@SanctionII said:
I wonder if Wemby, as he gets older and progresses from a 19-20 year old adolescent (who has not yet fully matured physically) to a 28 year old physically mature adult, will add enough bulk and strength to enable him to overwhelm all opposing players in the paint.
Some players are always rail thin, even at 28-30 years old (i.e. Ralph Sampson, Kevin Durant). As such they can be moved around on the floor by bigger, bulkier players.
Some other players are thin as a teenager or as a 20 year old, but as they grow into adulthood they add bulk and strength (i.e. Moses Malone). As an adult they become hard if not impossible to move around on the floor.
For Wemby, and Holmgren it would be great to see them keep (and improve) their speed, quickness and agility that allows them to play effectively away from the basket on both offense and defense, while at the same time add strength and bulk to their frames (i.e. 40 - 50 pounds) without a loss of their speed, quickness and agility. If that happens and if they develop a solid inside/down low game they will be unstoppable on both offense and defense.
To add 40 - 50 pounds I would think there is no way they would ever be as quick as before. They may get much stronger but I see them getting much slower.
It was a historical stat night for Wemby last night becoming only the 2nd rookie ever (and 15th overall player) to post a 5X5 statline.
27pts, 10,reb, 8ass, 5stl & 5blk
He just missed going 5X5 in his previous game where he fell one assist short.
last night in the 4th he took over in all facets of the game against the Thunder. even swatted a jumpshot by 7'1" Chet Holmgren........think about that for a second. edit: actually, take a gander instead. 👇 no shot is safe from this pterodactyl.
love the look of this card -- with the exception of the streaks in the background. when i scanned it, "what the hell is that" came out of my mouth. then i jet to ebay..........lo and behold, every single 298 has them. not sure what's worse, it's a quality control issue or that's what Panini intended. either way, they look completely out of place and detract from the overall appeal imo. it's a shame, because i love everything else about this card
I think those streaks are a dark curtain that Panini used in the background of multiple diferent Wemby rookies this year. I don't know if they did this with other players too but, man, talk about half assing it lol. if Vic lives up to the hype some of his best first years cards are standing in front of a curtain. 😂
i think you guys are right. it's so bizarre and such a terrible idea that i never even considered it to be a curtain
another thing i'm learning about these modern cards with colored borders..........you scan them and sometimes it gives off the impression that corners are touched up, when in reality they aren't. you look at this scan and it appears to be a hatchet job by a PSA grader. but then i hold this card in my hand & take a magnifying glass to it and it's clear that it was graded properly
if there is even a tiny speck of "extra" cardboard or the purple extends 99.99% of the way to the corner but not 100%, a scan can really make a dime look like a near-mint+/mint card
31, 12, 6 & 6 tonight in another solid win against a good team. this time, the Pacers
not only is he improving by leaps and bounds, but his increased production has not been in vain...............collectively, the team is playing better basketball
love the look of this card -- with the exception of the streaks in the background. when i scanned it, "what the hell is that" came out of my mouth. then i jet to ebay..........lo and behold, every single 298 has them. not sure what's worse, it's a quality control issue or that's what Panini intended. either way, they look completely out of place and detract from the overall appeal imo. it's a shame, because i love everything else about this card
Looks to me like he is in front of a stage curtain
Not my card but this is the new Panini insert craze just recently releasing...Prizmania. Its like Panini said hey let's make cards with NBA players on them that look like Funko Pops The Wemby's are already selling for over 10K.
Vic won't be blocking many shots with those tiny legs. 🤣
That is a great looking 10! Does that have a foil like sheen to it sort of like Prizm or Chrome?
Its a real shame that he won't have any other brands of licensed rookie cards in a Spurs jersey other than Panini. I'd love to see what a Finest or Topps Chrome rc would look like or even Upper Deck with an SP Authentic or even Fleer or Ultra. There used to be such a great assortment of different brands to choose from.
