As everyone knows, the Philadelphia 76ers haven’t gotten the kind of production they were hoping to get from Jared McCain. While his rust was to be expected considering he missed almost an entire calendar year due to a few injuries, he has admittedly been pretty awful for the most part. In fact, he’s been in Nick Nurse’s doghouse for a while now.
However, things seem to have changed for him over the last few games. After seeing significant playing time in the team’s last two outings, the second-year guard has found his groove, scoring 16.5 points in that span on 57 percent shooting from the field, including a 60 percent success rate from downtown. At this point, the 76ers should just give him consistent minutes and resort to the inevitable trade they’re in denial about — a trade involving Quentin Grimes.
Grimes, who started the season as one of the unquestionable favorites to lift the Sixth Man of the Year award, has struggled mightily since December. His numbers are down across the board, and there’s little to suggest he can turn things around given how sour his production has been since his consumption dropped.
The 76ers should finally trade Quentin Grimes and focus on Jared McCain
Frankly, Grimes and McCain are redundant off the bench. Both are score-first guards who are likely better off the ball. But it would do the 76ers more justice if they focused on the latter, who is the younger product and likely still commands the higher ceiling.
Grimes has struggled so much that it’s becoming increasingly difficult to justify the fact that he’s still averaging nearly 30 minutes a night. Meanwhile, the 76ers haven’t quite given McCain the reps he needs to fully regain his mojo. Simply put, the coaching staff has given the sophomores a major slump.
That said, McCain has consistently shown that he can produce when given real, non-dirty court time. Since the team is heavily dependent on Tyrese Maxey and VJ Edgecombe anyway, trading Grimes won’t exactly cripple them. In fact, he should still be good enough to give the 76ers some real assets they can use moving forward.
If the 76ers want to maximize their expiring contracts, trading Quentin Grimes should be a no-brainer for them. Jared McCain is more than capable of filling in in the first place anyway, albeit without the associated headaches with his contract.
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