JJ Redick on Victor Wembanyama: “He is one of the 5 best players in the world”
With the way the Lakers play defense anyone can become one of the 5 best players in the world
If he has rankings, he should publish them on the ringer.
JJ would never work for Bill. He just won’t
The five best players in the world at any given time are just the starters on whoever’s playing the Lakers
I would say Wemby’s already there. Undeniable at this point. Or inevitable, if anything.
I mean yeah they might’ve had the big 3 out tonight but you don’t have an absurd 2 way performance like this tonight without being top 5…Wemby when playing to his potential could become the best period.
He’s still young and developing, he just needs consistency.
No Luka does, Wemby is fighting injuries and we haven’t seen him handle a physical playoff series yet
Luka has literally been fighting injuries
Wemby has only had 1 major injury in his first 3 years, and that one was earlier this year from a dirty play by Podz. That blood clot last year was not an injury.
Luka has the potential to become the best? Sure. But Wemby already has shown what it would look like and Luka hasn’t imo. If you can’t be as impactful as Jokic on offense then you need to be a 2 way player.
Luka is just as impactful on offense as Jokic , Luka’s gravity goes understated. He literally the most doubled player in NBA history
You have the worst takes lmao yall really forgot what Luka was doing with the Mavs
I don’t think Luka was ever better than Jokic, how is that a “worst take” lol
Youre saying he isn’t on the offensive level of Jokic and Wemby, that’s a terrible take
Ah ok you’re a troll. You’re intentionally baiting me to point out the Wemby defense thing…wonderful. Have a nice day lol.
And yes Jokic has been better offensively than Luka, he has an argument for Offensive GOAT genuinely. I think Luka is just a bit shy of that level. 2024 is amazing but Jokic has been doing this year after year. And Jokic was still better offensively that year. Everything but raw PPG would tell you that lmao
Troll because I don’t agree with you. Luka has been the doing the same shit year in and year out too, and barely missed a beat after getting traded out of a nowhere to a team that was not built for him
If you can’t be as impactful as Jokic on offense then you need to be a 2 way player.
Like come on the Wemby comment is just not real, there’s just no way
Luka healthy in the playoffs, that’s all it will take
You don’t have to put someone down to prop someone up. They both have the potential to be goats.
JJ showing extreme patience. That question took a million years for no reason
JJ’s Adderall helps.
They got gangbanged again.
I think the consensus rn is SGA Jokic Luka Giannis Wemby to the majority of people, not in any specific order
but that’s a really awful discussion imo lmao, like anyone can say “oh no this other dude who’s been ripping through the league right now has a better argument for #5” or whatever and it will always be heavily subjective
and then you need to factor in guys like Kawhi as well, who’s a case of “this dude can’t keep this up night after night consistently, but when he’s on he can go toe to toe against whatever n1 you pick”
This is probably Kawhis best offensive season ever but I think people vastly overate his defence. He is far from what he was at his peak on that side of the floor. Still great but no longer transformative and far less consistent now. I have him in the Ant tier in the bottom half of the top 10
But defensive reputation is weird and bad and good defenders seem to always seem to stay stagnant in the publics eyes even as they regress it improve in actuality
Like Jaylen Brown has been pretty bad defensively this year but I still hear people saying he’s a 2 way demon this year all the time
Wemby, Ant, current Kawhi and a healthy Tatum in any order you like have real arguments for the 5 spot for sure
I would say he’s Top 5 yeah. An actual unicorn lol
Sports journalists need to start to write questions in advance if they can’t get out of a sentence in less than 5 minutes. Or let AI prepare your interviews, whatever works.
There are not 4 people I’d rather have on my team instead. There’s not a single player I’d rather have on my team instead of Wemby. Which would you take?
shai giannis jokic wemby cade cunninngham
What the fuck has Cade Cunningham to be top 5? Hes not even better than Anthony Edwards yet
Cade Cunningham best skill to some is that he’s not Luka Doncic
One is not like the other.
Why is nobody seeing the obvious satire
Cade?
Might want to put jaylen brown over cade
Hes #4 no question. Sga, jokic, giannis the only 3 ahead of him.
Feel like Luka has an argument for 4. Your Suns completely took Wemby out of the game, I haven’t seen Luka shut down Ike that.
I’ll still take the best defender in the league who is capable of putting up 25 points in a quarter. When he’s hitting on all cylinders he’s easily #1 but overall he’s #4 right now.
I’ll take a proven playoff performer
As if Luka isn’t capable of scoring 25 a quarter himself lol. Wemby is averaging 24ppg. Luka is averaging 33ppg and 9 assists. Offensively Luka is miles better.
Wemby is averaging 30 pts per 36 min and Luka is averaging 33. Luka is better offensively but then you also have to account for him being a poor defender and wemby being the best in the league.
Why do these clowns think they are slick trying to lower Lukas ranking?
Hes 2nd in MVP race and has been a perennial MVP candidate for years now, top 3 player in the world and he’s not 3rd.
Jokic, Luka, SGA, Giannis, that’s the order.
SGA is more impactful on both ends of the floor.
Respectfully disagree
Luka has not been better than SGA this season or last season. This is going to be 4 years in a row SGA finishes above him in MVP voting as long as SGA doesn’t miss too many games.
Give it up, SGA passed him when he had an actual MVP year last year and won a championship.
You got it backwards, he needed the chip just to reach what Luka has done, Luka has been better than him every season except last year when he was injured
No offense but what has Luka done besides first team All NBA and people discuss his potential ceiling? 3 going on 4 years SGA has finished above Luka in MVP voting. Has the actual hardware. Won a championship. He plays better defense, he’s way more efficient, he isn’t injured all the time, the advanced metrics put him above Luka. Nobody is denying Luka is a great player but you live in fantasy land if you think SGA is not better at this point. There’s no justifiable argument you can give except “he’s on my team and that’s how I feel”
Putting Luka over SGA nah ur brain is cooked
Jokic, Giannis, SGA, Luka, Wemby
Luka never in his life has gotten past Giannis
At some point, you gotta give Kawhi his flowers, too. Zach Lowe and co recently mentioned Kawhi has been the best player in the last 2.5 months. The full-season MVP case might be different but right now his offensive game looks complete, and he’s still a pretty good perimeter defender.
🤣 Goofy Suns fan
Tier 1 is SGA, Giannis, and Jokic. Wemby is in tier 2 with Luka and Cade.
lol can we stop acting like luka and cade are on the same level, luka is well clear
Piston’s top seed and Cade plays defense. Luka is the better offensive player, but basketball includes defense and winning.
luka is leaps and bounds ahead of cade on offense, and the gap on defense is not nearly big enough to make up for it. ppl like to act like hes a lockdown defender or something when it comes to comparing him to luka but its nothing like that lol, yeah hes better but the difference is nowhere near as big as people pretend
Let’s cut the BS. Wemby better than both of them.
Ant averaging 30 while shooting 40% from three coming off b2b WCF just for people to put him below a guy who has never been out of the first round in Cade. 😭
That traveller giannis is below luka
Cade hit his ceiling already and still shits himself like once a month, he’s not even top 10
Wrong, Giannis is below Luka
0 Playoffs games and quit in a final against the Knicks