That is a great looking 10! Does that have a foil like sheen to it sort of like Prizm or Chrome?
hey bud, sorry i missed this. and thanks, i really like the look of this one. and yes, it it prizmy/chromy/refractorish
he had a mammoth game two nights ago
I didn't watch it but that must have been a great game live where Brunson drops 61 and Wemby scores a career high in his first 40-20 game. With no C's tonight and an early GS/SA start at 7, I'm in.
homie's reaction was a little subdued for a card of that magnitude, lol. how great of a story would it be if they asked a trashed Wemby to sign that 1/1 and out of nowhere he just started drawing bizarre shit on it
(but i assume that was a follow up to LBJ's alien reference)
There's already grumbling that that was just another instance where some well known breaker manages to pull the premier card in a certain product.
I had no idea that Dynasty was a Topps product and after a little digging came across this ebay listing for a VW Topps Now auto. https://tinyurl.com/yzwpr592 its like Topps added all of that random stuff (cactus/flag/eiffel tower) this time instead of Wemby.
There's an article on the Athletic about him building a strong case for winning DPOY and I'm in agreement. His defense hasn't resulted in a high win total like it has for Rudy Gobert but thats mainly due to SA's lack of real talent around him. At the time the article was written, he was leading the league w/3.4blocks per game to go along with 1.2 steals and even someone with the smallest assemblage of BBIQ could see that most offense want no part of trying to score in the paint when he's on the floor. It kind of reminds me of Deion Sanders or Darrelle Revis back in their heyday when QBs wouldn't even bother throwing in their direction and tried beating you in some other way.
Its going to be interesting to see what he looks like when the team puts better talent around him especially on the defensive end.
He's pretty much got the ROTY award all locked up. From that same article: With eight games remaining, Wemby leads all rookies in scoring (21.0 points per game), rebounds (10.5), steals (1.2), blocks (NBA-best 3.4) and player efficiency rating (22.9).
There's an article on the Athletic about him building a strong case for winning DPOY and I'm in agreement.
i am too. to your point, it's not just about sheer numbers with him. he alters games on the defensive end in a way that cannot be quantified. if i had a dollar for every time a high-percentage shot didn't take place because he was about to send it into the 5th row, i might have enough money to buy another card of his. next thing you know, the ball rotates to someone else while the shot clock is being milked, and a lesser shot is ultimately launched. that's DPOY material.
I'd love to see the Spurs find another rim protecting center in the near future that could start next to Wemby and allow him to roam around as sort of a free safety in the paint. Kind of like what the Bucks do with Giannis/Brook Lopez and like Boston does now with Horford/Porzingis and Horford/RobWilliams before that.
Stick Vic on the opposing team's worst shooter and then give him the freedom to roam around the paint searching for blocks with his help defense. With that other big it doesn't need to be like a Duncan & Robinson situation and offensively he doesn't even need to be a 3pt threat because Wembanyama is already a capable shooter. Just someone whose a better rim protector than Zach Collins,who's a decent defender and would be great as a 3rd big.
Watching the Hawks beat the Celtics twice this week without Trae Young had me thinking of moves they could make this offseason to help improve their roster (yeah I know I'm weird like that lol) and there's been reports that they likely trade DeJounte Murray.
It may make more sense to move off Trae instead and he would seem like a perfect pairing next to Wemby. Atlanta supposedly wants to move on from Clint Capela too and those three seem like they'd all be a good fit. CC averages a double double with over a block a game and could sit in that dunker's spot on offense while Trae would have two bigs behind him that should be able to make up for all of his deficiencies on defense. The real issue would be SA sending back enough salary in deal and for the most part the Spurs would probably just be returning some of Atlanta's own draft picks back.
I tuned in late to the Wemby-Joker matchup last night and Vic just missed out on his first quadruple double finishing just 1 block & 2 assists short. He had two great blocks in a tie game in that last 2-ish minutes including one on Joker at the rim, it would have been great to see it go into OT.
@galaxy27 Hey I don't know if you caught this yet but apparently there are probably thousands of fake raw Prizm Wemby rookies hitting the market and a bunch just got seized by US border patrol recently. Supposedly they're coming from China.
Just be careful if you ever go that route. (No,not sneaking across the border 😎)
@galaxy27 Hey I don't know if you caught this yet but apparently there are probably thousands of fake raw Prizm Wemby rookies hitting the market and a bunch just got seized by US border patrol recently. Supposedly they're coming from China.
