Is tall, plays ball with tall people, watches the Spurs with good seats, is on Reddit. ARE YOU TIM DUNCAN???

Man I can’t imagine it. He has this uncanny valley feeling to him. Even just from tv he looks fucked up moving as quick and as fluidly as he does.

I met him really briefly one time in passing and it’s genuinely surreal in a way that’s hard to articulate. He had to duck down to even walk through the door frame.

You think he’s tall to you? I’m 5’8 and I walked in Wemby’s radius one time. Shit was awe inspiring. Also it was fucking terrifying to see a human that tall. The alien moniker fucking fits

Especially the young guys in the league, because they play with too much emotion. Jokic, for example, doesn’t give a crap. Players need to learn from the Joker and other vets cold execution and not get mentally punked by Wemby’s size (which they probably won’t, because they’re just kids).

Nah bruh if you are short king like me everyone is fucking Wemby on the court lol

One of my best friends growing up was 6’8”. Professional water skier. Still never met and had a casual encounter with someone that tall since then.

You cant teach height.

You’re tall and you’ve played ball. How am I gonna compete with that?

Yeah but they just be lettin guys get rebounds here, not like college.

Same when  I saw him live for the first time in France. I remember being right in front of him when he started practice, it looked… Surreal. How do you even attack him ?

I literally played against him in my youth

I’ve said it before. I’m horny, I’ve played eith myself, been around plenty of 4 hour+ boner guys, and I’ve sat really close in a few orgies. Seeing him up close and watching him move, really boggles the mind. I can’t imagine being on a bed against him.

That’s just makes someone like the “short” king Jaylen Brunson legitimately kinda mythic tho? No?

Getting dad blocked when he doesn’t even bother to jump is a canon event.

Yup. Yaxel flourishes whenever he uses his body to score inside. Bad news for him, spurs got a lot of bodies to throw at him. Castle, Harper, Bryant, Vassell, Barnes, KJ. Then he’s got Wemby waiting at the rim. I honestly fully expected this kind of game from him.

Think about it…Cooper Flagg, the best teenager in the game, struggled against this spurs defense. No wonder Yaxel would, too. As your team’s #1 option, you need shooting to even have a decent game against SAS.

Only big euro players have to be worried.

Eh, that just means he won’t be on the court long. He’s gonna do something egregious to get outta the game as soon as possible

I mean, Luka scoring 3 points on him wouldn’t classify as a welcome to the NBA moment to me but to each their own.

Supposedly a higher standing reach as well. Not sure I believe it since I think wemby has grown since his measurements, but regardless Wemby is a lot more mobile

Look at Wemby’s build though, he’s kinda ripped (for a 7’ > guy). Chet and Aday barely have any muscle on them.

Yeah, but an 18 year old Mara is not the same as 22 year old Wemby

Wemby and Mara aren’t remotely comparable.

It was for sure a part of it. Wemby is a nightmare.

In case you haven’t seen it, Yax admits straight up that the Wemby effect is real:

“It looks like he put fear in all of our hearts,” Lendeborg said of Wembanyama. “Nobody wanted to go into the paint. Nobody wanted to get their shot blocked by him. We were all just doing a bunch of weak-ass floaters, and it wasn’t our game. I mean, I don’t know how many of us work on those, especially me. I shot like seven of them, bro, in a row. I’ve never worked on a floater since like JUCO.”

Only the second game this year he’s looked hesitant.

Also having no steph certainly help spurs defense collapse on yax.

Exactly. This wasn’t a Yaxel thing. The Warriors got their butts kicked. If the roles were reversed and Wemby was the rookie it would have been similar.

CoshReport could figure out a video idea around that

It’s easiest to label it as “random” but usually it’s tied to something human.

For example, a couple years ago, the Atalanta Braves (MLB) were having a dominant season. They won game after game, series after series. Then they lost 2 of 3 games to the worst team in baseball: the Oakland Athletics.

A lot of people in the baseball sub were like “Ha, baseball is so random!”

But the Braves had just spent 2 weeks at home, played a 7:05pm game, flew from Atlanta to Oakland later that night, then played the Athletics the same day they arrived in Oakland.

Meanwhile, Oakland had been back for a couple days already.

Is it just random that the Braves lost or was it a combination of travel and guys mentally resting because they weren’t taking the Athletics seriously?

In this case, the Warriors had played nothing but home games from October 30th to November 11th. Then they travel to Houston and lose. Then have to travel to San Antonio and lose.

Is it just random or a byproduct of the travel and adjusting after the long home stretch and guys outside of their normal routine and prep?

Momentum has a huge effect on NBA games compared to other sports

He’s not really pump fake’able. Generally, speaking. He knows he can delay his jump. This also prevents injury and reduces fouls.

Like a hesi block lol

Sounds just like Bill Russell and his ‘block art’

I watched the game. It wasnt really wemby suffocating him most of the time, it was all the other guys. I think they made a point of it actually. Like, you don’t even get to make the excuse that its Wemby. Its all of us.

Must be amazing to be any of his teammates, you just throw the ball anywhere in the vicinity of the hoop and it turns into an alley-oop lol

Because one of the goals of a dribble drive is to collapse the defense so you can kick it out to the open man.

I said it in another thread, Luke is at his best when he’s in the way. On defense, if he can just clog up the middle without having to move too much, he’s gonna make you put up a bad shot and probably get (or tip away) the rebound. On offense, if he’s just setting screens and just getting in the defenders’ way to open up space for the other 4 guys, then snatching any miss, that’s when he’s best.

