The injury to stretch big man Mike Scott at the end of the first round series against the Brooklyn Nets wasn’t an ideal situation as the Philadelphia 76ers are now in a hard series against the Toronto Raptors. Scott missed the first two games of this second round matchup against Toronto, which forced head coach Brett Brown to rely on one of his rookies.
16th pick, 2018
Sadly, Zhaire Smith wasn’t the rookie that Brown had to rely upon in Scott’s absence. Part of that had to do with the fact that Smith is a wing and Scott is a big.