NBA: 5 reasons why the Philadelphia 76ers are the team to avoid in the East Playoffs

#3 A deep rotation

#9 Dario Saric

Early on in the season, the 76ers suffered in the win-loss record in large part due to the lack of quality bench players. Bryan Colangelo, the 76ers' President of the Basketball Operations, signed Marco Belinelli and Ersan Ilyasova as free agents post the trade deadline, and this has helped their depth chart significantly.

The Sixers rotation can now legitimately be up to 9 players deep, with TJ McConnell and Amir Johnson as the other two reliable bench players. The importance of a deep rotation can never be overstated, as we saw in the 2016 Western Conference Finals when the Oklahoma City Thunder's shortened rotation meant that their players ran out of gas in the last two games of the series.