I still see all of the potential on offense to be a rim running big that can be a secondary or primary playmaker and there is no doubting the impact that he can make on the floor. I think this last year has been a total train wreck for the guy and Dame would be the absolute best teammate to get him out of that head space and I think the low impact environment (if he would buy into it) of Portland would be good for him too.
it's just a damn shame. On paper, I don't think there's a more ideal basketball fit for what Chauncey wants to do, or for Dame to cover up his weaknesses and build synergy.
Are you sure we would have to include Hart? I would NOT do 6+ Hart + for Simmons. It's one or the other with salary fillers.
We wouldn't need to include Hart if we just signed the pick, and included Didi. Now, I dunno of they would go for that, but I'd start there.
I agree and while there is no telling what will happen with him going forward, Simmons has a lot more history being nothing but a good soldier, showing up to work and giving it his best than he does fucking up. Yeah this last year has been one big fuck up but if you watch Steven A. talk his shit, it doesn't add up. Simmons has had a bad year in which he got all in his head during the Atlanta series (Stephen A. called it quitting on his teammates), he then held out and said it was due to mental health issues (Stephen A. said it was quitting on his team), then it's been reported that he's been having back issues (again Smith calls it quitting) and Smith stretches this so far as to say that he quit on his teammates but I have no fucking clue what he was talking about because LSU played 33 games the only year that Simmons played for him and played the most minutes on the team. Did Stephan A. mean that Simmons quit on them by leaving for the draft or was he referring to the fact that he played poorly in his last game with the team in the fucking NIT?
Weird, BBref had his contract at 33.9, but spotrac has it higher, my bad.
Totally, I mean people are really piling on. I'm not arguing that this terrible year that he's had isn't extremely troubling and calls into question his future. I am just pointing out that outside of this year (I consider the Atlanta series part of this last year) the guy has been a competitor. So a guy that's given it his best over the previous four seasons, in my opinion is a pretty solid bet to come back and give it his best again. I guess we'll see. I think all of these guys are consistently self righteous pricks to be honest with you, including Reggie who does it low key to a lot of players, while Stephen A. and Perk are just outright assholes to just about everyone that isn't dotting ever i and crossing every t by their standards. These guys all have reputations, Reggie's for keeping it real and the other two for being blatant haters.
He sure has never seemed indifferent while playing defense. That dude is intensity personified on that end of the floor. He will lock down more all star players than anyone else in the game. So I just think taking measure of a person when they are eighteen and then during their darkest hour (this last year) is not necessarily a good way to prognosticate what they might be in the future. The four seasons he played in the league and his one season he played in college have shown a solid competitor. For me they outweigh this last year and that doc but I get it if you see risk because his behavior this last year definitely is troubling. I guess the question is, does that behavior outweigh what he's done throughout the rest of his career when trying to figure out what he's going to do going forward?
My guess, looking at it, is, he signed for 5/177 initially. But then made all nba 3rdbt team, which boosted it to 5/190. I bet BBref never adjusted.
Can you explain the "Quit on college team." part for me? I don't remember well enough, so I went back and looked and the guy played in every game that his team played the one year he was there. Is it because he played so poorly in their second game in the NIT?
What miracle needs to happen? I think it would be a miracle if Simmons never played at the highest level he's already played at in his career again... that would be a miracle. It just makes sense that after this terrible year he will come back and be at least the player he was. If the team that he comes back to gets him to buy into a role that's a hybrid of what Dray and Giannis do instead of being the PG, I think they'll get way more out of him than he's ever given. I honestly think that is the most likely scenario. I think him never playing again is the least likely scenario. I think him coming back and being worse for the rest of his career than he has been at his best is just about as unlikely. So you're going to get an all star, all defensive, all nba level player that is at a very malleable point in his career.
They're basically already saying it was a mental health issue.
