Greg Waddell:
Whoβs your favorite Chet?
Allow me to posit some options:
Do you know how damn frustrating it must be to be Chet Holmgren?
I mean four years ago Chet was a 7-foot high school crossing up Steph Curry at his own camp.
The kid was literally doing things the sport had never seen. He was generational.
Then fast forward four years, throw in a pinch of bad injury luck and way too much Spokane, and what happens?
He never even got to be generational for five minutes before an even MORE generational unicorn showed up and stole his shine.
I mean imagine how annoying that must be!
As I sit here and write this late on a Friday night, Chet Holmgrenβs team just won their second straight game to open the season.
Chet had 16 points, 13 rebounds, 2 assists, a steal, made 3 threes, and had 7 (SEVEN), I repeat sietΓ© (7) blocks.
And not a person has said a word to me about it. You know why? Because of this guy:
Wemby spurred (pun intended) a furious comeback for San Antonio late in the 4th that was just filled with highlights I quite simply havenβt seen before. Itβs like watching that one 5th grader thatβs randomly 6β3β already and nobody knows what to do about it.
I feel supremely confident in saying this:
There will never be another Victor Wembanyama.
Which makes me sad.
Because people used to say that about Chet.
And now thereβs already another Chet.
I think anybody who is really good at something they love, spends a bunch of time on it and then ultimately gets better and better and better at it until it becomes their entire lifeβ¦I think those people all like to think theyβre unique. Theyβre one of one. Theyβre a unicorn.
But the truth is - theyβre usually not. Like this guy.
This guy was the best drummer the world had ever seen. Until he broke his hand. And then Guy the drummer took over and the Oneders became mega-famous. Because somebody else was generational.
Or this guy.
Pretty darn good quarterback right? Until he took a hit from Mo Lewis. The rest was history. Because somebody else was generational.
I tell Cart all the time, we have a special opportunity. I like to think thereβs nobody who wants to create compelling sports entertainment content more than us. I like to think thereβs nobody who has chemistry we have. Or the charisma and quick wit and inside/outside game that Cart has. Or the idea brain or the dad strength or the three-level content abilities that I have.
But the truth? The truth is thereβs probably some other 6β2β caucasian 194-pound man that runs a mile every morning, eats fruit, works from home, parents from home, podcasts from home, produces the podcast, loves his daughter, loves his wife, opened for Chance The Rapper, worked three jobs in sports content to get a foot in the door, went from a Director-level marketing gig to hosting shows at the Final Four in six months, has three consecutive seasons of college basketball bets concluding in 30+ units above .500, launched his own company, stamped it with an LLC, is growing that shit from scratch into a special ass community, doesnβt like wet foods, and wouldnβt have gone 1-4 on bets last week because he can do all of this better than I can.
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Orβ¦
Maybe I can still be generational, I just had a bad week and itβs time for me to put the world on notice. Because like Chet Holmgren, Iβm a white boy that has some shit to me.
#SLAB
Onto picks.
Records:
ATS picks: Greg (23-22-1), Cart (15-15-1)
1-4 for Greg last week, 0-0 for Carter while he was gallivanting around the West Coast. Editorβs note: he is now home.
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