[Highlight] Wemby schools Anthony Davis with excellent footwork.
how did so much progress happen in 1 off season
He was with Shaolin Monks
Shaolin monks are going to have their own training camp next year
There is a crappy comedy movie in this idea. Shaolin Slam, anyone?
Oh wow ive only seen Shaolin Soccer. Gotta watch that now
Shaolin dunks
Oh, you’re still training with Hakeem…? Huh
What’s his Wu -Tang name?
The WZA
Ol Dirty Baguette
Inspectah Gadget
Mr Fantastic
Long limb killa
average 3rd year jump
the Great Leap Forward
For him those are just called a “step”
one small step for wemby, one giant leap for mankind
That’s from the half court line to the hoop.
Small step for Wemby, giant-ass leap for regular dudes.
That was reserved for Yang Hansen
Idk Wemby seems to like Chairman Mao too
That’s why he went to China
Average?? Lol
He did get shut down pretty early last season. So has probably been working hard the entire time.
Unfortunately he couldn’t do a ton of physical activity while on the blood thinners so less time than you’d think
Pretty sure you can work on most everything basketball related and just avoid physical contact while on blood thinners. You’re not gonna bleed out from working on shooting, footwork, post moves, etc.
Not really. Blood thinners make it hard to do physical activity in general. It’s honestly impressive how good his conditioning looks this soon after stopping them
You’re actually encouraged to do cardio and resistance training (lifting) while on blood thinners because it keeps the blood pumping. You can’t do contact drills (risk of bruising is too high) but I imagine that he was able to do a good amount of shooting drills after his shoulder healed from the clot removal and surgery to shave the bone down.
Maybe they trained him on blood thinners so that now he’s off them he’s supercharged like some anime character.
I’m sure they didn’t limit him from all athletics, but he normally has an insane workout regimen and I doubt they let him go full tilt even with cardio.
This kid is so fucking unique that I could honestly see sitting on the sidelines being beneficial in some ways. He’s a savant. Truly. He not only has the physical tools, but he has a very gifted mind.
This for sure. In his rookie season Pop played him limited minutes to ease him into the game. But you could clearly see that every minute he was on the bench he was prepping for how he’d get out there and dominate, which he did.
You can if there is no contact.
Exactly. He was working on his mind.
Leagues fucked.
I’m convinced they told him to stay outside the arc last year to tank one more time. Now that we got the full squad it’s time to unleash the full arsenal.
I read somewhere wish I could remember that the plan was to have him develop the outside shot this year while they waited for his body to develop. Which makes sense and we’re seeing it pay off now.
They hardly had any shooters, so there were way more open shots on the perimeter than inside. He also has massively leveled up his strength and post moves from last year – he could not have done this a year ago.
I don’t think most people realize how unbelievably competitive Wemby is. If someone told him to go in there and intentionally lose games he would be furious.
I feel so fucking vindicated after so spurs fans telling me all last year that Wemby shooting 8 3’s a game is actually the best way to play him
Hakeem kiss of death to the NBA
He was playing like this before he got the flu really badly just with more threes and then the clot
he was a top 5 player pre blood clot but not in the same way he is right now
Definitely, just showing the people something new for this game. His 3 isn’t going away tho which some people will get mad at
If his 3 ball is falling there is no way to even slow him down. This is absolutely terrifying for the league.
He was top 5 then, he’s top 1 now.
Even missing half the season he was on some people DPOY ballot….. just crazy
Naruto arc mfer went and trained with Jaraiya to learn sage mode
Naruto only learned sage mode after jiraiya died :(
Mannnn I was having a good night :(
You right tho he just introduced him to the Toad sages
Time was slowed when he was with those monks. He should actually be 43 by now.
Working out with Hakeem did him good.
Because he’s on goat level trajectory, look at LeBron look at Jordan look at bird fucking nasty in their third season. He will finish as MVP-2 just like they did mark my words.
