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Speaker 2: Thank you, mister movie phone and wow. Welcome to another
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Speaker 2: a while, as Aaron Lewis used to say, but we
Speaker 2: are back hot and hatney because of the Olympics and
Speaker 2: Victor Winnbanyama going up against the.
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Speaker 2: Welcome everybody to another edition of that San Antonio Spurs
Speaker 2: Weekly Podcast. Thank you for following us throughout the summer edition.
Speaker 2: Is news is not always hot and heavy, could be
Speaker 2: a little boring, and we want to compile it into
Speaker 2: one amazing episode. Y'all good with that? Today? I thought
Speaker 2: you would, thank you very much. Welcome, Welcome, Welcome, Spurs fans,
Speaker 2: basketball fans, it doesn't matter today We're going to be
Speaker 2: talking Olympic basketball, talking a little bit about Victor Wembanyama,
Speaker 2: of course, and his appearance in these twenty twenty four Olympics,
Speaker 2: and we'll be talking a little bit about his stats.
Speaker 2: We'll talk about the Olympics in the past as well.
Speaker 2: We'll talk a little bit about that kind of bump
Speaker 2: in the road for the United States in two thousand
Speaker 2: and four. Yeah, we'll talk a little bit about that
Speaker 2: we had a good team, why couldn't we play well?
Speaker 2: We'll talk about some of the players on that team,
Speaker 2: and we'll go from there. We'll talk a little bit
Speaker 2: about the legacy of Lebron James, just a little bit
Speaker 2: because this is a Spurs network, of course, and we're
Speaker 2: going to talk more about Victor Wmbanyama and the loss
Speaker 2: for fran What did this do for the country as
Speaker 2: a whole. The women's Olympic team went to the gold
Speaker 2: medal round against France as well, so a good showing
Speaker 2: for United States and French culture when it comes to
Speaker 2: the game of basketball. And if you watch the games,
Speaker 2: there were a lot of surprise teams this year. Serbia
Speaker 2: played very well. I think could have played a little better.
Speaker 2: I think they really tried to lean too much on
Speaker 2: the joker, and this is why they kind of fell
Speaker 2: to the wayside. You had some surprise teams like the
Speaker 2: su Dan giving the United States a scare. That was
Speaker 2: a scare. I don't care what you guys think, and
Speaker 2: I think that woke up the sleeping Giants saying we
Speaker 2: don't want to end up like the two thousand and
Speaker 2: four team the last time the United States won a
Speaker 2: bronze and big round of applause though to the United
Speaker 2: States plays with everything we've been going through. The Avengers
Speaker 2: went over there, got another gold medal. This is our
Speaker 2: fifth straight Olympic basketball men's gold medal. And no matter
Speaker 2: how you look at it, some people say, yes, they're
Speaker 2: expected to win the gold. They are every year. They're
Speaker 2: the New York Yankees, they're the Dallas well we won't
Speaker 2: say Dallas cutboys. Sorry guys, no cheering, turn that off.
Speaker 2: We wanted more of this. There you go, Thank you,
Speaker 2: mister movie phone. I know you're a cowboy fan.
Speaker 1: You got there right.
Speaker 2: You're never going to have a podcast doing it. But
Speaker 2: the funny thing is here they are hated, the United
Speaker 2: States basketball team, and I think the reason they are
Speaker 2: is because when we saw the Dream Team first come
Speaker 2: around in nineteen ninety six. If you are a nineties
Speaker 2: guy like me, I love nineties basketball. I actually coach
Speaker 2: basketball now today for youngins. I really enjoy the young
Speaker 2: kids and teaching them the basics of basketball, because I
Speaker 2: believe that's where the NBA is lacking today. A lot
Speaker 2: of the basics are gone. Everybody wants to break angles,
Speaker 2: they want to put posterizing on people, and they want
Speaker 2: to pull up from half court like Steph Curry. But
Speaker 2: what wins games in the end, hitting your free throws,
Speaker 2: making shots and being humble. That's what it comes down
Speaker 2: to at the end of the day. I know three
Speaker 2: pointers have really taken over the sport of basketball, but
Speaker 2: bringing in people like Yanasaka Patumbo, bringing in people like
Speaker 2: a Joe LMB, Joker Luca and now Victor Winbinyama doing
Speaker 2: different things at these heights we've never seen. The game
Speaker 2: is going to evolve back into a big man sport.
