Effectively. I imply. Shoot.
I assume they performed a sport in Austin final night time. Did you hear about that? The Spurs performed. They gained, truly. Yeah, it was a fairly good sport and every little thing. Bizarre, proper? It’s laborious to think about basketball even issues proper now, contemplating the world-altering information that shook up the Spurs yesterday afternoon.
I’m not going to rehash all the main points about Wembanyama’s damage — you’ve obtained loads of sensible individuals you’ll be able to learn or hearken to for that. I gained’t speculate on what it means for his future, and I’m not about to casually have a good time how this would possibly influence the Spurs’ draft odds. As an alternative, I’m simply sitting with it for a minute. As followers, what we’re coping with isn’t the top of the world, neither is it some secret mana from heaven. It simply is — and it sucks.
Victor’s well being and well-being are, with out query, the highest precedence. It’s nice that the group obtained to the underside of this rapidly and is already engaged on getting him higher. If we are able to, only for a second, put that in a field labeled “OBVIOUSLY”, I’d wish to take a second to lament the truth that we don’t get to observe Victor Wembanyama play basketball for the remainder of the season. And I hate that for us.
He guidelines.
He’s the craziest factor I’ve ever seen on a basketball courtroom, and each second he’s on the market in a Spurs jersey appears like a real miracle. Watching the remainder of the season with out him goes to really feel like enjoying in a room with half the lights off. The league, the sport, and mainly every little thing else are worse off when Victor isn’t hooping.
So. Yeah. It’s a bummer, and I believe it’s okay to confess that. I’m going to do my greatest to maneuver on, to not make each single sport a referendum on the 7’4” gap within the lineup. However for a minimum of this one night time, it’s laborious to disregard.
Now, for the blokes who did play Thursday night time within the Moody Heart: They confirmed up. They gave each indication that they’re not about to roll over and quit on the season. We’ve obtained dudes who can actually play — guys nonetheless combating for his or her place on this group and within the league. It’s going to be enjoyable. It won’t be the model of the season we thought we had been getting, however it’s definitely not a funeral.
The subsequent few months are about determining what this group is with out Victor. He’s an enormous a part of the franchise’s future, however he isn’t the entire thing. He can’t be. The blokes and the construction round him matter simply as a lot. And for now, we get to concentrate on that.
So take a minute. Be unhappy. Then splash some water in your face and get again in it. Let’s rally round these guys as an alternative of spending the following few months photoshopping Cooper Flagg into Silver & Black.
Let’s win some video games. Let’s make the play-in. Let’s damage some individuals’s days.
Let’s play Spurs basketball.
The season isn’t over. In a number of methods, it’s simply now getting began.
Takeaways
I nonetheless suppose the Austin experiment is cool. Increasing the Spurs’ attain all through South Texas is superior, and the franchise has repeatedly proven that it’s being completed with actual function — not simply as a straightforward money seize. The Spurs have been labeled a “small market” group for so long as they’ve existed. Normally, that’s a stamp you by no means shake. However by means of a sequence of sensible strikes and outside-the-box pondering, they could have discovered a means round it— with out relocating. That’s a win.
I’m in my seat and able to absolutely expertise the Bismack Biyombo period of Spurs basketball. LET’s GO. The remainder of the league thought we forgot about find out how to play with a standard large and we’re right here to indicate them that we are able to nonetheless rock down low with the very best of them.
Among the many many issues which are kind of a bummer about Victor’s damage, I’m unhappy that we’re going to overlook out on just a few extra months of him and De’Aaron Fox constructing out basis of chemistry for the longer term. That being stated, so long as we’re greedy for silver linings, every little thing does appear fairly freed up for us to only let Fox go on the market and present us what he’s all about. That’s not nothing! He’s nonetheless one of the enjoyable gamers within the league and is not like anybody the Spurs have had on their roster in a protracted whereas. I’m definitely excited to observe that.
Was this intentional? It was on function proper? He….he for certain meant to do that?
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– I just like the idea of placing issues in a field labeled “OBVIOUSLY”. I really feel like that might actually streamline a number of conversations.
– Proper? I believe we have to begin a this motion. Like, I might put the assertion “I like my canine and wish no hurt to return to her” within the “OBVIOUSLY” field in order that once I let you know that if she licks my bagel earlier than I’ve an opportunity to eat it then I might need to kick her out of the home for 48 hours
– After which i’ll know that you simply aren’t a monster, you simply need your bagel to not have canine on it.
– I really feel like all the time wanting my bagel sans canine is one thing that must also go within the “OBVIOUSLY” field.
– Perhaps we must always make it extra of an “OBVIOUSLY” crate.
– Extra like a transport container.
