And then of course on defensce, he can block shots just off height and length alone, and his timing has gotten better as well. He has a nice feel for shooting and a touch for finishing around the basket.
“It’s very apparent that he has great touch and natural feel, something that I think you can’t really teach. And then, of course, my coach is mad at me, like: ‘Why didn’t you attack him?’ And I was like: ‘I thought that I had room to get a shot off.’ But in Victor’s space, it’s just different than a normal defender. It was honestly a little bit embarrassing. Then I saw this lanky arm just extend out of nowhere and block it. “He switched on to me and he was playing pretty far off me,” Hornsby says. He remembers being struck by the teenager’s unique defensive ability during their first meeting, an exhibition game last year. That’s stuff you can’t teach.”Īmerican guard Keith Hornsby has encountered Wembanyama multiple times in France. It’s the whole package – his combination of size, agility and skill, natural instincts. I’m not saying he’s gonna be the greatest player ever. “I’m not saying he’s the next Luka Doncic. “The ‘unicorn’ talk, it is kind of true,” Filippi says. What’s more, despite his relative inexperience, the center appears to have an intuitive understanding of the game, both on offense and defense. And it is not only his staggering height that makes Wembanyama such a unique physical proposition for opponents: with a wingspan recently measured at 8ft, he is a fearsome shot-blocker and rim protector and is practically unstoppable as a perimeter shooter. His father, Felix, was a long jumper who measures 6ft 6in, and his mother, Elodie, is a 6ft 3in former basketball player and coach. Every colleague of mine at this event had him down as the No 1 prospect.”īorn in the Paris suburb of Le Chesney in 2004, Wembanyama hails from athletic – and tall – stock. “He was 15 at the time, but he caught everyone’s eye.
“I first saw him play in 2019 at the European Under-16 championships,” says Jason Filippi, a Europe-based scout who has worked for several NBA teams. In a little more than four minutes, the youngster is seen snatching rebounds over Gobert, displaying guard-like dribbling technique and a fluid jump-shot. His direct opponent in the scrimmage was three-time NBA defensive player of the year Rudy Gobert.
In time SGA should factor into the All-NBA conversation on a regular basis.It shows him, age 16, taking part in a two-on-two practice game in France. In our redraft, he instead goes to the Sacramento Kings, where he and Fox could push the pace and not provide opposing players an easy place to attack. Originally Gilgeous-Alexander went to the LA Clippers and was traded to the Oklahoma City Thunder in the Paul George trade. At 6’6″ with a 7′ wingspan he has the chops to be a high-level defender as well as an offense’s best player. He averaged 23.7 points, 4.7 rebounds and 5.9 assists per game, and Estimated Plus-Minus ranked him in the 93rd percentile among all players. SGA ran the offense for an Oklahoma City Thunder team that was trying to lose games and did it so well that they gave him an extra-long rehab stint recovering from a foot injury.
Then as a “junior” he took the reigns and was one of the most successful players in the entire league at creating his own shot. As a rookie he started as a low usage nominal point guard filling the gaps on the LA Clippers as a sophomore, he moved to the 2 alongside Chris Paul, and sometimes defended small forwards in lineups with three point guards (including Dennis Schroder). The Kings are getting a phenomenal guard, as Shai Gilgeous-Alexander has been nothing short of brilliant over his three seasons in the league. In our redraft, the Sacramento Kings, who drafted De’Aaron Fox the season before, elect for the guard with more size and defensive ability to can better pair in the backcourt with another point guard. The top tier of players from the 2018 NBA Draft includes Luka Doncic by himself, and the next tier down has a pair of dynamic guards who should be the linchpins of successful NBA offenses throughout their prime.
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