Speaker 2: But I think the big man will become get ready
Speaker 2: to laugh. I know you want to laugh, your point guard.
Speaker 2: I think the talent will get bigger and bigger and bigger.
Speaker 2: And I think the addition of ways to train these
Speaker 2: days make a level playing field for anybody at any size.
Speaker 2: I just do. I know that's a crazy thing that
Speaker 2: I just threw at you, ol, but I honestly believe that.
Speaker 2: And these big men are gonna be the ones to
Speaker 2: change the game. Maybe they won't go to point guard.
Speaker 2: Even though Wemby brought the ball up thirty percent of
Speaker 2: the time last year. Want you to keep that in mind.
Speaker 2: Thirty percent of the time he brought the ball up.
Speaker 2: I mean, we see that with Kukadonic in Dallas, we
Speaker 2: see that with the Joker in Denver. Will we see
Speaker 2: that in San Antonio. I think Wemby's going to be
Speaker 2: good enough to play just about any position on the floor.
Speaker 2: I think you're going to see him bring the ball
Speaker 2: up once in a while. I think you'll see him
Speaker 2: on the wing mostly. And it's crazy to see if
Speaker 2: you watch these Olympic games. Let's transition to that Olympic
Speaker 2: game real quick. In the Olympics, the team France was
Speaker 2: using Wemby the same way that the Spurs did at
Speaker 2: the beginning of the year. For some reason, they just
Speaker 2: wouldn't get him the ball in the position he needs
Speaker 2: the ball. There were several opportunities throughout the whole game
Speaker 2: against the United States, Wemby wide open on a cut
Speaker 2: to the basket, Wemby wide open at the top of
Speaker 2: the key. Maybe they didn't have trust in the youngster
Speaker 2: to carry them. This is the way that I look
Speaker 2: at it. You had a lot of veterans on the
Speaker 2: floor for France. I think a lot of aging players
Speaker 2: go bear fourgnier da colo. I think they're all getting
Speaker 2: up there a little bit. Now, there's a reason why
Speaker 2: Dicolo got traded from the Spurs. Dacolo on team France.
Speaker 2: Great player, good player. Let's downgrade that though, to a
Speaker 2: good player better than me, but just good player. And
Speaker 2: you saw his defensive breakdown in the final minute thirty eight,
Speaker 2: ing in Steph. If you miss that, then you're not
Speaker 2: a basketball fan. If you thought it was just all
Speaker 2: chef Curry cooking up sauce. Yes, yes, to make the basket,
Speaker 2: I get it. Yes, there's talent behind shooting the basket. Yes,
Speaker 2: Steph is one of the greatest of all time. Yes,
Speaker 2: Steph is one of my favorite players. Yes, but let's
Speaker 2: pump the brakes a little bit. Pump the brakes. Three
Speaker 2: defensive letdowns by Diacolo. Go back and watch the end
Speaker 2: of the game when the US won. Watch the mannerisms
Speaker 2: of the players. Diacolo was heartbroken. And I don't mean
Speaker 2: because he just lost the gold medal for his country,
Speaker 2: but a big major reason, ladies and gentlemen, if you
Speaker 2: watch he lost the gold medal for his country. I
Speaker 2: think the team, in the long run, lost its self.
Speaker 2: They needed to be a little bit better behind the arc,
Speaker 2: the free point arc. I think they were five or
Speaker 2: six threes. Well after Steph hit his three day in
Speaker 2: the game, I think they were about eight or nine
Speaker 2: three pointers behind the United States as far as makes.
Speaker 2: Also one thing that absolutely drives me bonkers, And if
Speaker 2: we had a drop in the background here, I'd probably
Speaker 2: drop a breaking of glass or pulling my hair out
Speaker 2: if I had some. I hate it when people can't
Speaker 2: hit free throws. Yes, continue to laugh for a little
Speaker 2: minute because they're called free throws. France missed a lot
Speaker 2: of free throws. This game should have been would have
Speaker 2: been a lot closer. But this is why they play
Speaker 2: the games. This is why they play the games. And
Speaker 2: I know it sounds like I'm heartbroken that the US one.
