Victor Wembanyama will be best player IN THE WORLD, how Spurs rookie has dominated | Hoops Tonight

Victor Wembanyama will be best player IN THE WORLD, how Spurs rookie has dominated | Hoops Tonight

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So you guys don’t miss any of our content over the course of this season all right let’s talk some basketball hey Jason could you chat about the Spurs and wem’s 10 block triple double so obviously just by those of you guys who have been following the show for a while

You know kind of the format and the format is we really zero in on the top 10 to 15 teams in the league and so I don’t spend a ton of time talking about the you know the the Pistons or the Wizards you know or or the charlot

Hornets you know and the the San Antonio Spurs it’s just I devote my attention towards the top teams in the league and so I haven’t been following the Spurs super super closely but I’ve been following them somewhat and honestly the the biggest thing that’s changed with

Wemi over the course of the last like third of the season has been his efficiency just a shot selection has been way better and you’re starting to see him basically take a leap right before his eye before our eyes in the NBA but to put it simply like I think

Wem’s a few years away from being the best player in the world that’s the type of potential that he has and like we’re seeing stuff from him that we’ve just simply never seen before and like he’s doing all of this around the worst collection of ball handling I’ve ever

Seen on an NBA team I like Devon Vel he’s a good player but if you really take all of the Spurs ball handlers together that’s why I keep seeing these clips on Instagram of wemi being frustrated that he’s not getting the basketball it’s because he’s playing alongside a team that really struggles

To kind of take advantage of what he’s great at and like they’re a sneaky team to keep an eye on for Trey young this summer if the the Hawks decide to rebuild and when they actually put some some some quality veterans around this guy that know how to play he’s going to

Be such an incredible Force multiplier for them I am so excited to cover Wy more closely in the future but obviously like this show is very heavy on like deep Dives on the best teams in the league we we cover every single playoff game and all the x’s and those like

We’re we’re div we dive into the top of the league right and so the Spurs I I just think you know within the next couple years are just going to be in that mix and we’ll cover them more closely so I apologize to Spur Spurs fans that we haven’t been as intent on

Covering uh weman yama’s rookie year but I promise the show is going to have a ton of wanyama on it in the long run Jason said that the Clippers are fourth in his contenders but I remember him switching the Clippers with the bucks from 4 to3 um you’re right I think I just

Misspoke yesterday I I do have the Clippers above the bucks as of right now uh that said like all my Contender list is kind of in flux right now I’m going to be doing about this time next week actually sometime Monday Tuesday Wednesday I’m going to be doing a uh a

Video with San Vini where we dive into all the contenders and just kind of rank them and and go back and forth about that so whatever the contender list may or may not be at this point I plan on just like completely re-evaluating it when we get to that point and kind of

Putting teams into tears from there so so uh look looking forward to that next week next question I agree with Jason that Rudy goar had a very impactful game yesterday but I have seen it far too often come playoff time tyo will make him functionally unplayable in defensive

Settings I think last night was just a one-off the Clippers will still beat Minnesota in a seven game series so uh it’s hard to say like I I I do think that last night was or two nights ago I should say was a little bit of like a

One of those games where the scoreboard doesn’t really represent the gap between two teams particularly it wasn’t the Clippers best defensive effort and like the Timberwolves have a tendency to to fall apart offensively at the end of games and you know that’s one of those things where I think if the Clippers

Bring a different defensive level of intensity they contain the Wolves better which allows them to get out and transition more and avoid the set defense more and like I do think that these teams are pretty close and between the two if I had to pick one in a series

I do lean slightly towards the Clippers uh that said like the Rudy go be thing is not the reason why like the Rudy gobear narrative over the last five years is pretty unfair on him to be honest and honestly he’s directed towards the wrong side of the floor uh

In Utah he was playing alongside really poor perimeter defense like Royce O’Neal was the one plus Defender that he was playing alongside most of the time whether it was Donovan Mitchell or Mike Conley or boyan bonovich like it was a lot of and again Donovan Mitchell is

Having the best defensive season of his career now but he was not a very good defensive player in that stretch of his career and so more often than not when you’re the backline guy and the first guy is just getting toasted off the dribble you step up now the defense is

In rotation and it doesn’t really matter uh if Rudy goar is the best rim protector or one of the best Rim protectors in the league because the because he’s just not at The Rim anymore now he’s being pulled off onto some other player especially against a good

