Jason

Everything gets really difficult with talking about like big picture, you know, what this means for the future of the series.

When a player that I would argue there is no more game breaking individual talent in terms of how he shifts a game plan.

in the league than Victor Wembanyama.

Like if Shea Gildas Alexander missed the game for the Thunder, obviously Shea is this unbelievable player, maybe the best player in the world right now.

But like playing the Thunder still feels like playing the Thunder, even when Shea's not there because of what they do defensively.

You take Wemby off the Spurs, they become a very different basketball team, right?

And so looking forward in the series, it becomes more complex because of how different the Minnesota attack is when Wemby is out there.

But within this game,

First of all, like, Webby did get fouled before he threw the elbow.

And so I want to start by saying, like, I sympathize with every basketball player who's ever played any level of basketball for any significant amount of time.

We'll tell you that you have times where you feel like you're getting fouled and you're frustrated.

And one of the things you want to do in those situations sometimes is lash out.

Everyone is everyone who's ever played for a significant amount of time is like shoved a guy before, like, you know, grab the ball and kind of swung their elbows around to kind of create space.

Everybody's done it.

So like the frustration element you sympathize with.

And like, is there I was like kind of on the 50 yard line with the call because it was like a nasty elbow to Nas Reed's neck.

And, like, if you would have told me that they came out and they said Flager won because, you know, Flager won because he got fouled beforehand and he was frustrated.

It was clearly a frustration foul.

Like, it wasn't, like, this deeply malicious thing.

I think that would have been defensible.