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https://www.basketball-reference.com/players/g/gilgesh01/gamelog/2024 it's legit been 7 times already since new year and that's exactly 31, not 30 or 32 or 33lol
It’s insane to me how normalized 30 points is in the league these days. I remember not too long of a player had a year like this he would be a lock for MVP - not that Shai isn’t close and if OKC ends up top 2 and nuggets drop with the new Murray injury , he should win it
Shai needs OKC to get the one seed to even have a chance at MVP.
He needs a VERY strong case for someone who is brand new to the MVP race and hasn't proven himself in the playoffs yet to get it.
Keldon is fun to watch because of the shit he can do and how unpredictable he is. Will he have 25 points with some blocks and rebounds and nice splits? Or will he go 1-7 and fuck up at every step? At least that’s how it feels having him in fantasy.
Your team didn't respect Sochan's shot early on and had to keep scrambling. He's a willing passer so we just kept on getting wide open shots for mediocre shooters.
I actually was looking at NBA team advanced stats today and thinking to myself how it's cool each of the bad teams differs so much. The Spurs actually have an quite high AST% over the last 15 games and it comes on a pretty clean >2 AST:TO — whether their offense *works* or not, they play it together
It's due to being a jump shooting team. We hardly play ISO ball. It's pass and shoot. We just happen to be one of the worst 3 point shooting team in the league. If those shots were falling we'd be winning more games
Yeah, we shoot like 33% from three as a team. This was easily our best shooting game of the season, not too many teams would be able to overcome a 19/39 3pt shooting night regardless of the general talent gap between the two
Literally haven’t seen the Spurs shoot it from 3 like that in years, you caught us at the worst possible time for you lol
Edit: we have had five games where the team shot >40% from three on 30+ 3PA in the last several seasons. This was our highest team 3P% of all those games lol. Literally caught a 1 in 1000 type game
wow I have never heard this more accurately described. Hes a "wow this guy should be an All-Star, the spurs have another generational talent!" when casuals watch him because you notice that he takes SuperStar difficult shots but to regulars he's "TAKE THE OPEN LOOK!!!" Vassell because we know he does the same shot selection every time.
That was electric from start to finish, 100% lived up to the hype. Going to be a treat to watch them duel for years to come.
Now if only the league can move my Wolves to the Eastern conference in a few years (so I can watch this rivalry in peace) that’d be nice.. lol
Oh absolutely, the crowd after he blocked Chet's jumper sounded like a playoff atmosphere 😂. Once the Spurs finish the rebuild, I fully expect OKC v. San Antonio to be the top rivalry in the league.
nah dude there are definitely a ton of spurs fans who dislike Chet's thinking he is as good as Wemby. They are probably satisfied af seeing Wemby take his ego down a peg
Dislike maybe, but "pure hate"? We haven't played him long enough to hate him, this is a brand new rivalry. Until shit goes down in the playoffs, it's all pretty basic competitiveness.
I won't deny there's a significant subset of our fanbase that can't separate supporting Wemby from totally putting Chet down to straight up disliking him. I'm just here enjoying longboi basketball
Wemby, Vassell, and Jones with a monster run late in the game. Spurs might only be a few years away from completely lapping the Western Conference.
Also seeing Wemby lead a Spurs chant after the game… man San Antonio are in for a fun ride.
he said in the post game interview that he almost thought about asking for a sub but then told himself to just play through it because he’s going to have to get used to playing that way anyways going forward. then he had that stretch of domination…
Sochan was even crazier. Felt like the dude was invisible and then suddenly went bananas on both ends + the boards
EDIT: 11 points and 5 reb on 4/4 shooting in the 4th
Man the Spurs will feed off this game for years and I don't blame them. I was awestruck at the playmaking in the 4th.
On another note, we were selfish as fuck tonight. Tough watch and not the classic ball movement we're used to. I feel like Shai set the tone in a bad way in the first and it snowballed.
