Joel Embiid on Victor Wembanyama: ‘He’s trying to live up to the hype’

Joel Embiid: The one thing that I’m happy about is they’re allowing him to make those mistakes, and learn from it. But I just think there’s a good and bad in that. The good of it is you learn through your mistakes. But then again, the bad of it is, you know, it just feels a little forced. Like, some of the shots. He can make it easy on himself. He can make it easy for himself. Like, he’s 7-5, 7-6. Sometimes, and that’s one thing I’m learning, too. Like, sometimes, just go down there and whatever, just shoot over somebody. Sometimes, you don’t have to (work so hard). I’m still learning it. We all have the same issue. And another issue I have that I see on a lot of people, is that it’s hard to figure out. But you have so much moves and so much game, like myself, sometimes I’m like, I could just jab-step, jumper. But then again, I’m like, I just scored twice, three times in a row, using a jumper. I’ve got this other move that I want to try. Instead of just keep going back to the same thing that’s working over and over. And I struggle with it. I’ve gotten a lot better when it comes to it, but it’s a struggle. We’re all still learning. -via The Athletic / December 25, 2023