Just be careful if you ever go that route. (No,not sneaking across the border 😎)
you just know there's someone, somewhere showing off their wemby rook while wearing a louis vuitton shirt, versace slides, and driving their volkswagen golf with a porsche steering wheel
Topps recently posted on IG a sneak peek at Wemby's upcoming Topps Chrome Superfractor (I'm assuming that's his SF.)
Its unlicensed but I prefer the overall look to this TC card better than his Panini Prizm rookie.
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To add 40 - 50 pounds I would think there is no way they would ever be as quick as before. They may get much stronger but I see them getting much slower.
It was a historical stat night for Wemby last night becoming only the 2nd rookie ever (and 15th overall player) to post a 5X5 statline.
27pts, 10,reb, 8ass, 5stl & 5blk
He just missed going 5X5 in his previous game where he fell one assist short.
Eric
Erikthredd’s MJ Collection: https://www.psacard.com/psasetregistry/publishedset/395035
Erikthredd’s Nike Air Jordan Collection: https://www.psacard.com/psasetregistry/basketball/key-card-sets/nike-poster-cards-michael-jordan-1985-1992/alltimeset/408486
Wemby is getting scary good at a scary pace
last night in the 4th he took over in all facets of the game against the Thunder. even swatted a jumpshot by 7'1" Chet Holmgren........think about that for a second. edit: actually, take a gander instead. 👇 no shot is safe from this pterodactyl.
oh, and he made history again
picked up another purple Wemby
love the look of this card -- with the exception of the streaks in the background. when i scanned it, "what the hell is that" came out of my mouth. then i jet to ebay..........lo and behold, every single 298 has them. not sure what's worse, it's a quality control issue or that's what Panini intended. either way, they look completely out of place and detract from the overall appeal imo. it's a shame, because i love everything else about this card
Looks like a large curtain.
I think those streaks are a dark curtain that Panini used in the background of multiple diferent Wemby rookies this year. I don't know if they did this with other players too but, man, talk about half assing it lol. if Vic lives up to the hype some of his best first years cards are standing in front of a curtain. 😂
Eric
Erikthredd’s MJ Collection: https://www.psacard.com/psasetregistry/publishedset/395035
Erikthredd’s Nike Air Jordan Collection: https://www.psacard.com/psasetregistry/basketball/key-card-sets/nike-poster-cards-michael-jordan-1985-1992/alltimeset/408486
i think you guys are right. it's so bizarre and such a terrible idea that i never even considered it to be a curtain
another thing i'm learning about these modern cards with colored borders..........you scan them and sometimes it gives off the impression that corners are touched up, when in reality they aren't. you look at this scan and it appears to be a hatchet job by a PSA grader. but then i hold this card in my hand & take a magnifying glass to it and it's clear that it was graded properly
if there is even a tiny speck of "extra" cardboard or the purple extends 99.99% of the way to the corner but not 100%, a scan can really make a dime look like a near-mint+/mint card
31, 12, 6 & 6 tonight in another solid win against a good team. this time, the Pacers
not only is he improving by leaps and bounds, but his increased production has not been in vain...............collectively, the team is playing better basketball
tonight Wemby became the 4th player in NBA history to finish a game with at least 30 points, 15 rebounds, 7 assists and 7 blocks
he went for 33, 16, 7 & 7
joined Kareem, Barkley and Embiid
Looks to me like he is in front of a stage curtain
We might see that quadruple double from him real soon.
Eric
Erikthredd’s MJ Collection: https://www.psacard.com/psasetregistry/publishedset/395035
Erikthredd’s Nike Air Jordan Collection: https://www.psacard.com/psasetregistry/basketball/key-card-sets/nike-poster-cards-michael-jordan-1985-1992/alltimeset/408486
Here are a couple nice throwdowns from Wemby in recent games. He be looking like the Iceman in that 2nd thumbnail.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=751Ze20Ud8w
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1b06K_nQpDg
Eric
Erikthredd’s MJ Collection: https://www.psacard.com/psasetregistry/publishedset/395035
Erikthredd’s Nike Air Jordan Collection: https://www.psacard.com/psasetregistry/basketball/key-card-sets/nike-poster-cards-michael-jordan-1985-1992/alltimeset/408486
Not my card but this is the new Panini insert craze just recently releasing...Prizmania. Its like Panini said hey let's make cards with NBA players on them that look like Funko Pops The Wemby's are already selling for over 10K.
