Why Jokic Plays WORSE When Wemby Is Out
The panel breaks down a shocking pattern in the NBA: Nikola Jokic puts up huge numbers when Victor Wembanyama plays, but struggles when Wemby sits out. The Panel dive deep into the Spurs’ surprising win over the Nuggets and why Jokic had an average night with Wemby out of the lineup. This heated debate looks at matchups, schemes, and whether Wemby’s presence actually helps Jokic. Fans of NBA analysis, Spurs basketball, and Jokic vs Wemby matchups won’t want to miss this breakdown.
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29 Comments
Pen waits to talk he doesn’t listen to what is said he just wants to argue n make it look like he’s always correct nobody said anything about wemby stopping jokic yet pen continued to bring that up he doesn’t listen to anything that gets said
The One thing I hate about Jokic is the passive aggressiveness in the Offense.
There are times like he feels scoring matters more than sometimes dictating the offense
Penn does an awful job explaining his thoughts. Wemby isn’t a great primary matchup for Jokic. Wemby’s defensive talent would be better used as a help defender on Jokic
Curry, Jokic, Zion etc all play their best game when Wemby is playing, in order to diminish Wemby's shine!
I blame ron
Nah who’s other guy he’s funny as hell 😂😂
Pen trying to get pregnant by the joker
Jokic didn’t play 1:1 the entire game against Wemby, you have to look at stats based on match ups not overall stats.
Bringing up year 2 Wemby to justify jokic plays better against him than without him on the court is flat out wrong… jokic wasn’t getting all his points on Wemby he would do it against guys like Zach Collin’s.. spurs upgraded the backup 5 so you can contain jokic better now with Wemby out the game… this year I promise with Wemby back and kornet back at the backup 5, jokic will have more problems truly then he had in yesterday game
Hot take – pen makes this pod way more interesting. Even if his takes are bad
Going off purely statistics is asinine…. Just saying 🤷♂️
Pen is incredibly unserious
Bro good defenders have bad matchups aswell why yall acting like hes saying something outrageous. Jokic obviously too damn big for wemby. And old Dwight Howard was guarding jokic better than Anthony Davis.
i l9ve how when players play against wemby and they score a lot of points when not directly guarded by wemby, they say that they scored against wemby, idiots🤦🏾
This entire conversation is a moot point, because without Wemby Spurs put BTA last night. Kornet got busy, and when Wemby gets back the whole league in trouble.
PENN parents didnt have any control over him. BRO DEFINITELY WAS SCREAMING AT HIS PARENTS AS A TEEN
All stars are bringing their A game when they're against Wemby. Look at Curry dropping 2 45 points games just against him and not against other teams
don't worry Joker is just on his cruise control gimmick
To me the parellel here is Wilt Vs Bill Russel. Wilt's gonna go get his points regardless of who you put in front of him, but Russels team still took the championship from him time after time despite that. The real talking point here is that an elite defender is very much capable of having a higher overall impact on team performance than an elite scorer, no matter how they might perform in an isolated 1v1
Yall literally only go hard on pen 🤣
With Wemby Spurs have biggest targets on their back in the league, teams play their best game of the season against them. Without him they fly under the radar, period.
this dude really arguein that having a dude who can drop 30+ on your head at any time + takin away the rim from ur entire team which forces you to play a certain way and make ur team able to play a different type of defense is not harder. aight buddy, go seek mental help you clearly have some issues. by the way jokic last year against the spurs in the 2 games they played shot 47% from the floor, apparently shooting 47% against wemby compared to his 58% average of last year is not harder. the 10% drop is just because jokic didnt take a shit right that morning.
get pen off the show he killing us
I get what he was saying though, there are bad matchups for certain players. This is where coaching is supposed to take over but at times coaches for whatever reason probably gambling cough* don't make adjustments. Steve kerr does this often.
The only person more insufferable on this show than Jordan was when yall used to have Ticket up there, all this dude does is tune out everybody else when they disagree with him and spouts nothing but SHIT all day like a sewage pipe. Get this guy off yalls show immediately lmao.
Yokic when playing vs. wemby brings his game to prove a point.
Wemby is amazing and every time he plays against Jokic, jokic cook his ass.
Yep all you losers talking shit about Pin has no point ay …
Here are Jokic's averages against Spurs when Wemby playing
46pts on 53.4%
41pts on 41.7%
22pts on 69.2%
42pts on 56.3%
31pts on 68.4%
39pts on 62.5%
averages out to 36.83 ppg on 58.58%
Same panel pretending like they didn't say same shit about AD vs Sabonis but somehow Pin is wrong when he uses same argument except with stats to back it up …