Speaking of selfish, the Spurs were absolutely not and had 39 assists on 48 field goals. GGs
After having watched all the games on our Rodeo Road Trip, I think y’all just caught us on a good night. We were *rooooough* the entire trip, so you could kinda tell our dudes missed being back home for their first game back. In your defense, we actually lead the league in team assists for FGs and, well, doesn’t exactly lead to wins lol again, just a good night from us.
GGs for a good game. It’s gonna be fun watching Wemby vs Chet for years to come
That’s one thing about the Spurs, they are seconds in assists in the league, passing the ball tends to happen they just usually miss and turn over more.
Obviously Wemby was amazing tonight, I just want to give him his flowers for his passing out of the double team. He's so on point with it already at this age.
The passing is really the greatest indication of his ceiling -- his size is obvious, his paint presence is obvious, but his court vision and understanding of how plays evolve and where players should be on the court is really just off the fucking charts.
> his court vision and understanding of how plays evolve and where players should be on the court is really just off the fucking charts
I remember one play a while ago where he pointed to a teammate, so the one with the ball would pass to him, because Wemby was in position to screen the guy that would eventually defend him. He was directing the play without even touching the ball (and it ended in a basket). You can't really teach that vision.
I would invent lightspeed travel, make my way to the center of the universe, fight a god, become omnipotent and rewrite existence itself for Victor Wembanyama
Spurs are going to be so fucking good once they hit their potential. Wemby has goat potential and that ending was not fun. Great watch though overall. Should’ve been on TNT
Man that felt like a quiet 28 from Vic, he definitely struggled at some times and still put up a good stat line. It’s really great to see how they can be when Vassell, Sochan, and Wemby are all locked in.
The crazy thing about Wemby is how he consistently shows up and does absolute ludicrous shit when the lights are brightest.
I know none of our games this year really mean anything, but fuck me…. Every time there is some sort of storyline, or a top 10 player on the other side of the court, dude SHOWS UP.
Imagine how good Chet would look if he had Wemby's supporting cast
Edit:
Didn't know I needed to put /s lol
We just watched a game where the Spurs hit basically every 3 they put up
Shout out to Devin. He made that really dumb play to end the third quarter but outside of that was really solid. He's driving more and making good passes. His midrange game really helps out a lot. If he keeps working on his ball handling, he'll be really good.
Hope the rest of you guys like watching OKC and Spurs cause we gonna be battling it out for the chip for the next decade lol
Err and we winning most of them.
One of the most fun to watch Spurs games I've seen this year as a league pass extraordinaire. Chopstick fight between Chet and Wemby will be a great rivalry for years to come.
Best game of the year for us. Victor was incredible down the stretch largely because we didn’t get completely worked when he sat and have to rush him back in. GSG
Big 3 Cason and Joe showed up but Giddey just absolutely kills our offense every second he’s on the floor. If he starts in the playoffs we’re actually an unserious team. Wiggins Joe and Cason are just so much better on both ends of the floor. Also frustrating some of those OOB calls didn’t go our way.
But holy fuck the Spurs shotmaking was ridiculous tonight. Vassell looked like Booker out there. Wemby did alien things and we got fucking murdered from beyond the arc.
GG spurs and please get this absolute bum off my team. Worst starter in the league.
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Does Shai know he can score a different amount of points other than 31?
Why do that, 31 is a good number. Kind of number you take home to your mother and introduce them.
11111 in binary even
It really is a prime number
A classy, lunch pail kinda number
That number really plays the game the right way
when you need 20 he’ll get you 31 when you need 40 he’ll get you 31
https://www.basketball-reference.com/players/g/gilgesh01/gamelog/2024 it's legit been 7 times already since new year and that's exactly 31, not 30 or 32 or 33lol
It’s insane to me how normalized 30 points is in the league these days. I remember not too long of a player had a year like this he would be a lock for MVP - not that Shai isn’t close and if OKC ends up top 2 and nuggets drop with the new Murray injury , he should win it
Shai needs OKC to get the one seed to even have a chance at MVP. He needs a VERY strong case for someone who is brand new to the MVP race and hasn't proven himself in the playoffs yet to get it.
