Zach Lowe
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And you're like, okay, well, that's a win for the Thunder.
He's not at the rim.
And then he makes this turnaround jump shot.
You're like, well, I still think it's kind of a win for the Thunder, but if this 7'5 guy is going to be making these Embiid slash Dirk slash whatever turnaround 18-footers, like, okay, all right, Vic.
I do think that's one of the counters we'll see to bigs on Wemby traditional defenses, set them some cross screens, get them in the posts on the move, like get, get just play like a traditional big a little bit more in that sense.
And maybe that, that has the same, the same effect.
Yeah.
The chess match is going to be super nursing.
You mentioned the J will the Wemby sequence in the third quarter.
I mean, it's just, it's so stark and so frightening, even as a neutral observer, when you,
after holding any great player, but Wemby in particular, because it's both ends of the floor, in slight check, you realize like three minutes into this sequence, oh, we've entered the point of the game where he's just going to single-handedly dominate the game for like eight minutes.
And that was the third quarter as the Spurs got back into the game where he makes a three, he has the drive, offensive rebound.
It was like, it was Wemby saying, okay, you're taking away the rim touches and the paint touches.
I'll just...
go outside in now I'll hit a three I'll drive and I'll I might miss but I'm gonna get the offensive rebound with one hand and dunk it all in one motion if you help I'm gonna drive and kick over here to Devin Vassell for a corner three like I'll dominate the game this way and I'll still be dominating the game defensively and his rim protection everybody knows but he's just no one has ever been so good I like Olajuwon was really good at this but it's a different level
I call it like the spin pivot block where he's in one place and the ball moves and he spins back and blocks another, another player in a different place.
He just makes these double rotations so fast.
And that was the third quarter, all that was happening.
But the other thing you mentioned hugging him, like they're doing the thing and you see this every once in a while on great, great big men.
You see it against Jokic where Jokic,