Speaker 2: I'm going to give you my breakdown of me watching
Speaker 2: this game in a minute. I'm an American, I'm a Texan,
Speaker 2: and I'll be honest with you. I'm a whimby guy.
Speaker 2: Now I'll tell you where my allegiance lied on this day.
Speaker 2: Now back to the game a little bit. What I
Speaker 2: love about the Olympics. I'm sitting and watching it with
Speaker 2: my ten year old and he sees that Lebron only
Speaker 2: has seven points at halftime, and I look at him
Speaker 2: and I said, the international game is completely different. The
Speaker 2: physicality of the game is more physical than the NBA.
Speaker 2: If you're saying it's not, you're insane. In the NBA,
Speaker 2: they want scoring to be one thirty eight point twenty.
Speaker 2: They want to see two three hundred points a night
Speaker 2: put on the board so they can put fans in
Speaker 2: the seats. Offense sells seats, Defense wins championships. Well, in
Speaker 2: the Olympics, you're going for the ultimate championship. You're representing
Speaker 2: your country. You're representing each and every person that are
Speaker 2: back here in their states watching their countrymen. I think
Speaker 2: a bigger honor than the NBA title. Anthony Davis put
Speaker 2: it best for the Olympics. He said this is one game.
Speaker 2: This is not a seven game series.
Speaker 1: You go home.
Speaker 2: Can you imagine if the NBA playoffs were that way?
Speaker 2: Maybe extend it to twelve teams in each division conference
Speaker 2: and have a one game, twenty four team playoff. That'd
Speaker 2: be fun. I think it would be fun if you
Speaker 2: had like a college tournament, maybe less than the games
Speaker 2: during the season for the pros. But it's all about money.
Speaker 2: We will never see that eighty two games of years
Speaker 2: really brings a lot of television money, brings a lot
Speaker 2: of ad revenue. This why you're going to see people
Speaker 2: like Wembin Yama and Luca be your first ever one
Speaker 2: hundred million dollar players a year. Don't be surprised when
Speaker 2: Wemby goes to sign that rookie contract that it's close
Speaker 2: to ninety million a year. He may be close to
Speaker 2: the first ever billionaire athlete. I want you to think
Speaker 2: about that. Would you give Luca a billion dollar contract? Joker?
Speaker 2: Where are they at in their career in the middle right,
Speaker 2: Luca's on the verge. Luca's the next one that'll get
Speaker 2: a title. He will. I believe it could be as
Speaker 2: early as this year or next. Sorry, Spurs fans, I
Speaker 2: think will be in the mix, but I honestly believe
Speaker 2: around year four is when Wemby's going to be completely
Speaker 2: dominant with a team that he is gelled with. We'll
Speaker 2: talk about the future of the Spurs here to close
Speaker 2: the podcast today, but to see this type of play
Speaker 2: is different. A lot of battling looks like there's a
Speaker 2: lot of goaltends, a lot of euro side steps that
Speaker 2: look like you're traveling, and a lot of the plays today,
Speaker 2: like I was talking about earlier as I coached my
Speaker 2: young kids, plays today, we forget to teach them basics.
Speaker 2: Everybody wants to teach that crossover killer. Let's get forty
Speaker 2: two cones out, jump over them, do a flip, try
Speaker 2: to be like Jet Lee on a basketball court. It's
Speaker 2: because of the damn video games. Video games have made
Speaker 2: it seem like sports are easy. But I want to
Speaker 2: give a shout out to legendary YouTuber Jesser, who has
Speaker 2: a great basketball channel. We watch it all the time
Speaker 2: in our house. Jesser did a workout of Russell Westbrook.
Speaker 2: I think it was just a warm up of what
Speaker 2: Westbrook goes through before a game. Insane. Now imagine the
Speaker 2: effort they put into practice, training and games. This is
Speaker 2: what they train for people. You're not an athlete. I'm
Speaker 2: not an athlete. I am in my yard. That's cool
Speaker 2: enough to make me look like a superhero to my kids.
