It is time to address Wembanyama’s occasional soft and lazy play…

[spursparker9]

I think this season Wemby had already been dunked on more times than his entire rookie season.

Edey and Morant dunked on him today

[ambchang]

It’s looking more and more like Wembys career start resembles that of the admiral.

Glaring lack of shooting around them leading to them not being able to operate closer to the basket and as such being called soft.
Vassell is like Willie Anderson 0.8, decent start to a career and then just fall off a cliff. At least Anderson broke both of his knees.
Sochan is rodman 0.5 bringing rebounding but can’t/wont shoot. At least sochan is willing to play D.
FO constantly making mind bogglingly bad decisions over and over again.
Other worldly defence but never really worked on or got the offence.

Well, at least robinson had a good team his rookie year and had a legit #2 in Sean elliott.

[polandprzem]

Now you have it

[scott]

Does Wemby suffer from Mountain Cedar?

This is a great question... because he definitely looks like he is suffering through a major allergy attack at times.

Everyone who has ever lived in Central or South Texas knows the agony

[RC_Drunkford]

one of my friends was at the game and said Wemby is doing way too much. Spurs players weren't boxing out and Wemby runs up and down the court like a mad man. The whole arena screamed "help him". That's our team Can't really put that on Wemby, he has no help.

[rjv]

from my vantage point at the game, he looked gassed and seemed to be gasping for air. if he is suffering from allergies then it's a case of having to breathe through your mouth. there was one point in the game where he was just bent over with his hands on his knees, then, thanks to the lack of depth at center and mitch's odd rotations last night, he had to stay in for the 4th. he just didn't have anything left in the tank by the end of the game.

[RC_Drunkford]

he's gassed cause he has to cover for all those scrubs on D

[rjv]

one of my friends was at the game and said Wemby is doing way too much. Spurs players weren't boxing out and Wemby runs up and down the court like a mad man. The whole arena screamed "help him". That's our team Can't really put that on Wemby, he has no help.

devin and julian were really bad, defensively. i mean, they were just getting roasted. for all of sochan's shortcomings, it would have been nice to have him out there for some of those 50/50 balls that memphis kept getting.

[baseline bum]

Does Wemby suffer from Mountain Cedar?

This is a great question... because he definitely looks like he is suffering through a major allergy attack at times.

Everyone who has ever lived in Central or South Texas knows the agony

He did for sure last year (even admitted it to the media) but this year has been extremely tame, likely because of the enormous drought we have had where we had a rainless October (usually a very rainy month here) and pretty dry September, November, and December too. We're in the absolute peak of the season and the highest count we have had so far is around 4,000 and the count is 10 today. 10,000 to 20,000 is pretty normal when a big cold front comes in and we'll usually hit a pollen count of 30,000 at some point in the season (with 60,000 being the peak) so I guess we'll see Sunday but this has been a very light cedar pollen season so far.

[polandprzem]

one of my friends was at the game and said Wemby is doing way too much. Spurs players weren't boxing out and Wemby runs up and down the court like a mad man. The whole arena screamed "help him". That's our team Can't really put that on Wemby, he has no help.

on tv it looked opposite

[Cardinal]

one of my friends was at the game and said Wemby is doing way too much. Spurs players weren't boxing out and Wemby runs up and down the court like a mad man. The whole arena screamed "help him". That's our team Can't really put that on Wemby, he has no help.

I think there is a good amount of truth to this. I’ll need to go back and confirm but I remember Wemby being visibly upset a couple of times with Keldon on defense in the 4th in a way I hadn’t seen him demonstrate before

[RC_Drunkford]

on tv it looked opposite

that's why I'm saying what it looked like for a person actually being at the game

[scott]

that's why I'm saying what it looked like for a person actually being at the game

This was the crux of my old "How We Failed Wemby" post. I get that we want to "see what we have", but we're putting too much on Wemby's back. He's overall delivered quite masterfully but it's not sustainable and not fair to him. This FO needs to get him some help. This is early DRob all over again.

