Player The unfortunately low-ceilinged Shaolin monastery of Victor Wembanyama

Victor says the constant trips East to West & back perturbed his rythm, he couldn't sleep last night and that's why he wasn't himself against the Raptors. Let's hope he slept well today.

 
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Comparing just the highlights between last night's game and the game against Toronto back in late October, it's evident that teams are more emboldened to hack and grab Wemby in an attempt to stop him. Sometimes it's just tough physical play (shoutout to CMB), but sometimes it's borderline malicious. It almost looked like Jakob tried to pull an Olynyk on Wemby under the basket in the 3rd.

Other random thoughts (that no one asked for lol):

This team needs to run more actions to get Wemby open in the midrange. I'm sure they're trying, but he had ZERO open looks inside the three point line last night.

Wemby struggles, as all young stars do (remember Anthony Edwards complaining about double teams last season?) with handling double and triple teams. This will continue to be a problem down the stretch of the season and into the playoffs, and I suspect that it will be an issue he and the training staff work vigorously on to address in the offseason.

Nonetheless, his defensive effort last night, especially in the 4th quarter, was GOAT-tier. Really love the fact that our perimeter defenders have the luxury of funneling ball-handlers into the Abduction Zone.
 
thiste said:
Victor says the constant trips East to West & back perturbed his rythm, he couldn't sleep last night and that's why he wasn't himself against the Raptors. Let's hope he slept well today.

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Give him some sleeping medecine, not sleeping is awful for physical activities. I came back from France once on a Saturday night to run a 10k on Thursday morning and my performance was pretty bad granted it is a 9h time difference with PST.
 
While his offense has struggled, Wemby has been an absolute MONSTER on defense the last two games.
There were two huge plays down the stretch that decided the game last night:
Fox's crazy behind the backboard floater with 1:24 to play and Wemby's snatch block of Poeltl with 41 seconds left.
Even though he was tired and frustrated, Wemby was bringing it on defense all night long.
The rest of the game down the stretch was mostly free throws.
 
I’m going to keep saying it again and again. The 65 game rule is idiotic. Honestly, Wemby should sit out the Brooklyn game, but because of the rule he can’t.
 
TimmyBuckets said:
I’m going to keep saying it again and again. The 65 game rule is idiotic. Honestly, Wemby should sit out the Brooklyn game, but because of the rule he can’t.
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Nah. 65 game rule is great. It makes individual awards race fair for players who played enough games(70-80 games).
 
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TimmyBuckets said:
I’m going to keep saying it again and again. The 65 game rule is idiotic. Honestly, Wemby should sit out the Brooklyn game, but because of the rule he can’t.
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I mean he can, the margin just shrinks for him.
 
65 game rule is almost not enough. MVP is a player that is actually on the floor night in and night out making your team better and the league better for the fans. I'm so tired of "load mangagement". Not valuable at all when sitting on the bench
 
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Nonetheless, his defensive effort last night, especially in the 4th quarter, was GOAT-tier. Really love the fact that our perimeter defenders have the luxury of funneling ball-handlers into the Abduction Zone.
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His defense has been awesome which is great to see. I am really, really glad to see that he's still being great defensively even though he's had some bad games offensively. We've seen a few times earlier this season where his defense hasn't been it's usual standard when he hasn't played well offensively. I don't know if he was just tired in those games, and/or if that made him lose a little bit of focus on defense due to things not going well on offense and being tired, but this is what I want most, if his offense isn't going well, if he's playing this kind of defense still, then that will help the team tremendously towards winning games. It seems like he's already really understanding what it takes to win games.

couchman said:
Fox's crazy behind the backboard floater with 1:24 to play and Wemby's snatch block of Poeltl with 41 seconds left.
Even though he was tired and frustrated, Wemby was bringing it on defense all night long.
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Sean had a great quote last night, can't remember it exactly, but that block on Poetl was awesome. Sean said something like, that was an offering, an offering to the god of blocks. lol. Also glad he didn't say Mr. you know what on that three HB made late in the game.

I'm guessing Vic was tired, but even if he was, he still kept focus on defense which was great to see.

That shot from De'Aaron was sick. Compare that to Brandon Ingram's missed shot at the end, the degree of difficulty was probably higher on Fox's shot, yet he made it and Ingram missed one badly that probably had a touch less difficulty, but more a bit more pressure on it. It was a huge shot from De'Aaron. I will say, though, this was one of the first games I started wavering a little bit on De'Aaron. He came through in the end (apart from those darn missed free throws - he's got to fix that, and the team has to fix that as they missed too many free throws at the end - can't imagine what the game thread was like on all those missed free throws as I haven't had a time to read it).
 
I mean, they're more hand picked stats, really. Yes, he's been great, but the Curry stat stands out the most as hand picked, because Curry started making the amount of threes Vic has up until to now, per season. Curry's going to start pulling away in that category. KD started scoring more too, the assist thing is razor thin close and Jokic starts going nuts not long after as he started establishing himself as a great player.
 
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I mean, they're more hand picked stats, really. Yes, he's been great, but the Curry stat stands out the most as hand picked, because Curry started making the amount of threes Vic has up until to now, per season. Curry's going to start pulling away in that category. KD started scoring more too, the assist thing is razor thin close and Jokic starts going nuts not long after as he started establishing himself as a great player.
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Yeah the Curry stat is definitely cherry picked since Curry wasn't a #1 option coming into the league and began his career in an era where you didn't shoot threes like crazy. But the scoring over Durant is pretty nice since Durant was the franchise from Day 1 in Seattle. The blocks number is especially impressive since Olajuwon came into the league at the age Wemby is right now and in an era where everyone played through the post and thus there were way more shotblocking opportunities.
 
It's extremely discouraging to see Wemby following up his first game in 2 months with playoffs-level minutes load and physicality with 2 duds and the worst part he came off soft complaining about lack sleep and rest during ASB. This is why i have been warning about overdoing the load management thing..Wemby's clearly lost the conditioning he's built up over the summer ..

We should probably not be surprised if Wemby wilts in the playoffs as a series goes longer and the extra minutes of physical play take their toll..
 
Management and others claim they don't read my posts, yet constantly quote and respond with poor comprehension. They equate breaks with retirement and falsely accuse my posts of being politically motivated. Their toxicity is consistent. Despite claims of creating this board for a fresh start, it's the same toxic environment with the same toxic people. Comment away commentors. Toodles
 
Ill be surprise if wemby still in top5 in mvp race tomorrow. And also im concered about him being leapfrog by castle and harper as the number 1 option next season turning him into a fulltime interior defensive superstar like camby, ben wallace and rudy gobert.
 
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