Game Thread Spurs (42-16) @ Nets (15-42) (Thur 02/26/26) [6:30 PM CST]

One thing that bugs me with this young squad is that they don't know how to nurse leads. There is no reason they should be starting their attack with more than 10 seconds on the shot clock
 
timtonymanu said:
Neal was a far worse defender though which made him unplayable at times. Like letting a shoeless Mike miller make a 3 over him back in the finals.
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Champagnie isn't a great defender either but it was more damning to be a bad defender 13 years ago than now. Neal was unusually good at taking charges fwiw. But yeah his F-tier game 6 performance when he was tasked with playing point guard for like 4-5 minutes to spell TP and our lead shrunk from 14 points to 3.
 
Ariel said:
It always bothered me that there was little clarity on how it was addressed... did he get surgery to decompress the vein where the clot was, like Brandon Ingram? or did they just treat the clot and just hope it doesn't repeat? Not really qualified on medical issues, but I'd feel a lot more comfortable if I knew it was the first option.
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I know right? I had the same questions when the news of the surgery came out, and the lack of follow-up has always felt more like a "hope it doesn't appear again" than anything else.

OTOH Wemby has repeatedly been shown to take extremely good care of his body, and he's obviously surrounded by people taking his health with great care. Maybe he wants to keep the specifics private. But as fans....... It does leave you wondering.

So yeah, go for a spin move. Or some side-step 3's or combo moves. Just whatever doesn't have him doing shoulder press in the gym all day every day
 
Millennial_Messiah said:
Wemby should absolutely learn the hook shot/sky hook. It suits his body frame well, like Kareem, a relatively skinnier center. He's never going to be Shaq who can just bully his way inside for dunks, but he has to learn to be an efficient paint scorer, almost an automatic two points or foul when you get him the ball in the post. Even mediocre centers like Olowokandi were efficient at that in their prime. Wemby shouldn't be taking guys a foot shorter off the dribble... really hardly ever. He turns it over as often as he does something good from that position.

I know it's 2026 not 1996, but if you're 7'4", play like it.
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There's a lot of ways to play like you're 7'4'' that don't involve repeatedly busting arms-over-shoulders moves, though.

There's more to Wemby's game than body type, the shoulder DVT is unfortunately a part of his body as well. I don't like to dwell on it much, but it'd be stupid not to acknowledge it, either. A significant number of injuries in athletes come from strained repetition of moves that take a toll on the articulations and ligaments - shoulders being maybe the most delicate/complex in the whole body.

Agree on reducing the "moves" though, but that can simply mean learn to set better screens and be more of a rolling force (which is crazy stupid he doesn't do already with his gravity and lob threat range).
 
Millennial_Messiah said:
I'd rather him be a beast down low like Duncan and shoot less threes unless it's in the flow of the offense... stop trying to take people off the dribble like he's prime Tracy McGrady, that's when Wemby turns the ball over...
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Problem is body wise he is much much much more Durant than Duncan.
He may be a beast down low, but it is unlikely to ever be like Duncan. And he plays a lot more like Durant than TMac...Durant's going strong at 37, TMac was a shell of himself at 29. Nothing wrong with the Durant route if you can hit the shots and Vic can...
 
Arguendo said:
Problem is body wise he is much much much more Durant than Duncan.
He may be a beast down low, but it is unlikely to ever be like Duncan. And he plays a lot more like Durant than TMac...Durant's going strong at 37, TMac was a shell of himself at 29. Nothing wrong with the Durant route if you can hit the shots and Vic can...
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T-Mac was a shell of himself at 29 because of injuries and he built his game on being a flashy jumpy dunker rather than high fundamentals, BBIQ.
 
spursparker9 said:
I recalled that there was news on the successful surgery. Should have been on medication thereafter as well
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I remember reading news about him from different sources, but no official confirmation from Wemby himself or the Spurs. This is like a broken telephone, where people assume and say things they do not know for a fact. Take this excerpt, for example:


San Antonio Spurs star Victor Wembanyama is recovering from deep vein thrombosis in his right shoulder. It's unclear whether the French sensation underwent surgery, but ESPN's Brian Windhorst said on the latest episode of The Hoop Collective podcast that he did.
  • Brian Windhorst: "Victor Wembanyama had surgery to get rid of the blood clot."
  • Michael C. Wright: "He's not telling us that. We definitely point-blank asked him during the end-of-season interviews, and he wouldn't say whether or not he had surgery."
  • Brian Windhorst: "Well, I'll leave that alone for now, but I thought he had surgery to like fix the rib or something. But OK, I'm not gonna step in anything that I can't step out of, so I'll just leave it alone with that."

If he did have surgery... why not come out and say so? sounds strange to me.
 
Sugus said:
There's a lot of ways to play like you're 7'4'' that don't involve repeatedly busting arms-over-shoulders moves, though.

There's more to Wemby's game than body type, the shoulder DVT is unfortunately a part of his body as well. I don't like to dwell on it much, but it'd be stupid not to acknowledge it, either. A significant number of injuries in athletes come from strained repetition of moves that take a toll on the articulations and ligaments - shoulders being maybe the most delicate/complex in the whole body.

Agree on reducing the "moves" though, but that can simply mean learn to set better screens and be more of a rolling force (which is crazy stupid he doesn't do already with his gravity and lob threat range).
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yeah, remember prime Tyson Chandler with the Pelicans and CP3, or DeAndre Jordan and Blake Griffin? Wemby can do that >20 times per game literally if he tried.
 
Dex said:
One thing that bugs me with this young squad is that they don't know how to nurse leads. There is no reason they should be starting their attack with more than 10 seconds on the shot clock
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Harper had an F-tier fourth quarter tbh. Several bricked threes and turnovers, getting blocked at the rim.

timtonymanu said:
Damn, it looks like Houston will win their game tonight.
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Why should we worry about Houston? We just need to keep winning. The only teams we care really about losing are OKC and to a lesser extent Detroit at this point. We aren't losing more than 22 games and we aren't falling below #2.
 
Do we have the worst 3rd stringers in the league? Feels like the final score is always closer than the game suggests thanks to these guys.
 
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