2024-02-24 10:13:51
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Victor Wembanyama participated in the All-Star Weekend for the first time in Indianapolis a few days ago, and he felt that the best part was that he experienced it all as a Spurs player.
“For me, (being with the Spurs) this is really the best place.” The No. 1 pick said. “I can’t stress enough that I can’t imagine a better place than here.”
When asked regarding his thoughts on the All-Star Week, “It’s great.” The 7-foot-4 French young man said. “But it would be even better if I might be part of the All-Star Game. But it’s still a great experience.”
For Wembanyama, who has been in the NBA since he was a child and aims to challenge one of the best players in his NBA career. He has never hesitated to express his expectations and goals. Therefore, only participating in the rookie game and technical challenge still makes Wembanyama a little disappointed. “(Being an All-Star) is a big ask for a rookie,” Spurs teammate Devin Vassell said. “But that’s the goal and expectation he set for himself, and that’s what he always has done.”
However, Wemby does have a chance to challenge and become the first rookie All-Star since Blake Griffin in 2011. In the first half of the season, Wembanyama averaged 20.5 points and 10 rebounds per game with a 20-10 record. Only eight rookies have achieved this in the past 40 years. With 20 points and 10 rebounds, Griffin is the latest one, and Wemby has a good chance of becoming the ninth in history. What is even more surprising is his high efficiency. Wembanyama currently averages only 28.4 minutes per game. Since 1983- Since the 1984 season, no rookie has averaged 20 points and 10 rebounds in less than 30 minutes.
Now, Wembanyama is the frontrunner for the Rookie of the Year. He played 49 games in the first half of the season, averaging 20.5 points, 10.0 rebounds, 3.2 assists, 1.1 steals and a league-best 3.2 blocks per game. His shooting percentage was 46.8-32.0- 81.1%.
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He also posted two big three-point games, dishing out 10 assists once morest the Pistons and recording 10 hot pot performances in Toronto. His 27 points, 14 rebounds, 10 blocks and 5 assists in Toronto also made him the fifth player in history to score 25-10-10-5. Before him, he was the famous all-around center: Kareem Abdul-Jabbar. , Hakeem Olajuwon, Ralph Sampson, David Robinson. Rudy Gobert, the captain of the national team, commented on his younger brother Wemby’s 10-block triple performance: “I only thought a few weeks ago when he would accomplish this achievement. I didn’t expect him to do it so soon, but it’s really impressive.”
Wembanyama also became the first player in league history to have 75 three-pointers, 150 assists and 150 blocks in the same season. He joins David Robinson and Shaq O’Nal as the only three players in NBA history who can contribute 1,000 points and 150 blocks in the first 50 games of their career since the record blocking record began in the 1973-74 season.
The Spurs visited Dallas in the last game of the first half of the season. Mavericks coach Jason Kidd also said: “He had an incredible rookie season.” In Wemby’s last game before the All-Star Game, he surrendered 26 points, 9 rebounds and 5 rebounds in 27 minutes. With his performance of assists and three blocks, “Everyone has high expectations for him.” Kidd, who was the rookie champion in 1995, continued. “And he handled it very well. He was in a great environment. This team had Hall of Fame big men (Robinson and Tim Duncan) before. He performed very well, and there were certain offenses and defenses that only he might do. .”
“I think you can see the way he plays, how incredibly talented he is,” Mavericks All-Star Luka Dončić also said. “I really enjoy watching him play.”
The last annual MVP Joel Embiid said more bluntly: “I don’t know what kind of player he is, but I know that he can do everything on the court.”
However, the Spurs’ current sluggish record may be one of the reasons why Wembanyama is not favored in the All-Star Game. The Blackshirts are currently ranked last in the Western Conference with 11 wins and 44 losses. They have lost four of their five away games during their annual traditional away trip to the Cowboys. They will restart their schedule in Sacramento in the second half of the season. .
Looking back on the first half of the season, the rookie played in 35 of the Spurs’ 49 games and has already shown that he will be one of the most versatile players in NBA history, and he is still improving.
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LeBron James once said that Wemby is not just a unicorn, “more like an alien.” Recognized as the most high-profile rookie since LeBron in 2003, Wembanyama scored 38 points in the fifth game of the season, which really made the world’s eyes brighter. Although he is currently the tallest player in the league, his dribbling skills are like those of a defender, and his shots are smooth. With his tall size and long hands, no one can stop him from outside the three-point line. According to statistics, Wemby has only had 9 blocks out of 790 shots taken this season.
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But soon, the young Wembanyama faced serious research and intelligence from the league’s teams, so each team sent stronger and heavier opponents to fight once morest the lanky French rookie, and forced Wemby to shoot unstable jump shots, and The teammates around him were also too young and inexperienced, which made it impossible for the Spurs, who were selected with the No. 1 pick, to improve their record like the Twin Towers did when they joined the team. Instead, the team suffered an 18-game losing streak, and Wembanyama only had 43.3 in November. % miserable hit rate.
Not to mention that the Spurs’ “experimental scheduling” in the first half of the season seemed to have affected Wembanyama’s development. Head coach Gregg Popovich started the season trying to switch second-year Jeremy Sochan from his original forward position to point guard. Although Sochan has potential, he is not recognized globally. The highest basketball palace is not qualified for the job. The Spurs may also be worried regarding Wemby’s health loss as he plays the fifth position, so they first let another center Zach Collins partner with him to keep Wemby away from the basket. However, the pairing of the two small twin towers was limited in the first 25 games. It has a dismal net score of -11.8 points per 100 possessions. At the same time, Tre Jones, the only pure point guard in the team, does have limited talent. The team let Jones serve as the backup point guard first, which gave him very few opportunities to partner with Wemby, but Wembanyama seemed to need it. A real point guard can cooperate and feed the ball to achieve the best efficiency. Data shows that when the Frenchman and Jones play at the same time, the team has a net advantage of 2.9 points per 100 possessions. For a team with a net loss of 2.9 points per 100 possessions, For a team that allowed 8.5 points, fifth-worst in the league, that’s a huge difference.
Of course, there are reasons for such persistence. As mentioned above, the Spurs believe that if they can successfully cultivate “point guard Sochan”, it will be more helpful to the team and Wemby’s future. Collins can protect Wemby and take over the defensive duties in the penalty area. Live, Jones has his ceiling and is not considered one of the future blueprints (perhaps the original blueprint plan was Joshua Primo…). As always, the Spurs are looking further ahead and don’t care regarding winning or losing at the moment, but what if this arrangement does not help Wembanyama’s growth?
During the 18-game losing streak from November 5 to December 13, Wemby averaged only 18.9 points per game, shooting only 42% from the field, and a miserable 26.1% from the three-point line. Wembanyama’s assist-to-turnover ratio was 0.872. The Spurs His three-point shooting percentage is 39%, and his opponent’s shooting percentage is as high as 54%. Even with Wemby, who averages 3.2 blocks per game, the team’s defense still completely collapses, conceding 121.5 points per game and an average of 13.1 points. The upbringing of Wembanyama is not positive.
So Popovich decided to make changes, moving Collins to the bench, moving Sochan back to power forward, putting Tre Jones in the starting lineup, and Wembanyama returning to center, and a new situation emerged.
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