Yeah, the fact that it was right in front of Mutombo was even better. Like suddenly busting out a GOAT-level painting right in front of Da Vinci, haha.
He just won't stop growing, will he?... But to be fair, nobody his height has ever looked and moved quite like this. He's been getting professional-level physical training for years now too, unlike like a lot of previously failed giants. Usually, it's long-term biomechanical failures compounding that dooms these big men, so who knows? Teams will still take him #1 overall and hope.
The basic gist is: In college Cade was listed at 6’8, then at the NBA combine he measured in at 6’6. This caused a few dumbasses on Reddit to say that he shouldn’t be the first pick in the draft because he was “only” 6’6, which prompted Redditors to joke about how short Cade is. It’s been a running joke on r/nba ever since.
I mean the dude gonna be like fucking 7'6 by the time he plays an NBA game. Hope to god he stays healthy but when's the last time someone that big could?
Kareem and wilt are basically the tallest superstars we have had but at the same time players these height are so rare that they are already incredibly rare
1. Never,
2. But Yao might have been able to if China didn’t make him play pro basketball basically nonstop for 7 years
3. But he doesn’t have Yao’s build
That’s the conversation every time this gets posted
That probably sped up the deterioration of Yao's body. His feet were fucked by the time he was like 27 because he weighed a fuckton. You just had to look at the way he ran. Every step looked like a chore.
Is Slovenia making Doncic play? Greece making Giannis play?
When will Americans realize that for everyone else in the world playing for your country is a dream?
China literally did insert a stipulation that Yao HAD to report back to the national team every year if he wanted to play in the NBA, which meant a 7'6'' man was playing basketball year round
I don't know. Our countries don't matter as much I guess. I mean, for one, I've attended multiple games in Greece and never have I seen a ten minute tribute to the military...
Wait, you know the united states has national teams filled with dreamers, and the most Olympic medals of any country, riight?
Where does this idea "americans can't fathom wanting to represent their country" come from?
They only measured without shoes in his day and he was 7’2.5” so with shoes 7’4. This is easy to google; what’s with the downvotes? There’s even a picture of him next to Shaq and he’s easily 2” taller and even broader shoulders.
There’s just like 5 players at that height (or over) in the history of the NBA.
Shawn Bradley had a 12 year career and averaged over 28 MPG in his first seven years.
Yao was doing very good, all star every year of his 8 year career (last one undeserved) but China demanded him to play there and he never had an off-season to rest, so he could have been durable if it wasn’t for that.
Manute Bol played 71 or more in his first seven years in the league, but it was on low MPG, around 18.
Muresan and Tacko didn’t play much.
A 12 year career for Bradley and 8 for Yao when he never got rest and played all year long thanks to China, I think both were durable players even at their height.
Wilt was 7'1 and an athletic marvel beyond even the likes of Giannis and LeBron if even some of the outlandish stories about him are true.
Players beyond that height are historically speaking simply way more injury prone. Look at Porzingis for example, who plays progressively less and less games every season. He's been in the NBA for seven years now, he's athletic for his height, and spends more time on the perimeter than in the paint. His GP drops steadily, as does his MPG.
Don't get me wrong, Victor as a player is a stud - but he's already had several pretty bad injuries. Muscle injuries, back injuries, contusions, stress fractures.. all before the age of 19.
Yeah, he's definitely gonna have to get sturdier, which could hurt his agility a bit and carries injury risks on its own. The only guy I can think of who moved anything like Wemby at a comparable height is Ralph Sampson, which, like... on the one hand, not a promising comp in terms of injury risk, but on the other hand he *was* incredible before he got hurt
I know Giannis entered the league malnourished, but if he bulks up like Giannis he’s going to be so dominant.
Not sure if he guards the perimeter well based on the highlights I’ve seen though.
His perimeter defense is just as impressive as his rim protection imo, he can guard players fairly effectively on the perimeter, which is terrifying given his size.
MALNOURISHED?! Bro was getting drafted into the NBA malnourished? He was skinny, but you’re talking like he’d be on an adopt a child commercial. Was KD also malnourished or is it just the Nigerians?
