He looks a little sad lol. There was one time out where the team was huddling and he was taken out so he didn't have to be part of the huddle but he was just sitting there staring off into space as if he realized he could put up 50-20-10 and his team would still lose the game. Wonder if he's having some regrets with wanting to go to the Spurs so badly...
Interestingly he is a negative in basically every advanced metric. Somehow he put up he biggest negative box +/- tonight at a whopping -31 in a game that wasn't even a blowout. Dude is high risk of being Christian Wood. Fills up a stat sheet but surprising how little he actually he has impacted winning. You'd think they'd at least be sniffing 500 instead of being in the running for another #1 pick.
"Looking at the box score of a bad team and determining who is bad or good is how I found my franchise player - Kevin Porter Jr. " - R. Stone You should watch the games, the guy's a monster.. The Spurs starting lineup is unbalanced and injured so they get run out by good teams top likeups. Not too surprising . And honestly if all we're doing is looking at box scores - 19-9 is pretty good! I don't remember the last rookie to average 20-10. Shaq?
Christian Wood is a weird comparison--Wemby has been more impactful on defense than he has on offense if you actually watch him play. The reality is he joined a very bad team. Even LeBron's rookie year Cavs went 33-46.
Uh Wemby indeed has not lived up to the expectations. Is watching him a multi generational treat? Is he up there with Giannis and Curry? Is he better than Embiid? Just compare him to recent no 1s Banchero, Zion, Edwards. If you remove all the hype his impact is along those lines, he has failed to separate himself from the typical good no 1 pick. That's really really really good, but not good enough to be called the best prospect since Lebron.
Banchero averaged 20 7 3 Zion 22 6 2 Cade 17 5 5 Wemby 19 9 2 Kat 18 10 2 I don't think his performance is anything ground breaking compared to other good no 1.
The hard truth is you have to lose in order to win big........that is how the NBA works....and you have to trade for veteran stars. There is no other way around that...unless you are Presti and you can draft 3 MVPs.
His defense is far more impactful than any of those guys as rookies though. Again, you have to actually watch the games. Dude changes so many shots, even jump shots at the perimeter. I also don't think you can compare a guy's first 12 games directly to full-season stats for other rookies. KAT is actually a good comparison as a relatively similar type of player... his first twelve games were actually more like 15 and 10 and the guy couldn't hit a three to save his life early on in his rookie season. (16.7% at that point.)
The thing with Wemby is that he has never been a good 3 point shooter and he has very little post up game.
They pretty much kept the same roster that only won 22 games last season. Adding Wemby on top of that isn't going to make them much better. I say the ceiling is probably somewhere around 30 wins. And for some reason Pops is making that Sochan guy play point guard, which he has never played before. Sochan is without question the worst starting point guard in the NBA now that the Clippers benched Westbrick.
I was just replying to others saying his box score is unique, it's not. His defense may be impactful but others have playmaking or some other quality which Wemby doesn't have so it evens out imo. At the very least he isn't good enough to make his team not suck so I guess we can throw those Shaq comparisons out the window.
Basically Wemby is Bill Russell trapped inside the body of a much more athletic Shawn Bradley. Shaq would be the GOAT with Wemby and Joker's Skillset. Wemby would be the GOAT with Shaq's body.
I know this is a bit that this guy doing, but https://www.statmuse.com/nba/ask?q=...ssists+in+one+regular-season+game+as+a+rookie See folks, not unique at all. And this is supposed to be the disappointing part of his season so far. Jesus.
I always enjoy trivia time … I guessed Tim Duncan. Then looked it up. Since Shaq it’s Duncan, Elton Brand, and Blake
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