Driving kick team and that that more often than not was what caused them problems honestly any sort of legitimate criticism towards Rudy goar as a playoff player centered on the offensive end of the floor his ability to he has a little bit of ston hands he could struggle to

Catch the ball and pick and roll finishing around the rim can be an adventure for him from time to time against a switching team he’s not the kind of guy that can go B to switch down low on the Block typically that was where a lot of his issues would arise in

The past but one of the things that he did against the Clippers in that game was like oh you switched and now kawai’s on him and he he’s on he’s kind of uh there’s a Baseline Drive and he’s kind of relocating to where the charge circle

Is like well this time he caught it and he bodied Kawai and Rose up and dunked on it you know or being another big one for Rudy is just being super active on the offensive glass if you’re not catching and finishing around the rim if you’re struggling in these other ways if

You can generate additional possessions or get putbacks that’s worth a ton offensively as well and like I do think that Rudy’s made enough Improvement in those areas over the last few years that he’s at the least a a very positive player in the playoff setting I don’t

See Rudy getting played off the floor that’s just not an issue that I’m concerned about for the Timberwolves next question what would Jason Tatum have to do to be the number one player on a championship team other than pullup three so the big one that I always talk

About here is the physical imposition on the game and the example that I would use is the difference between let’s say joic versus beid or like a LeBron versus a KD and I mean again KD is an amazing playoff player so I don’t want to undercut that but LeBron’s been a better

Playoff player than him in his career right and like embiid’s an incredible player but joic has clearly been a better playoff player than him and like the thing is is if you really dig into it like embiid’s got more highlevel isolation crazy footwork from the mid-range and and in face up situations

Like that jab step jumper is nasty and he’s got all of this high level stuff from the perimeter and same goes for Kevin Durant but when you get into these super physical playoff environments when you’re fatigued and the defensive intensity goes up a level not just for

The opponent but for you as well and now your legs are more tired than you used to be and now your Rhythm and timing and all your shots is different like when all that stuff changes a lot of times the more perimeter oriented stuff can kind of decrease in Effectiveness and so

The guys that have the ability to actually be the person that’s better at absorbing those blows and so fatigue less and they’re good at generating higher quality shots around the rim or maybe they get to the rim and generate really high quality shots from the perimeter that sort of thing just

Translates better especially when we get to the later rounds of the postseason and like that to me is why you know like Nicole jic has been a more impactful playoff player embiid gets there the jump shot stops falling his Effectiveness tanks now obviously injuries have played a role there but

But that’s the basketball stuff that’s happening it’s the jumper that consistently fails him Nicole yic it’s like if the Jumper’s going in great but he’s making all these hook shots and floaters and that’s that’s right by the basket and that just that it just has more resiliency as the level

Of intensity goes up and the same thing goes for LeBron like LeBron can just thrive in Rock fight basketball so on the Tatum front like that’s what I’m begging for from him Jason Tatum is one of the most gifted athletes that we have in the league like just just go down the

Best players in the league like is he a more gifted athlete than LCA donic yeah Luca’s best attribute is size and I don’t want to undercut him as an athlete but I think Tatum’s a better athlete uh if you factor in all of his tools strength length vertical athleticism all

That stuff like side to side speed all that stuff right like is he a better athlete than Jimmy Butler yeah is he a better athlete than Paul George yeah like now that he has all this strength like he’s like he’s not as strong as kawhai and I think I’d

Probably take kawhai as an athlete over him overall in the playoffs but he’s pretty close to that level he has that capability to be deeply impactful in a physical environment I’m saying that I’d like to see him devote a ton of energy and attention towards physicality around

The basket because that to me is going to be what carries him to the title one day being the biggest strongest athlete on the floor and actually using that to his advantage instead of bailing teams out by taking higher difficulty Shots

Jason Timpf reacts to the recent play of rookie Victor Wembanyama on the San Antonio Spurs. Jason explains how Wemby has become the clear Rookie of the Year as he has adjusted to the NBA game in a matter of months.

Timeline:
00:00 – Wemby unstoppable
02:19 – Jason’s NBA contender list
03:02 – Are Clippers better than Timberwolves?
06:10 – How Tatum becomes a legit championship #1

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