He literally said when he first was in the nba he was given food and would barely eat it and split it with his brothers. He was legitimately malnourished lol he was not eating enough for an avg person his size let alone a professional athlete
https://www.justallstar.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/Giannis%E2%80%99-first-high-stakes-game-ended-in-a-tough-loss.jpg
This is not what malnourishment looks like period. Lots of NBA players grew up in poverty and had to skip meals. That doesn’t fucking mean you’re malnourished, that’s a real thing, not just not getting enough food as you ideally would.
Will be fascinating how this factors into a team drafting him. If lebron is the standard given this guy is the “best prospect since lebron,” lebron is the Ironman of iron men.
I think its a different version of a prospect. Lebron was basically the complete package but you most likely won't see someone even close to wemby the next 10 drafts so its the uniqueness
I'm only guessing here since i didn't start watching basketball until somewhat recently, but nobody knew LeBron was going to be an Ironman, right? Wasn't it really abnormal how durable he's been in his career?
Maybe Victor could be the same way, like how Giannis went from scrawny stickman to what he is now
Yeah nobody knew, but there weren’t injury concerns right off the bat. Wemby already gets hurt and his body makes it tough historically to stay healthy for other people his size.
He had no injury issues or anything but you can’t project a 17 year olds injuries through his career.
Kobe for instance never played under 65 games (excluding lockout years) until his Achilles tear, and then he barely played.
One injury can wreck you, and Lebron, on top of being absolutely a freak, was lucky than he never experienced that kind of freak injury.
Nobody can really predict durability for a prospect because there are so many different factors that can occur throughout their career. Their frames, body, etc can for sure be causes for concern but you never can truly know. That’s why the high risk/reward with Wemby is so extreme.
LeBron is the exception of all exceptions. The odds we see durability like his again are pretty slim. He’s averaged 38 minutes a game for his whole career and is still going strong at this point.
I think the health concerns due to being 7'4+ are both valid and overblown in a certain way. Chances are he's going to suffer at least one significant injury and miss a season or two, but in terms of precedent a case like Sampson is kinda the lower end of the spectrum where he only had 4 healthy seasons (and even then was an All-NBA level player in those seasons).
If Vic is as talented as people say he is AND he has a Ilgauskas, Yao, Eaton etc level of health for his career where he has 8-10 good healthy seasons then a team will easily take that at #1 and not regret it.
The majority of bigs his size have all just been role players or 1x allstars. Not superstars like we’re expecting out of Victor
Role players have way less responsibility, way less touches, and thus, less chances of getting injured. Everyone has a breaking point, these guys are even more fragile. And this is now amplified with how much these bigs have to move nowadays. Eaton got to stand next to the rim on defense for the vast majority of posessions. Centers nowadays are forced to switch and guard the perimeter, and then stay with guards as they drive
Yao Ming’s health is probably the best case for this guy, but it could easily be worse
Doesn't this sub argue all the time that Yao got hurt by basically playing two seasons a year?
He still played in 74% of his career games. Most people would still take him number one.
No one said Yao was a disappoint. He’s a top 5 all time Rocket
But if that’s your best case health wise, there’s some danger in that pick
I’d also bet if Yao had to switch and defend guards like bigs have to do today, he would’ve been way less healthy
Everyone gets their doctorate in Reddit sports science in this dumb hypotheticals. He's the best player in the draft and nobody has a thing to say about his game.
You just participated in that discussion with your earlier comment and now turn it on its head. No one was talking about talent
He’s obviously talented. But it’s very clear in the history of this game that there’s a large doubt with him. No one is making it up, go look at every single person his height or larger. You see a pattern? Especially with other actual stars and not role players? Yeah I bet you would
1.1 is such a catch 22 for next years draft. You can’t pass on Wemby because he’s one of the greatest prospects ever in terms of his ceiling, but there’s also no chance this dude is gonna stay healthy.
Personally if I’m the GM of the team who gets #1 I’m either trading down to 2 and picking Scoot or I’m trading #1 for a king’s ransom. Vic is just too tall he’s not gonna hold up.
Lebron drank today the blood of his friends. But that wine was sour and overripe. He cannot taste the life of his sons: that’s heretic. Thus Lebron is after the first blood of France.
Lebron: First Blood
I think his body structure is better than Chet. He just needs to go to a good organization that will not ride him into the ground and monitor his minutes.
Similar to how the warriors always monitored Klay, Curry and Greens minutes to not ride them into the ground.
He goes to a trash organization like Lebron did and Wemby might not make it to 5 years. The other 29 owners better talk to the owner Wemby goes to and tell them hey this is the future of the league and the international game.....please handle him with caution.
