Is Wemby vs. Chet the BEST BUDDING RIVALRY IN THE NBA? 👀 🔥 | The Hoop Collective
On Thursday night we got our third Spurs Thunder game of the season uh actually the fourth because I’m gonna always remember the preseason game um when I might have invoked where the discovery was partially made when I ear discoveries when I might have invoked Magic Johnson and Larry Bird talking
About when Bama um ched might have might have the challenge for the first two games of this uh little series was that the Thunder won both games by 30 points um but Victor wanyama put on a absolute display in a great back and forth with Chad holgren on on um you know on
Thursday it was in San Antonio the Spurs first game back since their Rodeo road trip ended um I just believe there’s not going to be too many times in the coming future where these two guys are going to play where it’s not going to be on
National TV um it was there was some terrific sequences uh in that game uh Chad and Victor spent a lot of time guarding each other probably more than they did the first two times although I don’t have data on that it just it felt like it um watching some of it back I
Was at uh the first half of the Wizards um Lakers game so I didn’t get to see it live but I watched some of it back and um it felt like they on each other a lot um look Chad had a great game he had 23 points uh seven rebounds five assists
And a block but Victor wanyama who has been just increasingly spectacular um over the last few weeks and you know is just starting to threatening to put up five by five games left and right he’s putting up five by4 games regularly which he has done which he did um again in this one
With 28 points 13 rebounds seven assists two Steals and five blocks he made five three-pointers three of them in the fourth quarter there was some sequences in this game guys I know you guys have watched them that just gives you the future for for Victor um where he would
Hit a three at one end come down get a block at the other uh challenge a shot at The Rim come down um pass to a teammate for for a shot uh just absolutely the stuff that the dreams are made of with Victor the Spurs are a very
Bad team it irritates Victor rather clearly that they’re such a bad team it’s hard to get into Victor because the team is so bad and so many of his performances come in games that are not close um but it’s a um it’s an absolute just incredible
Thing to watch this guy get better and it’s really awesome to watch him play against that where they completely dazzle with their ability to Comm miix the size and skill um and by the way the Thunder had won six consecutive games coming into this one by double digits
Six game winning streak all by double digits they were red hot coming into this game Shay scor Shay Alexander scored over 30 which he does every night um Jaylen Williams Jay dub had an excellent game it wasn’t like they had a night where they shot you know 31% and
You know packed it in like it was a real game they played hard and I know you were able to watch it live McMahon and um you were really active on the group chat about what you were seeing it it’s awesome it is an awesome budding rivalry
Between two rising stars in this league who uh I believe they respect each other they don’t like each other you know they fist bump the beginning of games and then they go at each other’s throat and I love the fact they don’t want to be all all buddy buddy you know they want
To one up each other they both had some great moments uh in this game I mean you know Chad had some moves where he went right at wimy there’s one where it goes at him off the dribble you know into a spin move into a little Up and Under
Scores on him you know he he had another one where uh wm’s closing out on him and he drives and dunks that was uh to to pull within three with like I don’t know four minutes left or so and then wmy just h the game over from there and the
Sequence that I think just locked up Rookie of the Year for wimy was when he comes down and hits about a 27f footer to that that was a dagger that put the Spurs up nine with with not a lot of time left and then the next possession
Chet’s trying to go ISO and he’s I mean he’s deep in his bag you know between the legs behind the backs you know step back back and wimy just snuffed that shot just snatched it out of the air it’s a stuff a rebound allinone motion ched ends up on his butt
That’s ball game and again this is not a wom there’s a there did you sorry did you see how he reacted when he when he did that you know because it was like a such a moment it was against Chad like Victor looked over to the bench and like you know gave like
A a little celebration oh yeah they really really really don’t want to make this about each other both of them feel the same way but there’s no avoiding it it’s about each other and they’re competitors and it’s it’s awesome you know it’s not like they’re out there
Like cheap shotting each other I mean everything is clean competition but it is fierce competition that goes back to like you said we can talk about the preseason game it goes back to the under 19 uh Team USA versus France meeting and what happened in the hallway after that
Preseason game wi yeah I don’t want to go over that again it go irrit we do not well it’s just I mean we’ve just we have talked about that enough I’m just saying we know the story there’s some intensity there yes and it like you know Jackson
Just Dropped In the chat here this is the first time in NBA history that somebody’s had 25 points 10 rebounds five blocks five assists and five made threes I think we’re look up in a few years and wm’s going to have like 25 or 30 of those games um and he the
Three-point shooting is really come along for him um there it was five of seven tonight one of the misses was like okay dude you’re being a little aggressive he had Chet in his face and you try to do this like s side step deep step back type thing and it’s just like
Okay relax and there were times where honestly Chad was over dribbling because you could tell they really want to go at each other and and it’s funny I think if you look at the last decade maybe even going all the way back to LeBron Chad might have been Rookie of
The Year every single season with the exception of Luca and this year certainly over the last decade Chad would have been rookie of the year I think every year except the year Luca won it until this year that is how good he is
Brian Windhorst is joined by ESPN’s Tim Bontemps and Tim MacMahon to react to a wild installment in the growing Wemby vs. Chet rivalry, and what that could mean for the Oklahoma City Thunder and the San Antonio Spurs.
