[NBA] That time Wemby showed us his POV on a basketball court
The layup one might be the craziest one.
He is the equivalent of a normal person playing on an 8 foot hoop. It’s almost like he can reach and touch the box on the backboard.
I swear there was a play this season where he jumped for a block and his hand went as high as the top of the backboard. I could be hallucinating, though.
If it was anyone else I would say it was probably a deceiving camera angle but with Wemby I’m not so sure..
Tangent but there was that block by Ant last year where his shoulder hit the backboard. He got crazy air
I’m sure that’s happened to Wemby, but he didn’t actually jump.
Earl “The Goat” Manigault famously grabbed a quarter off the top of the backboard
I always heard he made change - left quarter on top of the backboard and came down with two dimes and a nickel.
“And that quarter is still up there? Quick, let me borrow a ladder.” - Thomas Dundon
I watched him in person against the wizards last year do that on a rebound it was absurd
That was the play that came to my mind.
link us lol
There was also the time when he kicked the ball that was stuck on the rim
Obi Toppin can touch the top of the backboard so I’m almost positive that Wemby can
We had those 8 foot hoops as the side baskets in my high school gym. I loved dunking on them and feeling like some dominant freakishly tall dude.
This is Wemby’s reality in the fucking NBA. Insane.
Dude same. We absolutely lived on those mini hoops growing up.
I was lucky to have access to an athletic club growing up, and they converted an old batting cage into a mini hoop court, with mini balls, but same sized reinforced rim. And we absolutely tore that shit up every single weekend for many years until we got too big and had to start playing our mini games on the real court with the hoops lowered to 8’.
But being able to throw down really forceful dunks from like the age of 6, definitely made me fall in love with the game. We’d play games and do some pretty damn impressive stuff, for kids, honestly. Like throwing and finishing lobs out of the pick and roll in traffic, playing super hard defense.
My wrists were always torn up because we were dunking as hard as we could, with balls that we could basically palm, on a full sized rim. That shit hurts lol.
I ended up being 6’2 with a 41” vert, and I credit a lot of that to all those mini hoop games. Dunking felt weirdly natural to me by the time I could get up there on a real hoop.
With a much smaller ball.
Reminds me of when I was a kid and would lower the hoop and pretend I was in the NBA, ezpz haha
Whenever I’m on my Uncle Rico shit and I tell my students about playing basketball back in the day, I tell them I pinned a couple layups at the top of the box like it was some special accomplishment.
This guy can just reach up and do that like he’s picking his nose.
He’s a good 1’10” taller than me, but has a standing reach almost 2’6” taller than mine. Height wise it’s close to me playing on an 8’ hoop, but in terms of reach it’d be like me on a 7’6” hoop. That’s absolutely absurd.
It’s not even fair. Dude shouldn’t even be allowed to play basketball; he’s too tall
Can you even call that a layup? That shit reminded me of that scene in the office where Michael Scott was doing all these moves before they heightned the hoop to regular size. Except this video is regular size and it still looks too short! I cant imagine having to guard/go against that shit.
its like one of those kid hoops that even a little kid can score into no problem but scaled up to NBA level
Creative mode
Don’t want to discredit Wembys skills but at that height / athleticism the game almost certainly feels like playing on easy mode
There’s been others near his height but none of them play like him. Stuff like dunks are definitely easy mode but things like his handles definitely are not.
It’s probably been repeated ad nauseam, but Wemby is special because he still maintains a sufficient level of coordination and athleticism at his size & length. That’s the real abnormal part, not the size itself.
Not to mention his actual basketball IQ.
And he shoots 3s. Well. HE SHOOTS 3S!!
Not just normal threes. Logo threes. Shit is unreal.
We Fuck You 3s
The real test over time is going to be durability. We must protect him.
Yeah the taller you are the less of all other attributes you need to be in the NBA.
A guy like Jalen Brunson needs 100x the vision and IQ and coordination that say Boban does just to make it professionally. But Wemby has the height and those other things which no one else has ever combined.
If Chris Paul or Jason Kidd were 7’5 they’d easily be in the GOAT convo.
Any guard that made an all pro team would be in the goat conversation if their skills ‘scaled up’ to 7’5 lol.
I wouldn’t say no one else ever had IQ and coordination along with height. Yao for example is taller than wemby and was immensely skilled for his size.
