"God, this kid... he's really something to envy."
Watching Antetokounmpo's game footage, Wade kept sighing in amazement.
He had thought Durant was freakish enough, thought he would be one of a kind.
But now, a player with physical gifts even more freakish than Durant's had emerged.
"Link, are you sure you can handle this beast?" Wade was genuinely worried. It wasn't that he didn't trust Link, but the other guy was just too far beyond the norm!
In the footage, Antetokounmpo's athleticism and physical tools seemed to be on a completely different level from everyone else's. And this was the NBA!
In Wade's younger days, a player like this simply could not have existed. Andre Kirilenko? Compared to Antetokounmpo, even Kirilenko seemed too "normal."
One look at Antetokounmpo's game footage made it clear that many teams couldn't guard him with a small forward at all. They had to put a center directly on him!
The reason was simple: true small forwards simply couldn't stop him!
Yet even centers were at a serious disadvantage against the Greek Freak.
Antetokounmpo possessed agility that most centers in the league could never hope to match.
Though he was a big man too, Antetokounmpo had none of that lumbering feel. He often blew past opposing centers in a single step, and even Drummond had not been spared a few days ago.
So no matter who Antetokounmpo matched up against, it felt as though he had a mismatch.
Those as agile as him weren't as tall or as strong. Those as tall and strong as him were easily beaten off the dribble in a single step.
That was Antetokounmpo's advantage. A gap in physical gifts like that wasn't necessarily something effort and skill could make up for.
"To be honest... I really don't know how it'll