Watching Wemby, I started googling to see who the most recent physical comparable would be.
Bamba is 7’0 with a 7’10" .
Drafted 6th and has done jack shit in 5 seasons. Still just 25 years old but a clear bust.
Did this freak of nature just not have any interest in basketball? Any major injuries? Does seem so. WTF happened to him?
Imagine getting a genetic lottery ticket of being 7’ with a 7’10" wingspan and just decide youy’ll quiet quit your way through your NBA career.
Bamba and Wemby are nothing alike. Why is this a question lol
Basically think of Wemby but take away -10 to all his stats and that’s Bamba. Not fast enough not tall enough to negate it not smart enough to read the floor not strong enough to play as a true 5 not hard working enough to improve on any of those negatives and lastly not healthy enough. A shame because he will have random flashes showing the possibilities but they’re few and far between. Basically what you see Wemby do in 20min takes Bamba half a season to do.
You need supreme coordination at that size and length which requires double as much work as normally proportioned players
Nothing went wrong, he just isn’t good at basketball. He has all the physical tools but absolutely none of the mental ones or even basic fundamentals. He couldn’t box out or even set screens and had really really bad awareness. He was also a bit moody, would get down on himself for missing a shot or committing a foul, and that would just pull him down even further. Absolutely no motor either, very low effort if his shot wasn’t falling. I mean he was getting beat for minutes by a Khem Birch simply because Birch knew how to do basic shit like get in rebounding positions and set actual screens.
Dude just isn’t a basketball player. Really just an example of how far you can get with those physical traits and not much else. I know this sounds harsh but it’s true. I watched damn near every game he played for us.
u/SincereFan
I was trying to find his name here too lol. I think he’d get flamed pretty hard if he wrote one of his essays in this thread
Bol Bol is definitely more comparable to Wembanyama both physically and skillset wise. Wembanyama is Bol Bol if he was taller and a LOT better. a LOTTA lot
Effort
the song
We expected Mo Bamba but we got Les Bamba
Being tall doesn’t equate to being good.
Giannis has a sibling playing basketball. ON THE BUCKS.
His brother is fucking awful. And would not be in the league if it weren’t for Giannis.
Bamba’s physical attributes got him to the league. Then, it’s about ability (and, every great once in a while, having the best player in the world as your brother.)
I’m taller than Chris Paul but could not make the NBA, might as well be asking what went wrong with me
IQ and work ethic are extremely underrated predictors of a basketball player’s success and athletics/physical abilities are vastly overrated…how many “freak athletes” have we seen flop? there are literally dozens of examples… how many “unathletic” players plummeted in the draft only to become All-Stars and Super Stars?