03-11-2021, 04:55 PM
(This post was last modified: 03-11-2021, 05:02 PM by HanspardShowerVoice.)
(03-11-2021, 04:21 PM)omahen Wrote: I would throw him in as a third big, basically replacing the minutes WCS and Powell get. If it works, his minutes could increase by playing DFS less at PF with Bamba, KP and Kleber taking all PF/C minutes. If he would develop as it was expected, he would fit very nicely with both KP or Kleber.
But, he is extremely raw, imho. Excellent physical predispositions but not really good at playing basketball. He was also very unfortunate with injuries and serious case of Covid that took both of his NBA summers he could work on improving the game.
Orlando is my locally televised team. The big issue with Bamba is just low energy/effort on consistent basis. They have 1 All Star, who plays his position. They try to give Bamba minutes at the 4 to give him time, but it just exposes all of his weaknesses on defense .. bad lateral quickness, bad court awareness, rudimentary concepts of team defense, and poor effort on closing out (especially if he has to make multiple efforts). He's not the type of self starter who is going to really work hard to improve himself in the gym or with conditioning when he's not getting minutes, the way that Marcin Gortat did in Orlando coming from a low level German League when he was stuck behind D12 and Adonal Foyle and just built himself into an NBA player out of sheer determination and strength of will. He's stuck behind not only Vuc, but also behind Khem Birch because Orlando wants to get into the playoffs and Khem Birch is just honestly better at basketball that Bamba right now. Bamba really just needs to go to a team like OKC who doesn't care at all about winning games and gets minutes while being badly exposed.