#346: Seriously, how good is Wemby? Plus Week 1 thoughts

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🗓️ 28 October 2025

⏱️ 49 minutes

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We discuss the incredible start from Victor Wembanyama, and where he fits into the NBA hierarchy right now. Plus the teams and players that jumped out to us in week 1, including the Warriors, Blazers, 76ers, Magic and Pelicans. Support at www.patreon.com/thinkingbasketball

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0:00.0	Thinking Basketball Podcast. My name is Ben. Welcome back to the 2026 NBA season, Cody. We are here. And I thought for a change today that maybe we should try to have a podcast that's less than one hours in
0:23.2	length of time? What do you think? I would genuinely love that. Not that like going an hour and
0:30.4	40 minutes on the LeBron three peaks isn't like my idea of a perfect evening, but once in a while,
0:35.6	it drags on you, Ben. You're like, let's let's go through a nice quick one and not have one of these marathon pods once in a while. Yeah. I'm always stuck after the first week where it's like a fire hose of basketball and there's an instinct to watch more basketball than at any other point in any other week. You're like, I need to watch at least 47 NBA games this week. And then we do the first show of the week.
0:55.2	And I say, well, should we just spend two minutes on each team and comment on the excitement of Tumani Kamara and the Portland Trailblazers?
1:03.2	Or should we actually try to get into meaty topics and save those things for the next week and the week after and whatnot.
1:11.6	And I think I want to try to actually have a real topic to start with today.
1:15.6	Yes, because I'm sure everyone else is talking about this, but we also don't care and have to talk about it.
1:22.6	It's very important.
1:24.6	I think it's the biggest story in the NBA right now is what everyone's talking about.
1:30.9	I have a feeling I know where you're going with this. How good is Victor Wembenyama? Yeah,
1:35.2	it's unbelievable. Okay, let me ask you something to start this one off. Yes. Is there a particular,
1:40.9	like, is there any single individual play that he had that sticks out in the first
1:45.4	week where you point to it and you're like that? Or is there some, is it just like a bigger
1:49.6	everything that you've seen from him so far? Here's the problem. It's door number three.
1:54.7	He has so many of those plays that I'm starting to have a hard time remembering.
2:00.0	How many games has he played?
2:01.1	Four?
2:01.7	Four NBA games this year.
2:03.6	He literally has probably the 12 or 15 most incredible plays of the season by himself.
2:12.1	He had a 360 layup last night.
2:14.8	Cody, he's 7 foot six.
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