Wembanyama obliterates another record en route to the final Jazz spanking

Six of the Spurs’ ten wins this season have been by ten points or more. Let that sink in for a team that won just 22 games last year. San Antonio have now won seven of their last nine games and are building confidence with each win. Confidence is dangerous in professional sports because so much of the game is mental. All players are talented, so when they believe, the impossible happens.

The impossible began at 210 when Victor Wembanyama was drafted number one overall last summer. Since then, he has done nothing but live up to the hype that came with his name. The most buzz around an up-and-coming prospect belonged to him, and more than a year later, he has broken record after record. Tonight’s 128-115 victory over the Utah Jazz was no exception.

He’s so young and hitting so many shots that it’ll be a Wilt Chamberlain-esque record that will be hard to imagine anyone else hitting once he’s done with it.

Anyone still complaining about Wembanyama’s shot selection is just stubborn. He shot 14 3-pointers against Utah and made six of them. That’s a 43% efficiency that hundreds of players in the league would love to have. He’s shooting 43% from three over his last ten games, so this isn’t some kind of blip.

Mitch Johnson wasn’t lying when he told the media that Alien was a good shooter. It just took some time for Wemby to shake off the rust after not playing much in the preseason and adjust to the style of the NBA game.

He scored 17 points in the second quarter and finished the game with 34 points, and his defensive presence was strong. The latter is what you expect the most from him, and he had three blocks. How he scores his points is less important as long as he is efficient. As long as he uses his size to stifle the other team’s offense, he should be considered putting his natural gifts to good use.

Stephon Castle was the Spurs’ second-leading scorer with 23 points. He added five assists and three rebounds to his night, and San Antonio needed it all. He got the team going with two big threes at the start of the game and from there it was off to the races. The rookie has established himself as a reliable player that fans can count on to play, and he did so in spades.

Julian Champagnie had three steals and shot 4/9 from three. Spurs don’t win without his contribution. It was one of Champagne’s best games of the season.

Blake Wesley has had some of the biggest ups and downs of any player on the team, but he was way up against Utah. Wesley put up 11 points on 4/5 shooting, assisted on four buckets and had two steals in nearly 22 minutes.

San Antonio continues to show the league that the Spurs’ culture is alive and well in the Alamo City. They will have to deal with threats from multiple positions while figuring out how to stop an alien who has every basketball skill known to man.