Breaking Down Victor Wembanyama's Unique Skill Set | Thinking Basketball

Thinking Basketball's Ben Taylor analyzes the unique skill set of Victor Wembanyama and how it might translate in the NBA.
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Another important factor in Wemby's development is that on his team Jeremy Sochan is one of the most gifted defenders in the league and could help in facing one another to teach Wemby how to attack talented defenders. I think together they will be deadly

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You also have to remember the team he was drafted to. Wemby is not only being coached by Pop, but Tim Duncan shows up at the practice facility. Duncan will definitely be helping Wemby with his footwork in the post.

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The Sky is The Limit for this Kid. I hope He Has an Injury Free Season so he can Help the Spurs make it back to the Playoffs.

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Playoffs seems like a reach

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@@Techbuff-Technology It really is not Spurs made the playin with Murry so you saying Murry is greater than Victor. They might not be a top 6 seed but i do believe they will be 9th or 10th with a chance to make it into the playoffs and with Victor anything is possible for him to just go off for 2 games.

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As a Hawks fan I will trade Murray back to the Spurs for Wemby. I'll even throw in a few picks.

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@@arthurwright255 Never said he doesn’t have a lot of potential, he will probably be a superstar caliber player. But you have to consider that this is his first season, in two years the spurs will probably make it but not yet

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I wachted a lot of video on wemby ans no one is talking about his passing capacity but you explained very well thx

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So he is sorta like a Kevin Garnett analog, with all the sliders in the character creation screen maxed out. Decent jump shooter, amazing defense range, great mobility for a bigman, secure handle, not exceptional powerful in the post, etc. If he is even close to how good Garnet was, that will make him a consistent top 10 center in the league.

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Garnett was also a good playmaker for a big man in that era and i see that in wemby too. he’s no jokic but he can definitely keep the offense flowing

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@@yerrrrrrrr4567 Maybe Victor wont be as good as Jokic as a passer but i think he can get his assets up to 6 APG when he hit his prime which is still very good. The amount of things Victor can do i dont think he need to be on Jokic level as a passer 5-6 APG would be fine. If he develop into a Jokic type passer with his defense and what he can do on offense it would just break the NBA.

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The POTENTIAL of Vic is astronomical! He COULD be the greatest DPOY all time (Hakeem-Giannis) type because his mobility at that size is fabulous plus He is willing to hustle it seems. 7'5 yet He has signs of KD type handle and maneuverability. He also has the vision and mindset to pass which in many cases can't be taught. I hope all the young ones have success!!!

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Excited to see how the jokic wemby match up plays out. Wemby might get tossed around in the paint a little but with that length to recover it might make for some real defensive highlights

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In his first couple seasons I think wemby is going to get torched, Jokic is just that good. Between his passing, footwork, and sheer strength I think it’ll be too much for a 19-20 year old Vic. Joker will still be in the tail end of his prime in like 3-4 years when Wemby has enough experience and strength to become an all-nba type player though, and I’m PUMPED to see how that pans out. There’s gonna be a couple solid years of some absolute battles between those two

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jokic and other very strong bigs (embiid, eu bigs like nurkic and such) will probably push him to a point where even he can't recover but that should get better later in his career, I also think right now if they were to face the nuggets they would/should play him off jokic as a help defender on like aaron gordon and put a stronger body on jokic, a rim protector is at his best when he faces his opponent under the rim and has the time and space to jump, a jokic post up at the free throw line is not a good situation for him, we'll have to see how it plays out but if wemby is cheating off of gordon to help on jokic he might be able to contest the shot in the corner because he's just so long and be able to block an alley oop pass if there's one, in any case we'll see and it's gonna be interesting however the spurs play him, just hopes he doesn't break against the strong players like chet did

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