Speaker 2: That's all I care. But if you're sitting there saying, oh,
Speaker 2: I could do that, No you can't. Young kid maybe,
Speaker 2: but us armchair quarterbacks, you can't do it. So this
Speaker 2: is why I love teaching the kids basics, because we
Speaker 2: need the basics first. And the difference between the international
Speaker 2: game and the United States game, as we're talking about
Speaker 2: more physical. I laughed at Barkley and all them at
Speaker 2: the beginning of the year when they talked about when
Speaker 2: bin Yama getting thrown around really well, you forget about
Speaker 2: how quick Euros are. Europeans seem to be a lot
Speaker 2: quicker than us. We may be more bred to be bigger, physical,
Speaker 2: muscle slender, but Euros have a lot of different passing techniques,
Speaker 2: different speed drills. And the crazy thing that I love
Speaker 2: about the eurogame, I'm going to watch more of Foeba
Speaker 2: because Foba's just really fun to watch. Is it's a
Speaker 2: team game. The movement on the floor, the passing of
Speaker 2: the ball. It kind of reminds me of the Spurs
Speaker 2: against the Heat the year they dominated them. I think
Speaker 2: it was four to one. They beat them in the series,
Speaker 2: I believe. I can't remember the one where Qui just
Speaker 2: went off. This is the same thing, just a different
Speaker 2: game when it comes to phoeba. So United States had
Speaker 2: to adjust, They had to gel. You have this many people,
Speaker 2: this many egos, ladies and gentlemen. It takes a little
Speaker 2: bit to gel. It truly does. In the United States
Speaker 2: comes out on top. A great game from Devin Booker,
Speaker 2: a great game from Steph and let's close the United
Speaker 2: States Olympic gold win with this. Steph Curry put on
Speaker 2: a Jordan esque moment, and I'm gonna give it to him.
Speaker 2: It was great to see, really great to see, you know.
Speaker 2: And this is where Lebron James can get a rock
Speaker 2: be caught between a rock and a hard place. And
Speaker 2: I understand where he's coming from. You're damned if you do,
Speaker 2: and you're damned if you don't. I was getting ready
Speaker 2: to make funny of you, but then I just realized,
Speaker 2: you know what, Lebron doesn't have to score seventy points
Speaker 2: in a foeba game. He can average nine points a game.
Speaker 2: Even one of the greatest to ever do it, Kobe Bryant,
Speaker 2: only averaged fifteen points in the Olympics because he had
Speaker 2: a squad around him. You have four or five players
Speaker 2: that can average thirteen, fourteen to fifteen points a game.
Speaker 2: That's sixty points in the FOBA game, seventy five if
Speaker 2: you average fifteen points times five. I know that was
Speaker 2: fast for some of y'all. Right there, we've got a
Speaker 2: brain like a calculator. But that's all you really need
Speaker 2: is you need five really good players that could score average.
Speaker 2: You're averaging seventy five points a game in Foeba, and
Speaker 2: that's why FOBA can win. This is why you see
Speaker 2: players like Joker Luca Wemby be better than some of
Speaker 2: these players just because of their skill set. So they're
Speaker 2: averaging twenty points a game or more. But congratulations to
Speaker 2: the United States picking up their fifth gold medal in
Speaker 2: a row twenty straight years. If you really want to
Speaker 2: break that down, and the last breakdown for the United States,
Speaker 2: let's talk about it a little bit. I was going
Speaker 2: to go through all the rosters and see why we won,
Speaker 2: why we lost. But let's go just to the loss
Speaker 2: We haven't talked about this in a very long time.
Speaker 2: We had a very strong line up here in twenty
Speaker 2: twenty four. A lot of ego driven mentalities on this team.
Speaker 2: And that's one of the reasons why I'll tell you
Speaker 2: who I went for in a moment now. The two
Speaker 2: thousand and four Athens Summer Olympics, the men's went bronze baby,
Speaker 2: and that's because of Manu Genovai Yep and Argentina. See
Speaker 2: how I led that into the San Antonio Spurs Weekly
Speaker 2: podcast right there. Manu, this was his year. He put
Speaker 2: the league on notice. In twenty four at the Athens
Speaker 2: Summer Olympics. Of course, the winners of the gold medal
Speaker 2: was Argentina. Argentina beat the United States to get into
Speaker 2: the gold medal round. Argentina went on to win. Here's
Speaker 2: that team for the United States in two thousand and four.
