Philadelphia 76ers bench is team’s Achilles Heel for NBA Playoffs

This bench needs a plan

Have you ever visited someone’s home where the furniture seems to clash directly with every other piece of furniture in the room? Right now, the Philadelphia 76ers bench feels like that. Yes, part of Bryan Colangelo’s inheritance from the previous regime included pieces which did not fit the space, pace, pass mantra. But those players, Jahlil Okafor and Nik Stauskas, were traded to the Brooklyn Nets for Trevor Booker. Booker was already cut by the team. And to add insult to injury, the Philadelphia 76ers kicked in a second round pick to make the deal go down.

The team did worse than just outright cutting Okafor and Stauskas. Imagine that.  Cutting both players would have saved the team a 2nd round pick. One day, that will matter.

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Who’s role is it anyways?

But the true issue was not what the team did not get in compensation, but the fiasco that followed. It was as though the entire objective of the front office was to rid the team of Okafor. When that happened, they rested.  On one hand, they didn’t address the empty roster spot. On the other hand, they didn’t act to swap misfiring parts in trades to bring in more compatible parts.

In face, they simply rested. Whose responsibility it was, did not get the 76ers bench ready for post season.  And the bench failed the head coach because it was undermanned, full of injured players, and simply did not offer players who could play in the higher paced 76ers scheme.  Whatever the Philadelphia 76ers intended to do, they simply didn’t get it done. And that is not a good sign for a team trying to get to the playoffs for the first time. It was as though the front office was on the wrong page all along.