THE HERD | NBA should be terrified of Wembanyama! – Ric Bucher on Spurs CRUSH Thunders 132-116

THE HERD | NBA should be terrified of Wembanyama! – Ric Bucher on Spurs CRUSH Thunders 132-116

Regular season nights Warriors have now won seven straight road games LeBron back-to- back wins but I want to start with wmi and Chet holgren because wemi is so overshadowed Chad holgren hen’s having a he’s having a great year but it does when you look at the splits for

Wemi in October November December and wemi now he’s stronger he’s more defiant offensively he’s more efficient would you even acknowledge and you liked him it’s a little better faster than we thought with wemi yeah I I would go along with that but I I look Colin we’re in a microwave

Society we expect it to happen right away the kid’s 19 and he’s not on a and I want to underscore this this is not a good San Antonio team I mean the the biggest difference aside from the fact that Chad holgren had a full year to get acclimated to everything surrounding the

NBA everything about the NBA other than act being in actual games uh he had that head start but he’s also on a really really good team and and wanyama is not and for all that an individual player can do uh it’s still requires to have a

Few guys around you that can do some things and uh Victor is just finding out all the different things that he can do I was just down in or Orlando a couple weeks ago and was sitting about 10 15 ft away from him uh while they played the

Magic and he is just he’s a phenomenon I’m just looking at him and then you see him play in all the things that he can do at his size uh it’s been said many times before but it it can’t it has to be underscored we’ve never seen anything

Like him before uh the length and the size and the skills uh and the flexibility and the agility he is going to redefine the game in the way that is played because he is going to be a matchup nightmare that the league has never seen before you know

Rick I said this and and I and again in in my lifetime because I only saw Wilt briefly but I saw seven players only seven The Magnificent Seven come into this league and they were not only not just great they were spectacular and totally unique and the Seven are Kareem

In the late 60s it’s about one every decade okay into magic late 79 into MJ Shaq LeBron Steph and then I classify wemi hren kind of plays like him he’s not that yeah is and I and again I’m not counting Wilt who probably counted as

That or a Dr J but that to me I like Kobe he felt like MJ light I like bird he wasn’t as dynamic as magic I think wem is one of the seven players that you get Once A decade is that hyper no it’s not because what is unique and

What is unique about all the guys that you mentioned and where wanyama fits with them is that it’s a combination of a supreme athleticism or size physical ability that is unique and Superior to anything combined with a skill level that is at a superior level and that’s

What makes it unique and a lot of people would immediately push back and say that well does Shaq does does Shaq really fit into that category Shaq didn’t have the range the jump shot range obviously but his ability to finish uh with either hand around the basket his footwork his

Agility for his size I think we think of the Shaquille O’Neal at the end that was a little bit lumbering and wasn’t as mobile but when he first came into the league he was as mobile as any big man that we’d seen so uh that to me is what

Distinguishes all of them and the one guy that I would throw in the category well I won’t put him in the category but could have been in the category is Bill Walton unique as a big with his skills with his size simply couldn’t stay healthy enough to make a mark So I

Watched The Warriors and I’ve been watching them now for a couple of weeks and they’re very interesting so they have they’re either Old Clay Steph Draymond Chris Paul or they’re really young um you know kaminga Moody pods uh or or the young kid yeah yeah yeah out

Of the second round out of Indiana Dale Davis’s son by the way I didn’t I didn’t know that until recently so and this is this is where I argue that draymond’s now really valuable because he’s such a great communicator whenever TNT or ESPN wires him during games he is you know

Steph’s doing his offense Steph’s doing his thing in his own leadership but he’s running the team draymond’s a coach and this team to bridge really old or really young needs Draymond and since he’s come back Rick you know the Warriors as well as anybody they’re different team they are and they have

Size now because between sarich and the young kid out of Indiana kaminga long Looney I don’t know I I look at him and I’m like this is this to me is a team that could VY for the Western Conference I I know Denver’s better and matches up

I know you said that I know Denver’s yeah take Denver out Jamal Murray gets banged up yeah again am I going crazy on the Warriors yeah a little bit you’re going a little bit crazy going a little but he Colin look we’ve known each other for a

Long time if you didn’t if you weren’t going a little too far you wouldn’t be Callin coward so I understand and and I appreciate and there is a window look if it wasn’t for the Warriors and all they’ve done and all they’ve been and how unique their system is and their

Unique their players are and their culture is we wouldn’t even be having this conversation I mean we’re talking about a team that what is it is the 10th seed right now and you have the audacity to say you know what they could be in the Western Conference Finals we