Speaker 2: Carmelo Anthony, who was who was the leading scorer in
Speaker 2: the Olympic history. Now that belongs to who took that over?
Speaker 2: Kevin Durant. Kevin Durant just took it over Carlos Boozer,
Speaker 2: Tim Duncan on this team, Alan iverson lebron James Richard, Jefferson,
Speaker 2: Stefan Marberry, Sean I, Marion, Lamar odom A Mecca Okaphor,
Speaker 2: Amari Stademar and d Wade. Larry Brown was your coach
Speaker 2: Spurs fans. Can you see where they went wrong? Larry
Speaker 2: Brown was the coach. Larry Brown fantastic coach. Don't get
Speaker 2: me wrong. He had a lot of talent here in
Speaker 2: San Antonio. He should have won a title here. Larry
Speaker 2: Brown at the time was great for coaching because the team,
Speaker 2: the game was making a transition. It was going more
Speaker 2: back to fundamentals, the big man in the middle, the
Speaker 2: fast point guard. This is something Larry Brown could coach.
Speaker 2: But at the time, right around the mid two thousands,
Speaker 2: beginning of the two thousands of the euro game was
Speaker 2: really changing the way America looked at their game. And
Speaker 2: I believe this was your downfall. A mix of different
Speaker 2: types of basketball. And finally the United States put their
Speaker 2: ego to the side and said we need to start
Speaker 2: looking at European players more to draft. This is why
Speaker 2: you have the Jokers, the Wemby's. We'll throw Tim Duncan
Speaker 2: in there, mister and Islands, Tony Parkermanu genomally, the whole
Speaker 2: Spurs team really showed what international ball was all about.
Speaker 2: Let's be honest. Yes, you had your Tony co coaches
Speaker 2: of the world. You also had your Man Sharuna's Marcelonis,
Speaker 2: I'll go back Paedristajakovic. You had your Europeans that came
Speaker 2: over here and made an impact. But then to see
Speaker 2: what they all can do together as a team. The
Speaker 2: Spurs started doing that. They kind of still do that.
Speaker 2: They developed the international flavor and when we started winning
Speaker 2: all the titles in ninety nine, oh three, oh five,
Speaker 2: oh seven and fourteen international teams, Poris Diou came along
Speaker 2: other players like that. You're like, oh another French player,
Speaker 2: Oh another Serbian player, Oh oh Tiago Splitter. This was
Speaker 2: the Spurs. So the game change and I believe this
Speaker 2: is why two thousand and four men's Olympic team struggled.
Speaker 2: But if you look at this roster, Carmelo, you can't
Speaker 2: go against Carmelo. He had an amazing Olympic rung. He
Speaker 2: has three I think he has three gold medals and
Speaker 2: a bronze. I believe Carlos Boozer though Tim Duncan definitely
Speaker 2: Iverson definitely, James definitely. I love Richard Jefferson as a person,
Speaker 2: but not as an Olympian. Stefan Marberry in two thousand
Speaker 2: and four, Marlberry maybe Marion no Odum, no okafor no
Speaker 2: stod Omeyer at that time. Sure d Wade a young
Speaker 2: d Wade. Absolutely, So half this roster was booty. Let's
Speaker 2: be honest, people, Booty, I'm calling it booty. Good players,
Speaker 2: some future Hall of Farmers, some good coaches right now,
Speaker 2: but Booty. You had a mix of players that played
Speaker 2: basic to ankle breaking, egotistical to humble. This was not
Speaker 2: a good team. Carmelo attitude, Lebron Young attitude, Duncan, mister fundamental,
Speaker 2: You think you fit in with this group? No, he didn't.
Speaker 2: This is why we lost and got the Browns medal.
Speaker 2: Then you take a look at the team we had
Speaker 2: to win the goal this year. And let's get ready
Speaker 2: to close with this on the show today. Thank you
Speaker 2: for sticking around. We had a lot to talk about
Speaker 2: this year's team. Beast Beast Bama Byo right off the bat.
