I wanted Bamba because he is a 7 footer that can hit 3s…I’ve definitely wondered though why he can’t seem to stick anywhere or get more than a vet min contract…what else is he doing(or not doing)? I have not watched him at all, so I really don’t know.
Bamba is Bol Bol without the driving and close up game. Maybe a tiny bit stronger, but not much.
A few noteworthy things around the league: looks like Derozan is out of Chicago, Kyle Anderson signed with the Warriors, Tillman back with the Celts and Moe Wagner the Magic, and wiseman signed with the Pacers.
I was asking because you'd be trading the teams best rebounder for a guy who rebounds like a SG.
In fact, last year Nurkic had the best rebounding percentage in the league.
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I sense some anger and frustration in this. I hope you are doing alright Inf.
Ok, Yoda.
No anger or frustration. My apologies for coming across that way. I meant what I wrote without any hidden meaning; I don't understand the commentary here. Your clarification about scouting reports still doesn't really make sense to me. He is a 7-footer that can hit 3s. I don't think it needs to be more complicated than that, especially when he is playing on a minimum deal. He doesn't need to be Reggie Miller.
I didn’t want to write a whole bunch on this but I guess I should have. I felt like you were quite worked up with your response coz of the ?!, I wasn’t trying to read any hidden meaning.
As for an explanation for myself I guess it gets a bit lost without the benefit of a proper timeline, and me posting only one liners certainly didn’t help.
When I posted my original question which FF responded to, Bamba hadn’t signed anywhere yet. I was intrigued by his potential on paper but wasn’t sure if he’s someone worth going after, pretty much the exact same sentiment that Split just posted. So I asked on the board why he isn’t more sought after — if we are talking undertones, it is precisely because I had the vague notion that he’s a 7 footer with a massive wingspan who shot threes that I wondered why there was not more buzz over him.
In terms of how I think of him as a shooter, I have to be very clear, I hadn’t watched any of his games. He may average a decent percentage from the three point line but I guess I wasn’t ready to judge him on box score numbers alone. After all Eubanks shot 38% in Portland before he came to us (admittedly on lower volume). And therefore, I posed the question, what are his perceived flaws that make him not a hot free agent target.
I had no real intentions of trashing him or his new minimum deal. In fact I was rather hoping we signed him to that deal but wasn’t sure if that would’ve been a good thing or not given the relative lack of noise over him. In fact KOC and Vernon kind of make fun of him on their podcast and I genuinely wondered why.
