“In a good way, some of them are really impressive and inspiring in the way they approach the game every night. But others that I used to like, now it’s like I’m just not sure they deserve it. Like they don’t seem like they put as much work in as I thought.”
Extremely similar to what Derozan said, I believe on PGs podcast, a few months back.
Derozan said this about newer players in the league and fringe stars/role players/bench pieces. He never implied this for guys who really do this night after night, year after year like Wemby is implying.
But some of the “newer” guys he was talking about still might’ve been guys Wemby looked up to. He’s only been in the league 1 year. He could’ve idolized guys who have only been in the league for like 5 years which to Derozan would def be considered newer.
Do we have any idea on who these are?
Look at the 2018 warriors practice that got posted yesterday.
I’d say Klay is one of them
Hard to judge off a single day of practice. Or even worse, a short video of a single day in practice.
What did you see?
Beginning of the year Embid, post all-star break Embid, and whenever Embid comes back from the IR.
Probably means Rudy Gobert too, even if he does work hard other players seem to begrudge that his offensive skills are lacking.
I kind of feel like things might come very easy for Kyrie, but not sure about that. Just weird to me he doesn’t play because of personal disagreements and likes to poke bears.
Wemby explicitly, by name, said that it is not Gobert and he respects how Rudy works. Nice try tho
DeRozan’s not good enough to be talking like that
16 year vet who’s a multiple time all star with a career average of over 20 PPG.
One of the longest tenured all stars in the league
There’s few people I’d trust MORE to talk about the league and the state of its athletes than DeMar
Derozan doesn’t even tie his shoelaces and his teams haven’t done anything in the past years, I wouldn’t exactly call him a positive example
Does tie shoe laces = bad work ethic? Lol wtf are you on?
DeMar was a high flying athlete that developed legitimate skills over the course of his career, you can fault him for a number of things but work ethic ain’t one of them. He continued to develop a new skill literally every single season during his prime.
But he’s still a bum, not tying his shoes means he is not playing the best he can play. Refusing to take that little step is the opposite of drive and work ethic, i.e. he’s a bum