Speaker 2: Love him, Steph Curry, love him, Devin Booker, love him,
Speaker 2: Anthony Davis, good pick, Kevin Durant, amazing defense in the Olympics,
Speaker 2: Anthony Edwards amazing defense in the Olympics. Joel Embiid, We'll
Speaker 2: move on. This man gets more injured than a toddler
Speaker 2: bumping around for the first time walking. Great player and
Speaker 2: this ain't don't say because he put up seventy against
Speaker 2: the Spurs. I swear I'll come through this podcast at you.
Speaker 2: But the funny thing is great player. Love Embiid. I
Speaker 2: just don't think he was a good fit. Or actually,
Speaker 2: you know what, I don't think he was used right.
Speaker 2: Kurt didn't use him right because he's not used to
Speaker 2: having a big man. Keep that in mind. Tyrese Haliburton
Speaker 2: didn't see a lot of playing time. I thought it
Speaker 2: was a good pick as far as mister fundamental and
Speaker 2: a shooter. Drew Holliday loved this pick. A leader, a guy,
Speaker 2: I'll do what he needs to do to win. Lebron
Speaker 2: James needed to be on this team for his last one.
Speaker 2: Same thing with Steph. We needed that veteran leadership. And
Speaker 2: it's hard to look at Lebron and Curry and say, man,
Speaker 2: they're at the end of their run. We need that
Speaker 2: veteran leadership man. But they can still do it, can't
Speaker 2: they They both had great tournament runs. Jason Tatum a
Speaker 2: man who can't play defense. I love Tatum too. I
Speaker 2: wanted him here in San Antonio at one time play defense.
Speaker 3: Though.
Speaker 2: This is where France messed up. They kept putting Tatum
Speaker 2: on Wemby at times, and they wouldn't post up Wemby.
Speaker 2: Wemby would be on the wing. Where would he Jason
Speaker 2: Tatum play defense between his man in the basket like
Speaker 2: you should, like you should. But again, just like an
Speaker 2: early San Antonio team, a French team wouldn't get him
Speaker 2: the ball. And even though he ended up in this
Speaker 2: game with twenty six points and the most points in
Speaker 2: the game, Wemby kind of struggle. Ladies and gentlemen, let's
Speaker 2: talk a little bit about that. Wemby actually struggled just
Speaker 2: a little bit in the Olympics, and it's understandable. Maybe
Speaker 2: this is why he didn't get the ball a lot.
Speaker 2: He's twenty years old. He just went from fever rules
Speaker 2: to pro rules back to feb rules. It's difficult to
Speaker 2: do so for the Americans to win five straight goals,
Speaker 2: that's astonishing because they have to learn those rules over
Speaker 2: and over again. I was taking look at his stats
Speaker 2: and as stats were decent for FOEBA and decent for
Speaker 2: the Olympics because I compared. Of course, I looked up Kobe,
Speaker 2: and Kobe was fifteen points a game Wemby Yama through
Speaker 2: five games played in the Olympics. Here, it's decent for
Speaker 2: what he did. You look at the first couple numbers,
Speaker 2: you're like, oh, that's all right for FEBA rules. He
Speaker 2: played almost thirty minutes a game. That's what he averaged
Speaker 2: in the NBA, just under thirty's points per game. We're
Speaker 2: about fourteen. Big game was twenty six rebounds, ten assists,
Speaker 2: three steals, two blocks, two but two turnovers a game.
Speaker 2: Those turnovers hurt Wemby last year, and I believe this
Speaker 2: is something he'll clean up a little bit as the
Speaker 2: years to come. But what really killed me as a
Speaker 2: Spurs fan, and it probably killed Popovich. Field goal percentage
Speaker 2: Wemby was atrocious, thirty seven percent from the field of
Speaker 2: sixty four. A lot of his points were put backs,
Speaker 2: ali oops, setups. His shot was not there in the
Speaker 2: Olympics three point shot twenty six percent, eight of thirty
Speaker 2: from behind the arc. I am not demeaning this young
Speaker 2: man because I am a huge, active advocate, the advocate
Speaker 2: of when beIN Yama. I have been since we drafted him,
Speaker 2: I always will be. I look at him as a
Speaker 2: David Robinson, not necessarily the game, but someone who's going
Speaker 2: to change this team and the culture around I believe
Speaker 2: that he is a Spur. He's fit to be a Spur.
