2023-07-08 03:35:00
The France of basketball had risen, the basketball planet did not want to miss it. Victor Wembanyama made his debut for the Spurs last night in the Summer League, it was not a cakewalk but we can’t wait to be in round 2.
If you like nuance, this match was made for you. The nuance because, yes Victor Wembanyama has had a hard time with it, but 1) there are also good things on the menu, 2) we are still not going to ask a kid to slam a 25/18 in his first game and 3) if you only discover the Summer League know that it is not really the NBA. Tonight ? Victor Wembanyama faced the Hornets with the hard learning of real life, a life that it will probably not take long to tame, even if for once it was quite rough to live on certain sequences. good, like this incredible ability to dribble and create (remember that he measures 7m62), this desire to serve his friends so as not to pull the cover to him, sometimes even if it means overdoing it. At least good, like this shooting waste, this homemade poster received from the hands of Kai Jones, which will therefore remain as the one who welcomed Wemby to the NBA, cool, Kai Jones’ CV is finally under attack.
Very quickly Victor Wembanyama will have shown that he will be the central element of his team as he weighs and takes up space in attack and defense, and if in the end the figures are not the most honorable, the objective is nevertheless filled with almost 30 minutes spent frolicking and discovering his new world. A little 4-point action will come at the very end of the match to restore a tad bit of the stats sheet, the kind of action that already makes us want to be at Sunday evening for the rebelote, it will be at 2 a.m. against the Blazers of Scott Henderson.
Speaking of competition, here’s a little big up this evening to Brandon Miller, who looked the Spurs in the eye and finally managed to get out of his lost ball + foul hell by scoring 15 pawns including a few sweets, and defending in such a way honest throughout the game. For the Spurs it was again Julian Champagnie who made the show by putting his usual 20 pawns and posterizing poor James Nnaji without any form of respect.
Block the shot.
Push it in transition.
Drop the dime.
Victor Wembanyama making an impact right away during his #NBA2KSummerLeague debut on ESPN! pic.twitter.com/CCa604r02w
— NBA (@NBA) July 8, 2023
WEMBY AND-1, his first bucket!#NBA2KSummerLeague on ESPN pic.twitter.com/eRCAiGB1CH
— NBA (@NBA) July 8, 2023
Victor’s handles and vision are absurd. pic.twitter.com/ANpVPWKCZz
— NBA (@NBA) July 8, 2023
In summary ? Lots of waste, already a poster in the room, but the snippets shown were enough to reassure us for the future. We will have to be patient, a little, but Victor Wembanyama should probably make us forget the notion of time very quickly. Welcome to the NBA the W.
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