Victor Wembanyama feasted on the Dallas Mavericks on Wednesday when his San Antonio Spurs visited the American Airlines Center. He scored 40 points in that game and grabbed 25 rebounds. It was basically a highlight reel that he recorded in that game and the best fun about it was that he did it against a very tall line up led by Anthony Davis.
Wemby was matched up with AD (6’`10) and Dereck Lively (7’2) who both started for the Mavs. From the bench was Dwight Powell who stands at 6’10. Of course, Wemby is taller than anyone from those three at 7’4 and AD thinks that is the main problem they had.
“When he’s 7-3 and he stands in front of you, nobody’s gonna block his shot and he’s shooting over the top,” Davis told reporters after the game.
“At that point, you just pray he misses. I think he got us in foul trouble.”
Davis, a member of the the NBA All-Defensive First Team and the league block leaders for three seasons had a solid outing himself. He finished the game with 22 points, 13 rebounds although he shot 7 out of 22 from the field.
He thinks it was the foul trouble that did them against Wemby.
“All the bigs on the team. That takes away the aggressiveness on how you play defensively.”
Anthony Davis thinks offense was the problem
Wembanyama did damage on them but for Davis, he believes they could have done better on the offense. Mavs allowed the opponents to score 125 points but they themselves only had 92. Their offense dried up in the last three quarters, scoring just 22, 21, and 20.
AD thought they did too much isolation.
Anthony Davis on Dallas’ offensive struggles:
“We were playing a lot of isolation basketball, we’re not gonna win games like that. We got guys that are capable of doing it, but we don’t want to play like that…We gotta be able to move the basketball from side to side and get… pic.twitter.com/wiYqrF5wbs
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As for Wembanyama, head coach Jason Kidd believes there’s one thing they should have utilized. That is denying him the ball.
“There are stars in this league that can flat-out score,” he said.
“You’ve got to be able to protect each other, and we have to be better with that. Being able to take the ball out of his hands and make someone else score — that’s what great teams do. It’s a learning moment for us.”
Spurs and Mavs as set to meet three more times this season. Two of them in February and one in April.
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