When the Thunder\u2019s defense was allowed to contest Victor Wembanyama\u2019s shots, they succeeded in throwing him off his game.<\/p>\n
Wembanyama was 12 of 12 at the free-throw line, but made just four of his 15 field-goal attempts in 38 minutes and did not score more than one field goal in any quarter. <\/p>\n
Without Wembanyama as effective offensively, the Spurs struggled to rally in the second half and allowed their deficit to balloon to 20 points late in the game.<\/p>\n
The four field goals was half of his previous low in the Western Conference finals, and his 0-of-5 showing from 3 was his first game of the series without a 3-point make. <\/p>\n
The Spurs will need him to return to MVP form when the series returns to San Antonio for Game 6.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"When the Thunder\u2019s defense was allowed to contest Victor Wembanyama\u2019s shots, they succeeded in throwing him off his…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":696308,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[434],"tags":[49,48,459,82],"class_list":["post-696307","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nba","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-nba","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/696307","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=696307"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/696307\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/696308"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=696307"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=696307"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=696307"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}