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Tremendous Upside said:
Wemby looked fatigued as hell. He's got a long way to go before he can handle the 30 games per season that's expected of him.

Other notes on the "best prospect ever":

- As everyone who knows anything about NBA basketball was able to tell ages ago... he can't handle the ball on the perimeter. Not against actual NBA athletes. Wemby has a lot of skill but you can't fool physics. He's just too tall and the ball spends way too much time in the air when he dribbles it. He can try to get lower but I don't think even that's enough.

- His passing instincts are gonna help him a lot in the League. Many of the lanes he sees in the summer league are not gonna be there in the regular season, but it's still encouraging that he seems to have a natutal knack for drawing the defense and shoveling the ball to an open teammate. Wemby is so big that he sees over every defense.

- His outside shot is all over the place. For a 7'5'' guy, he has way too many moving parts in it, and every shot looks a bit different. I don't see Wemby becoming more than a very average shooter from the perimeter, but that might be enough to keep defenses honest. A sharpshooter he ain't.

- Wemby did a lot of posting up, but I don't think that's his future in the NBA even when he inevitably ends up playing the 5. These defenders are just too strong and big and his center of gravity is so high. In Europe, he could kind of inch his way to the basket when he posted up, but that's not gonna work against NBA bigs.

Overall, I see Wemby's ideal offensive role as a high post center, a distributing hub who can dive to the basket from the weak side when an open lane appears. He's not a shooter, low post banger or perimeter ballhandler. On the other side of the ball, he obviously brings some awesome rim protection.

His ceiling is probably a very good role player in the NBA, and that's if he's able to stay healthy.
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This has to be a bit at this point.
 
KqWIN said:
Cason Wallace lighting it up already. I think he might be the player we regret not taking.
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I mean, the great Sam Presti made what looked like a panic move to get him (on a team that already has two lead guards) specifically, which is a tell.
 
Last night the Hawks had a ZZTop band member play for them named Brady Manek who hit 5-10 from three and had 17 points in 15 minutes. He played five years of college ball at Oklahoma and North Carolina and scored 28 and 26 points in the NCAA tournament in 2022. Last season he played on Bryce Cotton's Aussie team and averaged about 13 ppg over there. 6'9"230 lbs. Might be a two way guy if the Jazz have moved on from Juzang.
 
NUMBERICA said:
I mean, the great Sam Presti made what looked like a panic move to get him (on a team that already has two lead guards) specifically, which is a tell.
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I think I psyched myself out with him. Kept seeing rumblings of his health situation being not great, but nothing was concrete. Just speculation. He was injured during the season and that greatly affected his performance but there really was no indication that it would persist.

I said this with Cam….but you will know if the issues were real if he fell. The opposite is true with Cason. OKC moving up to get him makes me feel that there was no issue at all. On paper he had very few of any weaknesses and some of the more mundane things about him (his pull-up shooting for example) were seen as the biggest pros for other PG prospects.
 
KqWIN said:
I think I psyched myself out with him. Kept seeing rumblings of his health situation being not great, but nothing was concrete. Just speculation. He was injured during the season and that greatly affected his performance but there really was no indication that it would persist.

I said this with Cam….but you will know if the issues were real if he fell. The opposite is true with Cason. OKC moving up to get him makes me feel that there was no issue at all. On paper he had very few of any weaknesses and some of the more mundane things about him (his pull-up shooting for example) were seen as the biggest pros for other PG prospects.
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It is funny how you can talk yourself out of players. At the beginning of the college year I loved him and was thinking he was a Jrue clone. Then I gradually kind of talked myself out of him for pretty much no reason.
 
MT Steve said:
This has to be a bit at this point.
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Huh? I don't get it.

Literally the whole basketball world, from the talking heads to the lifers and casuals, is saying that Wemby looked really underwhelming. "Not the debut we were hoping for". Hell, ****ing ESPN is saying it. LOL.

But when I say it.... it has to be a "bit".

Lazy.
 
Tremendous Upside said:
Huh? I don't get it.

Literally the whole basketball world, from the talking heads to the lifers and casuals, is saying that Wemby looked really underwhelming. "Not the debut we were hoping for". Hell, ****ing ESPN is saying it. LOL.

But when I say it.... it has to be a "bit".

Lazy.
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The whole basketball world is saying Wemby's ceiling is a role player?
 
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