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The Thompson twins are some of the most fluid athletes I’ve ever seen man. Those guys are insane
Insane athleticism and unique sex appeal due to the twin thing.
Hell yeah dude…wait…
y’know what, I’m upvoting this
Wut
Rowley waving, look of concern face
Welp, there goes ya bih
Amen
I feel like they could just train for a couple of months and go to the Olympics for long jump or some shit. They’re ridiculously talented
I think the crazy thing about this block, is Amen didn’t even have to jump that high. You’d think with someone like Wemby, that you’d have to get your head near the rim to block him.
Or be over 7 foot.
I mean the hoop height doesn’t change. You could be 8 ft but you still need the right angle to get the ball in the hoop. That’s why wemby needed to dunk that shit lol
Na, he was leaning into Amen and lowering his center. He should be moving away. Bro should spend some time with uncle Timmy. A baby hook off the glass at his height would literally be unstoppable, because if you touch it its a goaltend.
He could just go straight up and would be unblockable. He brought himself and the ball into Amen’s range. Really puzzling but maybe he doesn’t trust his strength and high COG in that moment.
No he wasn’t going to dunk that regardless. He needs a go-to turnaround hook/fade move that’s unblockable. Unless he gets doubled it’ll be a 99% success rate. He needs to simplify his scoring methods to improve efficiency.
You can still block a dunk
Harder to do tho
Or at least not lower the ball like that when he received it
His dunks are still too weak because he never had to dunk with so much force.
The league is waking up to do to him what he did to Chet. Wemby is the one who needs to put on weight now, he’s getting pushed around by stronger guys.
He needs to cut back on all the mental shit and get back to good ol eat and lifting, add 10kg of muscle and see where it goes.
If you’re 8 feet tall you could be doing jump hooks down to the rim. Would be pretty unblockable as any deflection would be an immediate goaltend since the shot would be on its way down.
It’s because Wemby was leaning way forwards. Can see why, makes it an easier layup, ball right by the rim, but also easier to block as his release points is lower and right in Amen’s space. If Wemby goes straight up, no way does it get blocked, but it’s also a harder shot, turns into a little 5 foot jumper where there’s more risk of it rimming out.
Most defenders aren’t blocking this, Wemby goes up so quick, it’s hard to get really good lift this fast. But Amen isn’t most defenders, he gets good lift super quick. If anything I’d say this block is more about how fast he reacts and gets up vs. how high he jumps.
Wemby gotta do better but the play from Amen is so nuts. Imagine going up for a layup on someone a full 9 inches shorter than you and they instantly just pogo up and erase it.
Watch Wemby go up. He’s leaning way forward with his weight over his toes. He can’t get a good jump.
He gambled on being a freak proportionally being enough and Amen made a great play.
It’s the timing. He jumped exactly when he needed to so he would be just above Wemby’s shot when he released the ball.
The explanation I can think of is Wemy was too predictable with the shot. Time was low but Wemy did have enough time to do a counter move or bump Thompson down a bit to create more space for his shot. But he just went one direction the entire time. Either way it’s a good heads up play by Thompson.
Great block, but Wemby shouldn’t be getting blocked 1v1 within 10ft of the rim. Inexcusable for Wemby.
Yeah NGL this was a soft ass shot from wemby. Playing small af
Even if he wants to play small, he needs to learn the skill sets to do that. High off the glass, use the rim to your advantage, etc. He played big but took a basic rec league shot.
Wemby leaned too much into that instead of going up / fading to make it out of reach. If he was going to go horizontal like that, he needed to be closer where he could just dunk it I think.
Watch it again. Wemby is going towards the basket more than up. The ball is barely above wembys head.
If he goes straight up with it and shoots a hook or a bunny hop jumper it’s unblockable.
Wemby was leaning so far forward he was 6’8.
It’s not that he jumps high here, it’s how fast he can go from flat footed to jumping up to catch up with the guy that’s already going to the rim
Chris bosh sighting at the end
How tf did you find that random easter egg lmao
Right? Insane snipe
Bro he was visible for like 3/60ths of a second.
It’s not so much “how did you see him” as much as im asking “why” 😂
what is on stephon castles butt?
Padded Shorts. I am assuming they crept down… that part that looks like a tin is probably supposed to go on his coccyx/tailbone. At least that is my assumption.
plugged up
Stuffin’ Casshole
Im assuming its some sort of padding so he doesnt obliterate his tail bone if he falls?….Or its a plug.
Little Fox tail to show support
Can of zyn probably
It’s a pad to protect your tailbone
Josh Hart Plug
hurting your tailbone hurts extremely badly and can put you out of commission for a long time
It looks like he’s wearing a football girdle. I have had players wear them in basketball because they have extra padding for your tailbone and all around your thighs
Probably underwear that has hip and tail bone padding.
That time of month
I’m waiting on this answer.
His can of zyns
Damn they really put him on Wemby
Jabari was on Wemby and they switched a screen
This makes it more impressive lol
If you go watch the whole play you can see Marcus smart tell amen to stay low when Harper tries to draw him out to the perimeter. Kinda blew my mind seeing it play out live exactly how smart said it would
Not really, but okay?
It is impressive to me, do you need to agree with me? Lmao foh
Such an insane grown man block by Amen
Why is wemby bringing the ball up from his knees 😭
KD lives for this. He was so hyped
Crazy athleticism, but what is Wemby doing? You think they are just going to let you turn and drop it in without making any move whatsoever?