Lmao anyone got a link to the ⁶⁄₁₀ thing? That’s a hilarious and self aware ass answer

He didn’t. I think people are genuinely confusing Luka and Wermby which is funny.

Before the game he gave Wemby mad props and talked about his crazy statlines and how good he is in the paint, so he said he’d be chucking up shots. Then he said something about “roughing him up” which is the same thing as “playing physical” which is what everyone does against any star.

He didn’t, people just overreacted

He was asked how he’s going to handle Wemby, he responded saying he’ll need to get physical and I guess to come people that is taking shit.

I don’t think he talks shit per se, he just talks a lot. Kinda rare for a rookie. Personally I think it’s great. I wish he would call out Draymond lol then he would be my favorite non-Spur

he’s 24 lmao

If he is almost 30 then you about to get booked into hospice care

He’s 24. You can hate on a player, but don’t make yourself look like an idiot in the process.

Closer to 20 than he is to my age and I’m not even mid-30’s yet.

With $154M of cap space out, he

Steph being out makes a difference

Butler being out - he has to show me that it makes a difference (e: He’s 37 years old and had an ACL injury. We don’t know what his recovery is like until he shows us)

Steph being out also means draymond was likely to pull some shit that would get him kicked out. And so it proved

Gobert called it years ago. Dray is a different animal without steph,being more likely to lounge disinterestedly through the game or to get himself kicked out

And he’s already the Warriors second best player which is crazy because I was told by many people it was Podz

your autism is crazy

Fun? He gives the dumbest brainrot answers I’ve ever heard. Did you read the title or watch the video? It’s embarrassing.

milwaukee brewers! Milwaukee brewers!1

Almost like it’s different people saying different things

Maybe there’s a middle ground between those two opinions

Yeah man, those are totally the same people saying that and not different people having different opinions.

Like everything has to be the exact right drama level for the consumer. When can we go back to why did you foul him shooting a 3 when up 4 or hit your free throws?

No no, the Lakers fan wants more highlights of his team on the front page

I mean he is a good interview because of his honesty though, it makes it interesting to hear what he has to say. I don’t think people are bots for thinking this lmao

Wemby got this treatment except hes a generational talent

I mean… It honestly is refreshing to see a player actually be disheartened after a loss instead of the usual PR “flush it down the drain” answer.

His honesty is so refreshing. We need more people like Yaxel.

Fans do the same to Wemby lol. Can’t be hypocritical now.

he’s a dawg, dont think he’s a villain tbh.

Not sure I feel like he’s a villain. I think he’s just a good character

Dude is here saying he was absolute ass and you’re saying he’s a villain? Lol

Villain?! What is you on

Fuck that. I want more PR robots who give boring answers.

I do like that he’s like actually good at the sport too

Why do we need more villains? Are you ok?

He’s not a villain lmao bro is probably one of the most liked players in the league rn

Spurs are the new villains bro get over it. Don’t try to push it on someone else.

Yaxel aint a villian lol wtf

He ain’t a villain. Just some dude ya’ll have a crush on

Villain? What?

Villain? We have people like Draymond shoving Wemby in the back, along with other players that do similar stuff. Until he does that, he’s no a villain.

All he did was talk about how rebounding in the NBA was surprisingly easy (his numbers have been solid), and crap talked Luka for whining. Luka’s a great player, but he does whine a lot. It’s kinda like criticizing great players for flopping.

Until he’s trying to injure someone, he ain’t no villain.

He was annoying about Luka but he’s kind of refreshing in a league full of corporate robots like Tatum. Doesn’t feel like he crosses the line like a Dillon brooks or a pat bev either. Plus he clearly genuinely cares about the game.

He’s alright by me.

He’s not even a villain. He’s just entertaining in his interviews.

He smiles all the time, how can he be a villain

Dillon brooks arc then where he’s beloved for being real, hated for continuing to do the same shit, then liked again for more mature pestering

Luka’s a villain. So it’s Villain vs villain? Interesting.

That title belongs to Luka

Feel like this team is better than last szn but so is the spurs so hard to say

That’s delusional lmao

As he should

Yaxel for president! Yaxel 2032!

But like actually

Dude went ²⁵⁄₁₀ last game and 26/9/5 against the Suns - those were the two games without or barely any Steph. Seems like he did alright?

He’s played 1 full game without Steph and it was against Wemby.. he’s not gonna be playing like this against most teams.

Playing with Steph definitely makes things way easier (as it does for everyone), but losing Curry to injury isn’t exactly an equalizer because the team now has a Steph-sized amount of unusable salary sitting on the bench

Do you just enjoy completely missing the point of comments or is that just for this comment?

I like this so much more than the usual vague rambling of “they came out strong, we couldn’t get in rhythm, looking forward to the next game.”

Yax is media trained, he’s just unfiltered. He doesn’t care to say the nothing burger PR answer and would rather give genuine answers.

Also the media training teams probably care most about is don’t say anything abhorrent and don’t seriously disparage the team. They give players the boilerplate responses because some of them just do not want to come up with things to say (which is fine imo).

I’m not saying media training is bad per se, but it’s interesting to get a look at what these guys are really thinking once in a while. I appreciate that Yax doesn’t sugarcoat anything lol