This is complete and utter nonsense. In the Elite 8 against Kansas, hardly a dimly lit game, Bell was a monster with 11 points (5/6 fg), 13 rebounds, 8 blocks, and 4 assists.Every player has different weaknesses in their game (I mean except Lebron and Durant. I don't think they even own weaknesses). In some cases where you go to spend a year (or, 2, 3, even sometimes 4) playing college basketball can be an opportunity to work on those weaknesses. Tatum wanted to work on his three point shot, so he went to Duke (for instance).
I just say this to say that obviously there are great players in all kinds of conferences. But Jordan Bell's specific weakness is a mental one. He shrinks. During a regular season game he's just tremendous. But if you turn the lights on? He crumbles. And I am just suggesting that he could have worked on this weakness by playing Big Time college basketball, where the stakes are lower than the NBA, as opposed to taking the 10-20K to play at Oregon. Now, I don't know his financial situation so it could have been that $$$ was needed. If so, I retract (though presumably he could have gone the Louisville route).
The thing is...all this is moot. Steve Kerr is a smart dude. He's going to play and feature Bell this year and get his main guys lots of rest. And then when the playoffs come around he'll staple Bell to the bench where he can't do any damage, perhaps giving him some pity minutes late in games in blowouts. But Kerr knows what we know and saw what we all saw. When the moment came, Jordan Bell exited the stage.
In the game you like to point to, he scored 13 (5/7 fg), 16 rebounds, 4 blocks, an assist and a steal. He carried his team in the tournament and fell just short of getting them to the finals.
