The Clippers bench, despite the crowing of Clippers fans during the offseason, really kind of sucks this year. Granted, there wasn’t much that coach/proud father/GM/ref-starer Doc Rivers could do given the limited resources at his disposal. I mean, who the heck would ever want Spencer Hawes? He found someone who did. That right there is elite general-management work.
The way his bench mob is playing isn’t exactly his fault either. Josh Smith has regressed. That was an easily predictable outcome for him. Lance Stephenson was already regressed, and has not un-regressed very much if at all. Again, predictable. Austin Rivers, though, he… well he still also isn’t that good. Not getting too much worse at least. That’s positive! Or, not a negative. Same thing, really.