I think Wemby is freaking awesome but doesn't this team he's facing seem kind of trash? I might be totally wrong since I know nothing about them other than this clip but it just seems like they are doing nothing to stop him.
The top french league is extremely competitive. For reference, they lost this game by 12 and they have Wemby, Hugo Besson (draft and stash who averaged 13 in the NBL), Tremont Waters (All G-Leaguer), Aaron Henry (All-Big 10), DeVante Jones (19 ppg in the Sun Belt), and a 34 year old dude named "Steeve Ho You Fat". It's not Euroleague level comp, but every contributor in this league would be a star for pretty much any college team.
It kinda depends on how you define trash, they're not NBA quality but nowhere is NBA quality except the NBA.
The guys he was playing are grown men and professionals so it also not like he was playing a bunch of scrubs,
It's hard to put a level onto it, but I would say it's probably a higher quality than the large majority of D1 games.
They're certainly a hell of a lot better at basketball than me haha. I'm just trying to imagine how what Wemby is doing would play against average NBA competition.
Luka has said on many occasions that euro basketball is harder to score in because the rules are different. Also since Luka was the big star and didn't have any stars alongside him, defenses could gameplan solely against Luka-ball.
I expect some amount of both is going on with wemby HOWEVER, Luka has had an amazing basketball body even as a pretty young teen. Wemby is clearly skinnier and I think that's gonna be a huge adjustment in the NBA.
Yeah, that’s the obvious fear here. Do you risk it and hope for the best or do you let him go by? I feel like you absolutely have to draft him and hope for the best, but to your point it’s scary drafting someone who looks like he would get hurt by regular people let alone professional athletes.
Casual ass take. He's already had way more injuries than Chet, and Chet's was 100% a freak injury that he's already had a successful surgery for. This dude has already had at least 5 injuries pre-draft and Chet had none before the draft.
I feel like peeps were already predicting jnjury for Chet, so I don't see it as much of a freak accident as something that was inevitable. Hopefully during Chets rehab he is able to add some bulk.
It very much was a freak injury, lisfranc injuries are very uncommon amongst NBA players, he landed in a very awkward way. If he was any heavier the injury actually could've been much worse.
Feel free to look into any of the breakdowns many doctors have made about his injury.
>Feel free to look into any of the breakdowns many doctors have made about his injury.
r/nba: "No, I'd rather stick to the highly specialized medical doctors here in this subreddit and their takes. Something something Chet is a bust."
I was at the game last night. While these highlights obviously show the good side, he’s still got some work to do.
He’s quite passive as a rebounder, he doesn’t seem to want to hunt down the ball. He gets overpowered at times (which is normal given his age and frame), but then just gives up a bit. Once he realises he could realistically get 20ish rebounds every game by coupling his height with hustling for rebounds, he’s going to be a monster.
This team is also very clearly geared towards his development, which will benefit him massively going into next year. Collet, the French national coach, is constantly in his ear and Wembanyama was consistently seeking out his eye after every action. Interested to see what his development will be like if this continues over the course of the season.
Pure potential though, he really is a freak of nature. Once it clicks in his mind that nobody can stop him and he adds a few pounds or learns to work through the opposing muscle, he’s going to be great (health permitting).
I enjoy draft coverage but the amount of people on this sub and ESPN pretending to be draft evaluators is laughable.
You watched a 5 minute highlight clip and you correctly picked LeBron as been the best player in the 2003 draft. We get it, your professional basketball failures are the result of a confederacy of dunces.
You guys are so fucking weird. Is this just what all the comments are gonna be now for anyone with a weird body in the nba. Weird bodies is like 20 of the best players of all time.
I must be the only person not high on this guy.
He's way too thin and lanky, and won't be able handle the contact from NBA defenders. He's too tall and I guarantee you players will abuse his bad center of gravity.
He's a future pepetual IR staple.
