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?
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