Just eight days after his NBA debut, the highly anticipated Victor Wembanyama achieved an exceptional performance by scoring 38 points to win a second game with the Spurs against Phoenix on Thursday (132-121). 19 years old, five NBA games under the clock, and a first night of madness already, for the French giant (2.24 m), who behaved like the boss of his team by being decisive, particularly at the end of the match to extinguish the return to the Suns of one of his idols, Kevin Durant.
Asked at a press conference whether he was already decisive, “Wemby” replied: “It’s obligatory to be ambitious.”
“Succeed in big actions to extinguish your opponents”
“In every match, we try to find the right way to hurt the other team, tonight it happened like that, maybe tomorrow it will be someone else”, then qualified the tricolor prodigy. “But someone had to do it. In the fourth quarter in the NBA, you have to make big plays to shut down your opponents,” he added.
The Spurs thus won a second victory in a row in Phoenix, two days after snatching a victory down to the wire (115-114). Last in the Western Conference last season (22 wins, 60 losses), San Antonio had an unexpected start to the season (3 wins, 2 losses), with the youngest squad in the NBA. They host Toronto on Sunday for their next meeting.
Original article published on RMC Sport
2023-11-03 09:21:00
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