Wembanyama fights against Admiral Shark! What the sun wants to target him? Popovich: I don't know, he's too tall
On November 3, Beijing time, the NBA regular season continued, and today the Suns made a challenge to welcome the Spurs at home, after a contest between the two sides, the Suns were reversed by the Spurs, they wanted to be ashamed at home, Booker also chose to return, but in the end the Spurs defeated the Suns, they once led the Suns by 27 points, and finally defeated the opponent 132-121, this game can be said to be Wembanyama's best game so far this season.
But before we talk about the class, let's talk about the Suns, Durant and Booker tried their best, and when the team was trailing by 27 points at one point, they caught up with the difference in the final quarter and finally lost the game due to lack of fitness. In the recent absence of Booker and Beal, the blue-collar players are very tired every time they try their best, and such a loss is understandable. Booker shot 10-of-19 from the field and 5-of-7 from three-point range to score 31 points, 9 rebounds and 13 assists.
Durant shot 10 of 15 from the field, 3 of 5 from three-point range, scored 28 points, 6 rebounds, 1 assist and 2 blocks, Durant can be said to be very efficient, but he experienced the feeling of playing a player in the same position today, generally speaking, Durant against a small forward, his opponent can't touch it, today he was educated by Wembanyama, it can be said that Wembanyama beat Durant in this game, proving how great his talent is.
On the side of the Suns, in addition to Booker and KD, Grayson Allen scored 16 points, 2 rebounds and 4 assists, Goodwin and Eubanks both scored 13 points, the Suns team because of the formation of the super three, their lineup thickness is not good enough, and they will be complete after Beal returns, although it is really unexpected to lose two games in a row to the Spurs, but in terms of the strength of the Suns, they still have a chance to win good results this season.
After talking about the Suns, let's focus on the Spurs, this game The Spurs played their familiar Spurs system, which made fans dream back to the Leonard period, yes, not the Duncan period. Because the Duncan period has always been a team basketball, and the Leonard period is most of the time to play team basketball, in the critical moment is superstar basketball, after all, there are not many superstars like Duncan who are unwilling to perform, and now their new leader may not lose Duncan in terms of talent at all.
Wembanyama, as a rookie, scored 10 points in a row after Booker led the team to catch up with the difference in the fourth quarter, and after Booker led the team to catch up with the difference, the Spurs scored a total of 12 points until the end of the game. His shot is like the previous Durant, you can only watch, whether you can score or not depends on himself, defense is useless. In this game, Wenban shot 15 of 26 from the field, 3 of 6 from three-point range, and scored 38 points, 10 rebounds, 2 assists, 2 blocks and 1 steal.
Watching Wembanyama's performance, Booker said in an interview after the game: "Wembanyama's talent is unbelievable, he played a great game, he was really talented, and I'm still trying to figure out what kind of monster Wembanyama is, because we've never seen a player like him before." And with his excellent performance, Wembanyama also set a lot of records in this campaign:
He averaged 20.6 points, eight rebounds and 2.2 blocks per game in his first five games as a rookie, and only three in history have done so with Ralph Sampson, David Robinson and O'Neal.
He is also the third player in history to achieve those 38 points, 10 rebounds and two blocks before the age of 20, the previous two being Durant and James.
In the first five games of his career, Wemban scored a total of 100+ points and 10+ blocks, which is also the first center to do it since O'Neal.
It is worth mentioning that after the game, the reporter asked Popovich about the difference between the Suns using different lineups to defend Wemban, Popovich said: "I can't figure out what the difference is, because Wemban's is too high", indeed in terms of the game, whether it is Nurkic or Durant, who defends Wemban, is indiscriminately singled, the previous games were still very restrained, but now Wemban's star-level level, I don't know if he is going to be an All-Star in his rookie season.
And Popovich's ambition doesn't stop there, he has quietly made the Spurs complete the metamorphosis, and now the Spurs' team basketball system is back, they play good team basketball, and every player on the team can play a role, in addition to Wemban, Vassell scored 17 points in the half, Collins got 19 points and 8 rebounds, Sochan scored 14 points and 9 assists, Osman scored 13 points, and Tre Jones had 12 points and 10 assists.
The team sent 37 assists in the whole game, only 8 turnovers, such a statistic is very Spurs, excluding this game, in the past four games the Spurs average 27.8 assists per game ranked sixth in the league, but only 18.5 turnovers are the least in the league, and the very few turnovers in possession reduce the possibility of opponents to fight back, and then rely on team basketball output, this is the winning culture of the Spurs in the past. Speaking of which, what do you have to say about Wembanyama and Spurs now? Welcome to leave a message to discuss.