Preface
With the rise of Brother Alphabet, Thick Eyebrows, Jokic, Embiid and other elders, the league is no longer the pure small-ball era of a few years ago. Like this season's championship teams, they basically have at least one quasi-All-Star level interior line, even if it is the Thunder, they have one more rookie Holmgren this season, but the improvement this brings to the team is visible to the naked eye.
This season, the performance of the league's four interior lines is still very outstanding, and in the latest edition of the MVP rankings, except for the thick eyebrows, the other three are all ranked in the top five. Among them, the top Embiid can average 34.8 points, 11.8 rebounds, 6.2 assists, 1.2 steals and 2 blocks per game, and it seems that he is very likely to win the regular season MVP, while the second-ranked Jokic, he can average 26 points, 12.2 rebounds, 9.1 assists and 1.2 steals per game, the performance is still very comprehensive, and it can be seen that he did not use his full strength in some games in the regular season.
Brother Alphabet is ranked third, although the strength of the Bucks this season is not ideal, he is still able to score 31.1 points, 11.4 rebounds, 5.8 assists, 1.4 steals and 1.2 blocks. As for thick eyebrows, he is ranked tenth on the MVP list, and his current average is 25.2 points, 12.5 rebounds, 3.4 assists, 1.2 steals and 2.7 blocks per game.
In addition to these veterans who have been in the league for a long time, the NBA has also emerged many young star centers this season, such as the Rockets' Shin Jing and the Thunder's Holmgren have performed well, but the absolute focus among everyone is still on the Spurs' Wembanyama. As a rare talent in decades, when Wembanyama participated in the draft, various media also spoke very highly of him, and some people even said that he would be considered a parallel commodity if he was only a player at the same level as thick eyebrows in the future.
It has to be said that Wembanyama's talent is indeed very exaggerated, with a height of 2.26 meters and an arm span of 2.44 meters, he is extremely flexible on the court, and his coordination is no better than any player of the same level in NBA history. Wembanyama can play both off the ball and with the ball to score, and his movements on the pitch are not even crude, compared to those of defenders, and Holmgren is probably the only player in the current squad who can compare to him.
However, Wembanyama is not without "weaknesses", and some people questioned him at the time that he was too thin, and his confrontation ability was average. But apparently the outside world underestimated Wembanyama in this regard, although he is indeed on the thin side, but his confrontation is far beyond expectations, imagining that he is under the basket by the opponent hard chiseled picture that few people can do to this day, and even if he is eaten by the opponent alone, he will find the court on the offensive end, although he can't also shoot back under the basket, but with his own projection, he can pull out on the head of any player, which is also quite his idol Durant's style.
So far, Wembanyama has averaged 19.2 points, 10.1 rebounds and 2.8 assists per game, plus 1.2 steals and 3.2 blocks, it can be said that the Spurs and Popovich have given him full trust, as long as he is on the court, he will try his best to let him play in his comfort zone, but unfortunately the Spurs do not have a competent point guard on this lineup, so many times Wembanyama can only follow the team on the court, but even so, he has fully shown his talent, and as the season progresses, the cooperation between other players and Wembanyama has become more and more tacit.
In the fifth regular season game of his NBA career, facing the Suns led by Durant, Wembanyama slashed 38 points, 10 rebounds, 2 assists, 1 steal and 2 blocks, and hit 3 three-pointers in a single game, and the most important thing is that they also won this game. So far, Wembanyama has also played against three of the league's four interior players, and his personal performance is also remarkable, even if there will be a "class" round, he will not be discouraged, but will try his best to fight back.
In the game against the Nuggets, in the face of the new FMVP Jokic, Wembanyama scored 22 points, 11 rebounds, 2 assists, 6 steals and 4 blocks.
In the game against the Bucks, in the face of the stronger impact of Brother Alphabet, Wembanyama played 26 minutes and contributed 27 points, 9 rebounds, 1 assist, 1 steal and 5 blocks.
There is also the game against the Lakers, this game the Lakers once put the game into garbage time, but Wembanyama in the fourth quarter to help the team to play the suspense of the game back, the whole game cut 30 points, 13 rebounds, 2 assists, 3 steals and 6 blocks, he scored 14 points, 4 rebounds and 2 blocks in the fourth quarter, although the Spurs still narrowly lost to the opponent in this game, but Wembanyama still showed his talent to the fullest in the game, and he and the thick eyebrows were separated from each other.
For a well-rounded offensive and defensive star like Wembanyama, it is only a matter of time before he gets the DPOY if there is no accident in the future, and Wembanyama on the offensive end has not yet found the most suitable style of play and teammates for him, and these will definitely change with time. Wembanyama is only 20 years old now, but his impact on the game is already visible to the naked eye, and he has every hope of playing in the top five of the league in the next 3-5 years. Although he is still not halfway through the season, Wembanyama has already proved that his talent is not blown out by the media, and he really has the potential to become the face of the league in the future.