[LeBowen]

This was the crux of my old "How We Failed Wemby" post. I get that we want to "see what we have", but we're putting too much on Wemby's back. He's overall delivered quite masterfully but it's not sustainable and not fair to him. This FO needs to get him some help. This is early DRob all over again.

People actually have the audacity to criticize a 21 year old for not getting physical in the post while holding down the entire defense by himself, ffs.
They think he has infinite stamina or something.

We won 3 games with Wemby scoring less than 23 points.
17/6/3/1/2 against the Timberwolves on 2nd of November.
12/8/2/4/3 against the Blazers on 7th of November.
19/7/4/0/6 against the Nets on 27th of November.

We got 1 serious win without Wemby dominating on both ends and it was on 2nd of November.
Two and a half months later and this team can't do without Wemby scoring 25 and playing like the best defender in league history.

Yes, it's true that we could've won some games if he played better, but I'm absolutely not putting it on Wemby because he's got no consistent help whatsoever.

[polandprzem]

that's why I'm saying what it looked like for a person actually being at the game

magic

[chubbs]

he's gassed cause he has to cover for all those scrubs on D

camping by the paint = gassed

[rjv]

on tv it looked opposite

so you're saying that Spurs players were boxing out but Wemby was not running up and down the court (or doing much at all), and the whole arena was yelling at Wemby to "help them"?

[polandprzem]

so you're saying that Spurs players were boxing out but Wemby was not running up and down the court (or doing much at all), and the whole arena was yelling at Wemby to "help them"?

No

It's like ppl in the arena knows more then ppl who watches on tv


Wemby is not a leader yet tbh. And it's not like he is everywhere doing everything. He is the best player but that's about it. His decision making was bad this last game. No biggie.

btw. Wemby is not that great at boxing out to make a big deal of others not doing it.

[itzsoweezee]

No

It's like ppl in the arena knows more then ppl who watches on tv


Wemby is not a leader yet tbh. And it's not like he is everywhere doing everything. He is the best player but that's about it. His decision making was bad this last game. No biggie.

btw. Wemby is not that great at boxing out to make a big deal of others not doing it.

He was everywhere on defense. Are you sure you watched the game? Challenging every shot in the paint, running out to challenge three point shooters. He was the only spurs player playing any defense. I don’t think you watch much basketball outside of the spurs. You’ve gotten accustomed to what Victor does on defense and don’t appreciate hours much he actually does on defense. He’s the runaway favorite for dpoy for good reason

[RC_Drunkford]

People actually have the audacity to criticize a 21 year old for not getting physical in the post while holding down the entire defense by himself, ffs.
They think he has infinite stamina or something.

We won 3 games with Wemby scoring less than 23 points.
17/6/3/1/2 against the Timberwolves on 2nd of November.
12/8/2/4/3 against the Blazers on 7th of November.
19/7/4/0/6 against the Nets on 27th of November.

We got 1 serious win without Wemby dominating on both ends and it was on 2nd of November.
Two and a half months later and this team can't do without Wemby scoring 25 and playing like the best defender in league history.

Yes, it's true that we could've won some games if he played better, but I'm absolutely not putting it on Wemby because he's got no consistent help whatsoever.

even crazier is that we beat OKC without Wemby, Sochan and Vassell

[skin27]

even crazier is that we beat OKC without Wemby, Sochan and Vassell

Fluke. Tbh

[rascal]

This is a great question... because he definitely looks like he is suffering through a major allergy attack at times.

Everyone who has ever lived in Central or South Texas knows the agony

I did read last year he was bothered by it.

[polandprzem]

He was everywhere on defense. Are you sure you watched the game? Challenging every shot in the paint, running out to challenge three point shooters. He was the only spurs player playing any defense. I don’t think you watch much basketball outside of the spurs. You’ve gotten accustomed to what Victor does on defense and don’t appreciate hours much he actually does on defense. He’s the runaway favorite for dpoy for good reason

Right

[chubbs]

now ive seen it all. the excuse for wemby being a soft basketball player is... allergies

[Pauleta14]

Right

Can you name one player in the league that has a higher energy expenditure than Wemby on both ends combined while also being the main/sole focus of the opposite team?