Because NBA players are lazy and don’t work as hard as he does. Wemby has told us this before
100% this. Kid wants it. You can tell when someone wants and when someone *cough cough KD cough cough sorry excuse me… is just trying to get paid This kid is some fucking… after it. Wemby is really something special.
He went to Kamar Taj and learned from the Sorcerer Supreme
I would have to look at the stats to know for sure but my memory says he was really on fire last season too before he got sick like 2 weeks before he got shut down
He speed ran his training arc going from a monk to training with Hakeem
Monks
Hyperbolic Time Chamber
“Seriously what the fuck is Namek!?”
That Shaolin Temple needs to be investigated
what one off season studying maoism does to a mf
Wemby right now
https://media1.tenor.com/m/mI1juhb4VIoAAAAd/i-havent-een-begun-to-peak-peak.gif
Hakeem what have you created
League is fucked
Hakeem had a dream
The Dream created a nightmare
the Dream manifested a Reality
Adrenalin in Wemby’s soul
A game of zones episode with Hakeem and Wemby would have been legendary
That one day little French boys will be dunking over American boys
this bumps up Hakeem a few spots on the All Time list as far as I’m concerned
He knew what he was doing too, you could tell from how he was laughing in those videos of him training Wemby
Yeah he was thinking to himself “I’m the greatest defensive player of my generation, and idk how the fuck I’d stop what I’m creating”
nah man this shit is thanks to liu kang
He looks a lot more comfortable with this move compared to the one in the preseason.
It was the monks
Disappointed they don’t pan to Nico after each bucket
I’m positive he’s hiding in that tunnel like the bitch ass coward he is
The Tunnel Rat.
Tunnel Rat motherfucker. Fuck that ratfuck bastard.
Nico is irrelevant in this case, even if the Mavs still had Luka, Wemby is inevitable and is going to run the west for years.
Luka has never lost to Wemby tho
Not yet anyway
And neither have I. Put me on Lukas shoulders
But Davis is there to stop things like that. The whole point of getting Davis was allegedly that his defense would be more valuable than Luka’s offense.
but the meme potential…
what does nico have to do with this lmao. unless you think luka would put the clamps on wemby?
Luka wouldnt be 7⁄21 & the mavs would have more than 80 points
Nico traded Luka for Davis’ defensive ability which Wemby was making a mockery of tonight.
He had a player that was undoubtedly the best at his position. He traded that guy for a guy who can’t say the same before and definitely not now after wembanyama has ascended. I say that’s relevant.
This game is turning into clipping every single time Wemby touches the ball and they all deserve to be highlighted
Every time he touched the ball he was either punching it or hitting the craziest Dirk fader. The most entertaining 40 I’ve seen a dude drop in a while.
Do they not?
I don’t mean to overreact or anything but I think the lebron vs jordan debate will be for #2
There’s a good chance that Wemby’s peak will be the highest ever, but I don’t think he touches LeBron’s career.
Ohtani is revealing that nobody gives a shit about total accolades when you’re clearly the greatest
Baseball discourse seems way better than other sports. I haven’t seen one person drop the rings argument after Ohtani had that monster game
Mainly because it’s damn near impossible for one player to have the level of impact necessary to make rings a truly definable argument for player greatness in baseball (though Ohtani is certainly trying his hardest to win games on his own).
Basketball allows for individuals to take over more than any other sport, and QB is singularly impactful in football, where one all time great player can single handedly turn your offense into a top-half unit in the league.
Unless you’re a pitcher you can only do so much to forcibly impact a game. And even then a lot of that seems to come down to rotations. Basketball players have way more autonomy to control the outcome by their own performance.
Unless you’re a pitcher who also cranks dingers.
Surely that could never happen.
Yea i don’t see Wemby losing 6 finals and getting clamped by JJ Barea tbh
I dont think no one will touch Lebrons career in a very long time. Wemby got all the skillsets to dominate but Lebron averaged 70 to 75 games a season for his first 15 or so years.
