When the conquistadors went to discover the New World, their wives went to the port to give them a last embrace. This season, Victor Wembanyama begins his last dance in the body of a French basketball player, before jumping across the Atlantic in the very probable quality of first pick. This monthly follow-up is our way of embracing it.
One leg, 3-pointers, 3 million views
“You had to say if you wanted me to pay you the million views”. The punchline is by Wojtek, its appropriation is signed Victor Wembanyama against Limoges. Under the eyes of the legend of the silver screen Michael Douglasquietly installed in the first rows of Marcel-Cerdan, the Mets 92 prodigy is launching his month of November in the best possible way: 33 points at 10/17 shooting and 10/12 in throws, 12 rebounds, 4 assists, 3 blocks, 2 faults for 9 provoked, and only 2 lost balls for… 41 of evaluation. The very tricky Wi-Fi code to enter, with a letter that accentuates the confusion: “Is that an O or a zero?” ». Rotten as the metaphor is, that letter was that one-legged 3-pointer in front of poor Wilfried Yeguete. A collective hallucination (filmed by us huhu) reposted by all the bitter gratin: Bleacher Report, Sport Illustrated, Hoop Central, Barack Obama’s uncle and Barack Obama’s uncle’s nephew. We had the impression of being paid for the evening by a sugar daddy with a bottomless wallet. In short, victory 78 to 69, collective record of six successes for a single setback, Victor Wembanyama is excellent and the Mets 92 benefit from it.
???????????? but what did Dirk Wembanyama just do there?? pic.twitter.com/uLAEz5l7Gp
— Arthur TrashTalk (@ArthurJBaudin) November 4, 2022
The big Blue
Curtain drawn on the Limoges match, a fortnight’s break in the league, well-deserved rest… well no! Called by Vincent Collet, Victor picks up his first selection for the France team. The challenge ? A qualification for the 2023 World Cup, which requires two successes on the two scheduled dates (there will be two more in February 2023 anyway). First plane ticket stamped and first trip to Panevėžys, a city in the Center-North of Lithuania. The Blues find there a logically defeated selection of its NBAers, Jonas Valanciunas and Domantas Sabonis. The in-between is given, it plays basketball, Sylvain Francisco is untenable, Victor Wembanyama… is not much sought after by his teammates. When the mice of America are absent, Andrew Albicy takes himself for the franchise playerdribbles a lot and doesn’t look enough roll from its interior. But even snubbed by the old veterans, Victor finished the game with 20 points at 6/13 in shooting, 9 rebounds including 4 offensive and +25 from plus/minus. We got scared on a falling giraffe (Vincent Collet too), finally nothing to report.
Here are the exclusive 5 seconds during which the basketball planet stopped spinning. pic.twitter.com/VEYshzCYvc
— Nico TrashTalk ???? (@nicolasmeichel) November 11, 2022
It’s a feast, the France team is only a small victory away from qualifying for the 2023 World Cup which will take place in Indonesia, Japan and the Philippines. But the need for a small victory does not prohibit the heavy: new success 92 to 56, this time in Pau, with a phantasmagorical poster by Sylvain Francisco, and a discreet but productive Victor Wembanyama. Good and then he still holds 19 points at 7/15 shooting including 3/6 from the parking lot, 4 rebounds, 1 assist and 2 blocks. There are really discreet players who would not be happy to see that their qualifier is borrowed from them. Finally, Victor wears the blue remarkably, Vincent Collet must have appreciated, Pascal Donnadieu too: see you in February 2023 for two new dates against the Czech Republic and Lithuania.
Victor Wembanyama led France to a 2-0 record in the FIBA World Cup qualifying window with another big outing against Bosnia today. 19 points, 4 rebounds, 2 blocks in 24 minutes in a 36 point blowout win for the projected No. 1 pick. pic.twitter.com/TCpyMhkIGi
— Jonathan Givony (@DraftExpress) November 14, 2022
Hi buddy *takes the voice of Michel Drucker*
Never wanting to skip the steps, especially when you’re 18. This is what sooner or later will harm Victor Wembanyama whose only ambition is to be number 1 in all areas. A kind of employee of the month of the LNB, which reiterates each month at the expense of the collective results… flute. He is #1 in absolutely every way, even when it comes to taking his team to the top of the Betclic Elite. So nothing to say. The Mets 92 are first in the championship (equally with Cholet) thanks to a record of 8 wins for 1 defeat, Victor overwhelmed his former club Nanterre with 30 points, 9 rebounds and 5 blocks, and moved to fuck his barouf in Nancy with 30 points and 15 rebounds (career high). We were in Meurthe-et-Moselle at that time, the somewhat “inside” paper is right HERE. Only red point in this month of November? The injury of Abraham Fall Faye, painting teammate of Victor, victim of a rupture of the cruciate ligaments. End of the season for the Senegalese interior, and arrival in the wake of… Anžejs Pasečņiks. The former post 5 of the bottom of the drawer of the Wizards measures 2m16 and will thus form a racket of 4m37 alongside Totor. He played 27 games in the 2019-20 fiscal year with Washington for averages of 5.8 points at 53% shooting and 4 rebounds in 16 minutes of play. Not bad for a redhead.
