Behind the "son thorn dream" is the deep bond between the spurs and him

In the NBA's 76-year history, Vimbanyamama may be the only one who has been elected No. 1 and cried.

The talented teenager has never hidden his desire to go to the Spurs, he has taken the initiative to link himself with the Spurs countless times in the early years, and also laughed at the draft lottery this year because the Rockets fell out of the top three picks.

Compared to the "son lake dream" common among native American players (dream of playing for the Lakers as a child), Vimbanyamama's "son thorn dream" is somewhat unexpected.

But it makes sense.

Since the selection of Tim Duncan, the Spurs have tasted the sweetness of international players and began to build their own scouting system, searching internationally for talent for decades, and international players accounted for more than half of the championship team in 2014.

The SAN Antonio Spurs, nicknamed the "Holy Village" team, have great international appeal.

This is especially true in France, where Tony Parker and Boris Diaw have made the Spurs as popular as the Rockets, and the dream of playing in the Spurs is the dream of almost every basketball teenager of Vimbanama's generation.

In addition, the Spurs rookie development system is also an important factor in attracting international players to join.

Whether it is the first round show, the second round show or the fall draft, the coaching team led by the legendary handsome Popovich often pours several years of effort into a new person, although the team's training strategy can not let the rookie soar in the early stage of his career, but the years of grinding training has ensured the rookie's career limit, once the Spurs cultivate players into the free market, It often becomes the "sweet cake" that many teams scramble for.

Wenbanyamama and Spurs love as early as a few years ago, he is in the French League Metropolitan 92 team owned by the Spurs legend Tony Parker, the Spurs observation of this potential star as early as a few years ago, and when Wenbanyamama began to emerge, the Spurs are not only the league's most aware of his team, But also for the long-term training of Wenbanyamas prepared - from last season's "bad" to trade Bolt, leaving both range and frame guard Collins as Wenbanyamas interior partner, to the offseason announced that the team's legacy Duncan, Ginobili, Parker next season will guide Wenbanyamas together...

Every aspect shows how much the Spurs care about the No. 1 pick after 26 years.

In the light of his historic talent, his flaws are just as numerous

But Spurs fans also need to be patient with Vimbanyama.

In the scouting report, Wenbanyama's advantages are enormous: he has the ultimate defensive ability, whether it is the rim protection ability, defensive coverage area or movement speed are top, which allows him to have a terror under the basket while moving speed to change the perimeter players; On the offensive end, Wenbanyama not only has the ability to finish under the basket without solution, but also can finish without dead corners in the area near the basket, he also has the same body (2.24 meters) players do not have the extreme dribbling ability and long shooting ability, and the outside ball attack ability is also amazing.

But Vimbanyamama is not invulnerable.

In terms of body, he is too thin, serious lack of strength, easy to be forced to eat, while his injury risks are also not small, after all, the league history of the height of more than 2 meters 20 players are often difficult to have a healthy and complete career; In terms of technology, his passing ability still needs to be improved, the ball turnover rate is high, while over-reliance on his defensive talent, defensive habits, positioning needs to be improved; The most need Spurs carefully carved is Wenbanyama's choice on the court, his long shot stability is insufficient, and shot selection is not good, especially like autonomous dribbling after inefficient shooting; At the same time, Wenbanyama is also too obsessed with dribbling, and because of the high center of gravity, it is inevitable that dribbling mistakes are too much; What's more, Wenbanyama only played in the French League before, and whether the body, mentality and technology can withstand the test of the NBA is still unknown.

Compared to Duncan, this potential new star with historic talent is a piece of diamond waiting to be carved, and it will take the Spurs at least three years to polish it into shape.

In addition, the arrival of Wenbanyama can not solve the problems of Spurs once and for all, the team that ranked last in the league still needs to hoard more talents around Wenbanyama, and after several years of run-in, the team can return to the ranks of the giants.

At this stage, the Spurs still have a point guard "sinkhole" to make up for, and the team will also carry out a series of long-term team construction around his growth after selecting Wenbanyama.

The realisation of Vimbanyama's talent and the revival of Spurs are still a long way off.