2021 nba offseason draft free agency etc

fake it til you make it baby a tried and true approach for people who have not made it

of course you have to want to even fake it first

Fun random fact: In his first four seasons, Draymond attempted 280 threes. Simmons has attempted 34 in his first four.

simmons absolutely will not shoot and i think thats fine maybe even good

because when he shoots it does not go in

ive come to realize shooting with the wrong hand is actually hard and not good

It just seems like the Sixers have been telling him not to shoot since day one, and it has resulted in him not developing as a shooter.

Draymond at least can give you some midrange and *might* make a three if the ball comes around to him at the end of the clock.

draymond is actually the opposite of simmons. raises his level of play when it matters the most

Also Simmons is a big skinny dunking guy and Green can barely get over the rim lol

my understanding is the sixers have been trying very hard to make him into a shooter the whole time and he simply will not shoot, interview with doc today where he said simmons has a shooting coach and a free throw coach lol

hard to improve when you dont really want to!

i think he has a reasonable excuse on that one since he was for some reason taught as a child to shoot with his off hand

draymond is actually the opposite of simmons. raises his level of play when it matters the most

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Also Simmons is a big skinny dunking guy and Green can barely get over the rim lol

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feel like you guys are being a little stubborn about this because you love dray even tho he blew a title via nut hunting and chased an alltime great out of town, theyre both big men who are great ball handlers passers and defenders who cant shoot which is a pretty unusual combo, two of the only guys who can legit guard 1-5, their dispositions are obvs very different and simmons is a great transition finisher and is tall and athletic where dray is strong and low and a bad finisher, but overall theyre prob more similar to each other than they are to any other players

Tweet I linked to is deleted but it says the rumor is Rosas was having an affair with his assistant and someone walked in on them

yeah i saw ppl talking about that on twitter too

one of the big difference between them is dray has spent his career in the ideal role where simmons has spent his in the absolute wrong one

kd wanted out he was pouting all of 2019 everyone could see it, draymond just decided not to pussyfoot around it. i love dray cos he wins and cares and is unafraid.

he should have pussyfooted around it!

he was already gone. he and kyrie had it all planned out already

draymond created that ideal role for himself.

not trying to take anything away from him but playing with two of the greatest shooters ever is good for him

he was already gone. he and kyrie had it all planned out already

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if you let kyrie win at mind games thats on you

kd made his bed

kd is doing fine, the warriors on the other hand...

feel like you guys are being a little stubborn about this

Huh? I'm not anti your theory.

it seemed like you were

I just think it's funny that Simmons is somehow LESS of a shooter than Draymond, and that Draymond is like a "legit" center despite being like two feet shorter than Simmons or whatever.

dray plays center great but has never been there full time i guess because of concerns that it will take too much of a physical toll which i think does make sense for him hes such an effortful physical player that banging with the bigs all season would prob be too much for him or at least an injury risk, simmons plays more athletic less physical so i think itd be ok

anyway recruiting kd in the first place was the original sin, but once you do that you have to be nice to him hes a huge baby everyone knows that

Personally I have no problem with it. We got two rings out of the devil's bargain and now we get to root for a moderately fun squad. I'd take that any day.

I don't know anyone who wanted KD to stay.

i mean yeah they never shouldve gotten him in the first place

I assume you mean like "it was uncool" and not that it was a bad business decision.

How many rings would they have without him? They were going to max Harrison Barnes! Yikes

theyd love to have harrison barnes right now tho lol

they had one ring and had the best record ever the next year i think theres a good chance they add at least another two without him and they keep the vibes good

a massive 'what if' for sure.

maybe the bigger what if is not chasing the regular season record

even tho it was extremely sweet

the thing w draymond is that his one non duplicable attribute is his mind. you can look at players with similar size skill and athleticism and map them onto his general role in your head but dray’s brain is 1 of 1, it’s just the thing you can’t see

that said it’s a great analogue for simmons the way draymond grabs a defensive rebound and goes up the court with the offense at his fingertips. that’s the situation ben needs, with shooters spacing around him he can pass to

This guy is really plugged in and gets fed a lot of "scoops" by local teams, betting the rumor are true. Also, it's the Wolves so of course it's going to be the most absurd/hilarious reason

We have said on Ch. 5 at 5p and 6p that this isn't anything related to basketball.

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yeah i dont think simmons will be playing inside linebacker blowing up plays before they happen like dray does, but still playing a dray type role makes sense for him

the closest thing to dray on the mind wave level is prob marcus smart

rosas, man. unbelievable what supposedly intelligent people will do.

the simmons center thing, i get it but don't get hung up on the positions, i think the way i look at it is ideally you want to have only one nonshooter on the floor so however you accomplish that around simmons is what you want to do. and even then most teams end up having to play minutes with two nonshooters, like the warriors will probably start draymond/looney and then not finish that way.

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Gupta developed the trade machine, nice

salute

in other news andrew wiggins refuses to get vaxed and i guess won't be able to play home games?

Loooooooool ok WCCO reporting, it's a wrap

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alright well there you go

my understanding is the sixers have been trying very hard to make him into a shooter the whole time and he simply will not shoot, interview with doc today where he said simmons has a shooting coach and a free throw coach lol

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I forget everyone hasn't been reading the Philly papers/sites, etc. for the last 4 years on a daily basis so hasn't lived through this stuff.

Simmons didn't just not shoot 3s or long 2s. His rookie year he shot 78.7% of his shots from within 10 ft of the basket.

It was assumed by most fans/media that, as a young player, he was going to develop an outside shot and every offseason we would get bombarded with stories about Simmons working on his game with shooting coaches, videos of Simmons shooting 3s (many posted by him or his people), and pre-season discussion with the staff about him shooting more.

The opposite happened: his second year in the league he shot 89.7% of his shots from within 10 ft of the basket; 94.2% his third year; then 91.0% last year.

what are the details on this “inappropriate relationship”? the athletic called it a “consensual” relationship