FULL Victor Wembanyama PRESS CONFERENCE ahead of Game 5 🎤

[0:00] right here joe victor joe varden from the athletic just get to it right away there's [0:06] pretty hot video out there of uh maybe some eggs being thrown at you and then also there's another [0:12] one of um something happening to the team bus leaving madison square garden um how are these [0:18] things impacting you and yeah i guess just that's the question like how are you dealing with with [0:24] these these incidents i mean i didn't really think much of it i just saw that one video uh of the [0:37] eggs i didn't see any other one but it's okay i don't dislike it obviously it's not good at all [0:43] but uh it doesn't bother me yeah we did hear some things yeah i didn't see any i don't i have no [0:52] idea i think it was a battle because it was uh like water limbo's but i don't know i didn't see anything [1:00] on your left third row victor uh helen from tencent players always talk about keeping a zero zero [1:06] mentality in these situations but obviously that's much easier said than done so on a personal [1:12] level what specific things to do whether it's meditation extra training reps or a certain pre-game [1:18] ritual uh to to actually lock your mind into the zero zero headspace in such a massive stage i feel like [1:30] the same routine as usual but even more pushed you know we're at this point of the season where yeah i [1:40] mean we can we can like take some time on every other things we do to put it into performance so [1:49] it's uh we can we're at this point where we can really empty the tank over here mike victor when [1:57] you re-watched that game the second half were there things individually that you saw that you could [2:02] have done differently and also the other night you mentioned greediness i'm wondering if you could [2:06] expand on what you meant by that of course there were a thousand ways we could have not lost that game [2:12] but it it felt like there was a time to to process that and to really dwell on it but not anymore [2:19] and um yeah of course absolutely greediness i mean at the same time i guess the general thing would be [2:29] like giving them less opportunities rather than doing something incredible tim next row back tim reynolds [2:36] with the ap victor what's taken up more of your more of your thoughts the last couple of days the way [2:42] that game four got away or the fact that you've won one of these and you had excellent chances and [2:48] one in the in the other three probably you certainly could have won all of them has that been more of [2:54] the theme that there are ways to be successful that you've proven that to be successful against this [2:58] team or was game four that tough to shake yeah i mean you see you said you said all of it it's uh [3:09] uh we're very confident but yeah uh game i wouldn't say it was so hard to just say like shake off right [3:18] but uh harder than any other game before by far for sure but i mean now we're over it it's the [3:27] playoffs there's no time to to regret things for too long next row back maxine just just [3:35] what's the thing that makes you confident despite the scenario and despite the fact that you're at [3:40] on your left up front tim mcmahon espn how much do you think fatigue was a factor for you down the [4:16] stretch of that game sorry but how much do you think fatigue you know oh fatigue yeah with the [4:21] minutes ramped as high as they were the energy uh definitely a factor but it's the playoffs everybody's [4:29] just as tired and uh i mean it shouldn't even be a factor in the in the game where it's i mean [4:39] now we got two days between games it's not going to be a factor dan on the left side fourth row dan [4:46] divine yahoo sports victor it seemed like they were having a little more success in the second half of [4:50] getting you into the action you know up on the ball as opposed to back in the paint because how are you [4:54] approaching that kind of tug of war that cat and mouse game of be needing to stay back but also [4:59] sometimes being brought up into the action sometimes it feels like if they're going to spend so much [5:06] energy trying to put us in a certain position i mean there's still no mismatch so it's not necessarily [5:13] bad uh i don't think it was really a reason why we lost the game over the side in the front morning [5:20] victor uh nato garcia for markup what's in your mind when you see the big number of knicks fans that [5:26] are the big what sorry the big number of knicks fans that are coming probably tomorrow and that's [5:32] that means also that probably most of those tickets are are sold by the by some of the spurs fans what's [5:38] in your mind is if it's a concern for you or no it's not a concern i mean we get we got good uh defense [5:45] here in the crowd over on your left jared jared weiss the athletic coming into the series you and [5:53] a lot of the guys have talked about you're you're hoping that you're inexperienced in this moment [5:57] wouldn't be a detriment and that maybe could even be a strength because you're naive to the challenges [6:01] of it what have you learned in these last few days about what experience of the finals looks like [6:08] many things many things in the finals in the whole playoffs it felt like we haven't skipped any steps [6:16] because we've made almost every mistake we could have possibly done and we've learned from them so [6:22] i'm counting on the fact that we're going to learn before this series is over and apply we'll take [6:30] last two kelly and then sam in the back kelly eco yahoo sports victor in terms of the bond between you [6:37] and and mitch how has that grown throughout the course of this playoff run obviously you guys are very [6:41] close but how has that grown from your perspective over the course of these last couple oh very much [6:47] very much it's uh she understands people very well and knows how to speak to them and uh i'm no [6:54] exception he knows how to speak to me and uh in game it feels like it's like non-verbal communication [7:02] as much as verbal because first of all it's loud sometimes we're far away and uh she knows what i [7:10] need he knows what i need to get to and i know also you know what he needs what signals he needs so no [7:15] it's we've grown very much in that sense last question sam back right victor sam amic the [7:21] athletic i know you take one game at a time but i would imagine in order to attack that game the [7:26] way you need to your group needs to believe that they can still do this uh the other night you said [7:32] that the loss would either divide you or bring you together two days later do you have a better [7:37] sense of of whether or not the group actually thinks they can pull this off yeah absolutely yeah [7:41] everybody thinks everybody knows we're gonna do it but uh i don't know if i agree with you i feel like [7:48] we need to up we need to isolate that one game and take it one game at a time i think it'd be a [7:54] mistake to waste our energy on on different you know on multiple games it's one game at a time thank [8:02] you victor thank you