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This season, Victor Wembanyama will have the opportunity to learn and progress quickly, as he has become the franchise player of the Metropolitans 92 and that he now evolves under the orders of Vincent Collet. Moreover, after the first day of the championship, the coach of the Blues spoke.
It’s not necessarily a surprise, but at only 18 years old, Victor Wembanyama is already the leader of a professional team, which reinforces his status as a future NBA superstar. For the first meeting of his season with the Metropolitans 92, the young pivot was rather impressive statistically, since he was the player most used by Vincent Collet, but also the one who took the most shots.
Congratulated across the Atlantic for this first, everything was not necessarily perfect, since he had to take 23 shots to reach the 23 point mark. The Future of the France team has the keys to the truck, that’s pretty clear, but he will also have to learn to be efficient to obtain good results. Winning is also a good way to accumulate experience, and this was not the case for this first day of Betclic Elite.
Victor Wembanyama shaken up for his big first at the Mets
But should we be worried after this rather “disappointing” collective performance, knowing that the team has two future NBA players with Hugo Besson? After the meeting, Vincent Collet spoke to the journalists, and he explained what he retained from this opening meeting. On the same match, he saw two distinct faces of his players, as related by Jean-Marc Devred of the site Sports Info North of France.
The group is young and inexperienced. Even if we expected it, we suffered from the aggressiveness of our adversaries. With 13 stray bullets, it was prohibitive at this level. Fortunately, we did better in the 2nd half. In the first half, we were shaken. We were upgraded in intensity for 25 minutes.
Vincent Collet knew that the start of the match was going to be complicated because of the age of certain players, and he was not mistaken. Despite the talent of Victor Wembanyama, Hugo Besson and their teammates, they took time to find the parade to counter the level of intensity offered by Gravelines-Dunkerque. There was some improvement in the second half, but the damage was done.
And it’s a scenario that could happen again and again this season, since everyone will want to rub shoulders with the French basketball prodigy and shine in front of scouts from all NBA franchises. The good news is that the future Draft n°1 will be able to get used to this physical requirement, to gauge the endurance necessary to resist in the snowshoes every weekend.
The Metropolitans have bet on youth, which comes with necessarily from a lack of experience and a lack of vice. They were pushed around for a whole half, it remains to be seen whether they will manage to adapt in the future.
