Speaker 1: On this episode of The Heat Check. Oh baby, you
Speaker 1: know what I'm juiced up to talk about. His name
Speaker 1: of Victor Webmenyama time, Victor Webbenyama time. I try to
Speaker 1: tell you, I try to tell you he was Pretti.
Speaker 1: He said he's a broken little stick. He's seven ft
Speaker 1: five hundred and eighty pounds soaking wet. Well, guess what,
Speaker 1: he's fucking transcendent. We gotta talk about him. Also, what
Speaker 1: the fuck is the regional sports Networks Valley doing to
Speaker 1: their local consumer? Nothing good, nothing good. Jane Harden had
Speaker 1: an epic crusher which we had to break down because
Speaker 1: we obviously are top sound bite of the week and
Speaker 1: we gotta give out our Himmy Award. Who is Jimmy
Speaker 1: Him and him? Well, he broke out on a Sunday Mattinee,
Speaker 1: so we had to make him him all right, William,
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Speaker 1: So they ABU Dncason Tournament, all these new courts came
Speaker 1: out everybody was mad about them. People were tweeting about it,
Speaker 1: and do you think I give a fuck? Do you
Speaker 1: think I'm juiced up about that? No? No, I am
Speaker 1: juiced up. I am fired about Victor Webby, Yama Wemby,
Speaker 1: Sir Wemby. He is absolutely something we've never seen before.
Speaker 1: There was a ton of hype around him, right, it
Speaker 1: was just as much hype as there were skeptics. And
Speaker 1: guess what, Callum A got a lot bigger. Callum B
Speaker 1: went to about zero skeptics population negative ten unless you're
Speaker 1: a straight fucking hater, folks. He has now gone from oh,
Speaker 1: can't wait to see this young guy play this French
Speaker 1: to let me mark your calendar for you, let's tweet
Speaker 1: about it, Let's make an appointment television, because that's what
Speaker 1: it is. If you missed the big moment where he
Speaker 1: decided to elevate to that appointment viewing status, let me
Speaker 1: tell you all about it. It was Thursday night after
Speaker 1: we recorded, of course, because why wouldn't it be, first
Speaker 1: playing their second game in three days against the Suns.
Speaker 1: If you don't remember the first game against the Suns,
Speaker 1: they were down pretty much all but one point five seconds.
Speaker 1: They won that game, and so then the Suns end
Speaker 1: up getting Devin Booker back. Oh how is this gonna look?
Speaker 1: It's gonna be kd It's gonna be book and these
Speaker 1: little razzle dazzle scrappy Spurs in Phoenix probably going to poundtown. Right, No, wrong,
Speaker 1: it was the Spurs that were doing the pounding. Yes, Spurs.
Speaker 1: Spurs decided, Oh yeah, we don't give a fuck about
Speaker 1: book No chance, absolutely not. Devin vessel By, the way,
Speaker 1: who we highlighted last week was Election. Well, he had
Speaker 1: eighteen points in the first half, he gets injured. But
Speaker 1: the story, of course was Wemby. And it wasn't just
Speaker 1: that Wemby was over otherworldly, because he was. It was
Speaker 1: that he was doing things we can't not only that
Speaker 1: we haven't seen before, but our brains can't actually process
Speaker 1: or imagine, which that's never happened. Right. He put up
Speaker 1: He put up almost forty in his fourth fifth game
Speaker 1: of his entire NBA career. For context, Lebron James. Lebron
Speaker 1: James put up almost forty in his sixty fifth career game.
Speaker 1: That's insane. Lebron James took sixty games to get to
Speaker 1: the place that Wemby was at in five. It really
Speaker 1: does feel like Wemby is downloading software updates we haven't
Speaker 1: gotten access to yet, just new things that he has
Speaker 1: acquired in his skill and is now implementing. All of
Speaker 1: the tools that we knew that Wendy could maybe do
Speaker 1: were on display, right. The blocks were there, the steals
Speaker 1: were there, the deflections were there. They're really just like,
Speaker 1: you can't be here. I'm not even gonna run around
Speaker 1: over here because you're there. That happened too. He had
Speaker 1: ten rebounds, two blocks, one steal, and had so many
Speaker 1: holy shit moments. I don't even really know what to say.
Speaker 1: He's like if KD grew almost half of the foot,
Speaker 1: that's what he is. He can do all the same
Speaker 1: things that KD can do. Am more. He'll just grab
Speaker 1: the ball out of the sky and then put it
Speaker 1: underneath his armpit like it's a football and be like,
Speaker 1: all right, we're going the other way. You watch him
Speaker 1: in AWE dribble dribble, dribble between tween step back from
Speaker 1: thirty splash, and you're like, oh my god, catch and
Speaker 1: shoot three splash, call for the lob at the three, Oh,
Speaker 1: let me go get it. Throw it anywhere the rim
Speaker 1: you want, because I'm gonna go oh and spin around.
