(08-05-2021, 09:13 PM)dirkfansince1998 Wrote: I don´t want to get into the whole Simmons debate again. But can we please mention the 76ers coaching staff. Ben Simmons was taking midrange shots in highschool and college. In his pre draft workouts he had no problem with the open 3-point drills. Markel Fultz shot 41% on 5+ attempts from 3 in college. Both shot 67% from the FT line. 76ers ruined both.
We know that Simmons is working on his jumpshot. Has been doing it for years. Can find hours of footage of him shooting in an empty gym. We know about the shooting hand debates (recently mentioned in the Redick podcast with THJ).
I do think that if he would start to take wide open shots he wouldn´t be any worse than guys like Draymond. It was mentioned that he will be working with a sports psychologist and mental coaches. Maybe that will help.
That really sounds a lot like scapegoating and that is a big stretch. There are plenty of rookies that Doc Rivers has coached that haven't been terrible shooters or have regressed. Landry Shamet, SGA to name a few... Brent Brown coached Jerami Grant, Glenn Robinson III, Christian Wood, Illyasova, Saric --- all their shots aren't ruined. Don't just point at two guys who didn't pan out shooting, and then blame Ben Simmons on the coaching staff.
Every year, we hear "Ben Simmons is working on his jumpshot" and so far, he's been able to squeeze out a few. I don't think he is working on it a lot. I still remember him defiantly at the platform telling people a couple of years ago that he "was going to work on his strengths" and that wasn't one of them...doing the things that he does best. So there you go...5 years in and he's looking to leave.
I heard this year from an analyst with ties to the Sixers say "Maybe this will finally help Ben understand that he needs a jumpshot." So I doubt Ben has been tirelessly working on his shot to the level that it takes to have one at this level. I could be wrong, but there's a lot of smoke and I don't trust internet workout videos to tell the whole story any more than I trust highlight videos to tell me the story.
Maybe he goes elsewhere and then does better, but I'm not holding my breath. I bet he'll go elsewhere, shoot 25% on threes on 1-2 attempts a night and next summer, we'll hear the same song and dance again "Ben's really got to develop a 3 point shot". At this point, a midrange shot would be a start....
As I said, we are 5 years into the song and dance of Ben Simmons developing a jumpshot from somewhere, which he used to have, I agree, but I fear he's fallen too far behind, let it get into his head and he'll never have it. I hope that I'm wrong, because he is sooooo talented in other areas, but you can't play the perimeter with no shot these days...not as a superstar, only as a role player, but he doesn't make role player money.
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