
I hate it here 🥲
It can go to 7 games for a reason. People act like because it’s rare that it’s 100% impossible. It isn’t.
Especially when Spurs have had a lead for like 80% of the series. It’s not like they’re getting blown out and don’t belong there. Most games have been theirs to lose and then they found a way to lose. Some of the shots the Knicks have been making should never go in but they are. The series can flip in an instant
Let’s not forget the scares with Brunson in game one. He is clearly playing through some pain. It underscores how amazing he’s been, but I’m worried any further games will be much more physical.
Tbf, Wemby has to worry about physicality for fear of another flagrant
I still believe they can do it
One thing nobody can call him is a front runner haha. He’s been talking smack while down or even the entire playoffs.
He was screaming “I’m in your head” to the backup center and then shut his mouth when they blew the biggest lead in NBA Finals history…
bro got so deep into Robinson’s head he started missing FTs too 💀
Damn, lmao.
Okay this was hilarious lol
I also saw this comment on the post-game thread.
shut his mouth? did you not watch this clip lol?
needed 2 good nights rest to get over anunoby belt
Tbf the way the knicks were playing in the first half I definitely thought he was in their head too lol
He definitely was
Well yeah they took out KAT in the first 2 mins
Was he supposed to talk trash when he blew the lead? I don’t get it
You’re a front runner if you’re not celebrating as the buzzer goes off in a loss. We learned this last year
The idea that you are a badass talking shit while losing is completely created by people who have never played sports because if youre whooping someone and they are talking shit, you dont think they are a badass you think they are a big fat loser lol
I feel like Russ got clowned for this very thing years ago lol.
MJ had a famous clip where he said trash talking while you’re behind is a sign of a good man so it’s being associated with being cool
jordan is a great player but i am not ever taking any life advice from him in any possible fashion lol
Nah he was supposed to know that they would blow the lead eventually and just never talk shit.
They had the lead for a bit, stared to shut up when the lead kept getting shorter. Could’ve kept talking shit whenever they made a 3, oops they didn’t make a lot of those.
That is such a reach…what human would ever talk shit in that scenario? No one.
I don’t think you know afar being a front runner is, it’s not just any time a losing team isn’t in a good mood..
Nah clearly Wemby was supposed to go up to Robinson post-game and tell him about how he’s still in his head
He’s saying they’re going to make the 3-1 comeback that’s the opposite of shutting his mouth
I don’t see them shooting 53% from three in a half many more times.
Knicks shot 47% from 3 in the whole game, so they had a great game from downtown.
We finished with an absolutely tragic 39.5% after starting so well.
We will see
Yeah they shot horrible in the second half, but 39.5% is still good overall. Wemby needs to stop sitting on the perimeter and taking a bunch of threes if the Spurs want to win. He averages 8 attempts in their three losses, and his value at the three is just not where it needs to be to warrant that volume.
He was completely gassed, you could see him struggling to run the floor, his minutes management that game was atrocious
I don’t think that’s necessary for wins tbh. That shooting got them up 29, I’d be just as happy to win a game by 1 haha
I don’t see them scoring 30 in a half many more times.
lol I love this response, they don’t care about the backfire of their comments
People bitch about cookie cutter answers and then complain when it’s like this.
Reddit: “God I’m just so tired of all these media trained puppets of athletes with no personality”
Player: has a personality
Reddit: “God this guy is so fucking arrogant I hate him”
Gotta say i respect how he never backs down from his shit talk
To the outraged people.
What else did you expect him to say?
give up, accept lost, get deppressed, never move on.
Quit basketball, become a hermit in peru, learn the bagpipes
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Everybody in the locker room or Everybody on the team is what he meant.
“Everbody” referring to his team. Use some common sense and context clues.
Sub full of nerds who don’t understand how to speak with tact
Nah the nerds are the ones who are saying he should be more humble and believe in his team less.
How are there Knicks fans more okay with what he said than OKC fans?
Everybody on the team. Which is exactly what they should think. Whether or not they actually think it is a different question.