Yeah impossible for him to have LeBron’s longevity, but Wemby could very well be headed towards the greatest peak of all time. I mean he’s only 21 and tonight’s game was just absurd
I really hope Castle keeps taking the next step also to compliment Wemby. Those 2 would be amazing to watch for a very long time.
Jordan had a better career, stop pumping false narratives bro. MJ had more accolades in half the time….playing twice as long doesn’t make for a better career, just a longer one. If you still achieved less, you had a lesser career. Pretty simple.
4rings and 4mvps 0dpoy 1scoring title
Easy to imagine Wemby surpassing this, never mind touching
I mean you’re completely glossing over the fact that for 10 years, the MVP was just whoever was the second most valuable player after LeBron due to voter fatigue
7’7” with the skills of a guard. Never seen this before.
thats not even fucking crazy to say wtf
Its crazy to say, people at Wembys size have traditionally been injury prone and tend to lack longevity.
We haven’t even gotten to one championship and people are already crowning him as guaranteed top 3. /r/nba is so fuckin back I missed this
In fairness though… are you seeing this shit?
Yes, and I very much enjoy watching basketball without needing to view it through the prism of all time player rankings. He’s fun to watch, everything looks like me dunking on my nephews four foot hoop
i love the people who have to pretend like you need to be stoic about something like this. if you can’t see where this is going with wemby, fuck that, where it already is, idk what to tell you. no need to be measured. if he stays healthy he will be the greatest, most impactful basketball player ever
if he stays healthy he will be the greatest, most impactful basketball player ever
We even get the double down
/r/nba truly is back
Yes it is crazy, you guys are literally doing the Colin Cowherd ‘hey LeBron, we’re good’ when Ben Simmons was putting up numbers
comparing ben simmons to this is low key disrespectful
If that’s disrespectful, I guess we’ll need to invent a whole new word to describe the disrespect of putting a 3rd year player who hasn’t won anything over the two best players that have ever played this sport
Ben Simmons still exhibited weaknesses even if he played well statistically. His team was just built incredibly well around him.
Wemby is doing shit he has no business doing at an explosivensss that is unbelievable from a 7’5” player. Dude is making AD look like a child out there. In year 3.
Except Ben Simmons never showed anything this crazy
Ben Simmons’ hype was purely on the hopes that he’d eventually get a jump shot and actually work on his game. Wemby already had flashes of brilliance coming in, a wider skill set and we know he is a floor raiser. You might want to say it’s revisionist history on my end but it was pretty obvious he wouldn’t be anything close to his potential given he couldn’t even get to the round of 64 and then just passed up on the NIT. I get what you’re saying but using Colin as the barometer instead of your eyes is crazy
Can we see him make the playoffs first at least
Holy overreaction. Wemby is gonna go through so much shit in the playoffs when spurs lose to like the nuggets or someone. The overrated takes are coming
How do you make Anthony Davis look like that damn
Bro I thought that was Demarcus Cousins
this lowkey the funniest shit i’ve read all night
I thought it was Ryan Hollins.
Luka died for this defence.
AD is BBQ chicken to Wemby
There’s no big in the league that can guard this guy I’m not even kidding. He plays like a guard and then can turn into a center. To top it off the defensive versatility is scary. It won’t be long until he’s the face of the league
GOAT is his ceiling and I’m not even kidding, he just needs to be healthy. He’s so fun to watch, absolutely dominate out there.
Every clip I watch I’m expecting him to snap in half like a twig. If he can stay healthy he could dominate the league
AD gave him a hard time in the past along with Lively so he especially wanted to cook them both
absurd
Hakeem really did this for the Rockets biggest rival i’d be sick
He really should just take 50 shots in a game and see what happens. It doesn’t matter who is defending him, he’s gonna get an above average shot.
Imagine he gives us our first 100pt game since Wilt
That is an insane thought to have but makes perfect sense for him to do. What can you even do about it?
Hope he gets tired at some point? Like toddler just let him run an around a lot and tire himself out? I dunno
Zero turn overs!!
My jaw has been on the floor every time he touches the court
Okc vs spurs is gonna be wild
So.. you think Chet or anyone else stands a chance against this guy?
