The first few games of the season was full of his absurd highlights and doing stuff we had never and will never see again. Last five or six games the Spurs played there hasn’t been a single Wembanyama highlight? Nothing he did worth showing? What’s going on here?
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Wembustyama’s never gonna make it back on here again!
Nah… The spurs haven’t been playing so well, and the teams they’ve been playing against saw what he was doing in the first few games and adjusted… I’d be really surprised if there weren’t a few cycles of [opponents adjust to counter new player’s strengths -> player finds way around adjustments or other ways to emphasize strengths -> opponents adjust] for every rookie…
He’s definitely still had his highlight moments in pretty much every game. The Spurs have just been pretty bad so I don’t think as many non-spurs, fans are really tuning in.
Plus people are starting to get a bit more used to some of the stuff he does (like the fade away jumpers, step back three, or lob catches that his teammates wayyyy over threw) and not as excited about it.
He’s also had a few games where he’s looked like a 19-year-old rookie with tons of talent but very little idea of how to use it, on a team as a whole that’s struggling to understand how to use him so far. He has taken his lumps early which is to be expected.
Which of course in the world of rational take reddit means he isn’t that good, and a lot of people have moved on to loving or hating something else already.
get that man a real PG ffs
I think they will. I think right now they’re really interested in seeing what parts of the game victor most enjoys and feels comfortable with more than worrying about his on court success. I read an article a few days ago kind of breaking down pop’s process on it which was interesting. About how they’ve kind of just instructed the team to get him the ball when he calls for it and let him do what he thinks is best for him and the team. And they’ve been taking notes on the things that they do like, things they don’t like, places where he succeeds, and the parts of the game he struggles in. I think when they have a bit of a better idea of how they wanted to develop him, if he should be in the post, the high post, on the perimeter etc. Etc. They’ll start making more investments both in running set plays for him as well as the roster.
I really hope the Spurs managed to get Nikola topic in the draft. I think he’s one of the better passing prospects of the last decade and would be an incredible fit with the nucleus of Victor, Jeremy, Devin
It’s like I said going into the season (and some people wanted to disagree for…some reason…?!?)
Wemby will have some incredible moments, but the Spurs fucking suck. They lack talent. They aren’t good.
(I remember someone on here arguing with me that the Spurs do have talent, but they can’t score in ISO because they are young. WTF?!? That’s literally the time young, talented players score the most in ISO. When they don’t yet have the league down, but have pure, raw talent.)
Wemby will still get highlights played. They just don’t hit the same when they are followed up with “as the 12-46 Spurs lost by 32 points to the Charlotte Hornets.”
No idea. He had some good moments today. The spurs fed him on a few lobs, which is a play they need to do way more of.