![]() ![]() The reason for this is pretty simple: Horrible guard play. Through three games he’s been an up-and-down scorer that’s shown flashes, but hardly been the knock-down outside shooter he was touted to be at the draft. Nobody’s numbers in the Summer League will be a biggest statistical liar than Brandon Miller. That said, on Sunday night Wembanyama was clearly already getting a better feel for the limitations against NBA talent, and playing more inside those confines he dominated the midrange game and showed why he could become an elite player in the NBA. Miller happens to be a good defender in his own right, but this was also about Wemby needing to learn how to back down strong guys in the paint - a skill he doesn’t have yet. Nice defensive toughness by Brandon Miller with Wemby trying to back him down here /0OCWpmvCGv- Wilko July 8, 2023 ![]() The big indictment of Wemby came from this clip where Brandon Miller ate his lunch. The on-ball defense is going to be a lot stricter, and his ball handling isn’t quite at the level (because of his size) that he can iso dribble on a defender, like he did in France. The big thing here is that he needs to work on his physique, which will come over time - but also get a better feeling for what he can’t get away with in the NBA vs. We saw this when Wemby struggled against the Hornets. It’s really not dissimilar to Nikola Jokic, who got out-muscled in the paint by larger guys in the Summer League before becoming a monster. The big thing with Wemby is that he’s a unicorn, albeit a spindly unicorn we know needs to get stronger. So what can we learn from all this as it applies to the Big Three from the 2023 NBA Draft? If that happens it’s a massive red flag, and probably indicates that they just don’t have it. There’s really only one safe time you can draw an opinion from Summer League, and that’s when a player is in their second year or more, has seen playing time in the NBA itself, but still can’t manage to hold their own against Summer League players. It’s a rarified environment of weirdness that naturally leads to wild overreactions. Summer League stats are littered with amazing players who struggled and terrible ones who excelled.
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