Wemby transformed after just 25 games

How good is Victor Wembanyama now!? He's exploded in his 3rd month, and this detailed film breakdown and scouting report explores his completely unique game and skill set, how he's used as a passer and 7-foot-4 point guard, his off ball movement, lob gravity and roll game, high motor and more.

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[ripevanwinkle]

He already got 10 assists and one day he got 8 blocks. This guy is gonna get that quadruple double.

[Daiton]

For the month of January Wemby's averaging 24, 9 and 3 on 50% from the field and a modest 32% from deep. Add in almost 3 and a half blocks per game with elite defense and rim protection and those stats become elite. Add in the fact he's doing all of this in just under 27 minutes a night and it becomes remarkable... Insane stats from a player with seemingly limitless potential.

[timmurphree]

You forgot to mention: He hit's his free's, too. No Whack-A-Wemby will ever happen.

[lukaslambs]

Coolest thing about Wemby to me is that he seems like he’s a level headed, normal dude. I hope we all get to see him play for many years to come!

[bballtotal]

It’s just Surreal how Wemby is living up to the HYPE!

[duyanhng]

his rookie campaign is eerily similar to LeBron. Coming to the leauge with such unreal hype that even his own teammates seems annoyed about it, but quickly proving to everyone that yes, he is THE GUY.

[Grumpygrumpygrumpy]

I can't imagine him 5-7 years from now barring any serious injuries.. This guy is scary..

[tyn]

Not only is Wemby's catch radius gigantic, but his body control and hand-eye coordination are insane. Teams are starting to commit more defenders to him, daring Tre to shoot. Spurs gonna need a three level scorer at PG.

[FinzTalkzTV]

Wemby is the definition of what scouts and analysts talk about when they say “generational talent”. And he still hasn’t completely figured out the game yet. When he does, we might see an mj-like run of unparalleled success.

[NotOneToFly]

3:13 Kelley Oubre just like "My head... at his shoulder. Alright, yep, good on ya kid." 😂

[thatonedude]

One thing that’s kinda hit on in this vid is that there are a lot of times you can see Victor, the rookie, coaching up guys during time outs and leading the conversation. Vessel just got a new contract and there was a time Vic was clearly telling him how he wants something does and Devin just took it in stride.

Another is the insane ability he has to get a lob shot going up even if he’s already going down. Like the passer probably just wants to get it to him and he’s making a shot literally only he can off of hang time.

The height and length is the cover of the book but there’s so much Wemby does that just makes no sense even with that.

[WhatAMagician]

I've never seen a rookie with confidence, control, and awareness like this. Bro really is next level.

[sportschad]

Finally someone talks about Wemby's off-ball game. Seriously, his off-ball game is eerily like MJ's. The jukes, the fade-outs, the v-cuts, the spin-outs, the backdoors, positioning in transition, with scoring opportunities covering every area under the 3-Pt line, and the overactivity of when he does these off-ball techniques are MJ-like.

This also means he does a great job of helping his teammates to find him better (though it doesn't seem his teammates are taking advantage of it, he's literally doing the hard work for them to actually find him, and they still don't take the chance to pass him the ball);
He can distribute his gravity to prevent their offense from stagnating and create more out-of-play scoring opportunities;
He can also get more offensive rebounds and therefore more opportunities for second chance points;
He doesn't need to control the offense through playmaking to help create scoring opportunities for others (I seriously hope he can get a good playmaker to compliment him);
He doesn't need to go into isolation plays to score. Even when he does get the ball in isolation, he doesn't overextend his possession, he doesn't overdribble whenever he gets the ball, he doesn't wait for his defender to establish position against him, he just does something almost immediate whenever he gets the ball;
Also a lot of catch-and-shoot opportunities for him;

It still blows my mind how a 7'4" guy can even do those off-ball moves at all. I don't think anyone his size is supposed to move like him. Although being 7'4" I'm pretty sure he's going to f'ck up his knees earlier than MJ did as skillful and as active playing off-ball like this. But at least we now know even if his team is losing, he actually sacrifices his knees to get a bucket AND help prevent the team's offense from pausing. His off-ball skillset will be critical if he ever gets the chance to play for a championship. I just hope he gets that chance earlier because he's actually putting a lot of stress on his body playing the off-ball like he does.

[Getafememason]

It was so obvious wemby was gonna be great just like Jordan and lebron he’s the main character

[repect]

I just hope he stays healthy and keeps adapting, he’s already so much fun to watch

[LilShrooms]

out of all his insane talents we saw in France, I never thought he would’ve been able to dribble and playmake at this level this fast. wemby is gonna break the NBA

[blankmedia]

He's the Goat and we are early to the party... cant wait until he gets more aggressive downlow and demands the ball more

[nicholaskatsikas]

If Wemby keeps this up he should most definitely win ROY and be in conversation with 1st team all defense along with his mentor Rudy Gobert. Can’t wait to see him in the Olympics this summer as well that should be a really fun team.

[CorrectCrusader]

Victors ceiling is literally the best player ever.

[maxmingo]

Mans is already borderline top 25/30 and he isn’t even at this first all star break, insane.