The Master wrote:Defensive metrics:
Holmgren without SGA:
Wembanyama as a center/as a power forward
Wembanyama with regular point guard (Tre Jones):
Update, as I was wondering at that time whether he'll be able to keep up his crazy splits as a center/with Tre as a point guard:
Defensive metrics:
Wembanyama as a center:
Wembanyama with regular point guard (Tre Jones):
Nothing to see here, actually: Spurs got more difficult schedule recently, so his defensive numbers (DFG%, DFG% at rim) are down, so is his net rating with Tre on a court - most importantly, his boxscore production is steady while 1069 minutes as a center is ~35 games sample, so it's almost half of the season for Wemby as a center. So yeah, as a rookie center he's definitely already 23-11-4-4, +6-7 BPM type of a player in 29-30 minutes, that's crazy.
Next thing to update at the end of the season will be his shooting:
Per30:
I couldn't get specific splits of his shooting as a center/power forward on pbpstats.com, so I went through nba.com splits to/since his first game as a starting C (12/08/2023), 3 pointers:
Damn, his pull-up %s are crazy - he's 41% on a sample of 98 attempts already in the full season.
His shooting projection may be even better than I thought (right now: 82%FT, 32% 3PT on big volume, over 40% 3PT from pull ups). Wemby is 35% from 3pt line since his first game as a starting center, so that's something to follow once we get additional 20 game sample. If his reference value from 3pt line before the offseason will be actually 35%, then I'd expect borderline MVP-type of production next year already.
On negative note - Spurs are so disastrous talent wise right now considering they're 6-19 with Tre as a starting point guard / 7-27 with Wemby as a center, so they're still ~20W team even when Pop ended his experiments with Sochan as a starting PG / Wemby as a PF.