Wembanyama's Bummer Debut + Scoot, Amen, and Jabari Smith Jr.

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🗓️ 8 July 2023

⏱️ 24 minutes

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Andrew Schlecht, Sam Vecenie and Mo Dakhil discuss Victor Wembanyama's first summer league game, why it was a disappointment and more. Plus a breakdown of the Rockets/Blazers game and how Scoot, Whitemore, Jabari Smith, Amen Thompson and Tari Eason looked. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome to a special edition of the Athletic Ambient Show. I'm your host Andrew Schlecht.
0:12.8	With me, I've got Sam Vassini and Motocchio. And this was supposed to be a very exciting
0:18.9	podcast after a very exciting game. The entire arena was just like vibrating as Victor
0:25.7	Wimmyama's warming up. And the air was let out of the balloon so fast. It was one of the worst
0:33.3	games I've watched. And I watched 2020 Poku. All of it. Every episode of 2020 Poku, I've watched it.
0:42.9	Sam, you have seen Victor Wimmyama play many times. This is not what people were expecting.
0:50.4	No, it was not. I've never seen him like that passive. I guess I've never really seen him play
0:56.4	that quiet. Like it just felt like he didn't have the kind of juice that I've seen him have before.
1:01.8	Like this is a guy that led a French league like team to its championship rounds.
1:09.0	A team that had no business going to the championship round too. Like he took an underdog team
1:14.0	in that sense. And you're 100% right? Passive is the best word to describe his game today.
1:18.8	And 100% is. I mean, he goes two for 13 from the field for people who maybe won some
1:23.2	context. Didn't watch the game. Two for 13 from the field. One for six from three, eight rebounds,
1:28.4	three assists. I thought his passing was actually the best part of his game outside of his
1:32.1	ring protection tonight. Yeah. I think that we should actually probably note the defense was
1:36.7	quite good. Look, he got bailed out a lot by Charlotte having maybe the worst summer league
1:42.0	team I've ever watched in my life. I'm not ready to go there yet. But like there
1:46.0	history of summer league teams is another podcast. Yeah. They're up there. So I've watched them
1:50.5	three times now. And like I'm not worried about Brandon Miller. I am more worried. This is
1:56.7	the conversation I'm having like a friend on the team side. I'm more worried that they might not
2:00.6	have another NBA player on this team. Yeah. When they have seven draft picks, I believe on this
2:06.4	roster. James Najee looks okay tonight. I thought Bryce McAllen's looked solid. But yeah,
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