Player The unfortunately low-ceilinged Shaolin monastery of Victor Wembanyama

[Manu20]

The crappy games are the ones where you learn. Sometimes I see him dribble into the double team or his team mates freeze as if they've never seen a double team. Quick decisions and ball movement will help and Wemby needs to learn how to handle it for us to be a contender. It may take awhile to get there. When Wemby turns his back to the basket is when the doubles are really effective. TD struggled at times with doubles, too.

Can you imagine watching tape of that game and breaking down the mistakes with coaches and teammates in the room? That sounds painfully humbling to me.

Yeah I remember TD struggle with double teams early in his career, even on his MVP years. Wemby just needs repetition and experience on how to handle teams. I think with having Fox back in the lineup and Castle continued growth it will limit the effectiveness and willingness of opposing teams sending double or even triple teams at Wemby.

 

[PanameSpur]

Obviously teams are planning against Victor and double teams is the way, we need to trade for shooting asap

And/or Bigs or tall in/out forwards

It's not just the shooting, it's the combination of the only 2 options to mitigate opp's game plan vs Wemby. It's insane not to have anticipated that from the Spurs and another sign of the incompetency of the personel in place.

I'm genuinely worried it could become a huge issue until the FO makes a move (if they even intend to smh)

It can become a make it or break it with Vic

 

[brazil]

I don’t understand this post. You skipped like three players who score away from the basket (Vassell, Barnes, Champagnie) and included Sochan who hasn’t played yet. KJ is shooting 46% from 3 so far. When you only list the players with the same trait, of course it’s going to look like the whole team doesn’t score from outside.

Well I'm sorry then because I already discussed the topic already.

My point is as of today we have some balance with minutes for Vassell, Barnes and Champ and I'm saying it even after Suns losses. My point is when Sochan and Fox are back what is going to happen to the minutes of our 3 guys who score away from the basket ? I'm saying we have too many players with this trait and not enough outside shooters... it is true today, it will be true tomorrow and will be true in POs even more so if we don't adress it asap. unless we all want see Victor shooting 10 FG from 3s like last year

 

[RC_Drunkford]

it's amazing to see that people think the issue is lack of shooting when it's actually Wemby trying to make the right reads and getting pushed off his spots. Dude literally got pushed from the elbow to the 3-point line. You don't start a post up at the 3-point line. He has to understand when and where to pass the ball out of double teams. He made some good reads, but a lot of times missed the right pass. He's guessing way too long when he's in the post.

Keldon 46.7 %
Barnes 39.3 %
Harper 35.7%
Vassell 35.4
Castle 34.6 %

That might not be elite, but it's good enough. McLaughlin is a career 37% 3-point shooter and Champagnie shot the same last season. That's enough shooting. The problem was they had to take contested shots, cause we somehow weren't able to generate wide open ones off a double team.

 

[sKiN20]

it's amazing to see that people think the issue is lack of shooting when it's actually Wemby trying to make the right reads and getting pushed off his spots. Dude literally got pushed from the elbow to the 3-point line. You don't start a post up at the 3-point line. He has to understand when and where to pass the ball out of double teams. He made some good reads, but a lot of times missed the right pass. He's guessing way too long when he's in the post.

Keldon 46.7 %
Barnes 39.3 %
Harper 35.7%
Vassell 35.4
Castle 34.6 %

That might not be elite, but it's good enough. McLaughlin is a career 37% 3-point shooter and Champagnie shot the same last season. That's enough shooting. The problem was they had to take contested shots, cause we somehow weren't able to generate wide open ones off a double team.

People here turned into a blind hun and dont want to blame wemby on his obvious mistakes and softness.

 

[RC_Drunkford]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1985536908617773210

 

[dn0774]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1985536908617773210

Watched the first handful, how do you not just send Wemby to the rim when 6'3" Jordan Goodwin or 6'4" Grayson Allen get switched onto him by themselves? That is the easiest pass in the history of passes.

 

[Shmurs]

Watched the first handful, how do you not just send Wemby to the rim when 6'3" Jordan Goodwin or 6'4" Grayson Allen get switched onto him by themselves? That is the easiest pass in the history of passes.

I saw them look Wemby off when he was under the rim with Booker on him and no one else in the same zip code. This team was completely retarded in ways that still aren’t making sense unless they honestly went out to party for castle’s birthday and have major seasonal affectedness disorder

 

[benefactor]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1985536908617773210

We need Fox tbh

 

[Shmurs]

it's amazing to see that people think the issue is lack of shooting when it's actually Wemby trying to make the right reads and getting pushed off his spots. Dude literally got pushed from the elbow to the 3-point line. You don't start a post up at the 3-point line. He has to understand when and where to pass the ball out of double teams. He made some good reads, but a lot of times missed the right pass. He's guessing way too long when he's in the post.

Keldon 46.7 %
Barnes 39.3 %
Harper 35.7%
Vassell 35.4
Castle 34.6 %

That might not be elite, but it's good enough. McLaughlin is a career 37% 3-point shooter and Champagnie shot the same last season. That's enough shooting. The problem was they had to take contested shots, cause we somehow weren't able to generate wide open ones off a double team.

It’s amazing to me that people think Keldon is getting guarded on any of those 3’s. Or Castle. Or Harper. NBA players should hit those numbers when they’re wide open. Even bad ones.

The percentages don’t mean anything. The defense worrying about the person shooting means everything. Keldon might get his reputation up at some point this year but it will take several weeks of prolonged success for teams to start caring about him shooting. Jeremy will take a full calendar year to get that respect.

That’s the shitty thing - spacing is not coming no matter how much these guys improve. Which is why sometimes you need to just pay for Durant and his auto-spacing.