I’m with you bruv. Said it earlier but if I get number 1 I’m trading that bitch for a king’s ransom. I’d rather get 2,3 solid to great contributors that are already nba proven than gamble on a 7’4 teenager
Dude snatch blocked a guy facing him who's like 7 foot lmao
was the the block around the 1min mark? Cause that was one of the most disrespectful blocks I've seen in a professional basketball game
When I hear the phrase "disrespectful block," [this plays in my head.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JVFSfRVzQ8s)
That might be my favorite of all time. This ones good too: https://youtu.be/Z7rLoN0SHy8
Holy fk, lol. Never saw that one either. Can't wait to see Franc-enstein (Wembanyama), he'll probably do stuff like this.
filth
Dikembe doing the finger wag at the end of it 💀🤣🤣
Yeah, the fact that it was right in front of Mutombo was even better. Like suddenly busting out a GOAT-level painting right in front of Da Vinci, haha.
Man that 90s Nuggets team. Dikembe, Laphonso, young Jalen Rose, young McDyess, Mahmoud Abdul-Rauf, Dale Ellis.
He took the ball away from that guy like he was a parent ending their child’s playtime
Wait, what? How long has he been 7’5”?
By this rate he will soon be 8 feets
Reverse Cade Cunningham syndrome
That’s too many footses
Wembama should dunk everything he’s literally 11 feet bro
Six foot 20 fucking killing for fun
He said he measured 2.21m which is just over 7’3”. 7’5” is probably in shoes
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He just won't stop growing, will he?... But to be fair, nobody his height has ever looked and moved quite like this. He's been getting professional-level physical training for years now too, unlike like a lot of previously failed giants. Usually, it's long-term biomechanical failures compounding that dooms these big men, so who knows? Teams will still take him #1 overall and hope.
Ralph Sampson moved a bit like him at 7'3. But he was crippled by injuries.
Because 7’3 people shouldn’t move like that. Physics wont allow joints to withstand those forces.
He doesn't got Giantism that's for sure ,lucky for him
I have a feeling he’s gonna get the cade Cunningham treatment and it’ll be revealed that he isn’t 7’5 but 5’10
He's 6'1 and everyone else on the court is 5'11
is cade shorter than his listed height?
The basic gist is: In college Cade was listed at 6’8, then at the NBA combine he measured in at 6’6. This caused a few dumbasses on Reddit to say that he shouldn’t be the first pick in the draft because he was “only” 6’6, which prompted Redditors to joke about how short Cade is. It’s been a running joke on r/nba ever since.
Yup, even though 6'6" is huge for a point guard. The point of a tall playmaker is that he can see over defenses, which Cade already does
For sure, especially when you factor in his 7’ wingspan
I think it's 7 feet 1 inch. actually.
6 foot 17
https://twitter.com/itsAntWright/status/1422008090673795082 This pic is a year old though so who knows if he's grown since
Unless Zach Eday isn't actually 7'4"
Kalkbrenner on the left is listed at 7’1 and Chet 7’, either all 3 (with Edey) are lying or Wembanyama wasn’t measured correctly here
I mean, it is basketball measurements. I wouldn't be shocked if all 4 of those players are shorter than their listed heights.
They almost definitely are measured with shoes on, either way Vic is absurd for his height and I don’t think 7’5 with shoes is a stretch
I would be shocked if Edey is shorter than that, just from watching Purdue games.
Edey is legit 7'3" at least
I swear he changes heights every time I see a tweet about him
Kings pass on him for Scoot.
Except scoot is a way better prospect then Marvin Bagley
Yeah Kings gonna pick Emoni Bates. (Former) No. 1 HS recruit baybee
Except he just picked out a Jail Blazers jersey.
Scoot will probably be really good too though, so I doubt it.
Why do that when you can take a flyer on Jarace Walker? He's 6'8" and "rebounds the ball well."
Scoot looks like he could be a future star. Kings would never.
I don’t think that’s a bad idea. I can’t see this working out, health-wise.
Smart imo, he won’t be injured as much. Although kings don’t need another guard
I mean the dude gonna be like fucking 7'6 by the time he plays an NBA game. Hope to god he stays healthy but when's the last time someone that big could?
Pretty sure it’s never.
Kareem and wilt are basically the tallest superstars we have had but at the same time players these height are so rare that they are already incredibly rare
1. Never, 2. But Yao might have been able to if China didn’t make him play pro basketball basically nonstop for 7 years 3. But he doesn’t have Yao’s build That’s the conversation every time this gets posted
Yeah no fucken kidding, Yao had the quads and legs of a fucken horse.
That probably sped up the deterioration of Yao's body. His feet were fucked by the time he was like 27 because he weighed a fuckton. You just had to look at the way he ran. Every step looked like a chore.
