I am not entirely sure why the Sixers signed him if he is not going to play at all. He is not going to take away Embiid or Reed Minutes, so then where does he fit in? Is there a way to play him instead of Morris for back up minutes. He is only 25 and statistically, is not a bad player. He gets boards and and can shoot a little for a big.

  • justinheyhiBEnglish
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    1 year ago

    He was a safety-net that was dependent on A LOT of things –

    1. How long the Harden dilemma was going to be.
    2. If he was needed in a package.
    3. The return from the trade.
    4. How well those pieces meshed with the rest of the team under NN.
    5. His development under NN’s coaching staff.

    It just so happened that the pieces LAC sent back fit almost perfectly with the rest of the team (sans Morris) off the jump, under NN, that Bamba was pretty much an after-thought.

    Now that Oubre is injured however, Bamba needed to seize this opportunity to gain minutes over Morris, but unfortunately those “complacency” labels about him that he tried to remove from his appearance on RTRS are showing to be true.