Chapter 1: How impactful has Victor Wembanyama been on the Spurs?
What's poppin'? Real ones. Real ones after dark, to be specific. Logan Murdoch here. Roger Bell and Howard Beck in a second. We talk about all of the Friday slate. We talk about Wimby's dominance. We talk about the Knicks just taking all over the Sixers facilities and just beating them to a pulp in front of Timothy Salome and all the rest of the Knicks fans. Sorry, Cliff.
You'll be all right, though. I've got a bright future ahead of you. Then we talk about villains, which means Oklahoma City, and Draymond Green as a TV announcer. All that and more on Real Ones After Dark. Cliff, Victoria, play the theme music.
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Chapter 2: What strategies can the Timberwolves use to minimize Wembanyama's impact?
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Pop it. Real ones after dark. This is probably Rod's last time. Real ones after dark. Don't even get me started, bro. We got games starting at 8 a.m. on Saturday, man. It is 1.45. It's 12.45 in the morning.
Chapter 3: How did the Knicks defeat the Sixers without OG Anunoby?
It is. It is. It is. Because the San Antonio Spurs beat the Minnesota Timberwolves. Now, I would like to note that Howard put a kiss of death into the podcast group chat when he told everyone, oh, man, we'll be potting by halftime, everybody.
Chapter 4: Are the Knicks the best team left in the Eastern Conference?
Yeah, with the way that the Spurs are going.
The Wolves couldn't make a shot for the first 10 minutes of the game.
You said that the most resilient team in the NBA playoffs were not going to come back from a 15-point deficit. That's what you implied there.
I just thought maybe if we could pot early, we could get out early, and Raja would be less cranky. Wishful thinking, Howard.
Thanks for trying.
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Chapter 5: What role do the Oklahoma City Thunder play as villains in the NBA?
Yeah, yeah. Cranky Raj is probably, like, top two Raja, though. Oh, okay. And then, you know, here we go. We're three deep in. Let's do this. All right. So, story of the night. Victor Wibinyama, 39 points, 15 rebounds, five blocks. And I'm not sure. This game just ended, so I'm not sure how many points he had in the fourth quarter.
Chapter 6: What did Draymond Green say that caused controversy?
But at the time, when I last saw Che, he had 14 in the fourth. And, um, he has Rudy Gobert Raja and a bit of a, in a turnstile because he can simultaneously go from, um, guard to, um, big man. And, oh yeah, he's like seven, five. So like, it's really, he's really got cracked the code on Rudy Gobert. He's having a great post season.
What did you see with, from the assertiveness of Victor of one Benyama against, um, Rudy Gobert and how can that, really unlock the Spurs team for the rest of the series? Well, I mean, you know, I said it in game one. I thought he was getting good looks. I thought he was a little indecisive in the first game.
I thought there were some things that if he had just made his mind up that he was going to do what he wanted to do and do that with conviction, that it could kind of change pretty quickly. Tonight, you saw it. Like, he is a... He's the difference in that game, like any way you slice it, whether it's on the defensive end when Minnesota can't.
you know, the amount of times that Minnesota wants to go to the rim and thinks in any other game in an NBA season, they have a layup or a floater and they can't execute that and have to like swing it out for a three or a swing, swing three. I mean, that's, that's Victor Webinyama, right? Like that's the ghost of him.
Chapter 7: How are the Thunder perceived in terms of officiating and style of play?
Where is he? Is he going to block this? That's his impact on that in the floor. And then I thought, There was a sequence, I think it was the fourth quarter, could have been the third, that I think completely, you know, captures the essence of the problem that is Victor Webb-Manyama when you're trying to guard him, which was like, it was an offensive rebound. Was it D-Wade on the call?