He’s thinking he’s freakishly tall and this would have worked against most teams
He was thinking “I need to go up quickly” because the ball went to Fox first before the post pass. The block happened with less than a second left, so any sort of move to throw Thompson off balance would have let the clock expire. Plus, there’s the whole “I’m a foot taller than my defender” part.
People in here pretending they know ball and don’t know what the fuck a shot clock is.
I hate it when they try to get it in without making love.
Right, lovemaking is a very vital part of the process of getting it in
Yeah would have been smarter to just go straight up with it when he turned over his right shoulder… and once he didn’t go straight up, Amen had the advantage of being able to time his jump bc of how little time was left.
This is working 99⁄100 times he does it. It just happened to be against one of maybe 3 guys who could block that.
One of 3 guys that are 6’7” or less that could block that, maybe. There’s WAY more than 3 guys total that could have gotten to that.
Probably half the league at worse.
Wouldn’t go quite that far, but it’s a lot. Basically every 4 and 5 in the league, and a decent number of wings.
Theres 3 players per team that block that
What I was thinking.. absolutely no moves to shake amen at all..
You think there was time for a post move?
He didn’t need a move. Just to get his weight set before going up.
I agree.
About 3.5 seconds left when he caught it, I think maybe a bump or hesi? I guess either that or he should’ve tried to go up stronger and dunked it. 3.5 seconds seems like enough time but maybe you’re right
Actually, I think you’re right. Wemby had more time than i think he realized
Or even the slightest attempt at a dream shake
Basketball must be so much fun if you have that kinda athleticism.
That’s insane
It’s great defense by Thompson, but Wemby should not have held the ball so low when he started to jump. He had to bring the ball up into where Thompson could block it. If he had just squared up with Thompson, Thompson would have had really no chance.
If he holds the ball high above his head playing keepaway, that ball is like 10 feet in the air. A little vertical hop, release, and a straight down trajectory is either a bucket or a goaltend. I just don’t get it.
It’s because Wemby still lacks some fundamentals because he doesn’t play as a “traditional” big man.
He should start trying to skyhook, he’s one of the only players since Kareem who could conceivably pull it off lol
There are insane amount of overreaction in this thread.
Wemby made the move that is right most of the time. It is more blockable but it was also a shot that uses less stamina and has the least injury risk, both of which are significant concerns.
Wemby just needs to know that is a move he can’t make against elite athletic centers like Thompson.
Less stamina? The game ended after.
i think that’s exactly what he did. that’s why it looks like he just floated it down to the basket without any finesse, because as long as he drops the ball downward and amen doesn’t touch the ball before it leaves wemby’s hand, it’s a goaltend or a bucket. from this (and every angle i’ve seen), it’s difficult to tell whether amen touches the ball before it leaves wemby’s hand. i lean towards no, wemby pulls his hands away before amen touches the ball, i.e. goaltend.
Should have done the too short celebration.
200 million dollar block
Should’ve gained 2lbs in the offseason
Someone said it was a goaltend with the other clip. Looked good there and this confirms it was a good block.
This looks close to a goaltend to me. Im not really sure how the rule works with shots like this because it seems like it had no upwards arc at all. Does that mean as soon as it leaves his hand touching it is goaltending?
No. Goal tending is hitting the ball when it’s moving downward.
If there’s no upwards arc then it was always moving downward
Isn’t the ball moving down? How does this confirm block?
Looks like he hits the ball before it fully leaves Wemby’s hand. Doesn’t look like it’s moving down to me. “b” below is often called “basket interference”.
“Goaltending is a violation of the rules in the sport of basketball. It consists of certain forms of player interference with the ball while it is on its way to the basket. It is goaltending if a player touches the ball when it is:
(a) in downward flight; (b) above the basket rim and within an imaginary cylinder projecting above the rim; © already touching the rim; or (d) (varying at certain levels of the sport) after it has touched the backboard and has a chance of going in the hoop.”
how can you possibly tell whether the ball is touching his left hand when it’s behind the ball? if anyone has any better angles please let me know
I think the ball is still touching Wemby’s hand, but that doesn’t make it goaltending. Surprised you haven’t looked up the rules.
Anyone calling goaltend is blind, biased, or doesn’t watch basketball
I spent a good 15 minutes looking at every angle yesterday and I’m pretty confident that it’s a goaltend. Maybe there’s some wiggle room with what’s considered the apex but it was pretty much a downward shot and it was out of wenbanyamas hands when amen got to it. Call me what you will
obviously you’re blind, biased, and don’t watch basketball!
How does this confirm it was a good block? Wouldnt we need to see whether wembys left hand was touching the ball while amen blocked it?
Generational athlete
Why does this video look realer than real life?
Crazy how much people criticized Wemby for this. He jumps standing 10 ft from the basket with a defender in front of him and people expected him to be able to dunk it, and if he had gone for a hook instead people would’ve called it soft.
Just incredible defense from one of the most freakish athletes on the planet, just about anybody else and that’s a bucket
Nahh, all the great scoring bigs had a Goto post move. Wemby doesn’t have one, this is the type of stuff that happens when you’re 7’5 without an unblockable go-to move.
Nothing soft about using your height to your advantage. Nobody should be blocking a well practiced Wemby jump hook. Wemby got exposed for his lack of methodology. You can’t freestyle all the time against the best hoopers in the world.
Wemby plays so small sometimes. Like, why would you duck low and bring the ball way down to knee height in that situation?
The entire stadium went “Oh Shit!” on that play.
Dayuuumm!
I love angles like this man. Makes it that much more impressive. Thompson twins are defensive gods if they could get jump shots then they’d be insane
Some of the cleanest defense you’ll see.
Lmao look at KD hoppin haha
Exactly what Gil was talking about