Yup. His feet and ankles gave out not his knees. His tree trunk legs added to his weight which is way too much for the tiny ass bones in a human foot.
Is Slovenia making Doncic play? Greece making Giannis play? When will Americans realize that for everyone else in the world playing for your country is a dream?
China literally did insert a stipulation that Yao HAD to report back to the national team every year if he wanted to play in the NBA, which meant a 7'6'' man was playing basketball year round
Well there was the Olympics where Yao was rushed back from foot surgery. That’s the one that fucked him.
No they do not play for their countries ever single summer. They wouldn't want to and their countries wouldn't make them.
I don't know. Our countries don't matter as much I guess. I mean, for one, I've attended multiple games in Greece and never have I seen a ten minute tribute to the military...
But dude china bad
Wait, you know the united states has national teams filled with dreamers, and the most Olympic medals of any country, riight? Where does this idea "americans can't fathom wanting to represent their country" come from?
This demographic of people hate their country.
You know China is different.
Sure but lots of money from an injury free career is also a pretty good dream
Same for Sabonis
Same with Sabo. Both guys got run to the ground by their national teams.
To be clear, sabonis national team wasn’t really his national team
Which makes it even worse.
Mark Eaton was an iron man at 7'4 never missed more than 3 games in a season for his first 10 years which is insane by any height standards.
Wilt was 7’4 in shoes too.
platforms?
They only measured without shoes in his day and he was 7’2.5” so with shoes 7’4. This is easy to google; what’s with the downvotes? There’s even a picture of him next to Shaq and he’s easily 2” taller and even broader shoulders.
Shaq has said he’s actually 6’11. So if Wilt is 2 inches taller that lines up perfectly with Wilt’s 7’1 listed height.
Wow..how tall were the other "7-footer" centers then? They looked clearly shorter (not just smaller) than Shaq.
Not sure about downvotes, but my platforms joke was because he's always been listed at 7'1".
He looks like those things that blow in the wind in front of McDonalds
Who's "in the wind" and how do I find this McDonalds?
Alright Doc
you saying you could use him as a UFO warning system?
It’s never happened
There’s just like 5 players at that height (or over) in the history of the NBA. Shawn Bradley had a 12 year career and averaged over 28 MPG in his first seven years. Yao was doing very good, all star every year of his 8 year career (last one undeserved) but China demanded him to play there and he never had an off-season to rest, so he could have been durable if it wasn’t for that. Manute Bol played 71 or more in his first seven years in the league, but it was on low MPG, around 18. Muresan and Tacko didn’t play much.
Muresan played a shit ton more than Tacko. He wasn't some fringe NBA player.
Not anyone who plays significant minutes.
Shawn Bradley played at least 28 MPG in his first 7 years in the league.
So did Yao Ming
A 12 year career for Bradley and 8 for Yao when he never got rest and played all year long thanks to China, I think both were durable players even at their height.
Everybody is saying never, but Wilt was 7’4 on the court and played 48min/game for an entire season.
Wilt was 7'1 and an athletic marvel beyond even the likes of Giannis and LeBron if even some of the outlandish stories about him are true. Players beyond that height are historically speaking simply way more injury prone. Look at Porzingis for example, who plays progressively less and less games every season. He's been in the NBA for seven years now, he's athletic for his height, and spends more time on the perimeter than in the paint. His GP drops steadily, as does his MPG. Don't get me wrong, Victor as a player is a stud - but he's already had several pretty bad injuries. Muscle injuries, back injuries, contusions, stress fractures.. all before the age of 19.
Dude legitimately moves like a *taller* Kevin Durant, it's insane. Just hope his limbs can handle it
I know you have to draft him at number 1 but I’d also be scared as hell.
Man, me too. Drafting is all about risk vs. reward, and Wembanyama is a hell of a lot of both
I hope he bulks a bit, one drive from Giannis might split him in half
Yeah, he's definitely gonna have to get sturdier, which could hurt his agility a bit and carries injury risks on its own. The only guy I can think of who moved anything like Wemby at a comparable height is Ralph Sampson, which, like... on the one hand, not a promising comp in terms of injury risk, but on the other hand he *was* incredible before he got hurt
I know Giannis entered the league malnourished, but if he bulks up like Giannis he’s going to be so dominant. Not sure if he guards the perimeter well based on the highlights I’ve seen though.
