Spurs fans desperately need Wembanyama to end egregious KAT narrative taking shape

Victor Wembanyama must save himself and the rest of Spurs Nation from the nonsense people will come up with if they lose to the Knicks because he's losing the Karl-Anthony Towns battle. As if being down 0-2 in an NBA Finals that they were favored to win wasn't bad enough, ESPN's Tim MacMahon is out here telling viewers that KAT is locking Wemby up.

"Victor Wembanyama can not score against him. He is having dominant defensive performances... And when did Wemby get going in Game 3? After KAT got those fouls," MacMahon said on the Hoops Collective podcast he hosts with Brian Windhorst and Tim Bontemps. No Spurs fans want to hear this BS repeated during the offseason.

For one, it would be terribly annoying, but secondly, it's blatantly false.

The KAT propaganda is getting out of control

Towns deserves some credit for his defense in Game 1, but when you're as great a player as Wembanyama is, most of the time, the issues lie within themselves. His game plan for attacking KAT was poor, and he hasn't played with much offensive energy to speak of in the first six quarters of this series.

However, there have been 8 quarters of basketball, and Game 2's entire story tells a different tale than the one the veteran journalist for the WorldWide Leader would have you believe.

Most would agree that Vic played way too passively in the first half of Friday's meeting. That had absolutely nothing to do with Towns, especially considering his first attempt of the night was a dunk he slammed over the top of KAT's head. He went 2/4 in the first two quarters, and while one of those misses was against Karl-Anthony, it was an off-the-dribble pull-up three we've seen him hit a hundred times.

If you want to give the Knicks' center the "defensive dominance" badge because of that, we're watching two totally different things. It only got worse for him after halftime because Wembanyama actually started playing aggressively. The Alien went 9/17 in the final two periods of the game. Five of those buckets came against Towns. And no, his missed shots weren't because of the Big Bodega.

At the end of the night, Wemby finished 11/21 (52%) against New York. Of his 10 misses, only 2 of them came when defended by KAT, so this notion that he's putting on a defensive masterclass against Wembanyama is not rooted in reality. Towns is having a spectacular offensive series. That's where the majority of his value has come across these first two games.

Unfortunately, the truth doesn't matter to a narrative. That's why we love movies. People don't care if they're lied to if there's a good story behind it. They'll run with this nonsense all offseason long if Wembanyama doesn't shut it down. That needs to start in Game 3 tonight.

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