Thomas Bryant

I know Kenny likes to play 10 deep.

It looks like Craig Porter Jr. is probably the odd man out at this point, except for Thomas Bryant.

Thomas Bryant's yet to play a minute this year, if I remember correctly.

Yeah, he

hasn't.

Thomas Bryant, Porter Jr., yeah, they haven't played.

And then, obviously, the injury to the other forward who's out.

But, yeah, the Cavs went 10 deep.

Really had the feel of a game where everybody contributed in some form or fashion.

And for, it must be noted, for the fourth straight game, Thomas Bryant, TB has logged a DNP.

We have not seen Thomas Bryant make his season debut yet.

And I hate to say it, but with guys playing the way that they are, we may not for a little while, unless there's an injury that occurs or it's a rest night, a built-in rest night.

And maybe with Cleveland's schedule being what it is right now, right? Because if I'm not mistaken, they will actually be taking on the Atlanta Hawks tomorrow.

maybe we see TB in that one just because you don't want to push these guys too hard on a, on the second leg of a back-to-back.

Maybe that's when we finally see him make his season debut.

But I did want to note that because we're four games in now and we still haven't seen Thomas Bryant.

You've got to see what works, what doesn't.

By the way, I think we're two games in and we haven't actually seen Thomas Bryant yet.

I thought we would have, but I can't be mad at the choice not to because it's not like Philly played big.

They don't.

They don't operate well.

as a big unit out there so it didn't make sense to have thomas bryant out there most of that game and then with the nets tonight um i really didn't think that thomas bryant warranted minutes tonight either and that's not an indictment on him but i didn't think the game was going that way truly um leonard moyer says do you think kenny needs to simplify the young guy's positions Um, maybe, but again, what does that look like? When you say simplify, what do you mean? Are you saying purely play Tyrese Proctor as a two purely play CPJ at the one purely play, um, Malik Thomas as a two guard, or I don't know how you view them.

Right.

I don't, I don't know if you mean like positionally based, uh, positionally based or, uh, you know, roles, things like that.

I came away with Kavon Looney as the 30th ranked backup center in the NBA.

The only two guys I think you can make an argument for that same ballpark as him, and maybe you could put those guys behind him if you wanted to make that case, are Mo Wagner and Thomas Bryant.

But I would rather have either one of those guys than Kavon Looney, which is why I had them ranked ahead of him.

But quickly, I mean, we can go through this here.

So really it's like the, I thought the Baron J minutes were really rough for Minnesota in that Miami game.

Then you get to Wagner, who came off a knee injury, is the backup now in Brooklyn, and then Bryant and Looney.

So, yeah, I do think Thomas Bryant is probably a bottom three or bottom four backup in the league.

Now, to be clear, we're talking like second string because some of these teams have, again, like OKC, for example, has Mara and J Will, who if we're actually listing like all backup bigs, then there's several teams with even third string guys who are better than Looney.