Speaker 2: The Spurs are trying to line up a decent contract
Speaker 2: for him already. You can see that by trying to
Speaker 2: put a new workout facility in place at the Rock
Speaker 2: here in San Antonio. You can also see that they're
Speaker 2: putting money into a new stadium downtown. There's something going
Speaker 2: on in the world, and we don't know what it is.
Speaker 2: Aerosmith used to say, Well, we're saying that now as
Speaker 2: Spurs fans. There's something in the air. You kind of
Speaker 2: sense it. You don't know what it is. Well, I'm
Speaker 2: gonna tell you who it is. It's Victor Wimbinama. Regardless
Speaker 2: of a poor shooting performance in the Olympics, the final
Speaker 2: game was his coming out party. If you think about it, it
Speaker 2: took a couple of games in the NBA right for
Speaker 2: him to get going well. Against Dallas the first game
Speaker 2: he came out a little bit, but to really get
Speaker 2: in that rhythm Foba is the same way. When you're
Speaker 2: only practicing and playing with the French national team once
Speaker 2: a year, that's tough to do. So this is why
Speaker 2: he moves down the roster a little bit. They know
Speaker 2: what he can do. To have a player his caliber,
Speaker 2: to put him in there is what they need him for.
Speaker 2: So as Spurs fans, as much as we wanted to
Speaker 2: see Wimby on the floor and know what he can do,
Speaker 2: guess what he's being protected because this year is going
Speaker 2: to set up an amazing and this is why we
Speaker 2: love wem Beanyama. Here in San Antonio after the game,
Speaker 2: the humility of this young man was second to none.
Speaker 2: I have not seen a player cry like that since
Speaker 2: Michael Jordan grasping the title the year after his father died.
Speaker 2: When our Americans do it, it doesn't seem genuine. It doesn't.
Speaker 2: I didn't see anybody crying on the Olympic team, and
Speaker 2: you can send me an email or clip if I
Speaker 2: missed it. But wembin Yama was in a great embrace
Speaker 2: with Kevin Durant. This is his favorite players, the equivalent
Speaker 2: of Kobe coming over to Lebron Jordan coming over to Kobe.
Speaker 2: Lebron gave wemby the name the Alien. Kevin Durant, one
Speaker 2: of the ambassadors for the sport over the last fifteen
Speaker 2: years along with st and Lebron, became the ambassador to
Speaker 2: speak for the elders. You could see it in the embrace.
Speaker 2: You can see Kevin saying, this league is yours. The
Speaker 2: league is onnotice because of you. Look what you did
Speaker 2: here today for your team to keep you guys in it.
Speaker 2: And he did it wasn't just him man Vaselli. Can
Speaker 2: we give a big round of applause for number seven
Speaker 2: Vaselli on France. This man played over here, played okay,
Speaker 2: but didn't get the contract he wanted, and he did
Speaker 2: something unique. He kind of reminds me of the movie
Speaker 2: Jerry Maguire. When he went into his final year of
Speaker 2: his contract, he either could play or re up his contract.
Speaker 2: If he re upped his contract, he got less money,
Speaker 2: but if he played well his final season, he becomes
Speaker 2: a free agent on the market and would make tons
Speaker 2: of money. Well, he risked it and said, I'll play
Speaker 2: for the contract I'm under right now and next year
Speaker 2: I'll become a free agent. Well, you kind us kind
Speaker 2: of have seen this the passing of the torch, and
Speaker 2: Wemby is lining up the same way, mister humility. It
Speaker 2: was good to see the embrace with Kevin. It was
Speaker 2: good to see him go over to his mama and
Speaker 2: cry because I think of my children at six and ten,
Speaker 2: winning little championships, losing championships, crying and being happy in
Speaker 2: the emotions. That's the same emotion we saw in this kid. Wemby,
Speaker 2: if you're listening, this season is yours. Don't let the
Speaker 2: ego of that statement infect your mental It's just motivation.
