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It’s hard not to feel like you’re watching a mirage during some of these games. The level of play is excellent and the bits and pieces you might be tempted to pick at are scarce. The wins are piling up. The vibes are good. Everything is going according to plan. Nothing to see here…right?
Right! Look, I’m not going to even try to play devil’s advocate here. No one wants to be the guy pointing at the Alien dropping 40 and 11 over 25 minutes and saying, “actually, this is bad.” If that’s a take you’d like to read then I can assure the internet is full of people willing to take you up on the offer. For my part, and if you’ve come to this website today, I’m assuring you, I genuinely find it hard to think of a less interesting angle to come at this from.
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Victor Wembanyama is simply brilliant. He’s been brilliant, he’s brilliant now, and he only seems to be getting more brillianter as we go along. Twelve of his fifteen made shots on Monday were dunks or layups, and nine of those were dunks. Four different teammates threw him an alley-oop. The Spurs are running a dizzying array of different motions that all end up at the same destination, which is a Wembanyama dunk. The threes, instead of feeling like something he has to do to open up the lane, now just arrive in the natural rhythm of the game. He made two threes all night, a digestif tacked on at the end of a satisfying meal.
Vic even hit a Dream Shake in the middle of the 2nd quarter that left me staring off in the distance in disbelief.
I sometimes try to avoid writing about the Victor Wembanyama of it all when I do these because it feels too easy. What did we learn from the Spurs win? They still have the best player on the planet and he helps a lot. Case closed. To his credit, he goes out of his way to make ignoring him next to impossible.
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The problem, if there is one, is that regular season basketball does actually seem easy for him at this point. That’s not a mirage. I have no doubt about how hard he’s worked to achieve the level he’s currently operating on, but that doesn’t change the fact that watching him dismantle the average NBA team…
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