Like, he IS a unicorn. He is every bit as potentially great as people say he is, and he is still remarkably polished for his age and size, but I think the shooting percentages he’s at now - 44% and 27% - will be, give or take a little, about what we should expect from him for a year or two. He’s also gonna continue to be an absolute turnover machine, and he will probably rack up a lot of fouls.

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And that’s FINE. But I can just hear people freaking out about it already. Historically it takes these kind of ‘unicorn’ players - super tall, lean and skilful - a while to adjust. KD and Dirk, two of the greatest shooters ever, shot the ball terribly in their first year. Porzingis too.

In fact, KP got the benefit of the doubt in a way Wemby never will, as for some reason fans - Knicks fans in particular - where absolutely certain he was gonna be a bust, then he became NY’s favourite son as soon as he started to show that he was actually good with good/great potential.

Wemby is gonna turn it over a lot due to ball handling at his height. It’s worth sticking with though cause if he polishes that it just makes him even more unstoppable. He’s gonna foul a lot because he thinks he can block everything. His outside shot is still streaky and may take a while to get good. It may never get much better than league average, but the fact he can do it off the dribble attack off the bounce makes him shooting at league average way more valuable than it sounds.

But you just know this season and next are gonna be full of people waiting on him having an extended run of poor shooting to be like ‘they really said he was gonna be the next Lebron fr’