Speaker 2: They're putting out great commercials for you. Your face is
Speaker 2: on things. Slowly, you are slowly becoming the face of
Speaker 2: the NBA. And in what a great face, What a
Speaker 2: great face. We didn't really see that in San Antonio
Speaker 2: with Tim Tony Manu David as super superstar. They were superstars.
Speaker 2: But this kid's an enigma. It's going to be a
Speaker 2: different ride here in San Antonio. Folks, be ready and Wemby,
Speaker 2: if you're listening, you are a spur Son. You are
Speaker 2: you fit the mold. You humility, your respect, your honor
Speaker 2: for the game. You're bringing it back you're bringing it back,
Speaker 2: and we applaud you. This is why Chris Paul's a
Speaker 2: great fit. Mister ambassador of the NBA, in the players Union,
Speaker 2: mister NBA outside of the court, works with the community
Speaker 2: and people. You don't know what the Spurs are going
Speaker 2: to do, and we end every show that way, but
Speaker 2: they're prepped, primed, and ready for a pretty good run.
Speaker 2: The West is deep, we know this. I don't see
Speaker 2: the Spurs winning seventy games. I don't see any team
Speaker 2: eclipsing sixty in the next couple of years to win
Speaker 2: the West. And we're going to see a lot of
Speaker 2: teams that don't win the West at the one seed,
Speaker 2: win the conference at the end of the year and
Speaker 2: represent the Western Conference Finals and the NBA Finals for
Speaker 2: the West. These are my beliefs on the future of
Speaker 2: the Western Conference in the NBA, even though you have
Speaker 2: teams like the Lakers kind of slipping. But I believe
Speaker 2: that JJ Reddick experiment is fantastic. He's a great college recruiter.
Speaker 2: He understands the collegiate game as well as the NBA game.
Speaker 2: So to understand the collegiate game, you see who's coming up,
Speaker 2: who he'd like who would fit the system. I think
Speaker 2: the Lakers are going to be a different team in
Speaker 2: the next five years. It's gonna be fun to watch.
Speaker 2: But it's nice to see when Ben Yama bringing back
Speaker 2: humility to San Antonio. And I'm not saying the other
Speaker 2: players didn't. Devin Vecelle, Jearmy so Hand Collins, they are
Speaker 2: all that San Antonio Mold, Harrison Barnes, Chris Paul, they're here.
Speaker 2: They got rid of the people that are a little egotistical.
Speaker 2: I didn't understand the David Boston junior signing. We'll talk
Speaker 2: about that later on because Davante Graham was the same player.
Speaker 2: But I understand we had to move Davante to get
Speaker 2: certain pieces. But Davonte Graham, even though he's a great player,
Speaker 2: love watching Buzzard beaters by him, great player on the floor,
Speaker 2: he just wasn't a Spur. Wasn't a Spur, and you
Speaker 2: know certain players are not Spurs. And Dennis Rodman but
Speaker 2: did what he had to do while he was here
Speaker 2: in San Antonio. And that's what you see right now
Speaker 2: with a lot of these other players. But the San
Speaker 2: Antonio Spurs may I get ready. They are prime prepped
Speaker 2: and ready and I am so excited just because of
Speaker 2: the additions of Chris Paul and how wem Bin Yama
Speaker 2: lost in the finals against the Mighty Avengers of the
Speaker 2: United States. He almost became Theenos, almost became thenos on
Speaker 2: this day, ladies and gentlemen. But he will be Fatos
Speaker 2: because he will have the hardware and the rings to
Speaker 2: prove it in the future. The NBA knows it, we
Speaker 2: know it. But we've got to be prepped, ready and
Speaker 2: be patient and get ready for the twenty twenty four
Speaker 2: to twenty twenty five season with the San Antonio Spurs.
Speaker 2: A couple of weeks already starts the preseason.
Speaker 3: Yo.
Speaker 2: Let's get ready. Let's get ready for another year of
Speaker 2: Spurs basketball. And remember, no matter how good or bad,
Speaker 2: continue to support this team like family. And remember poor
Speaker 2: Veda Spurs. That's right for my Hispanics speaking brethren and
Speaker 2: out there for my white people. Go Spurs Go. We'll
Speaker 2: see you on the flip side. Thank you for listening
Speaker 2: to another edition of the San Antonio Spurs Weekly Podcast.
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