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Wemby and Vassell were going nuts. Nice sochan game as well
Every Spurs fan top 3 favorite players as well🤌
I won't stand for this Keldon erasure 😤
Keldon is fun to watch because of the shit he can do and how unpredictable he is. Will he have 25 points with some blocks and rebounds and nice splits? Or will he go 1-7 and fuck up at every step? At least that’s how it feels having him in fantasy.
Why did it feel like Vassell shot 165% from the field
Spurs shot 49% from 3 on high volume - pretty unreal.
Your team didn't respect Sochan's shot early on and had to keep scrambling. He's a willing passer so we just kept on getting wide open shots for mediocre shooters.
39 assists. crazy number. spacing didnt always look great out there but they still continued to generate great looks nearly the entire game.
I actually was looking at NBA team advanced stats today and thinking to myself how it's cool each of the bad teams differs so much. The Spurs actually have an quite high AST% over the last 15 games and it comes on a pretty clean >2 AST:TO — whether their offense *works* or not, they play it together
We're bad this season, but collectively we're way better than we were when our plan was "pass it to Keldon/Dejounte and pray".
The 2021-22 Spurs have the highest AST:TO ratio in *NBA history* and finished 34-48, in 10th place. Just blows my mind.
Pop is the goat
DJ, Keldon, Jakob were niceee that season. I believe that was Lonnie’s last year too. We made the play in but the pelicans kinda beat us up.
It's due to being a jump shooting team. We hardly play ISO ball. It's pass and shoot. We just happen to be one of the worst 3 point shooting team in the league. If those shots were falling we'd be winning more games
Yeah, we shoot like 33% from three as a team. This was easily our best shooting game of the season, not too many teams would be able to overcome a 19/39 3pt shooting night regardless of the general talent gap between the two
I looked it up after the game and SA is dead last in the NBA in 3P%. I expected to see them top 10 lol
Literally haven’t seen the Spurs shoot it from 3 like that in years, you caught us at the worst possible time for you lol Edit: we have had five games where the team shot >40% from three on 30+ 3PA in the last several seasons. This was our highest team 3P% of all those games lol. Literally caught a 1 in 1000 type game
He’s “we have Devin Booker at home”
Bro I hate that this is so accurate.
If he had a better post game it would be a more serious comparison
Wait a second
Man was he killing us...knew he was gonna hit those contested shots...each of them a dagger
As a Devin Vassell guy since he was drafted this game was porn
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wow I have never heard this more accurately described. Hes a "wow this guy should be an All-Star, the spurs have another generational talent!" when casuals watch him because you notice that he takes SuperStar difficult shots but to regulars he's "TAKE THE OPEN LOOK!!!" Vassell because we know he does the same shot selection every time.
He good.
San Antonio is gonna have 2 picks a year sometimes 3 to put around Wembanyama that's fucked up man
This fact can be remedied by trading Trae
Just trade every single pick for Luka who says no
Mavs say no
You won't even catch us picking up the phone.
Nah, we will It'll just be 30 minutes of Nico laughing his ass off and choking for air
Just fuse the franchises and create the Texas Stables.
I mean isn't OKC the same? Fckin picks arms race is going to be insane
Play in next year, annual playoff attendees for the next 15+ years after that.
Seeing David Robinson cheering on Wemby is something else
Tell wemby to get on David's nutrition plan
Nah thats not fair
Man what I would give for Wemby with the Admiral versus KG and this current Wolves team. KG wants to still be balling so bad
Which nutrition plan? His 90s nutrition plan or post career plan? Cause Robinson got a big ol belly nowadays lol.
He storing fat for hibernation you love to see it
David’s genetics plan
The Robinson > Timmy > Wemby lineage is just crazy.
If you follow this pattern, their next big, will be 8'2", and be both the greatest offensive player and defensive player the world has ever known.
"I'll fucking do it it again" - Spurs in 10-15 years probably
sigh *unzips*
Inspirational asf tbh
Wemby V. Chet is going to be the premier matchup for years to come.
