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Thinking Basketball

#251: Victor Wembanyama's ceiling

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Thinking Basketball

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🗓️ 9 February 2024

⏱️ 77 minutes

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Summary

The Ringer's J. Kyle Mann returns to discuss Wemby's incredible potential after exploding in the last month. What are realistic areas of improvement for him? What does he look like with more size? We discuss his offensive potential, defensive feel and IQ and whether he could have the highest peak we've ever seen. Follow @jkylemann. Support at www.patreon.com/thinkingbasketball

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0:00.0

thinking basketball podcast my name is Ben welcome back and it is today a show that I can't even speak I'm so

0:17.8

excited I'm like a little kid on Christmas morning here's what's going. Let me download everybody so we're on the same page.

0:26.0

I started making a Victor Wembanyama video a couple weeks ago. It's out on the YouTube channel.

0:32.0

I did this because I have been

0:33.6

following WMB since last season in France. We did a couple videos last year,

0:38.8

did a video for the NBA, we looked at them at the beginning of the season and then the spurs just became almost

0:44.3

unwatchable like what are they doing? What's happening? Who are they playing? They're not playing point

0:48.9

guards. They're not I've seen enough. I can't take it and then like a month and a half ago he just

0:56.0

started playing like a madman they move finally moved Trey Jones into the

0:59.8

starting lineup they move Wenby Center. I started watching again and I needed someone

1:06.1

to come in and talk to me and hold my hand and figure out what I was seeing because I

1:12.0

just could not believe what I was seeing. I just could not believe what I was seeing I don't think

1:14.0

words can put it into perspective so to go through this journey together I could not

1:19.5

think of a better person the one the only J Kyle man of the ringer you Kyle you just made a Victor

1:25.3

Wembanyama video yourself are we going to be able to make it through this

1:29.7

podcast without saying just some incredibly outlandish things to other people that sound

1:35.2

completely normal and reasonable to us.

1:38.0

Yeah, I think you and I have had this this situation before with some players in the past of whenever a player comes

1:48.1

out of the gate and just does things that you've never seen before whenever they come out

1:52.2

and they're just kind of resetting, you know,

1:55.3

benchmarks that you even thought were possible. I think it's natural to kind of, I always, I always

2:01.2

said that I huddle up with the people that I trust the most to tell me that I'm crazy I mean that's generally you know when you need that in your life I think in general like just in the broad sense you need people to be like hey man you need exercise people that give you like the come to Jesus at some point but like with with wimbee yeah and basketball in general I find myself in this situation where I'm like this feels crazy I need to run this by somebody and I think you and I what's funny

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