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Bro it’s not a rilvary
Whoever’s reading this, i pray that whatever you’re going’s through gets better and whatever you’re struggling with or worrying bout is going to be fine and that everyone has a fantastic day! Amen
There’s no rivalry lol Wemby is Chet’s superior period
With the exception of Luka, Chet would have been rookie of the year since the year Lebron won it. That's how good he is.
How to lose viewers: mention altercation, and refused to talk about what happened because you assume everyone watches every single video you put out
Lol a week ago they were in love with Chet
Wet Bananas is on another level. He will be unstoppable if injuries don't get. Chet is a poor man's Toni Kukoc 🤣
What happened in the hallway? lol I don’t remember anything about that and can’t find anything online talking about it
What happened in the hallway of the preseason game?
No, Chet is good but just that
Wemby top 10 in usage rate with the offense literally drawn up for and around him, not just any system either its Pop, hes great at designing plays for big men…. Chets addition has moved the Thunder from a play in to top seed in the West, media twisting Chet having a better team into a disadvantage while Wemby gets loaded stats every night because of his usage rates. Chet is more efficient and gets penalized for it. Insane.
Chet is wembys son
Pure speculation that they are rivals. Actually they are pretty friendly off court. Victor even introduced his mother to Chet (or the opposite).
We need the hallway story…
Noone mentioned the handfull of out of bounds calls that were clearly Thunder ball that were given to the Spurs
Never thought they would be a rivalry from the best team in the conference to the worst team in the conference
Not a rivalry
After last night, Wemby can officially call Chet "son".
rivalry? there's no rivalry one is the potential goat and the other is an elite role player
People still trying to push this "rivalry" lol, this rivalry will last exactly one season and that's because of the ROTY race which is done. Wemby's rivals will be Luka, ANT, Shai etc. Chet will be a solid 2nd star type dude.
"We've talked about that enough. Everyone knows that story." – I have no idea what they're talking about.
Guy on the far right is hating on wemby heavy it’s ok
Anyone wanna fill us in on what happened in the hallway in the preseason game??
With all due respect the 2 players are not even in the same bracket. Wemby is competing to become the goat of this sport (a very difficult task). Chet on the other hand is the 2nd or 3rd best player on his own team competing to become a Anthony Davis type player at max (which is still amazing). That being said, just because Wemby hasn't got an equal you dont just grab the next best thing behind him and try to compare them because they're both tall and are rookies. Like cmon. Hope this helps.
Did they trashtalk ?
Brian WindHorst talkign sheeets, how the fcuk, he knew what happen in Spurs lockroom , Victor is unhappy on his teammate
Chet is very good !!
Wemby is amazing !!
When Wembanyama saw Holmgren in the hallway after his first pre-season game, he smiled and turned to introduce Holmgren to his mother, Elodie, who was making her first visit to Oklahoma to see the game. And what a show she and the rest of the fans at Paycom Center had taken in that night.
AS Chet Holmgren met Mrs. Wembanyama after the preseason game in OKC, he collegially brought up the one previous time they indeed had all been together in the same place. It was in Riga, Latvia, in July 2021 at the U19 FIBA World Cup final. Team USA had beaten Team France
83-81 in a hotly contested game during which Wembanyama had frustratingly fouled out in the fourth quarter.
It is only the worst basketball memory of Wembanyama's life — "Just thinking about it makes my jaw clench," he has said — and one of the great accomplishments of Holmgren's.
"I remember," Elodie Wembanyama said to Holmgren with a smile.
That fourth quarter really highlighted the difference. Chet played well the first three quarters, but at a certain point Wemby decided the game was over and Chet had no response.
Wemby will never win a title
can they get to the finals first?
What about Ant vs SGA?
It’s not a rivalry, it’s Father’s Day
Just looking at the comments on here you would know that wemby jock sniffers will be replacing the lebron jock sniffers soon as the most delusional and uneducated fan base in basketball.
Wemby is must see TV 📺
Chet isn’t, he is good no question but he is not Wemby.
There’s no rivalry, it is called fatherhood, Chet is Wemby's son!
Can’t wait for them to go into free agency and team up
Wait, what happened in the hallway during the preseason game?
chet might have a more successful career then wemby doe
Safe to say Wendy really loves Wemby 😂
Chet is not a real rookie😂
There was the USA vs France game in the final of U19 World Cup. USA won. Wemby had foul trouble and was not able to compete as much as he wanted. And the real point was that the USA youngsters were talking trash all game and over celebrated after the win, being kinda disrespectful. This is one of the worst basketball memory of Wemby. He knew he was better than of all of them but was not able to show it. He never forgot that and said many times that every time he plays again one of this young usa team member he thinks of this game and make it a personal affair to humble them and show them where they are and where he is now!!
To the Victor goes the spoils
Karate Kid/ Cobra Kai vibes—- Pop as Mr Miagi