My takeaway is that Mo Wagner is the Wemby stopper!
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Dk what to tell you. Heās exactly average for his career in TS on OK usage. NBA watchers arenāt like āwow itās the next Paul Georgeā.
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I mean, I think in a vacuum Gobert, Wembayana, Batum are better players than the Wagners and Schroeder. If weāre taking the NBA guys who donāt play, Fournier is probably better than Theis.
Iād definitely take the Germans as a cohesive hole, as they donāt duplicate positions, which Franceās 2 best players do.
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I donāt think your math really tracks. If heās a starter on the Magic that makes him a top 5/15 players on Magic (4-seed in East) by logic thatād make him a top 1/3 player in the nba at worst if we expand out. Even if heās better than some starters and worse than some bench pieces I donāt see how he can be considered an average NBA player
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Right itās pretty obvious that in a vacuum youād look at a team that had to think hard about rostering Killian Hayes and not wonder where the hole in their roster might be. And how cavernous that hole might be.
Itās really easy to win a lot of games with depth in the regular season in the NBA.
off the top of my head, the following NBA forwards who are clearly just not straight 4ās are better than Franz
Lebron
Kawhi
George
Tatum
Brown
Butler
Iād bucket him with Mikal Bridges, Scotty Barnesā¦so like 7th to 9th?
Above average starter!
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a michigan man would never laugh at something so sophomoric
but luckily i didnāt go to michigan
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Iāve never been so proud of a typo!
No Patrick Williams?
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Now youāre just trolling Colin
Maybe France has sort of figured out that Gobert and Wembyana are a hat on a hat?
these have to be the two best dunks over frenchmen in the history of the olympics, right?
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Only in the German division 
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Oy vey guys. Being a +1 player makes you like the 80th best player in the NBA. Also makes you not well above average. Thereās a lot of minutes eaten up by dudes who arenāt any good. Like, for example, Killian Hayes and James Wiseman.
Mo fouled out chefās kiss
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Moe cursing under his breath about fouling out is vintage Moe Wagner.
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Iām not watching anymore, but did he put his arms straight up in the air acting like he didnāt reach?
i was sure that throw back inbounds was going to end up in german hands and then wembanyama just grabs it 60% of the way through the trajectory i expected
side note itās weird to me that these games donāt show any info about what the stakes are. just āolympic games.ā maybe this is because the mechanisms involved in this tournament seem pretty kafkaesque but itās annoying to not know the context. like is france eliminated if they lose, etc.
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Iām honestly not convinced either is thrilled to be there. Weird stuff.