[DAY 3] Jeff Teague says he would take Paolo Banchero over Victor Wembanyama

[3ddman23]

What's the point of debating it. Y'all will continue to say Paolo is an efficient chucker and wemby is goat no matter how much the magic succeed or how bad the spurs are. 2 season in a row the magic have been better then the spurs well continue to see how this trend goes. Wemby now has a very talent team around him. No excuses from here on out.

[bkkrh]

At this point I´m really starting to wonder if this is some secret operation from another message board to flood the General Board with the most annoying topics.

- Teague says that, Shaq says this
- How long are we still going to pretend that Zan Tabak isn´t the 93rd greatest Center of all time
- Here is a trade idea how the Lakers can add Lewis Hamilton as their bus driver for Gabe Vincent-

Nobody outside of the team he was currently playing on ever cared about Jeff Teague, it´s obviously nothing but click bait and posts like this just drive up the view count of this crap.

[tsherkin]

I can't envision a coherent pro-Banchero argument. Orlando was HORRENDOUS on offense and he wasn't a good defender, while they very clearly won with their defense. The difference between his situation and Wemby's is that his team was much, much better around him in areas where he wasn't any good, and Wemby's team was crap at everything. Wemby's defensive impact was huge AND he was a much better offensive player than Banchero.

There just isn't a good way to articulate a position which favors Paolo.

[Bornstellar]

now before anyone hates, Wemby is more talented, but as seen with this year and Chet, health is harder for people with Wemby’s build.

Paolo was injured too, but his injury was much more standard, and less concerning

Plus Paolo is insanely sturdy, he’s not a walking stick, dude is a grown man with full muscle

Lmao what? Banchero has had more basketball injuries than Wemby at this point. Wemby's injury was a freak thing that was not basketball related and he's already been 100% cleared. There is no evidence that Wemby's build makes him injury prone. He played 71 games his rookie season and could have played more. He was fine last season until the blood clot which, again, is not a basketball injury

[Bornstellar]

I'm also fully convinced Teague is just saying outlandish nonsense right now to drive engagement. It's basically ragebait

[bisme37]

Ok I spent 10 hard minutes considering a Jeff Teague megathread and I think I've come up with a better idea: let's stop talking about Jeff Teague.

Unless the next Jeff Teague update is about him curing cancer, please put all ensuing Jeff Teague content in the "2025 General Offseason Discussion Thread (NBA news, random thoughts, etc.)"...
https://forums.realgm.com/boards/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=2465130

We don't need new threads for every dump this gentleman takes, and RGM is not an official advertiser for Jeff Teague's podcast or whatever it is. Please and thank you.