I’m enjoying the sixers win as much as anybody, but with 11 games down, I have to ask: When will we see Oshae Brisset have a big game? Much has been made about our lack of depth, true or false, but I was expecting Oshae to be a bigger bench piece and play more minutes than he has. What am I missing?
They brought in Svi because they needed some threats on the perimeter, but it’s clear that the organization recognizes that we have a bench problem.
Kornet is playing well enough that maybe we could hold off on making a move for a big, but Hauser really struggled in the starting lineup. We don’t really have true 7th and 8th men. Al is great as a #6 but the fall-off there is too steep.
Hauser has been great off the bench but giving him additional responsibilities in the lineup kind of exposed him. He’s a rotational guy and if we have one starter might be okay, but having two out? That becomes a problem because Hauser isn’t good enough and our depth certainly isn’t good enough.
The bench needs to be able to consistently score ~30-35 points per game. We just don’t have that. It would be great if we could get 10-15 pts a game from Horford. But as it stands no one bench is going to drop 10 pts per game let alone 15 (think Hauser is at 9.5 right now).
The coaching staff is going to need to get really creative with lineups or we’re going to need to bring in new people to get more consistency out of the bench.