The San Antonio Spurs eliminated the Portland Trailblazers from the NBA Playoffs last night and DP just can’t get enough of Victor Wembanyama. He proposes a new statistical category for the NBA to track that will account for his ability to alter shots, and he calls it: Shots Discouraged.
Dan Patrick: “I would like to announce this to the Commissioner of the NBA, Adam Silver. I need to come up with a new category, a new stat. It's called: Shots Discouraged. SD, Shots Discouraged. I think Portland shot 19% on the shots that Wembanyama contested in this series… Like, this is where quarterbacks say that they see ghosts, you know, or the pocket is getting muddy. And Sam Darnold famously said that, you know, he sees ghosts in the pocket. Like, Wemby is a ghost. He's there. I'm not sure where he is, but I know he'll be here. And that's what you saw in this Portland series. It was fun, fun to watch. He is must-see TV. There is no other player I'd rather watch than Wemby.”