Say whatever y'all want about Ben and he deserves it but 100% of the blame for this entire fiasco is on Morey, Doc and Joel... No way around it
Everything nikkas saying about Ben can be said about a bunch of young players in the league. KAT is coddled in Minny. Kristaps was coddled in NY. Trae Young is being coddled in Atlanta. The ONLY difference between them and Simmons is their organizations. KAT was crying behind the scenes about Thibs coaching style and how “that’s not how we did things in Kentucky” and the organization fired the coach. Kristaps became discontent with the Knicks organization, they tried to mend things, when they realized they couldn’t, the cut ties seemingly overnight before the assett diminished. ATL has built their entire franchise around Trae’s skillset, fired their coach the second they got a hint that he was frustrated and it was leaking into the teams chemistry.
Meanwhile, the Sixers have insisted on forcing a square peg into a round hole. They’re trying to build their roster around 2 stars that don’t fit together at all and aren’t doing the best job of it anymore. Y’all admit he’s been coddled and then all in one night, everything wrong with the organization is his fault. Not only did River and Embiid throw him under the bus, nobody in the organization came out to do damage control after the fact either. They just let the shyt linger in the media for days. Why the fukk would he come back after that. What organizations is shytting on their star and he’s coming back to “prove them wrong”.
I get the Philly fans being irrational in all this cause they’re too close to this shyt emotionally. But anyone from the outside looking in shytting on Ben alone is wild.