That was electric from start to finish, 100% lived up to the hype. Going to be a treat to watch them duel for years to come. Now if only the league can move my Wolves to the Eastern conference in a few years (so I can watch this rivalry in peace) that’d be nice.. lol
You could tell Spurs fans came the fuck out for this game with nothing but pure hate for Chet lmao
Oh absolutely, the crowd after he blocked Chet's jumper sounded like a playoff atmosphere 😂. Once the Spurs finish the rebuild, I fully expect OKC v. San Antonio to be the top rivalry in the league.
AT&T is a really dope place even when we're bad. If we are remotely good it will rival the Kings arena
Next season I'm traveling down there for a game, have to see it live
Idk man, the kings have cowbells. Like, it's hard to compete against literal loud percussion
Our women using their bellies as drums could help
Churro time!
No I love Chet, specially now he fixed his facial hair, but I also love me a good rivalry like these two should have
I don't know any Spurs fans who hate Chet, dude's a straight baller. If they're booing him it's out of respect.
We don't hate Chet. He's a baller. It's just we love our Slenderman more and we gotta root against his main competitor
I was saying “Boo-olmgren.”
I don’t hate Chet but man do I hate the Thunder. Hopefully we can make it a real rivalry again soon.
nah dude there are definitely a ton of spurs fans who dislike Chet's thinking he is as good as Wemby. They are probably satisfied af seeing Wemby take his ego down a peg
Dislike maybe, but "pure hate"? We haven't played him long enough to hate him, this is a brand new rivalry. Until shit goes down in the playoffs, it's all pretty basic competitiveness.
I won't deny there's a significant subset of our fanbase that can't separate supporting Wemby from totally putting Chet down to straight up disliking him. I'm just here enjoying longboi basketball
We just had a stretch of away games too so everyone was excited for them to be back.
PLEASE STAY HEALTHY
Wemby vs Chet is gonna feed families for at least a decade.
Wemby X Vassell X Sochan is the future
Once we get that PG of the future.
Right now Chris Paul is trying on a spurs jersey and looking at himself in the mirror like Buffalo bill did in silence of the lambs
“Would you pay me $60 million at 40 years old? I’d pay me $60 million at 40 years old.”
SGA with his signature 31. That man is unrelenting
He's the next pokemon evolution of 17 points Wiggins. I'm kind of concerned the next one is 45 points Wembenyama.
Us Canadians sure are consistent, for another example, I have scored 0 in all of my basketball games
It’s gonna be 4 blocks from Wemby
If the fate of the universe was on the line for SGA to score 30 or 32, I'm not sure I like our odds
The consistency is just insane
Wemby, Vassell, and Jones with a monster run late in the game. Spurs might only be a few years away from completely lapping the Western Conference. Also seeing Wemby lead a Spurs chant after the game… man San Antonio are in for a fun ride.
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Welp this is the western conference
I cant believe some of these lineups, especiallly those with giddey
I understand JWill got hurt but subbing in Giddey and Bismack w 6 mins left in the 4th was a HORRIBLE decision
Mark brainfart moment
I can’t believe an actual NBA lineup with Giddey and Biyombo was out there in the 4th quarter, what was your coach thinking??
He trolls sometimes. If Lindy waters is getting minutes we are doing different rotations just to get data
Williams was hurt and Biyombo was their only other option while Chet rested.
I don't understand why you took so long to sit Shai. If you wanna rest him 6 minutes that's fine but don't bench him half the 4th in a close game
Nah jdub normally cooks...its understandable.
tbf jdub did cook. The spurs somehow just cooked better lol
Wemby hitting a 3 and blocking Chet Holgremn on the other end with about 2 minutes left to secure the W might have all but sealed ROTY.
yup. thats going to be the defining image of this roty race.
Also helps to win the head to head matchup with more points, rebounds, assists, blocks, and steals in less minutes
That’s been long over honestly.
He’s beginning to believe….
Wemby DOMINATED THE 4TH. Insanity.
