Former French basketball star and consultant for RMC Sport, Frédéric Weis judged Victor Wembanyama’s debut with San Antonio in the NBA this Tuesday in the RMC podcast Basket Time. If the ex-pivot is not yet completely convinced after the first failed weeks, he noted the big progress of the Spurs star.
Number one in the draft in 2023 and rookie of the year in the NBA, Victor Wembanyama inevitably arouses great expectations for his second season with the Spurs. But if the Texan franchise remains on a good series of three consecutive victories, Frédéric Weis still regretted the poor start to the Frenchman’s campaign.
“At the start of the season, I found him completely out of character. Soft, soft, making the wrong choices every time,” judged the RMC Sport consultant in the podcast Basket Time. “But here I find that he is in such an ascending phase. Over the last five games, he is at more than 32 points, more than 11 rebounds and more than 4.4 assists. This means that, now, roughly He changed everything.”
Weis still sees a big downside in Wembanyama
Absent for two games, for as many Spurs victories, Victor Wembanyama made a brilliant return to disgust Golden State on the night from Saturday to Sunday (104-94). Top scorer of the match with 25 points, the 20-year-old Frenchman nevertheless annoyed ‘Fred’ Weis by stringing together three-point shots (4 successful out of 13 attempted out of a total of 21 shots).
Listen to the Basket Time podcast on Wembanyama here:
“Some will tell me that now he’s starting to take three-point shots, obviously that helps and obviously it helps. And his decision to take almost nine three-point shots per game, for me, it’s a little too much, I I’m sorry”, further analyzed the ex-pivot who passed through Limoges and Malaga in particular. “That’s half of his shots and for me, actually, it’s not a good decision to take half of his three-point shots.”
“We have the Wemby we want”
Everything is not yet perfect in the game of the French interior according to Frédéric Weis, but the consultant readily admits, things are going in the right direction. The former Blues pivot praised the superb mentality of ‘Wemby’ during Spurs matches.
“But on the attitude, on the desire and on what he gives off, that’s what I want to see in any case,” continued the ex-player in the RMC podcast Basket Time. “It’s true that in this team it’s much more balanced now, it’s no longer him who has to save everyone because this team is also capable of scoring points. There are seven or eight players who have scored more than ten points in victories without him. So that means there is a team around him.
Before confirming: “I find that his attitude, the way the team plays, this capacity for defensive dissuasion which is incredible… I find that there, there we are, we have the Wemby that we want. Even if, once again I repeat, there are way too many three-point shots.”