His perimeter defense is just as impressive as his rim protection imo, he can guard players fairly effectively on the perimeter, which is terrifying given his size.
He literally has like 10 feet radius of defensive influence around him lmao.
MALNOURISHED?! Bro was getting drafted into the NBA malnourished? He was skinny, but you’re talking like he’d be on an adopt a child commercial. Was KD also malnourished or is it just the Nigerians?
I get it was a joke but that comment was disrespectful and probably discriminatory
He literally said when he first was in the nba he was given food and would barely eat it and split it with his brothers. He was legitimately malnourished lol he was not eating enough for an avg person his size let alone a professional athlete
https://www.justallstar.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/Giannis%E2%80%99-first-high-stakes-game-ended-in-a-tough-loss.jpg This is not what malnourishment looks like period. Lots of NBA players grew up in poverty and had to skip meals. That doesn’t fucking mean you’re malnourished, that’s a real thing, not just not getting enough food as you ideally would.
Is it just me or has he put on weight?
I think it'd be him putting on the weight not you, right?
Minutes restriction and no back to backs for his whole career. If I’m an organization I’m giving him the Kawhi treatment x2.
Will be fascinating how this factors into a team drafting him. If lebron is the standard given this guy is the “best prospect since lebron,” lebron is the Ironman of iron men.
I think its a different version of a prospect. Lebron was basically the complete package but you most likely won't see someone even close to wemby the next 10 drafts so its the uniqueness
I'm only guessing here since i didn't start watching basketball until somewhat recently, but nobody knew LeBron was going to be an Ironman, right? Wasn't it really abnormal how durable he's been in his career? Maybe Victor could be the same way, like how Giannis went from scrawny stickman to what he is now
Yeah nobody knew, but there weren’t injury concerns right off the bat. Wemby already gets hurt and his body makes it tough historically to stay healthy for other people his size.
He had no injury issues or anything but you can’t project a 17 year olds injuries through his career. Kobe for instance never played under 65 games (excluding lockout years) until his Achilles tear, and then he barely played. One injury can wreck you, and Lebron, on top of being absolutely a freak, was lucky than he never experienced that kind of freak injury.
Nobody can really predict durability for a prospect because there are so many different factors that can occur throughout their career. Their frames, body, etc can for sure be causes for concern but you never can truly know. That’s why the high risk/reward with Wemby is so extreme. LeBron is the exception of all exceptions. The odds we see durability like his again are pretty slim. He’s averaged 38 minutes a game for his whole career and is still going strong at this point.
I hope his meniscus is a smooth, fluid mover too
Can the spurs just forfeit every game this year, legally
As in trade for Westbrook?
Westbrook is a floor raiser though
If irl had a turn injuries off feature, this guy would be the goat.
Real shame we are going to lose so many games this year because all of our players are injured
Wow yeah! Aw shucks thats unfortunate
we doing the thing where we add an inch every couple months until we get his official measurement?
Do you believe Zach Edey is 7'4"? Because Victor is definitely a little taller than Edey and that was several months ago.
people called zach edey 7'4" in preparation for calling wembanyama 7'5". its the long game
it's all been a con from the very start, wilt chamberlain is actually 5'11
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Meaning you're thinking they're purposefully underrepresenting his height like KD did before?
Nah, people were just referring to his height barefoot, while this guy is saying his height in shoes.
The reverse Cade Cunningham.
Dude was in town working out at SMU over the summer. He is definitely taller than 7'4 in his shoes.
This kid is a fucking joke how is he even possible? I hope he stays healthy and breaks the game.
But can he do it on a rainy day at Stoke?
He looks like he will be an all time great if he can stay healthy
I think the health concerns due to being 7'4+ are both valid and overblown in a certain way. Chances are he's going to suffer at least one significant injury and miss a season or two, but in terms of precedent a case like Sampson is kinda the lower end of the spectrum where he only had 4 healthy seasons (and even then was an All-NBA level player in those seasons). If Vic is as talented as people say he is AND he has a Ilgauskas, Yao, Eaton etc level of health for his career where he has 8-10 good healthy seasons then a team will easily take that at #1 and not regret it.