Was it D-Wade on the call? Yeah, he even referenced, like, it was like a tap to himself, and then he caught it on the tap and then finished it really high.
right so it was like he didn't bring it down didn't let any guards get it or wings get involved he kind of tapped it to himself with that like i don't know 10 foot like reach he's got and then finishes it high and then the next play down he's kind of like directing traffic from the top of the key and he swings it to the wing and sets him his own self up for like a flare screen right like a flare and and rudy like what fucking seven footer
that guards the paint is used to navigating this is not an indictment on Rudy Gobert's defense it's not at all at all in any way shape or form this is just the conundrum that he puts you in and so he like navigates it himself he sets it up he swings it he brings the flare he he sets his man up like a guard and he pops and he just cashes a three and it
It would put the best wing defenders in a really tough spot. For guys that are used to guarding primarily the rim and drop coverage and being big, I mean, it puts you in a real impossible position when he's executing from all areas of the floor. The spin fades, step back. Look, man, the repertoire is so deep.
And when it's working and he's confident and they're moving him around and getting him catches in different areas on the floor, which is important, he becomes the difference in a game. I don't know how else I can put it. He's the difference in the game. It was wild because, I mean, me and Howard have talked about this, I think, last summer or the summer that he got drafted.
He's like seven different legends in one. So when you talk about him just getting himself off a flare screen, you see Steph Curry some kind of way, right? Then you see Kevin Durant. Then you see Kareem Abdul-Jabbar. Then you see, like, you know, Bill Russell or Wilt Chamberlain in the last game when we thought that was kind of a bad game for him.
where he just wasn't assertive, but he had one of the greatest playoff defensive performances in NBA history while doing that. We've never seen anything like this before. This was a game when the Spurs really needed him to carry because the supporting cast just wasn't there. De'Aaron Fox went 7 of 19. You could see it when Wimby was off the floor. That's whenever Minnesota got back into the game.
They're going to need him to carry, but What did you think about just his assertiveness, Roger, right? And I think that was just the biggest difference that we've seen over the last two games. Yeah, well, you know, it's a process. You know, we talked about him from game one, and, you know, everyone kind of weighed in on whether or not they were worried about him.
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Chapter 8: What is the significance of the 'Real One of the Week' segment?
Like, you can never predict how long it's going to take for Logan or Howard to really acclimate to, like, what a playoff environment's like. you know, and it's different from round one to round two to Western or E for turn conference playoffs to the finals, like every round becomes its own animal.
And so like, you know, it's been, it's been fun to watch him kind of in real time say, okay, like I'm acclimating. I understand what happened in game one. I understand what happened in game two. And then now, you know, while I imprinted this series before this on the defensive end here, I go offensively. And tonight was a masterclass on both ends of the floor. Um,
And that's just what you want to see out of a player of that ill. You know, a player that we expect to be the face of the league moving forward. And it's cool to watch it happen in real time. People should really appreciate... What they saw tonight, and not just the offense. The offense was crazy. And I know he didn't have the blocks like he had in game one, Howard. Like, I'll let you go.
Like, I know he didn't have the blocks that he had in game one. But if you go back and rewind that tape and just look at how many opportunities that Minnesota would have normally, ordinarily, in 99% of NBA games, had finishes around the paint where they just decided... there could be a block coming and they just rifled it out.
I mean, you can't quantify what that does in terms of defensive efficiency and limiting people getting those wide open looks around the rim.
Yeah, it's... Every game, it's worth watching just that part of it, Raja. Like, we are going... Like, the stuff that really pops in a game like this, of course, is, like, you know, the turnaround jumper over Rudy and then, like, you know, next possession down, the deeper three.
And, you know, like, he could... He just... When he wants to turn it on and be the guy that you play through and be the score, it's really fun because of the way... All the different ways he can do that. And then... The blocks, because blocks can be spectacular just by nature of blocks, right?
But if you wanted to watch a game of just every time the opponent has the ball, and Wemby's in the paint, Wemby's in the game and in the paint, and just watch what they do and what they don't do, and then look at the difference every time Cornette came in, and it's not a knock on Cornette, of course. I was just looking up the plus minus, actually, as you were wrapping up, because I wanted to see.
So Wemby was a plus 16, and Cornette was a minus nine.
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