Ben Simmons thrown out of practice; suspended by Sixers

[Sghost597]

Whats crazy is people are not even asking much of him

It's even worse when defender are sitting in the paint and giving him opening shots.

Just getting disrespected like that and he don't feel any type of way about it... I'd take that personally.

 

[concise]

Amazing scouting report.

 

[Joe Sixpack]

Philly still took him #1

 

[Serious]

You know what @Leasy keep simmons. We good.

Blazers are pulling out.

 

[concise]

DraftExpress - Why Ben Simmons Is Not The Top Prospect in the 2016 NBA Draft

found the article it came from:

The report on defending Simmons in the half-court is well known and was utilized effectively in recent weeks. Teams put smaller players on Simmons, backing off him and daring him to shoot. Simmons seems to have zero confidence in his outside shot and becomes passive when guarded this way. For his size (6-10), Simmons is a gifted ball-handler. He has an incredible ability to change speeds, get to the rim and finish in transition. In the half-court, things haven't been quite as easy against better teams, particularly late in games. There are real questions about pairing Simmons with other ball-handlers or non-shooters in the NBA. Does drafting Simmons in the high lottery mean a team needs to trade the likes of D'Angelo Russell, Julius Randle, Jahlil Okafor or Dario Saric? 4. Simmons' teammates aren't as bad as many would lead you to believe. LSU has six consensus top-100 recruits on their roster (and two more who were ranked just outside the top-100 by various outlets), far more than the overwhelming majority of teams that made this year's NCAA Tournament. If Simmons were truly the -transcendent can't miss superstar many would lead you to believe, he would have found ways to win games against the likes of College of Charleston, Houston, Wake Forest, Marquette, Tennessee, Alabama, N.C. State and South Carolina, all of whom are ranked outside of the KenPom Top-50. LSU doesn't lack talent as much as they lack chemistry, and part of the blame for that has to go to their best player. Many will point the finger to LSU's head coach Johnny Jones as the culprit behind his team's underachieving, and there certainly is some truth to that. But Simmons has no one to blame for that but himself. Simmons may never get the chance to pick his head coach again in his career, and he decided to put his faith in Jones and his own godfather David Patrick. If Simmons was so quick to quit on his own self-described family member and the head coach he handpicked for himself to lead him at the college level, as soon as things got a little bit difficult, what will happen when he hits a patch of adversity at the NBA level? Will his future agent demand a trade? Or for the head coach to be fired like Simmons' supposed new best friend LeBron James reportedly did with David Blatt? - Source: DraftExpress - Why Ben Simmons Is Not The Top Prospect in the 2016 NBA Draft ©DraftExpress

 

[Darts]

DraftExpress - Why Ben Simmons Is Not The Top Prospect in the 2016 NBA Draft

found the article it came from:

Lol interesting Philly is playing tonight against the player they could've had instead. I hope BI shows out.

 

[Leasy]

Philly still took him #1

You know what @Leasy keep simmons. We good.

Blazers are pulling out.

 

[RubioTheCruel]

DraftExpress - Why Ben Simmons Is Not The Top Prospect in the 2016 NBA Draft

found the article it came from:

Parts of the article are gospel regarding his offensive prowess but to turn yourself from a defensive liability to the best overall defender in the NBA is something to be commended - he had to put some work/effort in to do that. It's an extremely confounding situation.

 

[AVXL]

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.

Aye bro I get what you’re saying but leave the Hawks out of this. LP and Trae had beef for at least 2 years before LP got fired. The Hawks made a decision to move from LP only after they determined that LP could no longer lead this franchise, it wasn’t just a Trae thing

 

[NatiboyB]

Philly still took him #1

i mean he was the number 1 pick. 9/10 people would of took him. 6’11 240LB athletic, handles, good court vision put up 19/12/5 I mean you can’t really say that the dude shouldn’t of been 1st.

matter of fact if he wasn’t a mental midget and would shoot I bet we would be talking about him being one of the top players in the league. But I guess we should of seen he was soft by how he did at LSU.

 

[RubioTheCruel]

But I guess we should of seen he was soft by how he did at LSU.

Him not even making the tourney at LSU should have been a major red flag

 

[Thavoiceofthevoiceless]

i mean he was the number 1 pick. 9/10 people would of took him. 6’11 240LB athletic, handles, good court vision put up 19/12/5 I mean you can’t really say that the dude shouldn’t of been 1st.

matter of fact if he wasn’t a mental midget and would shoot I bet we would be talking about him being one of the top players in the league. But I guess we should of seen he was soft by how he did at LSU.

All he needs to be is some semblance of an average free throw and jumpshooter. Even Giannis level shooter would be good enough for him.

 

[NatiboyB]

Him not even making the tourney at LSU should have been a major red flag

it was a major one same as fultz remember. But we can’t act like these weren’t the expected #1 picks.

 

[Thavoiceofthevoiceless]

it was a major one same as fultz remember. But we can’t act like these weren’t the expected #1 picks.

Ehhhhh Fultz is kind of a different story as Boston hoodwinked Philly into moving up for him knowing that they wanted Tatum the entire time. He wasn't going to go #1 otherwise.

 

[CarltonJunior]

Ehhhhh Fultz is kind of a different story as Boston hoodwinked Philly into moving up for him knowing that they wanted Tatum the entire time. He wasn't going to go #1 otherwise.

Probably Fultz.

People like to look back and say Fultz wasn't it all along but that is simply not the case.