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.
Victor is going to be a monster if healthy. Dude is smart and csn ball and clearly has the physical gift.
Tacko Fall is like 7’5” and he can’t even make a roster
These “he’s raw at everything but just look at those measurables” prospects fail a very high % of the time. Especially when you add motor issues into the mix.
How many teams have wasted draft picks on trying to find the next kawhi or next giannis? Too damn many!
Hoes calling his phone
All the size in the world doesn’t matter if you don’t have talent. Bamba just isn’t good at basketball Wemby would be an nba IMo if he were 6’6 Bamba at 6’6 would be selling insurance
Overhyped and actually sucks. Tale as old as time.
He had that song then it was all down hill.
Don’t over think it. Humans are humans. If they didn’t have their aspirations set high enough, the money from a rookie contract may have been all they wanted.
Kobe said he found it easier to dominate in the NBA since some people truly only played for a paycheck instead of a drive to win and succeed.
Have you seen him play?
He wouldn’t be in the league anymore if he wasn’t so high of a draft pick.
No work ethic. They took him out of Harlem at 14 and he got soft in prep school. Never played in Anything with smoke. He has no work ethic
It’s as if there’s more to this game of basketball than only having right body. Who knew.
You need supreme coordination at that size and length which requires double as much work as normally proportioned players
Had to be the song just way too hype.
People would not remember him by now if the song never existed
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.
sound like wiseman