Exploring Victor Wembanyama's Overall Impact and MVP Odds

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00:03If you wanted to go deeper down the board, Kevin Walsh, who gets

00:06your attention? Well, I was watching a little bit of the

00:10pick six. You have a little Victor Web and Yama love out

00:13there at twenty to one. I placed my Wemby MVP bet the

00:17second day open the market at I believe fifty to one. So, from

00:21that respect, I'm I'm happy about it, right? I've done a

00:24good job. I fear though that the end result here is going to be

00:28just a job well done. Way to beat the odds, kid. Paul

00:31Skeen's two hundred to win Cy, you know, two hundred to one to

00:33win Cy Young. What what did it matter? You know, it's gonna

00:36have the same fate as anybody who bent Spencer Strider to win

00:39that award all in all. I I think Wemby has a better chance

00:43than a lot of the guys in front of him because Wemby is going

00:47to hit the advanced box score numbers that people still

00:51pretend don't matter. Just things that Tatum literally has

00:55no chance to ever hit in his career based on all of the

00:58evidence of his career. The stuff that Anthony Edwards

01:01isn't close to like flirting with whatsoever plus the

01:04Minnesota team got worse this offseason. I have no idea what

01:07people are talking about. Like Wemby is pretty conservatively

01:11been going to finish with one of the five best box score plus

01:14minus numbers in basketball and that has been the most

01:17predictive statistic in the league in terms of who wins an

01:21MVP on a year in year out basis. So, when you look at it

01:25Kev, there is always the correlation of individual

01:27accolades and team success. There is no doubt what Wemby

01:31can do in filling up the stat sheet. The unanimous rookie of

01:34the year, just the sixth we have ever seen win that award in

01:38NBA history. But his San Antonio team last year finished

01:41twenty-two and sixty, second worst record in the Western

01:45Conference. The outlook this year is better and substantially

01:48so but not necessarily a playoff team or getting to

01:52forty wins. Thirty-five and a half is the Spurs win total

01:56entering this year. It's a plus three sixty playoff price for

02:00San Antonio. How good do the Spurs have to be for Victor

02:04Weminyama to be a legitimate MVP contender? I would say

02:08above five hundred and in the playoffs. Now, I don't think

02:11he has to do more than that. He does not have to win forty-nine

02:13games. He doesn't have to be the three seed. If he is

02:17forty-three, thirty-nine, and the seven seed. Now, all of a

02:21sudden, my tone will change quite a lot and I think we can

02:23cash this ticket because now you're talking about adding

02:26twenty wins year over year and I know a lot of people be like,

02:29well, yeah, but you're not going to win twenty, you know,

02:31you're not going to add twenty games year over year. The

02:33Thunder just did it. The Oklahoma City Thunder just did

02:36it and what I think is a lot more difficult way to do it by

02:38the way. The Thunder went from flirting in the back end of

02:41the play in to the second best record in basketball. We're

02:45asking the Spurs to go from one of the worst teams in

02:48basketball to competent and you cannot then go through history

02:53and find a player as good as Victor Webenyama that isn't

02:57competent. You can't find it. Yeah. It is this simple on the

03:00Spurs. The thirty-five and a half number will get absolutely

03:03obliterated as long as he stays healthy. He was healthy last

03:08year. He was. Yeah. When he is so big, we just kind of assume

03:12that there's going to be points in our lives watching. We're

03:14like, oh man, hope the injury bug stops biting this kid but

03:17so far so good. I the only other thing you worry about a

03:21little bit is is Chris Paul too important to this team? Like I

03:25think the fully healthy Spurs are going to be really good but

03:28if this team needs Chris Paul to keep their offensive flow and

03:32competent again, that's worrisome because you can

03:35pretty much lock him in for about twenty-five missed games.

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