SAN ANTONIO — Victor Wembanyama had to set the record straight.When he dipped out on the media after Game 5, he was too frustrated to face the music. Even if he shirked his duties, he knew that the only thing he could do to make things right was to take over early and often in Game 6.What would come next, nobody knew. Even he couldn’t know. Wembanyama has never been here before. Most of this San Antonio Spurs team hasn’t. Every aspect of this journey is coming together in the moment.Could Wembanyama just live in that moment and own it?“Trust in the game,” Wembanyama said. “Trust in the basketball gods.”As soon as he walked through the door before Game 6 on Thursday, it was apparent he was in a different mindset. No Louis Vuitton this time. He wore a Thobe to honor the Muslim holiday Eid al-Adha, the Festival of Sacrifice.“When he came in with that outfit, I think everyone knew what was going to happen,” Dylan Harper said after his Spurs forced a Game 7 in Oklahoma City with a 118-91 win.By the time Wembanyama gathered his entire team into a huddle on the court just before tipoff, he was down to just his undershirt. As stripped down to his bare essence as he could be. He delivered a raw, intense speech. No uniform, just him and his passion.So what did he say?“I don’t remember,” Wembanyama said in his postgame news conference before ignoring a follow-up. He wasn’t interested in the speech going to anyone else but his teammates.Thankfully, teammate Lindy Waters III remembered.“We just got to leave it all out there,” Waters told The Athletic when asked what Wembanyama’s message was. “Back’s against the wall and we’ve had multiple chances this series to capitalize and we just let it go.”Waters said Wembanyama talked about how they were playing with “life after,” the idea that earlier in the series, there was always a next game to get things back on track. Once they reached Game 6, there was no more life after. Just the afterlife of a season full of promise.Suddenly, a lot of things shifted into perspective. Maybe that’s what experience really means in the playoffs.Wembanyama and the Spurs spoke in the lead-up to the postseason about how they felt their lack of deep playoff experience in their core rotation wouldn’t be a detriment. They were optimistic they were playing a brand of basketball that would enable them to bypass the pitfalls of naivety. They didn’t know for sure, and even said “we’ll see” a bunch of times. But they felt good about their youthful exuberance.