I’m not just seeing it here on Reddit. I’m hearing it from other NBA boards, people I play ball with, fantasy basketball people, etc, etc.
I have no idea what the expectation was for this guy in his rookie season, but I think anyone who had half a semblance of knowledge knew what we were getting when he came in. Wemby was a defensive prospect first and foremost who has the chance to grow into one of the most impactful defenders ever due to his size and mobility, who could also put up 20+ points in the near future.
He wasn’t great overseas offensively because he was still raw. He’s still only 19 years old, in his first season in the NBA on a team that for all intents and purposes is still on a quest for more #1 picks. Wemby was a project from the very first day, albeit a very high ceiling project. Everything we talked about, both offensively and defensively was all about how he’s going to look in year 5/6/7/8 of his career.
The dude is 7’4 and learning how to use his size while still picking up a lot of basketball fundamentals. I see a lot of posts saying how the Spurs should do this, or do that, or get this player, or bench that player. So much news for a team that is still far, far, FAR away from any hope of a ring. Why do we care so much that Sochan is getting burn at the PG spot? There seems to be so much focus on a team we knew was going to suck and a prospect that we knew was going to take years to learn the NBA and learn what he can do.
The fact that this kid has had some of the performances that he’s had, and that he’s even approaching 19-20 points a game regardless of efficiency at this point should be a win. I was expecting a lot less considering how much he had to learn, and how bad some of his performances overseas were. Wemby is arguably ahead of schedule at this point, and it should only get better with more reps, a better team, and more size.
Let him take all the 3s, mid range fade aways, etc that he wants. Let him make every mistake he can make this year to learn for the next year. This is a throwaway year for the Spurs that should be used just to evaluate and develop for the future. Some of you look incredibly silly bagging on a rookie on a below average team, expecting him to be the next Wilt from day 1. He’s an incredible PROSPECT, key word there being prospect. Lets see where other 19-20 year old bigs were (Jokic, Giannis, Embiid) before we start complaining about Wemby not being LeBron, or blaming the Spurs for not putting together the perfect team around him when he’s not even ready to lead a team in the first place. Stop being weird.
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Obviously it’s because he’s French now.
Recency bias
Nobody who knows anything about basketball is down on Wemby. However they’re outnumbered by the sheer mass of idiocy.
You could have written this way better without using a negative to make your point.
The way I wrote it was efficient for my purpose.
Thanks again, internet
Ya, came here to say that if you’re down on Wemby you just don’t know hoops, simple as that
Media and the league did not do him any favors. Bro is literally a baby giraffe in a league full of lions.
People are desperate for attention.
Cause the spurs suck. And they thought one rookie would be enough to fix everything, even though that’s not really how it works.
Remember when Lebron was called “LeBronze” cause that medal was the best he’s ever won. I dunno, people are gonna trash on generational talent until they start dominating and winning titles.
It’s been 21 years of greatness and people still find reasons to hate him.
Short answer, people are just haters.
They called him LeBronze because that Olympic team was the drizzling shits and it was an easy way to bash him.
LeMickey :((
That constant, and not quite yet earned hype is exhausting.
People are way too reactionary and short sighted
People expect him to be a 7 year vet as a rookie.
He acts like a prick
the hype was incredibly annoying. it was fucking everywhere and it was like 10x worse than every other guy I can remember. Of course people will get sick of that
I still think he’s going to be amazing.
But I gotta say, he sounded like an entitled dick the other day suggesting someone should be fired because they misspelled his name with an N instead of an M. Saying shit like “It’s a shame…”
Before the draft, the talk was that he was a) a game changing player who b) could be one of the greatest of all time. He’s been the first, but nowhere near the second. People see that the Spurs are losing and take that as confirmation that he’ll never be the second.
Also controversial takes like “Wemby’s a bust” get a lot more people interacting with them compared to more nuanced takes, and thus get a lot more circulation due to algorithms
This is always how it was going to be. I remember a certain youtuber(can’t remember who) saying that wemby’s hype would die down somewhere during the season and people would start having the “is he even going to be that good” debate. The media and fans are fickle.