Vic won't be blocking many shots with those tiny legs. 🤣
Eric
Erikthredd’s MJ Collection: https://www.psacard.com/psasetregistry/publishedset/395035
Erikthredd’s Nike Air Jordan Collection: https://www.psacard.com/psasetregistry/basketball/key-card-sets/nike-poster-cards-michael-jordan-1985-1992/alltimeset/408486
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That is a great looking 10! Does that have a foil like sheen to it sort of like Prizm or Chrome?
Its a real shame that he won't have any other brands of licensed rookie cards in a Spurs jersey other than Panini. I'd love to see what a Finest or Topps Chrome rc would look like or even Upper Deck with an SP Authentic or even Fleer or Ultra. There used to be such a great assortment of different brands to choose from.
Eric
Erikthredd’s MJ Collection: https://www.psacard.com/psasetregistry/publishedset/395035
Erikthredd’s Nike Air Jordan Collection: https://www.psacard.com/psasetregistry/basketball/key-card-sets/nike-poster-cards-michael-jordan-1985-1992/alltimeset/408486
hey bud, sorry i missed this. and thanks, i really like the look of this one. and yes, it it prizmy/chromy/refractorish
he had a mammoth game two nights ago
I didn't watch it but that must have been a great game live where Brunson drops 61 and Wemby scores a career high in his first 40-20 game. With no C's tonight and an early GS/SA start at 7, I'm in.
This Dynasty 1/1 Wemby rookie was pulled in a break recently and he added some amusing inscriptions with his auto.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ganliqyyBDc
Eric
Erikthredd’s MJ Collection: https://www.psacard.com/psasetregistry/publishedset/395035
Erikthredd’s Nike Air Jordan Collection: https://www.psacard.com/psasetregistry/basketball/key-card-sets/nike-poster-cards-michael-jordan-1985-1992/alltimeset/408486
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homie's reaction was a little subdued for a card of that magnitude, lol. how great of a story would it be if they asked a trashed Wemby to sign that 1/1 and out of nowhere he just started drawing bizarre shit on it
(but i assume that was a follow up to LBJ's alien reference)
There's already grumbling that that was just another instance where some well known breaker manages to pull the premier card in a certain product.
I had no idea that Dynasty was a Topps product and after a little digging came across this ebay listing for a VW Topps Now auto. https://tinyurl.com/yzwpr592 its like Topps added all of that random stuff (cactus/flag/eiffel tower) this time instead of Wemby.
There's an article on the Athletic about him building a strong case for winning DPOY and I'm in agreement. His defense hasn't resulted in a high win total like it has for Rudy Gobert but thats mainly due to SA's lack of real talent around him. At the time the article was written, he was leading the league w/3.4blocks per game to go along with 1.2 steals and even someone with the smallest assemblage of BBIQ could see that most offense want no part of trying to score in the paint when he's on the floor. It kind of reminds me of Deion Sanders or Darrelle Revis back in their heyday when QBs wouldn't even bother throwing in their direction and tried beating you in some other way.
Its going to be interesting to see what he looks like when the team puts better talent around him especially on the defensive end.
Eric
Erikthredd’s MJ Collection: https://www.psacard.com/psasetregistry/publishedset/395035
Erikthredd’s Nike Air Jordan Collection: https://www.psacard.com/psasetregistry/basketball/key-card-sets/nike-poster-cards-michael-jordan-1985-1992/alltimeset/408486
He's pretty much got the ROTY award all locked up. From that same article: With eight games remaining, Wemby leads all rookies in scoring (21.0 points per game), rebounds (10.5), steals (1.2), blocks (NBA-best 3.4) and player efficiency rating (22.9).
Eric
Erikthredd’s MJ Collection: https://www.psacard.com/psasetregistry/publishedset/395035
Erikthredd’s Nike Air Jordan Collection: https://www.psacard.com/psasetregistry/basketball/key-card-sets/nike-poster-cards-michael-jordan-1985-1992/alltimeset/408486
i am too. to your point, it's not just about sheer numbers with him. he alters games on the defensive end in a way that cannot be quantified. if i had a dollar for every time a high-percentage shot didn't take place because he was about to send it into the 5th row, i might have enough money to buy another card of his. next thing you know, the ball rotates to someone else while the shot clock is being milked, and a lesser shot is ultimately launched. that's DPOY material.