???? Wembanyama – Pasecniks, a 4.37 meter racket for the Metropolitans 92!
???? First round draft, compared to Porzingis, former teammate of Ian Mahinmi, revived in Seville last year: who is Fall Faye’s replacement?
➡️ His presentation: https://t.co/vu5yLTYm9G pic.twitter.com/A98mQ4HaHp
— BeBasket (@Be_BasketFr) November 30, 2022
Another Bol Bol, really?
We could summarize the matter as a simple analogy : a child has a nougat caramel (it doesn’t exist) and sees a confectionery in front of which all his little friends are gathered. “But what are you guys looking at? “. Fabricio, a little redhead of the same age, grabs him by the arm and pulls him towards a window oiled by fingerprints. “Look, it’s the new 2000 nougat caramel!” It seems that its taste is a thousand times smoother than that of the old one ». Annoyed to see his candy considered “expired” by his classmates, the child puts a large steak in the back of Fabricio’s neck, then says to him: “However, everything that comes after is not necessarily better. Your 2000 nougat caramel is probably full of sugar, carbs, fat, and bull testicles. I much prefer the old one.”. Looking snobbish, the child turns around and then heads for his house, where he will remain locked up for three days to cry under his pillow. We may make others believe that we do not envy them, but this discourse is often held only in appearance.
“Everyone is talking about Victor, the Frenchman. I’m not trying to compare them, but Bol is 2.18m, he shoots 3-pointers, goes up the field, passes and blocks shots. I feel like people forget it, but Bol is a freak of nature. –Paolo Banchero, for Michael Scotto
first star
We’ve all been skiing before. Boarf, we stop there. This paragraph begins as a Norman podcast in 2012. Straight to the point: Last night, Victor picked up his first LNB All-Star Game selection. He is part of the France selection alongside Nando De Colo (Asvel), Elie Okobo (Monaco), Nicolas Lang (Limoges) and Ismael Kamagate (Paris Basket). We do not mention bench players, it takes too long and you know one in four. It is however well deserved for Victor. If he continues on the same basis, he will be named MVP of the regular without any problem: leader in scoring in Betclic Elite (23.2 points per game), 1st in rebounds (9.6), 1st in evaluation ( 26.4) and 1st on blocks (3). Good on the other hand, the LNB also selected Wembanyama for 3-point contest. He will be opposed to Nicolas Lang (Limoges), Nando De Colo (Asvel) and Keith Hornsby (Nanterre). As a reminder, the *take the voice of Stéphane Guy* French genius is only pulling 31% of the parking lot this season. Tight string when you know that Lang balances at 42%, Hornsby 43% and that De Colo – despite his start to the season blah blah – even reaches 50%. If Victor wins, we win his jersey with him in it.
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???? 4 snipers have an appointment on December 29 at the@Accor_Arena !#ASG2022 pic.twitter.com/NlQkMifDKZ
— LNB (@LNBofficiel) November 30, 2022
VICTOR WEMBANYAMA’S OCTOBER MONTH IN FIGURES:
- November 4 vs Limoges (championship): 33 points at 10/17 in shooting and 10/12 in throws, 12 rebounds, 4 assists, 3 blocks, 2 faults for 9 provoked, and only 2 lost balls for… 41 evaluation
- November 11 @ Lithuania (2023 World qualifier): 20 points at 6/13 in shooting and 7/7 in throws, 9 rebounds including 4 offensive, 1 assist, 1 interception and only 1 loose ball
- November 14 vs Bosnia and Herzegovina (2023 World qualifier): 19 points at 7/15 shooting including 3/6 from the parking lot, 4 rebounds, 1 assist and 2 blocks
- November 20 vs Nanterre (championship): 30 points at 10/19 in shooting including 1/5 at 3-points, 9 rebounds, 5 blocks, 3 lost balls, 3 fouls for 6 provoked and 30 evaluation
- November 26 @ Nancy (championship): 30 points at 9/19 in shooting and 11/16 in free throws, 15 rebounds (personal record), 3 assists, 2 blocks, 2 steals, 34 rating and +/- of +17
« Difficult to do better than this edition, but also difficult that Wemby does not do better than this edition ». These were our words at the end of October, Victor finally managed to do even better in November. Three league games at 30 perlouzes, an experience in Blues, the starred selection that goes well: turlututu pointed hat.
Thanks to “@_ad.visual_” on Instagram for his photographs.