Shai gonna haveta draw 40 fouls
OKC gonna throw the entire frontcourt at Wemby and pray the Spurs can’t hit threes
Spurs are built to guard Shai. All of them are built super long.
Shai vs Castle is hopefully fun for years.
He made AD look like Ayton on defense
Not really. AD forced Wemby into multiple counters this possession.
Good defense, better offense personified
yup the fact that Wemby has counter moves now, taking what the defense is giving him.
Pretty impressive game from Wemby rn
yeah Wemby will just straight up shoot over Ayton and make the and 1
he made AD look like a 6’6” guy when guarding AD
This is outrageous. GOAT potential.
What the actual fuck
Bro been putting AD in a highlight reel all night lmao
I genuinely dont think he “schooled” AD. There is just no way to stop that
If anything AD is good enough to force him into having to do counters to finally score on him. Other guys, he’s not gonna need to bother with counters.
imagine going back to 2005 and telling everyone that the most fun person to watch in the NBA would be french lmao
Tony Parker still in the league?!? ah moment
We really look like we could use a generational scoring PG out there
The genius Gilbert arenas said those old Hakeem moves don’t work today though
It’s even easer now with how much space they can get to go to work. What’s crazy about Hakeem is that he did it with the cramped paint they had back then. Now you can do this starting at the three point line and then get into an island in the paint with nobody in reach except your 1 defender.
Leagues fucked
This is a modern day Wilt Chamberlain.
He’s absolutely complete now. Off-the-dribble, post-ups, drives - any way you want it, he’ll give it to you.
So he’s absorbed Hakeem’s powers. He just needs a summer with steph to absorb his 3 point shot. Wemby adding shooting 40%+ from 3 on volume will make him the goat if he can stay healthy.
Bruh. So much for an OKC dynasty I was hoping for
Oh no
Ignoring Wemby’s growth as a star. AD looks slow. He still isn’t in shape. Probably wouldn’t make a difference with all things considered.
Honestly I wish he was in shape. Id he was playing how we know AD can play we might be getting more highlights. Wemby loves to step it up when he’s competing with a great player. We’ve seen it with his duels with Giannis and Joker.
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Was looking for someone to say this, thought i was going crazy
You’re always allowed to establish a pivot and then lift it and step off the non pivot to go into a pass or shot. That is legal at every level of basketball Sincerely, A high school basketball coach
Agree.
He’s the best player on earth
What IS he?!
Yup, this will be the year Wemby goes into world destroyer mode.
gg league
Hit him with that lateral movement! AD can’t do anything!
Gotta say it but wtf is the quality of the video on this highlight. And the screen scrolling clearly designed for shorts/reels/tiktok instead of just posting the whole damn camera feed.
I was thinking maybe my app fucked it all up but you’re right. I appreciate all the people who post highlights here but I would like the quality to be better.
that is really smooth and should be a move he can go to often
Nico has me rooting against the Mavs and I’m here for the Wemby breakout season.
This man is just 21 wtf
Wemby breathes.
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Get used to it.
let’s dance
This happens every once in a while if I button mash in 2k
Wemby about to dominate the league lol
fuck you hakeem.
HAKEEM WHAT HAVE YOU DONE!!!
He did’t school Davis. He’s just really long lol
I just loved that he really focused on getting in the paint and looked stronger than ever. Less fades and 3s. Save that for end of shot clock situations. And he did it against a top 5 rim protector. Amazing. I doubted his progress but its hard to doubt now.
He’s making the best big defender in the league look like monstars paid him a visit.
I wouldn’t say he dazzles him with footwork - the guy is 7”6 he can take one step in any direction and beat a player
the pivot to baseline into fading jumper looks un-contestable rn
He is a menace now.
Why did you do this, Hakeem?
Somebody make Hakeem disappear please
Mavs in the 2023 lottery had better odds to move up to #1 than they did in the Flagg draft
Imagine Luka with this version of Wemby in Dallas. 😂😂