to celebrate finally being able to post video, please enjoy this absolutely insane video of Victor Wembanyama, supposedly not an alien, warming up with his trainer, a normal person
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I try and keep out of the trans 'debate' as much as I can, especially for sport, but it has made me think about what happens when a person has an immense natural advantage if there should be some kind of measures. Like, this doesn't seem right does it? Its not 'fair'!
My mate's little brother at school had a pituitary issue and grew way too soon. He wasn't allowed to play rugby for his year because they were all 11yr olds and he was a full grown man. Everyone felt that was fair - even him.
I will never stop being angry that the Pistons completely tanked the 2022-2023 season specifically to get Wembanyama, only to fall to fifth in the lottery and still finish last in the NBA the next season.
When we won the lottery for Wemby, I proposed inviting Pitino to join the Spurs contingent in the green room and surprise him with everyone wearing Ron Mercer jerseys.
Well rendez-vous in 2028, he should have is final form and I hope team France will use it =D (didn't know anything about basket before the Olympics, now I'm obsessed by him and the rest of team France. And I don't like this Curry guy very much for obvious reasons)
He's got the perfect trainer!!! Look at the trainer slip inside Victor's reach. Once the trainer steps inside, Victor can't use his arms to an advantage.
Here he is holding a baseball. He threw out the first pitch at a Yankee’s game. I think he just reached out from the mound and gently placed the ball in the catcher’s glove.
I think it’s the pants and the dark background making it harder to interpret visually. Ignore my unreasonably long back leg line that extends past his body >.>
he is seven feet four inches tall with an eight foot wingspan and he is so much of a physical outlier that he's completely broken the carefully calibrated "I can't get my shot blocked if he's over there" instincts of the entire NBA
One of the funny little subtleties of the NBA last year was watching players start their shooting motion, realize midair that Wemby was closing the gap and was somehow going to block their shot, and either try to arc it over him or just pass out of it. Happened at least once a game.
I really didn't think I would see a player as impressive defensively in his rookie season as Kevin Garnett and Tim Duncan were and somehow he was *more so*
How many shots don’t even go up because of this man’s crazy proportions? Maxing out the defensive metric of “my brain has shut down in disbelief”. How many NBA players will have to be unplugged and plugged back in again?
As low post play has fallen out of favor with pace-and-space offense, blocked shots have plummeted. Wemby blocked 254 last year, 40 more than any player in the past 8 seasons (basically the entire "new era" for NBA offense). He is blocking shots from everywhere. No one does this.
My dad is almost seven feet tall tho he's shrunk a little at 84 and I think I was probably 30 before I realized how badly he'd skewed my idea of what human proportions are.
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He should have been cast as Reed Richards.
I remember one game against the Warriors & Gary Payton II —who is 6’2”—successfully blocked a shot of his. It was amazing.
https://youtu.be/mcVSVz3M2u8?si=yFxglMwbGgqh7yLY
Love, The Chicago Blackhawks
no thank you
https://bsky.app/profile/psgamer92.bsky.social/post/3l3yfsxd47f2n
Standing in the center of the lane, she's basically ONE STEP from the three point arc on either side
Checkmate, atheists.