Wouldn’t talk I we wouldn’t talk about them and I wouldn’t tolerate it if it weren’t for the fact that there is a little bit of Truth there now here’s the reality again goes back to the whole microwave Society idea is that we want things to happen instantly and the

Biggest mistake we can make with any team in the NBA in today’s game is to judge them on the first month or two especially teams that know how to play at a championship level it’s not just that Draymond was out and back but you’re adding all sorts of New pieces

You mentioned them kaminga is Jonathan kaminga is playing a different role he and Steve Kerr had to work out their differences Chris Paul joins them and then he gets hurt Klay Thompson he’s got to adjust to being on the bench so they had a lot of moving parts that they had

To figure out and now they are beginning to figure them out you are uh right and you’re more right than you know because it’s not just Draymond being able to organize them defensively he’s also their playmaker offensively he takes a lot off of Steph’s plate when he’s out

There the last part is you look at their team collectively who is the vocal leader or who steps in to be the vocal leader if Draymond Green is not there it’s not Steph it’s not it’s not kaminga it’s not Dario sarich it’s not Jonathan kaminga like that just that energy that

He brings uh changes the dynamic of this team and so you’re right there are so many intangibles that Draymond brings to the table that it’s not just that he brings them and he’s good at them but they really don’t have anybody else on that roster that can fill them when he’s

Not there so we got into this discussion jmck and I did yesterday is that when Giannis when international players come to the states most of them it’s like when we visit Europe you know we stay on task we stay on our schedule we tip more than we would in the states we’re very

Respectful of the culture we stay focused we’re not just making stuff up right get in a car and drive you know really do that when international players come here they’re more loyal they’re more mature they’re more focused they stay on task they get their sleep there’s been a few Luca came in with

Some toe which I’m okay with but when I watch Giannis he’s been westernized he came in like that now he’s like get the coach out get me Dame and it it’s not great it I don’t mind him doing that he’s been westernized like it’s now like

Okay I I see how the game works I win a title you’re still on my butt I got to win three I get the game now I get the American basketball culture I said if they got knocked out in the first round Cleveland knocks him out whoever knocks

Him out Nicks whoever if they get Julius Randall you know if they get the guys back that Nicks are dealing with injuries those two teams are knocking him out but all right all right but my point is if they if they don’t win a couple playoff series in

Milwaukee Giannis so I fired the coach I got Dame I don’t think it’s crazy if he goes to the management and says make a move we Dame’s not getting younger he’s not better defensively we’re an old roster I do think Milwaukee’s got to get to a Conference Final or the new

Yanis he understands the game and how we judge great players he’s he’s going to want I don’t think it’s crazy he’ll make demands again you think it’s true sure yeah no I would expect that he would expect that there would be changes made now how he approaches that and

Whether he says if you don’t I’m leaving that’s the rub because and we’ve talked about it before let’s make it clear the reason that they did the Damen Lillard deal wasn’t uh because they thought well this is the missing piece and now we’re going to win a championship it was

Giannis was making noise about I don’t know if I want to stay here or not and uh it doesn’t make sense for me to sign and extension until next year anyway and then they make the deal for Damen Lillard and not only does he take the financial hit by signing right away but

Everything is is suddenly hunky dory this is my question is is he going to be accountable for the fact that the coaching change that they have to had to make because Adrien Griffin was his choice over Nick nurse and getting Damen Lillard and what that’s done to them

Defensively is he going to be held is he going to hold him self accountable and say I’m the reason we are the way we are and I have no problem with him saying hey you know what okay so we got Damian coaching thing didn’t work out but we’re

Not good enough to continue to contend what are we going to do next I don’t have a problem with him asking for that but I want I don’t I the last thing I want to hear is uh jannis saying hey if we don’t fix this and fix this now then

I want out of Milwaukee because the Milwaukee Bucks are what they are right now because of what Giannis an Tumo asked them to be and so he has been westernized there’s no question or he’s he’s he’s been empowered as a player in a way that most International Players

When they come over they’re just grateful this that they’ve got a team that wants to build around them that they’re vested in them that’s still unique for them and it’s certainly not the way that European teams operate so they’re not used to that but I don’t want him so westernized that he’s you

Either fix it or I’m going to some place that I see is better finally a little birdie whispered this to me last night in the NBA Donovan Mitchell’s gonna by the way Colin I’m a little worried about who you’re hanging out with uh especially when it comes to the NBA

Takes lately I I I’m I’m concerned about the influences on you but go ahead Donovan Mitchell will be a Nick or a Laker by this time next year that’s what I’ve been told he’ll be in

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THE HERD | NBA should be terrified of Wembanyama! – Ric Bucher on Spurs CRUSH Thunders 132-116