Its harder for Jb's system to take a guy who does alittle of some things but isn't a stat stuffer, A guy who does nothing to well and bring him off the bench. Thats one reason JB goes with Freshmen fabs, raks, and dajuans as starters, they fit that role early on but still get the mcdonalds all american press by starting.
JB uses guys like Baye as energy off the bench. Its good to get a lead with your less evolved players, then bring in the kill team to intimidate even more. By the time your less evolved guys come back in opponents haven't forgot what they did to them early on, or the potential they have. You bring your best offensive/defensive fire off the bench and they are more focused on stoping your runs then seeing opportunity in the meat of the game after warming up early on. Sometimes it even can take the fun out of opponents games, make them roll the dice more, and make you look electric.
One reason starting triche worked so well in 09-10 and 11-12 was scoop, kjo, dion and fair coming off the bench after him, there you have 4 isolation and fire guys that worked well off the bench for a offensive spark. Just like Southerland last year he was hit miss but when he was hit he was offensive fierceness off the bench. Meanwhile Triche would get his points as a 3rd 4th,even 5th scoring option early on those teams, but never really settled into a true second scoring option in all his years here (until that @ michigan final four game, but he still wasn't the second scoring option early on in that game).
Grant is going to be that guy this year, Baye will be the other 6th man as a defensive spark. Tough to tell how Gbinije could try to stand out to help motivate the team with his energy off the bench thusfar. I think he may be trying to take a step back and trying to do less this year running the offense and earn things more off hustle then off of one on one me opportunities. He was a scorer that looked to score his entire life up until the last week. And I give him credit for taking a step back against cornell, as his opportunity to run the scoring will be there as a jr/senior if he is more ready by then. If he mentally believes, undestands and buys into that, Gbinije could look to aid this team in a different way then he expected, and make it alot better.