2021-2022 ROSTER TALK: [ARCHIVED]

[SleepingHero]

He can't do much of anything at a high level yet. It's all potential with him, whether you believe in it or not. 

He's obviously a much better prospect than Moses Brown, for example, but on defense I'd say he's not likely to become the kind of center we've been discussing recently, since I feel like that's what you're getting at. Probably worth taking a look at, but not at a super high price, imo.

He gets absolutely torched off the swtich in a PnR setting. Bamba ranked in the 19th percentile in defending PnR's  (For reference, our very own Dwight Powell was in the 79th percentile in defending the PnR this year). 

He has slow lateral movements which isn't out of the ordinary for the behemoth that he his. He isn't very good as a screener in the PnR setting either as he's ranked in the 23rd percentile for PnR screener. But is this because the system doesn't play to his strengths or is he just truly terrible at the PnR, the bread and butter of Luka?

What Bamba does bring though is a unique stretch big. He's in the 47th percentile for spot ups, where most of his threes comes from. 

I don't see the fit for Bamba unless he's replacing Maxi, which is the role that most similarly plays to his current strengths. But we're also losing out on Maxi's elite D so it doesn't make sense to make Bamba a priority tbh.