When he said “everybody” you know he meant everyone on the team and not in the world right?
That he’s moving back to Europe to join a traveling circus and to apologize for the monk thing
Fuck it. I love this kind of stuff. It’s so much better than the media trained clichéd answer.
The funny thing is it is the media trained cliche answer, but everyone is removing it from the context of the question. This is just Wemby saying everybody (on the team) still believes we’re gonna win
Cue the comments feigning outrage at the same sort of mediaspeak every pro athlete answers with
Tis but a flesh wound
Dude is evil chaotic. I love it
“I am in your head” type of energy
This clip just shows me that NBA has the worst fans. You guys don’t even like the product, you’re too social media-brained and just want to hate. If there’s a player who remains silent he’s got no dog in him and if there’s a player with confidence he’s cocky. This sub would lose its mind if it watched 90s basketball.* Just watch the product lmao
*inb4 “it’s almost like the sub is a wide collection of people with many differing opinions” yeah I get that, it’s hyperbole
It’s just the Internet nowadays, everyone wants a reason to hate on everyone
“Everybody knows we’re going to do it…” immediately followed by “We don’t want to waste our energy on multiple games”
Ok.
I’m not seeing the issue here, he’s saying they all believe they’re gonna come back in the locker room, but at the same time there’s no point in focusing on game 6 when they could lose in 5.
Bro, Gen Z is borderline illiterate.
Is not exactly surprising they can’t read between the lines 🤣
Tell me you didn’t actually watch the clip without telling me.
‘Everybody’ refers to the Spurs locker room. He originally says ‘everybody thinks’ then corrects himself. Any team would want that out of a leader.
He’s not saying they don’t want to play multiple games, he’s saying there’s no point in talking about any game except game 5.
The Wemby hateboner is just getting stupid at this point.
Id rather him say the team believes and knows they’ll come back rather than just sulking. Yall overreacting hard to this one
yeah, that’s why in the middle of those two sentences he said:“but i don’t know if i agree with you.”. he’s saying that yes, they all firmly believe in the possibility of coming back, but they gotta take It one game at a time.
y’all put too much weight on these statements without even listening to the questions, smh
There’s a 100% chance you didn’t even bother watching the clip
Some of yall have no listening comprehension. Good luck when you move out of your parent’s house and get a job. He’s talking about the team and you’d know this if you watched and listened to the actual clip.
Honestly as a Knicks fan I respect the confidence to say “Everybody knows we’re gonna do it”. I firmly believe that this Knicks squad doesn’t view any lead no matter the size as insurmountable and that’s part of how they just mounted the greatest comeback in Finals history and if the Spurs want to make history they need the same confidence.
Also the everybody here is referring to the locker room and people around the team so not necessarily as cocky as the title makes it sound. Just the mindset the team needs to have
As a spurs fan at no point in game 4 did I feel safe.
As a Spurs fan, I didnt even get excited at half time. Games are never over till they’re over.
The immediate reactionary comments when anybody who’s played a competitive sport ever knows that if you don’t believe you’re gonna win you won’t.
Yeah it’s pretty dumb here. If he said something less than this, people would claim that he “gave up” or that “he has no confidence”.
One game at a time. We know we’re gonna win. These are very standard media responses to these types of questions.
Honestly, in his shoes, all you gotta say is “Its not over yet”
“Everybody (I’m surrounded by) knows we’re gonna do it”
People being willfully obtuse about what players say has been getting real old this year
He means everyone on the team thinks/knows.
Wemby’s seen the script.
He’s seen the corgi’s prediction. Can’t win game 7 if you don’t lose 3.
lol. He’s obviously talking about his teammates but he’s gonna catch shit for it anyway
If that egg throw was a Klay Thompson moment, the whole of New York is gonna find the mfer that threw it and stomp him out lmao.
Bro never resists an opportunity to add to his potential mythos. Good for him, alas he’s doing this during the social media era so everytime it doesn’t work out its gonna get memed to death