 What's the word y'all? It has been two. Count them two pre-season games and Victor Wimbanyama has already broke my brain. Now Wimby is the most anticipated NBA player to enter the draft since 2003. Since LeBron James. That is higher expectations than Anthony Davis, who people were tanking heavily. A team won seven total games against Anthony Davis and didn't get him. Anthony Davis, Zion Williamson, even Wix. Like we've seen so many top number one overall players with crazy amount of hype. And none of them is even half the amount of hype as Victor Wimbanyama. It was so crazy that we were talking about on my podcast, the Kenny Vietron Pocket. I'm going to plug it every episode. I promise I'm going to plug it every single video here. Now based on the expectations, failing to live up to the expectations is probably more likely than exceeding those expectations. And that can mean he ends up being a top 10 player in the NBA for 10 plus years. But that might not hold up to what the hype was. Like there's a good article that I read years ago about LeBron James. And the question was how good can LeBron have been and still been a disappointment? And the answer was he could have been probably a 10 time off star. Couple all NBA player have a really, really successful NBA career and still be a disappointment based on the hype surrounding him. That hype is kind of the same for Wimby. Now we're talking about Wimby two games to his professional NBA career and they're pre-season games at that. But boy oh boy, am I excited to watch real meaningful minutes of Victor Wimbanyama. This is a player that is 7 foot 4, 7 foot 5, depending on where you're looking. They can hessie tween, mid range, jump shot, 3 point jump shot, make the passes that he should not make, guard two players in the paint. There's one specific play from last night against the Miami Heat where I'm pretty sure it was Thomas Bryan hit the ball on one of the blocks and Wimby's there with his hands up. There's another player on the opposing block, nobody around him. Thomas Bryan has the, I guess, vision to pass it to the other block and Wimby just turns around just like this and gets the block. Has he mid range, jump shot, pull up three and transition, run the break like a gazelle and can eventually be one of the most impactful defensive players in all of the ball. I want y'all to really internalize that this is me saying this. I am a guy that is always preached. Give the young players time. Because if a person comes into the league with a bunch of hype and they aren't one of the best players immediately, oh that guy's a bust, oh that guy's not as good as we thought he could be, I'm always team. Get these boys three to four years before we really start to gauge who they are as NBA players. So me saying this, that I'm getting into the hype in two games, it's insane. I was a person that was thinking when it came to Victor Wiminyama that it might take a little bit of time before his offense really hit the NBA level and is efficient and effective and things like that. Not that he was going to average six points per game, but I don't think he would be a guy that could come in and immediately be a spark plug offensively. He's done that through two pre-season games. I thought he was more going to lay his hat on the defensive side of the ball immediately. Like there are some defensive prospects that I can look at and say from the first second they step on the court, he's going to be a positive defender. And again, rookies don't really have that. Normally he was one of the exceptions where I thought based on the film and based on watching him in some league that even if his shot is never false, let's just for whatever reasons, it's space jam. They take his powers away but only on the offensive side of the ball. He is going to be good enough to be a starting center in the league strictly based on his defense or power four if you want to call him that. But if the offense is looking as good as it has looked through these first two pre-season games, this is a dangerous man. Again, I want to preface this by saying we're talking two pre-season games. The first one against Chet Holmgren, who is a very similar build and stature to him. The second one was against the second unit of the Miami Heat. So I understand he hasn't played against Yokoz, Joe LMB'd, Draymond Green or Demacus of Bonas, Val and Latune, as players that would be bruisers to him. Like I don't know how he handles that type of stuff. But since this man has guard skills, then I don't know how much of that is going to matter against his offensive game. I'm more worried about like, okay, if he does have to guard Yokoz for a full time, which I don't feel like that's going to happen a ton because they feel comfortable with playing him alongside a guy like Zach Hollis to play the full official five. But we just haven't seen him play against the top-end talent just yet. But I'm just saying based on the two games he's doing stuff, I haven't seen a singular NBA player do. And then the question is, okay, if Wimby is doing stuff like this, this translates to the regular season, how good could the Spurs be? Because right now they're anticipated to be another team that is towards the bottom of the Western Conference because their core right now is Wimby. It is Devon Vasil probably the top two guys. It's Jeremy Kelden, Trey Jones. It's like the real core. Malachi Branham, which they really like. It's like six guys in the court, but none of them dudes have hit the stardom level or all-star level or even borderline all-star level. Wimby's this good and this good defensively where he can potentially hold it down and play perimeter defense. And his perimeter defense is different than the best perimeter defenders in ball. His defense is, I can give you all of this room because my wingspan is 37 feet. Try to beat me off the dribble. I'm going to recover. In the first game against the OKC Thunder, J-Dub beat this man off the dribble a couple different times just for Wimby to recover and either cause a miss or block a shot. So far they've done a ton of picking pops with him and through the first two games, both teams have decided to let Wimby shoot. I think he's shooting 30% from three through the first two pre-season games, but the shot looks fluid. I don't know if he'll end up being hired in 30 in the regular season, but he's taken him enough for them to say, okay, eventually we might