It’s never good when your point guard goes down with an injury. For the Philadelphia 76ers, losing their point guard was even more devastating considering that they had no other point guards on their roster behind the backup guard, T.J. McConnell.
With McConnell generally looked at as a guard that isn’t a true NBA caliber point guard, the games played without Sergio Rodriguez — who recently sustained a sprained ankle — looked as if they had potential to be disasterous. The team would have to not only start the game without their regular starter, but they would have to play portions of the game without any true point guard running the show, putting someone like Nik Stauskas or Gerald Henderson at point, players not used to calling plays and running floor general.