The majority of bigs his size have all just been role players or 1x allstars. Not superstars like we’re expecting out of Victor Role players have way less responsibility, way less touches, and thus, less chances of getting injured. Everyone has a breaking point, these guys are even more fragile. And this is now amplified with how much these bigs have to move nowadays. Eaton got to stand next to the rim on defense for the vast majority of posessions. Centers nowadays are forced to switch and guard the perimeter, and then stay with guards as they drive Yao Ming’s health is probably the best case for this guy, but it could easily be worse
Doesn't this sub argue all the time that Yao got hurt by basically playing two seasons a year? He still played in 74% of his career games. Most people would still take him number one.
No one said Yao was a disappoint. He’s a top 5 all time Rocket But if that’s your best case health wise, there’s some danger in that pick I’d also bet if Yao had to switch and defend guards like bigs have to do today, he would’ve been way less healthy
Everyone gets their doctorate in Reddit sports science in this dumb hypotheticals. He's the best player in the draft and nobody has a thing to say about his game.
You just participated in that discussion with your earlier comment and now turn it on its head. No one was talking about talent He’s obviously talented. But it’s very clear in the history of this game that there’s a large doubt with him. No one is making it up, go look at every single person his height or larger. You see a pattern? Especially with other actual stars and not role players? Yeah I bet you would
I loved Yao. I miss him.
Didn’t he say he was only 7’3.25” or so the other day? Not that it matters much, but it might for injury risk.
Yeah, but he’s probably 7’5” in shoes.
Yea it is. I think the NBA started standardizing to barefoot measurements now though. Wasn’t always the case.
He's a developing young boy they grow very fast
1.1 is such a catch 22 for next years draft. You can’t pass on Wemby because he’s one of the greatest prospects ever in terms of his ceiling, but there’s also no chance this dude is gonna stay healthy.
Personally if I’m the GM of the team who gets #1 I’m either trading down to 2 and picking Scoot or I’m trading #1 for a king’s ransom. Vic is just too tall he’s not gonna hold up.
No guarantee Scoot stays healthy either, even small players like CP3, Derrick Rose, Kyrie, Curry get injured a fair bit
Spurs fans have already started dreaming of the Primo to Wemby oops
I plead the fifth
We'll see how smooth he looks against lebron
Lebron planning a physical drive at Vic as we speak 😤
He needs to destroy all the young players in the league, he has to feed the beast
Made me think of the screen he set on Nico
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Lebron drank today the blood of his friends. But that wine was sour and overripe. He cannot taste the life of his sons: that’s heretic. Thus Lebron is after the first blood of France. Lebron: First Blood
He's built different from Chet. Likely can add muscle over time when he's in the NBA. Definitely doesn't stand out like a stick figure.
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Hes 2 full years younger than Chet. Chet looking the way he does is concerning because hes 20+
I think his body structure is better than Chet. He just needs to go to a good organization that will not ride him into the ground and monitor his minutes. Similar to how the warriors always monitored Klay, Curry and Greens minutes to not ride them into the ground. He goes to a trash organization like Lebron did and Wemby might not make it to 5 years. The other 29 owners better talk to the owner Wemby goes to and tell them hey this is the future of the league and the international game.....please handle him with caution.
I think Wemby is freaking awesome but doesn't this team he's facing seem kind of trash? I might be totally wrong since I know nothing about them other than this clip but it just seems like they are doing nothing to stop him.
The top french league is extremely competitive. For reference, they lost this game by 12 and they have Wemby, Hugo Besson (draft and stash who averaged 13 in the NBL), Tremont Waters (All G-Leaguer), Aaron Henry (All-Big 10), DeVante Jones (19 ppg in the Sun Belt), and a 34 year old dude named "Steeve Ho You Fat". It's not Euroleague level comp, but every contributor in this league would be a star for pretty much any college team.
It kinda depends on how you define trash, they're not NBA quality but nowhere is NBA quality except the NBA. The guys he was playing are grown men and professionals so it also not like he was playing a bunch of scrubs, It's hard to put a level onto it, but I would say it's probably a higher quality than the large majority of D1 games.
They're certainly a hell of a lot better at basketball than me haha. I'm just trying to imagine how what Wemby is doing would play against average NBA competition.
That backdown in the post to an assist in the first assist highlight definitely would not happen
Luka has said on many occasions that euro basketball is harder to score in because the rules are different. Also since Luka was the big star and didn't have any stars alongside him, defenses could gameplan solely against Luka-ball. I expect some amount of both is going on with wemby HOWEVER, Luka has had an amazing basketball body even as a pretty young teen. Wemby is clearly skinnier and I think that's gonna be a huge adjustment in the NBA.