have to respect that. Run a full break, get the ball to the three-point line, take two steps, no dribbles, Euro step into the basket. There are so many things that this man has showed us through two pre-season games already. In my opinion, the only thing that stands in the way from Wimby being as good as he could potentially be is the fact that he's a seven for four, seven for five big and historically those guys haven't been able to say healthy. I'm not going to word on that. Hopefully he's the exception because if he is robbed of a good prime or multiple seasons, I think we're robbed as the viewer. I didn't really anticipate that he was going to be as fun to watch as he has been through the first two games. There are players that I respect as NBA players and are really good players, but I don't necessarily see them as fun. He is like a video game character come to life. I remember when we were getting like MVP, Kevin Durant and one of the conversations like Kevin Durant is so crazy that if you load it up 2K13 and you put into my player or whatever, create a player, you could not create a player that was Kevin Durant because he was 16, the seven foot or six nine if you ask him to seven foot and can do everything really. Wimby is seven four seven five. And of course not doing it to Kevin Durant's level because Kevin Durant's one of the greatest scores of all time, but he's doing things that 2K would not allow you to do. He is a legitimate video game character. Some people might call him a unicorn. I wouldn't do that because the unicorns kind of dried out at this point. I don't think there's unicorns. I think LeBron James called him an alien, which is kind of kind of cool. Here is the defensive play I referenced earlier. As you can see, I think that is, is that Thomas Bryan? I don't even, I can't tell. It's somebody on the Miami Heat. You see, there's nobody close to this man on the other block. Wimby sees these guys like, no, I'm not going to prevent, I'm not going to let you go up. Then he makes the pass. Wimby just makes the one step and catches it. And that's a block. Oh, the time is Brian and Jamal Kane. Also always a joke about who's going to be the next guy on the Miami Heat to just come out of nowhere and be really good. Jamal Kane. It might be that guy. It might be that guy. It's also insane the influence that the NBA understands or is trying to build with Victor Webanyama. The NBA is different than any other league in the world because the way they sell things and the way they market their sport and their league is based on the names. And that's one of the main reasons why we're seeing those policies come in where you can't rest a certain amount of time because as a league, we would rather see Kawhi Leonard and not the LA Clippers. While there's other leagues across the world, whether it be soccer or this or this, I'm okay with watching Arsenal play even if soccer is not playing. You know what I'm saying? And the NBA, it's not like that. Where there's genuine times for me as a viewer will see Clippers versus Sons, oh, I'm hype. And then I realize that Paul George or Kawhi is not playing. I'm like, I'm a little bit less hype. So the NBA recognized who Victor Webanyama was. And even before he stepped foot in an NBA court, they bought the rights to stream his games with the Metropolitan 94. Is it 94 or 96? Like they said, that is the guy that we want to build the next 10 years of fandom through. Think about it. This man was playing in an entirely different league and the NBA, as far as I know, has never bought the rights to stream another league until this man existed. This man is the NBA's next generation superstar. Even if he on the court is not there, they're branding their league after it. And that is an immense amount of pressure to put on one person. But based on the interviews with JJ Redick a few months ago, he doesn't feel that type of pressure. I envy that kind of stuff because on a very lesser scale, I feel pressure to do the things that I do with the companies that I work with. This man is trying, like they're trying to make him the face of basketball in a couple of years. And he's like, I'm good. I just got a hoop. That's something I want to do. And the amount of freedom they give him to be the point guard. That is the role he has played in a lot of these games. Now, I understand that Trey Jones is on the floor. Denver sale. A lot of these players can play, even Jeremy Shohan got some reps that point guard last season. But he brings the ball of the court on this play. A lot of stuff, a lot of, I guess people paying attention to him. Boom straight to the basket. This is of course a designated play. And the lob comes in. How do you guard that? How do you guard it? How do you guard this one? Where you have a significantly smaller player and Heywood Heismith is a good defender in my opinion, in his limited amount of time. Boom, swim move as if he's a DN gets behind the line of defense and it's just throw it up and he's going to make the rest happen. You've got to foul him. And the best thing that could possibly happen for us NBA fans is that he was drafted to an organization in one of the greatest coaches, if not the greatest coach of all time that would do whatever is necessary to put him in the position to be great to give him different looks to develop as an NBA player. There are some organizations, I won't name names, where you might not be able to see the point guard version of Wimby or the version that's a small four or the version of the center because we saw all of those versions of him in this one game alone. The creativity level throughout the Spurs organization throughout the last 30 years has been real and he's inserted into that. The one thing I cannot wait for is for them to build out the rest of the roster over the years where this team is really competing for playoff spots and stuff like that where he has a really good number two maybe that number two was already on the roster right now but I'm just excited about the future of Wimby and the Spurs. I don't know, this is not a video I would normally make like look out the history of this channel it's very rare that one specific person gets a full 10 minute video of me gushing about how good they looked in the pre-season but that's how hype I am I don't know if you shared that same sentiment but this is going to be crazy leave a like, subscribe if you're new yeah yeah yeah yeah