2021-2022 ROSTER TALK: [ARCHIVED]

[dirkfansince1998]

The Simmons-to-Dallas trade proposals being made here make no sense to me. He wants to be THE ball handler, where he goes. But I cant imagine the Mavs taking the ball out of Luka's hands, and we've already seen in Philly what happens when he's an unhappy camper. Playing him off the ball, with no shot, that doesn't work either, and we've already seen his (lack of) desire to fix that. Then you're paying a monstrous amount of your payroll for this? Plus giving up multiple players who do have value to you?

I think the reason why we and according to the rumors some GMs with dominant ballhandlers haven´t given up on the idea is the fact that Simmons never had the opportunity to play with another ballhandler. We have only seen him next to one of highest usage bigs in the league. In some years next to two bigs. He never played next to a floor spacing big. Never had the opportunity to play more of an inside role himself. Just a bad fit next to Embiid.

Only reference point we have are Simmons performances without Embiid. And on an individual level he put up better numbers without him.

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