Following the Spurs‘ embarrassing loss to the Wizards, Cedi Osman and Victor Wembanyama couldn’t agree on why the team lost.
After losing to the lowly Washington Wizards by six points in the fourth quarter, the San Antonio Spurs are in disarray. With their recent victory against the Minnesota Timberwolves, the Spurs were virtually guaranteed to defeat Washington.
After a crushing defeat, the Spurs were left scratching their heads as to why it didn’t happen. It’s simple to blame a poor team’s defeat on insufficient effort. It makes sense that Cedi Osman chose to choose that path. He said,
“I think we just didn’t bring our effort,” “It’s obviously a very tough loss because, obviously we would trust in our team and we could have won this game, but I don’t think that we deserved it tonight.”
What did Victor Wembanyama think about Cedi Osman comments?
Osman, who scored a season-high 20 points in just 28 minutes of action off the bench, was possibly the only Spur who put in some effort. Despite his 22 points and 11 rebounds, Victor Wembanyama refused to attribute the defeat on insufficient effort.
Victor Wembanyama in action
Wembanyama chose to place the blame on the inexperience and lack of court awareness of the young Spurs. He said,
“I don’t think it was related to effort at all. We played hard,”
“We didn’t play smart. I think what we took from the game was that we were pretty immature at times. We’re always going to have some good and bad games during the season but this was one of the bad ones. We got to got to get stronger mentally.”
It’s been said that defeat develops strength, and supporters of the Spurs had better hope that this is the case. Although San Antonio has only won 10 games this season and has suffered many humiliating defeats, strengthening the team’s mental toughness will be essential if they hope to get back to their winning ways.