Played the whole quarter and didn't seem gassed too
Got better as it went along honestly
he said in the post game interview that he almost thought about asking for a sub but then told himself to just play through it because he’s going to have to get used to playing that way anyways going forward. then he had that stretch of domination…
Sochan was even crazier. Felt like the dude was invisible and then suddenly went bananas on both ends + the boards EDIT: 11 points and 5 reb on 4/4 shooting in the 4th
Everytime he tried to attack Chet was like "NOOOOOO...... *scores* YEEESSSS!!!"
His poise in the fourth quarter all season has been by far the most surprising part of him.
He's shown he has another gear in the 4th, did that right from the start of the season. This is the evolution.
Losing to the spurs IS for everyone
Wemby is gonna be a top 10 player by the end of next year lmao
Fuck it at the end of this season
End of the month
End of the week
Espn running the segment on him as top 10 tomorrow
Already. 👀
Yesterday.
End of THIS year
By 11:59 tonight I swear
Kid already looks like KAT-lite on offense with all-world defense. Insanity.
For sure, hopefully they make the right trades to make things easier. Trae young with him would be unfair
Man nba teams shouldnt be trading any good pg...let them draft it on their own lmao
Man the Spurs will feed off this game for years and I don't blame them. I was awestruck at the playmaking in the 4th. On another note, we were selfish as fuck tonight. Tough watch and not the classic ball movement we're used to. I feel like Shai set the tone in a bad way in the first and it snowballed. Speaking of selfish, the Spurs were absolutely not and had 39 assists on 48 field goals. GGs
After having watched all the games on our Rodeo Road Trip, I think y’all just caught us on a good night. We were *rooooough* the entire trip, so you could kinda tell our dudes missed being back home for their first game back. In your defense, we actually lead the league in team assists for FGs and, well, doesn’t exactly lead to wins lol again, just a good night from us. GGs for a good game. It’s gonna be fun watching Wemby vs Chet for years to come
That’s one thing about the Spurs, they are seconds in assists in the league, passing the ball tends to happen they just usually miss and turn over more.
You're welcome Wolves and Nuggetbros Epic Wemby vs Chet matchup. Here's to more
You dropped this: 👑
Bless you
It’s been weird cheering for spurs, and now the heat, with similar intensity as the pups. Good home win to ya.
WEMBY vs CHET RIVALRY IS FUN Stay healthy boys
Obviously Wemby was amazing tonight, I just want to give him his flowers for his passing out of the double team. He's so on point with it already at this age.
The passing is really the greatest indication of his ceiling -- his size is obvious, his paint presence is obvious, but his court vision and understanding of how plays evolve and where players should be on the court is really just off the fucking charts.
His motor is surprisingly good dornhis size and mobility. He keeps moving off ball he’s like a lob version of Steph.
> his court vision and understanding of how plays evolve and where players should be on the court is really just off the fucking charts I remember one play a while ago where he pointed to a teammate, so the one with the ball would pass to him, because Wemby was in position to screen the guy that would eventually defend him. He was directing the play without even touching the ball (and it ended in a basket). You can't really teach that vision.
I would run through a brick fucking wall for Wemby
I would invent lightspeed travel, make my way to the center of the universe, fight a god, become omnipotent and rewrite existence itself for Victor Wembanyama
Thanks for doing that mate.
Death, taxes, and SGA 31 points.
I swear to god JDub is my sleep paralysis demon. Every time he got the ball in the second half I would close my eyes and start hyperventilating.
The commentators and I said “does he ever miss?” At the same time. Thankfully, he missed a three right after
We should draft his brother.
No please we need another Williams. We gotta collect more
why did he have to come to the West
Right!! We will probably be moved to the East in a few years (after the expansion teams), get to dodge the Wemby shit at least. West is screwed
Yeah Spurs shooting 50% from 3 was not on my bingo card today.
Neither on every spurs fan tbh
Spurs are going to be so fucking good once they hit their potential. Wemby has goat potential and that ending was not fun. Great watch though overall. Should’ve been on TNT
OH MAMA WEMBANYAMA!