Yup exactly. Obviously different era and focus, but young Shaq literally had no touch outside the paint and was comically bad at free throws. And he had valid excuses!
some have been taller. Tacko Fall, right?
ive seen so many okc fans be pissed/thinks hes only good just because hes tall
in my head im like .. brother you have chet he doesnt play like that
Oklahoma is literally and genuinely the absolute dumbest state
Manute Bol
If you wanna watch tacko fall absolutely dominate against normal people watch the celebrity game from the all star event
They’re same height.
He is a better free throw shooter than many guards. He just shot a logo 3 to tie the game in wcf against one of the best defensive teams ever. That has nothing to do with his height.
Him being that tall actually makes it harder to dribble the ball and his high center of gravity makes it harder to bump off the spots. I think more advantages come defensively than offensively because of height. But yeah basketball is a tall man’s game so being that tall definitely helps.
His height also makes his falls more dangerous and awkward. Like the fall where he landed on his chin and got knocked out. When he went down his hands were at his sides and he couldn’t get them up fast enough to catch himself.
Yeah I wish more people understood that. He’s definitely flopped before as have pretty much all nba players, but sometimes people call him trying to protect himself as a flop. If he’s losing balance he has to protect himself.
You’re supposed to care about height in the NBA
Not discrediting, that’s part of his “skill”
It’s not just the height and athleticism. We’ve had freak athletes who were 7’4” or higher. Tacko Fall, Bol Bol, Gheorghe Mureșan, Mo Bamba.
So much goes into skill and intangibles, it might be 90% height/athleticism/speed/strength and only 10% basketball IQ, but that 10% is the difference between a guy who’s out of the league in four years and an All-Star.
Bamba had an amazing block percentage, what didn’t show up in the stat sheets is that every five possessions he’d be caught ball-watching or lose his rotation and give the opposing center a wide-open lay-up.
Tacko Fall, Bol Bol, Gheorghe Mureșan, Mo Bamba.
Sean Bradley and Yao Ming were both 7’6” . Yao is the only other guy this tall with the requisite coordination to actually have the ball in his hands. Everyone else only touches the ball on offense when they are about to shoot it.
I remember 2009 WCSF between Lakers and Rockets. Yao made Pau look like big bro vs lil bro.
Bol Bol and Bamba are not 7’4, but yes they should be a lot better than what they are. Tacko Fall and Muresan were not anywhere as athletic and coordinated as Wemby.
“I wish I could just run, be 7 feet and run and just dunk. That takes no skill at all. I gotta actually learn how to play basketball, and how to have skill.”
“I wish I was a little bit taller, I wish I was a baller, I wish I had a girl who looked good- I would call her.”
“They say nobody is perfect. Then they say, ‘practice makes perfect’; I wish they’d make up their minds.”
lmfao
does anyone else NOT wanna be this tall
It was either basketball or the circus for Victor
Or model in some haute couture project
Oh yeah. Vic does modeling now too, could be a multimillionaire just from modeling if he didn’t have basketball.
Dudes the best looking 7-footer I’ve ever seen, no diddy
Tbf most 7 footers look like absolute freaks. Sorry Bobi
That’s because most of them have some sort of pituitary condition where they overproduce growth hormone, causing them to be tall but also to have exaggerated features like Bobi’s ears, nose, etc
Wemby has no medical condition, which is the real crazy part
It’s crazy how proportionate he looks despite his height. Obviously his limbs are still very long, but he looks almost normal if you don’t count his height
I mean he still looks like slenderman, so almost normal is a bit of a stretch imo
He would have a career in holywood for crazy ass monster monster prosthetics
Some movie definitely gonna cast Wemby as an alien in the future.
John Wick 6, coming soon to theaters near you!
I haven’t watched it but I’m pretty sure he plays himself in futurama but he is an alien.
This is kinda what they did with former college basketball player, 7’7” Robert Bobroczkyi in alien Romulus
No volleyball ? 😂
Dude would be the nastiest middle blocker ever. I think the hard part would be getting up after dives and falls in the same rally.
He probably becomes a goalkeeper like embiid used to be.
don’t forget early death if you were just a plain old regular person at 7 feet
Can’t be good for your joints or bone health
Life isnt good for joints or bone health.
Cheers Jeff
Insightful
If you love amusement park rides you do not want to be this tall.
And airplanes.
and anything else besides basketball
The clip starts with a door and it looks miserable
Imagine not being rich and having to live in a normal house with 8ft ceiling while being this tall.
nice thing for these millionaire athletes are that they’re probably flying business/first or charter and not crammed in economy like the rest of us plebs
Taller people live shorter lives, on average, I think
Isn’t it because significant portion of really tall people have some type of disorder like acromegaly for example
Not just that: cancer risk increases with height. More cells -> more chances to develop it.