I'd love to see the Spurs find another rim protecting center in the near future that could start next to Wemby and allow him to roam around as sort of a free safety in the paint. Kind of like what the Bucks do with Giannis/Brook Lopez and like Boston does now with Horford/Porzingis and Horford/RobWilliams before that.
Stick Vic on the opposing team's worst shooter and then give him the freedom to roam around the paint searching for blocks with his help defense. With that other big it doesn't need to be like a Duncan & Robinson situation and offensively he doesn't even need to be a 3pt threat because Wembanyama is already a capable shooter. Just someone whose a better rim protector than Zach Collins,who's a decent defender and would be great as a 3rd big.
Watching the Hawks beat the Celtics twice this week without Trae Young had me thinking of moves they could make this offseason to help improve their roster (yeah I know I'm weird like that lol) and there's been reports that they likely trade DeJounte Murray.
It may make more sense to move off Trae instead and he would seem like a perfect pairing next to Wemby. Atlanta supposedly wants to move on from Clint Capela too and those three seem like they'd all be a good fit. CC averages a double double with over a block a game and could sit in that dunker's spot on offense while Trae would have two bigs behind him that should be able to make up for all of his deficiencies on defense. The real issue would be SA sending back enough salary in deal and for the most part the Spurs would probably just be returning some of Atlanta's own draft picks back.
Eric
Erikthredd’s MJ Collection: https://www.psacard.com/psasetregistry/publishedset/395035
Erikthredd’s Nike Air Jordan Collection: https://www.psacard.com/psasetregistry/basketball/key-card-sets/nike-poster-cards-michael-jordan-1985-1992/alltimeset/408486
I tuned in late to the Wemby-Joker matchup last night and Vic just missed out on his first quadruple double finishing just 1 block & 2 assists short. He had two great blocks in a tie game in that last 2-ish minutes including one on Joker at the rim, it would have been great to see it go into OT.
Eric
Erikthredd’s MJ Collection: https://www.psacard.com/psasetregistry/publishedset/395035
Erikthredd’s Nike Air Jordan Collection: https://www.psacard.com/psasetregistry/basketball/key-card-sets/nike-poster-cards-michael-jordan-1985-1992/alltimeset/408486
Nike teased the Wemby logo yesterday during the eclipse and I kind of like it.
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Eric
Erikthredd’s MJ Collection: https://www.psacard.com/psasetregistry/publishedset/395035
Erikthredd’s Nike Air Jordan Collection: https://www.psacard.com/psasetregistry/basketball/key-card-sets/nike-poster-cards-michael-jordan-1985-1992/alltimeset/408486
@galaxy27 Hey I don't know if you caught this yet but apparently there are probably thousands of fake raw Prizm Wemby rookies hitting the market and a bunch just got seized by US border patrol recently. Supposedly they're coming from China.
Just be careful if you ever go that route. (No,not sneaking across the border 😎)
Eric
Erikthredd’s MJ Collection: https://www.psacard.com/psasetregistry/publishedset/395035
Erikthredd’s Nike Air Jordan Collection: https://www.psacard.com/psasetregistry/basketball/key-card-sets/nike-poster-cards-michael-jordan-1985-1992/alltimeset/408486
you just know there's someone, somewhere showing off their wemby rook while wearing a louis vuitton shirt, versace slides, and driving their volkswagen golf with a porsche steering wheel
Topps recently posted on IG a sneak peek at Wemby's upcoming Topps Chrome Superfractor (I'm assuming that's his SF.)
Its unlicensed but I prefer the overall look to this TC card better than his Panini Prizm rookie.
Eric
Erikthredd’s MJ Collection: https://www.psacard.com/psasetregistry/publishedset/395035
Erikthredd’s Nike Air Jordan Collection: https://www.psacard.com/psasetregistry/basketball/key-card-sets/nike-poster-cards-michael-jordan-1985-1992/alltimeset/408486