SAN ANTONIO – Spurs’ star Victor Wembanyama I couldn’t believe it.

“Really? I’ve never made six 3’s in a game?” he asked.

Wembanyama significantly recovered from his slump in three-point shooting on Saturday, making a career-high six 3-pointers and seven blocks in his second game of the season in San Antonio’s 111-110 loss to the Utah Jazz.

Wembanyama was 6-of-9 from deep and 8-of-15 from the field.

“He made the shots he missed before (this season),” Spurs interim coach Mitch Johnson said. “So there’s no reaction either way. He’s an outstanding shooter. We want him to make all the shots.”

21-year-old Wembanyama scored 24 points and broke the game record with 16 rebounds. The performance marked Wembanyama’s third career contest with at least five 3-pointers and five blocks, tying Kristaps Porzingis He has four points, which is second most in NBA history behind Raef LaFrentz.

Wembanyama also became the second player in league history to make six three-pointers and seven blocks in one contest. Brook LopezWembanyama has two of the three players in NBA history to score at least 20 points with 15 rebounds, 5 blocks and 5 threes; Paul Millsap provided the other in 2016.

“I don’t think there’s really a corner to go,” Wembanyama said. “That’s not how progress works. I’m not going to shoot 66% in my career. But I’m also not going to shoot 25%. That’s how progress happens. You don’t want to react one way or the other.”

In just his second season, Wembanyama had 13 career games with at least 20 points, 10 rebounds and 5 blocks, third-most in Spurs history behind David Robinson (117) and Tim Duncan (74). This is also the most in a player’s first two seasons since 1999, when Duncan had 14 such performances.

Wembanyama came into the contest having shot just 13-of-41 from 3-point range in the previous five attempts. But Wembanyama, who went 2-of-9 from behind the arc in a loss against the Clippers on Nov. 4, insisted his mentality will not change.

“It’s just to keep playing my game, and my game is three-pointers,” he said.

Wembanyama showed that early too, hitting a 25-yard field goal. Harrison Barnes He assisted on San Antonio’s first points of the contest. The Frenchman went 2-of-3 from 3-point range in the first quarter, including a 26-foot step-back jumper with 32.7 seconds left, and made four 3-pointers in the first half, a career-high three-pointer. one and a half.

In fact, the Spurs tried to set a franchise record with 28 three-pointers in the first half.

On the defensive end, Wembanyama recorded multiple blocks in a quarter for the 75th and 76th time, recording two blocks in the first quarter and four more in the fourth quarter. His 76 multi-block quarters since entering last season are No. 1 in the NBA. Since 1997-98, Robinson and Duncan are the only Spurs with more multi-block quarters (208 and 595, respectively) than Wembanyama.

Wembanyama also became the second Spurs player to average at least 3.5 blocks in the first 10 games of the season, joining Robinson, who achieved the feat five times in his Hall of Fame career.

Wembanyama scored his first block in just 39 seconds of the competition, making him a winner. Walker Kessler 17 meters. He recorded another block, this time, with 7:20 left in the opening frame. Collin Sexton when he attempted a mid-distance jump.

“My rhythm is definitely there,” Wembanyama said. “But there’s more to gain. It’s about how well we can combine everything together. Once we combine it all, it’s great. But it’s about how often we can do it, and it’s about how we can keep piling up wins.”

Saturday’s game marked the fourth-year forward Devin Vassellthe beginning of the season. Vassell came off the bench and finished the game with 21 points on 8/13 shooting, 3/6 from 3-point range, 3 rebounds and 4 assists. Vassell missed the team’s first nine games after undergoing right foot surgery in June.

Vassell, the team’s second-leading scorer last season, had not played in a regular season game since March 29, 2024.

“It was a great feeling to be there, but now I got to meet everyone by playing together,” Vassell said. “These are people I didn’t play with in training camp. I didn’t practice or anything. We still have a lot of games left. But obviously, I’m happy to start playing again and we’re starting. To get back in the right direction, I would say, I wish we could have had that.”