If that’s true, I was unaware. I just thought it was a thing but wasn’t sure why exactly. I’d assumed larger bodies are just harder to maintain.
phrasing is hilarious but basically your heart needs to work really hard when you are fat and/or tall, especially at old age
kareem is almost 80
on average
lmao just lists a single person as a rebuttal to like, millions of tall people
He’s also rich.
So is Wemby
Ok and Wemby will be richer than Kareem’s entire bloodline
For like a day or two sure lol
I’m 6’3 and anything much taller than this would actually be annoying on a day to day basis unless your getting paid millions of dollars to play basketball because of it
Nobody wants to be this tall unless they’re a lock for an NBA career.
It is nothing but trouble.
I’d settle for high school dominance and a career in fetish porn, thanks
Lol made me google that. 6’10 apparently is the current tallest and all time. So one would have an additional 6 inches on top of that. Theres only 35 guys between 6’5 and 6’8, 0 at 6’9 which is a fucking travesty. So yeah being 7’4 is a lock to being a millionaire if you can stomach that line of work.
My folks’ nordic genes got me 6’5 and I don’t fit anywhere easily. Planes are a nightmare. I have to work out religiously to keep my core strong because I’m already getting back issues in my 20s. I couldn’t even imagine being 7’4 lol
I had the unfortunate pleasure of looking like I had inherited some of my dad’s Nordic genes when I was younger, but then I plateaued at 5’10.5”.
The majority of people this tall are not good enough to play professionally and have extremely inconvenient lives so…I’ll pass.
No taller than 6’5 tbh for me (I’m 5’8)
Im 6’4 and hit my head on random shit at least once a week and Im cautious. This is a nightmare.
6’5” and constantly bumping my shins on tables. I wonder is being that tall eliminates the problem all together
Being a regular joe at 7ft is pretty horrible.
You need specialized clothes and gear. Everything in public life is too small for you, doors, beds, urinals etc.
You tend to have more physical complications and live a shorter life.
If you can’t make a great career from your height, it’s just a burden.
If I got to be him and be best player in nba I’d do it. That’d be awesome and was my childhood dream
Nope. Outside of the court you look freakish. Cloths don’t look right. You stand out everywhere you go.
If your girl is not supermodel level tall you are going to have akward sex. You can only realistically be with tall women. Many beautiful women under 5’8.
But Wiping my tears with all billions I earn in the nba will certainly lessen my suffering. But it would be lonely.
Somewhere between 6’3 and 6’5 is where being any taller is only useful if you want to be a basketball player.
They should make refs this tall
Im 5’6 so watching this gave me vertigo.
I’m 6’3 and I can’t imagine not having to jump for a layup, or only having to do a bunny hop for a dunk. This is trippy
Maybe my definition of a layup is incorrect but I’m also 6’3 and I can do a layup without jumping
I was literally going to say the same lol. I’m 6 feet tall and I can do a layup without jumping lol.
the ball looks so tiny in his pingers
Tingus Pingers
It’s like an average person holding a softball
Looks exactly like me with one of those small kid size basketballs playing on a hoop on the back of a door.
Just thinking what else must look tiny
His pinger
This video was my introduction to Wemby and I just thought “damn”
My introduction to him was 16 year old him practicing against Gobert:
https://youtube.com/shorts/-Ff57LckU3g?si=X61WnSJ4oCAdHzau
Then I went to dismiss and forget about him until his exhibition game against the G-League.
he’s only 7’3 there that’s insane to think he still had 3 more inches of growth in those bones. i mean the human body is so incredible.
is that Maxime Raynaud playing with him too?
Damn fisher price goal
lol this just isn’t fair. The free throw makes it seem like he’s playing on a 7ft goal.
Makes me wish I still had an adjustable hoop in my driveway. I would lower to 8.5 feet and pretend to be Wemby.
When Wemby slaps his teammates on the butt after a good play, he definitely gets both cheeks with one hand.
Slapasssss!
NO SLAPASS!
No way he reaches their butt. He has to pat them on the head or something. Low fives only
lmao this sub never fails to surprise me
Damn looks like hes playing on one of those toddler basket you can get at target lol
He must feel like he’s playing against children most of the time. Only Chet is is in the same airspace as him.
I feel like we’re gonna need higher hoops if we get any more giants in the league at the same time.
