“Wembanyama is the greatest rookie I ever seen in NBA” – ESPN reacts Spurs 132-118 win over Thunder

“Wembanyama is the greatest rookie I ever seen in NBA” – ESPN reacts Spurs 132-118 win over Thunder

We’re on the short end of a 132 118 loss to the Spurs early it was raining threes for the Thunder there’s Isaiah Joe with one the Thunder outdid the Spurs in the paint 60-50 that 10-point advantage in the paint though was negated by it wasn’t raining it was pouring threes for the

San Antonio Spurs they made 19 of them on the night and that was enough them enough to propel them to the 1 32 118 Victory hi there and welcome back into the B Sports Oklahoma Studios John rigan here with Nancy liberman and it was it was just one of those games Dan where

Shoo it’s a Shooters league and the shots were falling for San Antonio it was unbelievable uh you have to you know the guys Chris and kg said you got to give the Spurs the credit for what they did in this game but to have 57 of your

Points in this game off the three-point line they hit 19 48% it was unbelievable and it’s not like they were just shooting d shots they were side contest it was front contest they just did such a great job and you know they found their Rhythm here one more time that’s a

Contested shot they knocked down the three they drive a contested shot they hit and knocked it down one more time oh okay that was not a contested shot they got frozen but look all these are side contest um you got to give Shooters on a night like this you know it’s it’s

Always a Shooters league in the NBA but they had 39 assist John on 48 shots yeah really so the ball movement was not just pass pass pass it was pass to score and that’s really what the the Spurs have done you know throughout history yeah

They did a very good job of getting that done again tonight and win this one by 14 points we take you back to San Antonio now though Frost Banks Center is where we find Chris fiser and Michael cage to help us wrap this one up guys yeah thank you John it’s not very

Often the Thunder give up 132 points the way they did tonight and we were asking ourselves Michael after the first quarter where both teams put up 37 points is the offense going to continue and and it really did and you look at what these two teams did 132 118 a lot

Of those points for San Antonio coming late in the fourth quarter it was a three-point game and all of a sudden San Antonio erupts for 16 points over the final four minutes of this game and that turned out to be the difference yeah you know I I couldn’t agree more with what

Nancy was talking about in the studio man you look at those those numbers 39 assists you know we we we talked about how they get 70% of their offense is assisted that’s number one in the NBA well it was true to form tonight and it came from an un you know really unusual

Kind of way for the Spurs where they knocked down 193s and and that did a lot of damage on the scoreboard because you look at how that game was really close there toward what three four minute Mark they hit three straight threes and all of a sudden they’re up nine and it’s a

Different ball game as as time is starting to to run out so give them credit you know for knocking down the shots they shot 52% from the field they had a massive amount of assists which means they’re moving the basketball and it’s not just one guy they had you know

Three guys that shot well that scored 20 points or more yeah that that was going to be my next Point Victor wanana had 28 Jeremy soan had 21 and deis Vel 28 points so Johnny Nancy somewhat of an uncharacteristic night from this Thunder team defensively they’re usually coming

Up with those stops particularly in the fourth quarter the one time that they had the most momentum in this game was early in the fourth quarter when they caught the Spurs and that coincided with them grabbing those rebounds and getting out on the Run yeah it’s great guys we

Appreciate your thoughts on that and it was uh you know was a nice run by the Thunder uh there at the end of the third quarter and into the early fourth like a 15 to four run that got them the lead but Nance it was they they were talking

About some of the uncharacteristic things in this game um it seemed early like it would be an uncharacteristically slow game from Shay now Shay finishes with 31 so there’s no such thing as as a slow game but but he did start slowly in this one he started slowly but one thing

About Shay is he can pick it up at any time he’s just so Shifty and amazing when he has the ball but this is his 44th game of 30 plus points last year he had 45 so once he started getting high and seeing where his Drive lanes were

The spacing got better and you know he’s just seeing it he’s feeling it but these straight line drives and then his counter moves are exceptional unbelievable like we were talking about as we watched this these are the best athletes in the world and and he is able

To find Space almost every time down here’s his last seven games and you take a look at the field goals uh 55% from there and 62 from the three-point line Finance I mean that’s just those numbers are are unbelievable and of course 30 points as you mentioned in all of those

Because the streak is much longer than that well that that’s called NBA efficiency that’s called MVP efficiency when he won’t for shots you know he’ll probe he’ll probe but then he’ll find somebody else he just every piece of this game he has and I know we talk

About you know Victor with the you know you know five time five of what he can do shade does the same thing and and he fills up a a stat she he’s pretty much a stat stuffer he’s so good and and the amazing thing is he he doesn’t mind you

Know not scoring 30 right he’s happy to share it he’s really amazingly unselfish for a guy who’s had as many consecutive 30-point games as he has well think about it Isaiah Joe comes off the bench has 15 Jay duub has 26 Chad has 23 that’s pretty diverse scoring you know

And and you know we talked about the 31 points that Shay has uh again you’re going to look at this game you’re not going to win every game you know it’s just the reality of the NBA you’re going to catch a team on a hot night the Spurs

Were hot this evening they actually were in Fuego and the difference was uh the you know 93s uh to 193 that was the difference in the game Spurs make 19 thunder make nine and um that was that was the big difference in this one let’s

Get to our four player of the game here in a moment and also uh we’ll get to some post game reaction to this one and it shows that really both teams shot the ball very well Thunder almost at 50% and you see the Spurs actually almost three

Points higher than that as they were at 52.7 we talked about it going to break 19 to9 in the three-point category uh that was a huge difference in this game tonight Thunder as we mentioned off the top uh did better in the paint not surprising 60 to 50 there Nance yeah I

Mean you look at the stats right there and you say okay well fast break points you know we outscored them by by 12 and you mentioned the points in the paint but those are twoo buckets and we’re talking you’re trading threes for two so I’m going to come back to The Narrative

Of they shot the the heck out of the ball the Spurs tonight and every time you you said it best in the beginning of the fourth quarter this was a tight basketball game and you know the the Thunder even had the lead yeah and a couple misses by Dort uh which were a

Great looks for him then they came down and Bam Bam Bam Bam and all of a sudden it’s like dang it’s it’s 912 points and they created their separation yeah what just happened there yeah exactly right so uh Victor wanyama really happened tonight he was just three assists shy n

Of another one of those 5×5 nights he had two two assists but needless to say exceeded five in every other category including he had five blocks yeah well it’s a pleasure to watch him play because it’s so unique in what he does following up on you know he’s not just

What 7 fo4 yeah he is a baller and look at that flow cat shoot he goes right into his shot he has just you know we talk about next generational talent and skills I don’t think anybody’s ever seen you know we we saw players like Ralph

Samson people like that who were big but they didn’t have that three-point shot and Ralph could bring the the ball up the floor but in that generation you gave it to your point guard and now you don’t do that you just get it and you go

And he’s so talented he can do anything yeah he really can uh and yeah so can by the way Chad homr I mean Chad will get a rebound and take it up the floor too uh which is pretty amazing and also very fun to watch it’s time for our Ford

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“Wembanyama is the greatest rookie I ever seen in the NBA” – ESPN reacts to Spurs 132-118 win over Thunder