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I’m seeing a whole lot of “Ik Chet has better teammates but he’s still better” and I’m sorry y’all can say whatever you want but for a second actually imagine Wemby with SGA, Jdub, Giddey, and Dort. You really think he’s not affecting winning as much as Chet? 50+% from 3 is a lot to expect, but based off how good his shot looks now, if he’s taking ~75% of his 3’s wide open and set up by his teammates instead of creating the majority of them himself, you rlly think he’s shooting 28% still?

Then defensively he’s maybe slightly less polished than Chet, but 1) who’s to say that would look the same with much better perimeter defenders like Dort, Cason, SGA and even Jdub (compared to San Antonio’s defenders) and 2) even with the lack of polish, his mere presence and ability to warp the court with his closeouts puts him maybe already above Chet in overall impact on that end.

I think a lot of you guys are underrating the thunder’s squad in terms of its impact on Chet’s play. Or maybe not realizing just how dogshit SA’s is overall. Thunder have 4 non Chet guys better than the spurs’ next best player (I suppose Vassell vs Giddey or Dort is an interesting topic, but as of now I’d simply put both of them over him due to playmaking for Giddey and top of the league level defense for Dort- and he can apparently shoot lights out now), and even then, vassel’s been half the season so far, and the dropoff after vassell is a chasm