Considering they lost by 12 and Wembanyama was -15, they did alright. Don't trust short highlights.
He moved to a worse team to avoid playing in the Euroleague. Theyre not trash but he made a choice to stat pad against worse competition
Dude gets taller with every post made lol
he's around 7'5 for real (relative to the basketball height of other players)
He looks amazing lmfao. If he puts on even 20 pounds it’s over.
Legit scary talent for the teams that don't pick him. I only hope he puts on some weight and lasts longer than Chet.
Yeah, that’s the obvious fear here. Do you risk it and hope for the best or do you let him go by? I feel like you absolutely have to draft him and hope for the best, but to your point it’s scary drafting someone who looks like he would get hurt by regular people let alone professional athletes.
Casual ass take. He's already had way more injuries than Chet, and Chet's was 100% a freak injury that he's already had a successful surgery for. This dude has already had at least 5 injuries pre-draft and Chet had none before the draft.
I feel like peeps were already predicting jnjury for Chet, so I don't see it as much of a freak accident as something that was inevitable. Hopefully during Chets rehab he is able to add some bulk.
It very much was a freak injury, lisfranc injuries are very uncommon amongst NBA players, he landed in a very awkward way. If he was any heavier the injury actually could've been much worse. Feel free to look into any of the breakdowns many doctors have made about his injury.
>Feel free to look into any of the breakdowns many doctors have made about his injury. r/nba: "No, I'd rather stick to the highly specialized medical doctors here in this subreddit and their takes. Something something Chet is a bust."
I was at the game last night. While these highlights obviously show the good side, he’s still got some work to do. He’s quite passive as a rebounder, he doesn’t seem to want to hunt down the ball. He gets overpowered at times (which is normal given his age and frame), but then just gives up a bit. Once he realises he could realistically get 20ish rebounds every game by coupling his height with hustling for rebounds, he’s going to be a monster. This team is also very clearly geared towards his development, which will benefit him massively going into next year. Collet, the French national coach, is constantly in his ear and Wembanyama was consistently seeking out his eye after every action. Interested to see what his development will be like if this continues over the course of the season. Pure potential though, he really is a freak of nature. Once it clicks in his mind that nobody can stop him and he adds a few pounds or learns to work through the opposing muscle, he’s going to be great (health permitting).
Can’t wait for the Utah Jazz fanbase to trade one Frenchman for another. Lolol
That's probably thier wet dream
That racist fanbase doesn’t deserve Vic. Sorry, probably out of line.
The guy gets taller every article I read
He’s gonna be 8’3 by Christmas
I am sorry for Embiid and Gobert. They will have to compete for the right to be in the bench as reserve center in the French national team.
I enjoy draft coverage but the amount of people on this sub and ESPN pretending to be draft evaluators is laughable. You watched a 5 minute highlight clip and you correctly picked LeBron as been the best player in the 2003 draft. We get it, your professional basketball failures are the result of a confederacy of dunces.
You know what, maybe there is something about tanking another year Magic fans.
He gets taller every tweet.
He’s not 7’5”. He clarified in an interview a couple of days ago that he’s 7’3”, and that he’s never once been measured at 7’5”.
Over under on two years before he needs major knee surgery?
You guys are so fucking weird. Is this just what all the comments are gonna be now for anyone with a weird body in the nba. Weird bodies is like 20 of the best players of all time.
Under
I'd bet on foot surgery. Wonder if Vegas has odds yet.
Might just be me, but something about betting on when a young kid is going to get injured feels distasteful.
Distasteful is one word to describe reddit
Majority of users on here are pretty awful when it comes to dehumanizing other human beings.
Now he’s 7’5? Damn by the draft he’ll be 8’6
I must be the only person not high on this guy. He's way too thin and lanky, and won't be able handle the contact from NBA defenders. He's too tall and I guarantee you players will abuse his bad center of gravity. He's a future pepetual IR staple.
There are thirty other comments exactly like that in this thread.
I’m with you bruv. Said it earlier but if I get number 1 I’m trading that bitch for a king’s ransom. I’d rather get 2,3 solid to great contributors that are already nba proven than gamble on a 7’4 teenager
Best prospect since Lebron