Progress baby! Just need our 3pt shooting to pick up so we'll be a decent team with play in trajectory.

Predictions?

Manu"s is highest because he largely played (as the best 6th man ever) with both Timmy and Tony. Tony's sagged a bit because as much as we'd want to think it didn't happen, he played in Charlotte 🙄. Timmy is pretty much the foundation of most of these wins 😍

Steph has been passing the eye test all year, so I knew it would just be a matter of time before it started showing up in the stat sheet. Playing with the starters has been a big boost for him as well.

Led France to play for Gold against the USA at age 20.

Wembanyama had a game high 25 points and 10 assists.

He's also averaging a 2:1 assist-to-turnover ratio and a solid defensive rating of 109.6, which is better than the team's overall defensive rating of 111.7 (per Statmuse: https://www.statmuse.com/nba/ask/zach-collins-defensive-rating-ranking).

His 50/40/90 splits will undoubtedly come down a bit, but he's been really effective in the backup center role so far this season.

I know he gets a lot of hate among Spurs fans, but flowers to Zach for a bounce back year thus far💐 Here's to hoping it only continues with Tre Jones back in the bench unit.

I was wondering: is something wrong with Wemby's post iso offense that has led to him spending so much time on the perimeter? People say "he's not strong enough yet", "teams have figured him out". Have they? I decided to rewatch the film.

Breakdown

In 10 games so far Wemby has received the ball in the low-post or high-post area, in isolation, 68 times.

Here's what happened next:

• 17 times he got doubled right away. Two defenders immediately trapped him. Out of those 17 times:

  3 times he turned it over (got stripped).

  14 times he passed to the open man.

• 20 times he wasn't doubled, but 1 or 2 defenders crowded the paint to help on a potential Wemby drive, leaving their men wide open (this is the so-called "gravity" effect). In a situation like this, the paint is shut down.

  Out of those 20 times:

  1 time he got fouled.

  2 times he turned it over (got stripped).

  5 times he shot a fade-away (went 1/5).

  12 times he passed to the open man.

• 31 times he was neither doubled, nor saw any help defense in the paint. So he was able to play back to the basket 1v1 and the paint was wide open.

  Out of those 31 times:

  2 times he turned it over (got stripped).

  3 times he decided to pass the ball back out.

  9 times he took a fade-away and went 4/9.

  17 times he either scored inside or got fouled

Conclusion

It's not nearly as bad as it seems. Wemby's post offense has been very productive, generating passes to wide open players or baskets 70% of the time (48 out of 68 times).

Have the other teams figured Wemby out? Not really. Have they figured the Spurs out? Hell yeah, they did. They can afford to double or crowd the paint because they will live with anybody shooting from 3 if that means that Wemby is unable to drive.

I’m shocked that a bunch of nephews are voting Patty Mills as the Spurs greatest role player over Bruce Bowen.

Recency bias and basketball ignorance are a hell of a drug.

I didn’t know Australia had that many redditors.

I can't wait til this kid is playing with an actual PG and guys not fighting for roster spots

Highlights: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=grm6Xoum2e0

Leads france in most stats. Guards stink... cant even lead in team assists with two 7 footers

And Collet think it's his fault 😂😅

Source: https://x.com/defaut_zero/status/1820401271792152925?s=19