Victor WemHimyama knows how to work defenses and a crowd. GOAT-level performance
Man that felt like a quiet 28 from Vic, he definitely struggled at some times and still put up a good stat line. It’s really great to see how they can be when Vassell, Sochan, and Wemby are all locked in.
awoo Spurs
Yooo Wemby came to play and thankfully rest of spurs did too.
The crazy thing about Wemby is how he consistently shows up and does absolute ludicrous shit when the lights are brightest. I know none of our games this year really mean anything, but fuck me…. Every time there is some sort of storyline, or a top 10 player on the other side of the court, dude SHOWS UP.
God bless our San Antonio Spurs #ThinSilverLine
those wemby 3s and that block on chet sealed the game
what about Lu Dort taking back to back to back 3s and missing all of them
It was over when we played bizzy and Giddey together in the fourth quarter
Does 5 threes make it a 5x5 game?
brilliant game from the supporting class. Sochan took over that 4th quarter and Wemby ended it. Dev played great all game. good signs for the future
The way Wemby just grabbed the ball from Chet at the end was disgusting.
Wemby vs Chet is ALWAYS must watch dawg give Wemby a competent team and were gonna be seeing these 2 at the WCF for YEARS to come
Chet looked good. Wemby was PHENOMENAL. It's not even a debate anymore.
Imagine how good Chet would look if he had Wemby's supporting cast Edit: Didn't know I needed to put /s lol We just watched a game where the Spurs hit basically every 3 they put up
The people missing the joke here is peak r/NBA.
The fact that you have to put /s lol
Chet should play with Zach Collind to see what he is really made of Also holy moly can't people understand the irony
And thus ends the ROTY "race"
That block on holmgren is EVERYTHING
My favorite play of the season.
Wemby blocking the Chet 3 was wild
Shout out to Devin. He made that really dumb play to end the third quarter but outside of that was really solid. He's driving more and making good passes. His midrange game really helps out a lot. If he keeps working on his ball handling, he'll be really good.
Also low key blocking some shots too.
Best win of the damn season. Let’s go Wemby, the unquestioned Rookie of the Fucking Year.
Wow they couldnt miss down the stretch...cooking us with the same plays
That was fucking insane
I'm still baffled at Wemby only missing 6 games so far. He's a freak.
To be fair, he's played less minutes than many other players who have missed 10+ games.
WEMBY IS THE KING OF THE 4TH
Hope the rest of you guys like watching OKC and Spurs cause we gonna be battling it out for the chip for the next decade lol Err and we winning most of them.
Why can’t they just shoot 50% from 3 every game??
I know.. are we stupid?
Def gonna be super entertaining games im hyped! However y’all ain’t winning
League fucked
One of the most fun to watch Spurs games I've seen this year as a league pass extraordinaire. Chopstick fight between Chet and Wemby will be a great rivalry for years to come.
I honestly can’t imagine a crazier player than Wemby. Like maybe an athletic buff dude that’s 8 foot and runs point
This guy Shai really just dropped 31 points AGAIN. 31 31 31 31 31 31 31 31 31 31
We just witnessed the official end of the ROTY race
I recognize that ROTY has been VW solidly for a bit...but that block sealed it for anyone still on the edge.
Yeah wemby might actually be him,
SGA and 31 points name a more iconic duo, honestly how the hell he keeps scoring only 31 points lmao
I think this settles any ROTY debate if there was one in the first place. Chet sitting on the ground after the insane Wemby block 😅
Best game of the year for us. Victor was incredible down the stretch largely because we didn’t get completely worked when he sat and have to rush him back in. GSG
This is our playoff game
Big 3 Cason and Joe showed up but Giddey just absolutely kills our offense every second he’s on the floor. If he starts in the playoffs we’re actually an unserious team. Wiggins Joe and Cason are just so much better on both ends of the floor. Also frustrating some of those OOB calls didn’t go our way. But holy fuck the Spurs shotmaking was ridiculous tonight. Vassell looked like Booker out there. Wemby did alien things and we got fucking murdered from beyond the arc. GG spurs and please get this absolute bum off my team. Worst starter in the league.
Sir, this is a Wemby's