The first few games of the season was full of his absurd highlights and doing stuff we had never and will never see again. Last five or six games the Spurs played there hasn’t been a single Wembanyama highlight? Nothing he did worth showing? What’s going on here?

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    Because Wemby honestly hasn’t been performing . Even his 27 points last night, though had a few highlights, was underwhelming considering he was -31 in p/m.

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    Generational talents change teams the moment they start playing for them. Spurs were ass, and they’re even worse this year. What’s there to post?

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    No idea. He had some good moments today. The spurs fed him on a few lobs, which is a play they need to do way more of.

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      There were another 15 lob (or at least roll or flash opportunities) that didn’t happen last night because guys had their eyes down. The most infuriating thing about this current Spurs team isn’t the defensive lapses or the lack of boxing out or the atrocious shot selection…it’s the inability to see the floor and throw entry passes on time.

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    He’s doing his thing, ineficient, inconsistent, but that’s expected. It’s just that the spurs are really bad right now

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      No he won’t lol you think a guy who has better efficiency because he is playing a significantly easier role on a way better team is going to win? You’re out of your mind, Chet is just a role player right now, Wemby is the primary player on his team and he js just improvising out there.

      Why don’t you go back to collecting porn, you don’t know ball

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    Not alot of people talk when he’s not playing too well and the Spurs have been really bad

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    Wembustyama’s never gonna make it back on here again!

    Nah… The spurs haven’t been playing so well, and the teams they’ve been playing against saw what he was doing in the first few games and adjusted… I’d be really surprised if there weren’t a few cycles of [opponents adjust to counter new player’s strengths -> player finds way around adjustments or other ways to emphasize strengths -> opponents adjust] for every rookie…

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      I’d be really surprised if there weren’t a few cycles of [opponents adjust to counter new player’s strengths -> player finds way around adjustments or other ways to emphasize strengths -> opponents adjust] for every rookie…

      100% this.

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    He’s definitely still had his highlight moments in pretty much every game. The Spurs have just been pretty bad so I don’t think as many non-spurs, fans are really tuning in.

    Plus people are starting to get a bit more used to some of the stuff he does (like the fade away jumpers, step back three, or lob catches that his teammates wayyyy over threw) and not as excited about it.

    He’s also had a few games where he’s looked like a 19-year-old rookie with tons of talent but very little idea of how to use it, on a team as a whole that’s struggling to understand how to use him so far. He has taken his lumps early which is to be expected.

    Which of course in the world of rational take reddit means he isn’t that good, and a lot of people have moved on to loving or hating something else already.

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      I’ll still do my best to tune in if the Spurs are on and I’m not busy. Wemny definitely has a lot of promise, the potential to make a play that is jaw dropping, and is fun to watch. It’s just that the rest of the team outside him and Vassell is kind of a slog to watch for a non-Spurs fan.

      Obviously, understand it’s very much a team that’s in progress. I know Sochan has his detractors, but also understand that Popp is using this season (and likely the next one) to try things out, let guys grow together. Wouldn’t be surprised to see them ascend again relatively soon, health permitting.

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        Seriously…the difference Tre Jones (A guy who got significantly less than Coby White did this summer, to put him into perspective) makes to our offense if fucking incredible.

        48 minutes of replacement-level PG play would be an enormous improvement over what we’re seeing.

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        I think they will. I think right now they’re really interested in seeing what parts of the game victor most enjoys and feels comfortable with more than worrying about his on court success. I read an article a few days ago kind of breaking down pop’s process on it which was interesting. About how they’ve kind of just instructed the team to get him the ball when he calls for it and let him do what he thinks is best for him and the team. And they’ve been taking notes on the things that they do like, things they don’t like, places where he succeeds, and the parts of the game he struggles in. I think when they have a bit of a better idea of how they wanted to develop him, if he should be in the post, the high post, on the perimeter etc. Etc. They’ll start making more investments both in running set plays for him as well as the roster.

        I really hope the Spurs managed to get Nikola topic in the draft. I think he’s one of the better passing prospects of the last decade and would be an incredible fit with the nucleus of Victor, Jeremy, Devin

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    Please please let this be the new “This sub loves piling on the Lakers but what about the Western Conference Champs Suns being 1-3?” pasta from a couple years ago.

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    Something new and previously unknown is more interesting than something that is not? What the hell.

    Spurs are actually still kinda watchable when Tre Jones plays, so of course Tre is playing like 25 minutes a game if at all so they can focus on tanking and being really bad. This team when playing Jeremy Sochan as PG is comfortably one of the worst offenses AND defenses in modern NBA history. Wemby is also already more in the “spooky youth development” than “show us the best you can” phase. He has to learn it’s not Europe and what a “rebuild” really is.