Victor Wembanyama isn’t looking for a wholesale overhaul. He’s hunting for one specific missing piece.
At Spurs media day on Monday at the team’s practice facility, Wembanyama said isolation scoring is the part of his offense he wants to sharpen next. He answered first in English before switching to French for reporters from French outlets, including France Télévisions.
In French, his answer was short and direct: “Of course. Isolation scoring.”
The ask makes sense when you look at how much of his production already comes with help. Last season, 64.7% of his made two-pointers were assisted, and that number held at 61.3% in the playoffs. Over 64 regular-season games, he averaged 25.0 points on 16.9 field goal attempts per game and shot 51.2% from the field.
The range of his scoring is already obvious. He shot 78.0% from within 3 feet, 39.1% from 10 to 16 feet, and 42.0% from 16 feet out to the 3-point line, according to Basketball-Reference.
From deep, he made 34.9% of his 3-point attempts. He also got to the line more often in 2025-26, averaging 5.8 made free throws on 7.0 attempts per game, up from 3.4 makes on 4.1 attempts the season before.
Through three seasons, Wembanyama has put up 23.4 points, 11.0 rebounds and 3.5 assists per game. The Spurs drafted him first overall in 2023, and he won Rookie of the Year in 2024.
What he says he still needs most is time.
“The player I've become, I'd say a big part of the learning has been learning to win, and learning to win comes down to details, obviously, but details repeated again and again,” Wembanyama said. “I think that's the strength of the players who have been through that undisputed No. 1 spot, or who are close to it: learning to do it not over one game, not over five, but over dozens and dozens and hundreds.”
He added, “What I'm missing now is experience, and fortunately, I've gained a lot of it these last few months.”
That stretch included 22 playoff games and 524 postseason points. His 133 made free throws led all players in the playoffs.
He opened the Western Conference finals with 41 points and 24 rebounds in a 122-115 double-overtime win over the Oklahoma City Thunder. San Antonio then lost the NBA Finals to the New York Knicks in five games, with Jalen Brunson scoring 45 points in the clinching Game 5 and taking home Finals MVP.
Wembanyama also spent part of the summer adding to his bag. Spurs workout video from Nanterre showed him knocking down a one-footed fadeaway from the post, a move made famous by Dirk Nowitzki. For a second straight summer, he trained with Hakeem Olajuwon.
Now the challenge shifts from individual growth to the reality of life as a team everyone circles on the calendar. Wembanyama said the Spurs want to chase another run at the West, but he knows the Finals appearance changes how opponents will treat them.
“Of course, of course there's that revenge side,” Wembanyama explained. “After that, I'm really attacking the season with this idea of bringing the troops together, so that we're all on the same wavelength, all on the same page to attack this season, because the truth is there are expectations all around us.”
He said San Antonio should expect every opponent’s best shot.
“We'll get every team's best face every night,” Wembanyama continued. “No one will take us lightly, no one will be surprised by our performances. So it's going to take great collective strength to face that.”
He pointed to Oklahoma City as the model from last season and said the Knicks will face the same kind of response now. That, he said, is the new reality for the Spurs after reaching the Finals.
“Of course it has changed, it's undeniable,” Wembanyama said. “As I was saying, I think we'll get every team's best face every night, like the former finalists or former champions of all these last years.
We know that last year, as soon as a team played OKC, they went all out. And the same for the previous champions.
And the Knicks will get the same treatment all year, that's for sure.”
“So our status has changed,” Wembanyama continued. “We've had a certain level of success, but still not enough. So we're going to have to reach it, and we're going to have to maintain it.”
The Spurs open the season Oct. 20 against the Thunder at 8:30 p.m. CT on NBC.
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