Speaker 1: I don't even see the rim, and it's gone in
Speaker 1: splash the court vision, it's there. How much ground he
Speaker 1: can cover, He can get from one side of the
Speaker 1: court to the other and block the shot faster than
Speaker 1: Shade and Shark can. I don't understand, dude. You just
Speaker 1: kind of say, what are we watching? What version of
Speaker 1: basketball is this? That is how transcendent Victor wan Minyama
Speaker 1: is Wemby. I watched Ogn and Obi go in for
Speaker 1: a wide open layup and Victor Wamanyama tiptoed on the
Speaker 1: weak side and he said, oh no, never mind, let
Speaker 1: me pull back out for a second. I'm not trying
Speaker 1: to get embarrassed here on my own floor. In their
Speaker 1: first five games, we'll give this out for context because
Speaker 1: I saw it and I was like, holy shit, So Wemby.
Speaker 1: Wemby's averaging twenty one points per game, almost eight rebounds,
Speaker 1: one point six assists per game, three point six blocks
Speaker 1: and steals off of fifty from the three field, thirty
Speaker 1: two from three, and seventy three percent from the free
Speaker 1: throw line. Okay, Lebron James his first year, sixteen point
Speaker 1: eight points per game in his first five games, seven
Speaker 1: point six rebounds, six point six assists. Makes sense because
Speaker 1: he had the ball a lot two point four blocks
Speaker 1: and steals forty four, seventeen and seventy. Did I mention though,
Speaker 1: that Wemby's playing like sixty percent of the minutes that
Speaker 1: Lebron was playing. Wenby is averaging in insane amount in
Speaker 1: his per thirty six players he goes up against are
Speaker 1: so terrified of him. That is how we know the
Speaker 1: man is transcend Like I said, wide open layups turned down, No, sir,
Speaker 1: not doing it. Kad kind of pretended to pull up
Speaker 1: when Binond came over and he was like, I think
Speaker 1: I'm gonna dribble around him. I'm not gonna shoot this.
Speaker 1: I am telling you he is changing the game. He
Speaker 1: is changing what people are willing to even attempt out
Speaker 1: there on the floor. Devin Booker his first game back,
Speaker 1: he put up ridiculous points and even he was like, yeah,
Speaker 1: Wemby's insane. He's unbelievable. Everybody knows that. We're just trying
Speaker 1: to figure out what he is because we've never seen
Speaker 1: him before. We're just trying to figure out what he is, Yes,
Speaker 1: what is he?
Speaker 2: So?
Speaker 1: How good could Wemby be this year? Outside of obviously
Speaker 1: he's obviously winning Rookie of the Year. That just goes
Speaker 1: without saying. That's what's happening. We're talking about a guy
Speaker 1: who could very easily win Defensive Player of the Year.
Speaker 1: He's doing all the things that Yannis did when he
Speaker 1: was Defensive Player of the Year. He's beating Giannis in
Speaker 1: every defensive category so far this year as a rookie.
Speaker 1: And I don't want to sound silly like, oh, Trista,
Speaker 1: you were just speaking in hyperboles. You're just such a
Speaker 1: little hype man. I think Wemby, if the Spurs could
Speaker 1: win more games, if they're like a top four, top
Speaker 1: five seed, if they get in Wemby at ninety to one,
Speaker 1: I think if he keeps this up, could could easily,
Speaker 1: not easily, he could legitimately though, win MVP. He is
Speaker 1: now six games into his NBA career. The Spurs are
Speaker 1: now three and three. Remember Spurs last year started four
Speaker 1: and two. Was anybody excited about that four and two
Speaker 1: Spurs team? No, not even Brent Berry, who works for
Speaker 1: the Spurs, was excited about the Spurs. When I asked
Speaker 1: him abou. I was like, ooh, you guys kind of
Speaker 1: got an exciting young Corey. He goes do do we though? Yes.
Speaker 1: All of the excitement though this year baby has to
Speaker 1: do with Wemby. He's learning how to mess with his teammates.
Speaker 1: The great thing I saw him do was Zach Collins.
Speaker 1: Zach Collins bit too hard on his team, a guy
Speaker 1: that he was going up against, and then he commits
Speaker 1: the foul. Wemby can come over with the block, and
Speaker 1: Wemby's like, Bro, you didn't have to do that. Let
Speaker 1: him cook you, Let him barbecue chicken you. That's exactly
Speaker 1: where I want him. I will clean up your mess
Speaker 1: at Colls, do not worry. Let him go by you.
Speaker 1: I will put that ship in the fifth row. Give
Speaker 1: Victor women, y'all, mama check that in with me. We
Speaker 1: will be firmly embedded. Skip Steven a shant Skip. We'll
Speaker 1: be talking about is he the greatest player we've ever seen?
Speaker 1: Believe me? Hold that and come back to me.