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Tremendous Upside said:
The Wemby situation shows the cold, hard truth of full-on tanking. The losing doesn't stop for years even if you do hit the jackpot. I mean, this is a true generational talent and the Spurs are just terrible with him.
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I wish the jazz had that "cold hard truth"
Okc got to experience the cold hard truth too. I wish the jazz had the cold hard truth of either team to be honest
 
San Antonio is playing Sochan at PG. They are tanking the season. If they went out and got any kind of PG they would be a playoff team.
 
Tremendous Upside said:
The problem is that you can't count on Wemby's longevity. Something like four NBA years is a long time for a guy built like him.

If you have Wemby playing 60 to 80 games per losing season until you finally find him some real co-stars, you're pretty much wasting a unique player who's injury prone as it is.
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I disagree. He's 7'4" and only 19YO so he will gain muscle still. And he's not overweight which should help. He's a few degrees from being a contortionist. Has great balance and quickness. Is aware of where his feet are. Nothing to indicate he's injury prone at this point.

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str8line said:
I disagree. He's 7'4" and only 19YO so he will gain muscle still. And he's not overweight which should help. He's a few degrees from being a contortionist. Has great balance and quickness. Is aware of where his feet are. Nothing to indicate he's injury prone at this point.

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nah cuz back in the 90s there were tall people who got injured.
 
Saint Cy of JFC said:
San Antonio is playing Sochan at PG. They are tanking the season. If they went out and got any kind of PG they would be a playoff team.
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They'd have to bench Wemby. He's playing 30mpg on team-high usage but is dead last in Win Shares. He's hoisting six 3pt shots per game (again, team high) and making 28.4%. He leads the team in turnovers and averages way more TO's than assists.

And so on. People don't want to say it, but Wembanyama getting star minutes and superstar usage has been a major reason for the 8 game losing streak.

Yeah, I'm sure the Spurs don't really mind losing this season. But this is the 5th season in a row where they're not anywhere near contending, and 3rd in a row where they outright suck and tank. That's not nothing for a club like that. The SA fanbase is still in the honeymoon phase with Wemby, but if they turn out to be bottom-feeders again (and likely next year too unless they make major moves), it starts to get risky.

The Spurs really have all their eggs in one basket with Wemby.
 
SA doesn’t have a PG. they have to work on every possession to get pts. If they score with a dynamic PG in the draft/free agency, someone who can manufacture easy pts for their scorers, they’ll be fine. I actually wonder if after going a few years with positionless basketball if the NBA might return to more traditional PGs soon? We’ve all seen how Key has made this team better. I wonder if naturally the NBA will start looking for the next cp3, Dwill, etc? I guess a lot of it depends on the prospects coming up
 
Solid performance from Mike and Rudy with Minny. This team really look good. Not the best offense but they defend really good. Hope Mike and Rudy go far this year.
 
Wemby's midrange and 3 point shooting numbers are so bad I decided to do an eyeball quality assessment by running the video on all his 3 point attempts.
  • He has 21 makes in 74 attempts for an accuracy of 26.9%, with 77% of them being open or wide open.
  • He had 5 swishes and 16 makes that rimmed in.
  • He also had 15 bricks and 5 airballs.
  • I didnt count the hard bounces off the back iron which I think was the most common type of miss he had.
  • None of his shots were blocked (surprise!).
He is just simply a bad distance shooter at this point in his career. Vast majority of his misses are not close. This seems to be pretty much in line with his last two seasons in the french league (shot 26% in 2021-22 and 27.5% in 2022-23).

Yet everytime he makes a shot the announcers go berserk (regardless of whose announcers you listen to).
 
He is a bad 3 point shooter. But people got exciting because he is big and make some . Ridiculous for me. KAT is big and shoot 3 well , a lot of big shoot 3 in the NBA. Wemby got fabulous skills, blocks rebounding, move well but on my opinion will remain a 28-32% range 3 shooting guy. Nothing to get exciting.
 
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