Edey, Clingan, and Kessler are all like 7’2 or 7’3 and taller than Chet. Wolves have another 7’3 guy on their bench in Zikarsky. The giants are already here.
MyPlayer shit
Crazy how the hoop is just right there 💀💀
It would be sick if they could have a player wear some Meta goggles during a game and livestream it
Great idea! We’ll have it in place before 2028.
Adam
(sent from my IPhone)
That smile… that damned smile
This is how I feel hooping on my kid’s toy hoop
And SGA going up against him “DAMN YOU LOCH NESS MONSTAH IM NOT GIVING YOU NO THREE FIDDY!”
his ass looks shorter here too
Seems like a Go-pro could’ve helped here
Me on my mini door hoop
Dude is playing how we used to play on the kiddie hoops with them standing dunks.
I felt nauseous.
If this dude was a foot shorter he’d be the best line cook at your local Applebees.
This dude is cheating
Hey GoPro, you seeing this shit? Get on it.
I think we can all agree there needs to be a height limit in the NBA. Something like 7’2 sounds fair for everyone.
wow thats fuckin crazy lol… i never thought about it but no wonder its so easy for him… its like when you were a kid and you lowered the rim to the lowest setting just so you could dunk it
There needs to be a 7 foot cap on the NBA. Only semi joking
Good guy Wemby. He did try to warn us.
His hands are so big it makes the basketball look smaller.
He makes the hoop look like the child’s fisher price one lol
If I were that tall I’d be so scared to dribble for fear I’ll never see the ball again lol
Dude loves his soccer (or football depending on where you are from)
the fact that he can juggle competently at that height is crazy
Fuck it seems easier to shoot the ball than pick it up. Fucking Wemby, man
Him blocking the shot looked like he was just playing with a fucking toddler
This is like us playing on a 8ft rim
Well I’m not a Spurs fan, so it looks like I’m going to be a bigger baseball fan for the next 15 years haha
It’s like playing Bioshock
His last season in France was special
Vincent Collet (former NT coach and Metropolitans coach) challenged him on leadership. He led this outsider team to the Finals. We can see now how he’s able to rally the guys around him.
Man, he should strap a GoPro on his head and show us how it really is.
Bro refuses the meta glasses sponsorship lol
5’11 vs 6’0
It must be so fun to be like that. To him, a basketball is like a tennis ball.
Get this man some camera glasses and stream that shit and id watch every minute of it
It’s like me (6’5”) playing on the 8 foot goals at the local elementary school with a mini ball.
He’s basically me playing on a fisher price hoop. Crazy.
Holy shit, Wembanyama just opened the door for bodycams/headcams in game!!!
we couldnt get him a gopro or something?
Honestly I’m way more interested in his POV off the court than on the court… the amount he had to dunk to get under the doorway was crazy, I want to see him at the supermarket or on the bus or something lmao
Just strap a GoPro to his head!
This is why I have no problem lowering the rim. I’m just evening the playing field.
If he gets his base strong and all these players can’t move him it’s over
That’s crazy.
What the monstars saw when they played the looney tunes
Lmao actually insane
BIG DAWGS GOTTA EAT
I’ve been playing on a 7.5 ft goal with my son lately and I’ve been thinking that this must be what Wemby feels like
This is the closest I’ll ever get to dunking
Meta glasses would make epic content with Wemby. You can see the eay he holds the camera, it is mostly lower than eye level.
Me holding a tennis ball
Makes the ball look so small
That Time I Got Reincarnated as an Eight Feet Tall Basketball Player
Like it’s a damn Nerf hoop
it’s like playing with those toy hoops you mounted in your bedroom.
Somehow it’s more fucked up than I imagined
Wish they did with a 35mm lens rather than with what looks like a super-wide-angle lens. Then we would see what it looks like to human eyes
Give him the meta glasses it will be a better experience so we can see him use both hands
Why couldn’t Tacko Fall do this smh
Don’t worry he’s taller now.
I thought that wasn’t a regulation basket cause shit looks like a nerf hoop.
MyPlayer build
This reminds of when I was a kid and would lower the basketball hoop to just above my eye level.
See this is cool. But what I really want to see is what it’s like for Wemby to cook food in a normal sized kitchen. Or walk through a grocery store. That would give me a lot more perspective.
How far away from the stove is he standing?
Can he just see from one aisle over to the next?
so its like playing on the hoop i had set up on my door with a miniball when i was 11. crazy.