He's good at individual stats. He's bad at turning his team into a winner. It used to be that a rookie was a great one only if his bottom team immediately became a top team, like Kareem Abdul-Jabar.
I know you just like to type out a lot of crazy shit but this is just nonsense. Kareem came into a completely different league than what the NBA is today, a league in which a team could ride the dominance of one player to a solid record. That's not the way things work now. Kobe couldn't do that. LeBron couldn't do that. Jordan couldn't do that. Shaq didn't either. Not Joker, not Giannis, not Steph. So no one has done that in 40 years. Even Magic and Bird didn't do that, they went to teams that already had multiple hall of famers on them... kind of like Duncan getting gifted to a team that was already a contender in the Spurs who were coming off a down year due to injury. I know you're a contrarian but try and at least stay loosely tethered to reality.
I know you're a contrarian to our stars and team leadership, typing the same boring message in every thread about dumping Ayton, Simons, and Grant, but: I have seen articles claiming that Wemby was the greatest NBA rookie of all time. Sorry, at the center position, if a rookie's individual stats don't make his team any good in his rookie year, he's not one of the greatest rookies of all time. He may become a Jabbar (he won't without Wooden's coaching), but his rookie year wasn't the greatest of all time.
For context in comparing Wemby and Jabbar's rookie seasons, it's of note that Kareem came into the league 2 years and 9 months older STOMP
A 7’5” unicorn that plays a slashing perimeter style game. This will be a good case study on how the joints and bones hold up on that tall drink of water.
LeBron missed the playoffs his first two seasons. Shaq missed playoffs his first season. Wemby has Spurs in playoff race in his second year.
