Embiid is out for the year. MCW, Wroten, McDaniels, and Noel im in agreement with you they are developmental prospects. Mbah a Moute and Shved are NBA role players. The other 8 are 14th-15th men on most other NBA rosters.
My point with the "busts" is that they are low production but higher potential players. Given minutes and no worries about being benched they have a chance to save their careers.
I actually think Henry Sims could be a pretty solid player. Not an all star or anything but 3rd or 4th big type potential. He has better per 36 numbers than Tyler Zeller for example.
Chris Johnson certainly wasn't a 14th or 15th man for Boston last year.
Brandon Davies had a fairly prolific college career and seems to be making the appropriate strides in his second year in the league.
The reality is Philly is taking flyers on people, some of them might pan out, some of them might not, but even if 1 or 2 of those guys become half the players that Ben Wallace was, it will pay off for them.
Actually Chris Johnson was a 14th or 15th man. It was various injuries to guys like Rondo, AB, Wallace and the trades of Lee and Crawford that opened the way into the rotation for him. And this year he was a 16th man for Boston.
And in what world is Henry Sims outperforming Zeller on a per 36 basis? Zeller has him beat in virtually every category, including a near doubling (!) of his FG%.
The reality is Philly has deliberately filled their roster with injured guys, 2nd round picks and other teams' 14th-18th men.
Career per 36
Sims 14.2 p, 9.7 r, 2.3 a, 1.1 s, 0.7 b 47.3%
Zeller 11.9 p, 8.4 r, 1.6 a, 0.6 s, 1.3 b 47.9%
Sims better.
As for Johnson if you start counting injuries and players not around, he doesn't even make the rotation for Philly either (MCW, Noel, Embiid, Saric).
Ha! Everyone called me crazy when I kept bringing him (Sims) up, but he's turned into a pretty good player. He might not be a star, but he would have been great to have backing up KG - especially with his passing ability. Sigh. Another one bites the dust. I really don't understand how guys like him and Wesley Matthews go UNDRAFTED. Seriously?
Also, that 2012 draft could have yielded a great haul for us in Sullinger, Wroten, and Sims, but who am I kidding, Doc never would have played either of the last two guys. The pick after Sullinger, for me, was between Moultrie, Wroten, and PJ III. They were the best players available, especially the last two. Ugh. I really wish that we could have gotten KJ McDaniels, too. This team would look very different today. We could have just kept the old guys, sans Terry, and added most of the players who the 76ers have now to our bench in Wroten, who I thought looked like a Lance Stephenson-type of player with his size and passing ability, Sullinger, of course, Sims, James Young, and KJ McDaniels. Of course, I also thought that we should have signed Oden in 2013, but that was before he was involved in that episode of domestic violence, which I cannot, and will not, ever overlook or tolerate. That aside, all that would have been left for us to do was to trade for the Greek Freak, and our core of Rondo, Bradley, McDaniels, Giannis, Sullinger, Wroten, Young, and Sims, in addition to KG and Pierce, looks very promising, but alas, it was not to be. Thanks Danny (sarcasm)!
