Post by Jerry West on May 8, 2024 0:21:46 GMT
Current: 84
Proposed: 88.5
Stats: 21.4 points / 10.6 rebounds (2.3 offensive) / 3.9 assists (3.7 turnovers) / 1.2 steals / 3.6 blocks on just 27.9 minutes
Splits: .465/ .345 / .796, .565% TS
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Now, I know Wemby is a rookie and limited by a bad record which no matter what I say, it should slightly affect his overall rating, but in terms of points distribution, this is the rating proposed by the Brad's table, and personally, seems like a fair one.
Now Wemby isn't a normal rookie, we're talking about the guy that got one fifth of the votes for DPOY despite playing on a bad team, that should show how truly impactful he is. As a rookie, he's had the 3rd most blocks out of anyone in the NBA in the past 20! seasons, not only that but unlike what we're used to seeing from bigs with shots going to the stands and teams keeping possession, out of his 254 blocks, the Spurs kept posessions on 68.11% off them, to put that in perspective, you'd have to scroll down to the 64th player with the most blocks to find someone with a higher rate, so Wemby is not only blocking shots but he's flipping posessions at an incredible rate while also stopping players from attacking the rim at all even when they seem wide open as you've seen multiple times across the season. So altough to me Gobert was the best defensive player this season, I also say that after his early bumps at the start of the season, since around January, Victor has actually surpassed him in that role, so this (to me) is also the SW of NBA's best current defender. Compared to Gobert, who's on/off on defense is -2.0 according to BBall ref points lower than his team, Victor's is -5.8 compared to the Spurs. And to top it all off, he lead the league in defensive LEBRON and was 3rd in defensive EPM while still mainting both a positive offensive LEBRON and offensive EPM despite having Jeremy Sochan as a starting PG for over half his games.
Wembanyama is also the only player in history to record over 1,500 points, 250 blocks and 100 3-pointers made, showing how truly polyvalent he is as a player by setting just 3 distinctive benchmarks and not being able to find any player in NBA history to have reached them.
So on defense, we're already talking about an HISTORICALLY great player, who on that side of the ball, the rating should already be a 97/98, and despite his offense being slow to catch up (specially to start the year), he's still a 7'4 monster scoring 21.4 points a game while shooting 3's and with 4 assists going alongside it, all while playing under 30 minutes a game, and while his TS% across October, November and December were 55%, 52% and 54%, in January, February and March it was 61%, 59% and 58%, a clear step forward in the right direction since the start of 2024. That's still a very above average offensive player, who's also somehow statstically the best stepback 3 point shooter acroos bigs in the NBA by a large margin, which is also a fun fact to close out on.