Ben Simmons Trade Thread part V

[Samson]

Earth to Samson

The Sixers don’t want him back

The only reason why he’s still on the roster is that Morey hasn’t found a trade he likes

At least Simmons is being upfront about it

Earth to you , dude, you make 5000 posts about Ben Simmons on here a day, is it *really* that important? Go get a job or cook a meal or go outside and dig a hole, you'll feel better in no time.

[Mik317]

Ben does not come off well from these leaks.

But not going to condemn a guy over basketball...its not that serious lol. Again I don't see how any player could come back from that series and play for the same team again.....especially in this city. I don't blame Ben for wanting out...I don't think any of the leaks put out to hopefully force Morey's hand is a good look tho. Again AD and to a lesser extent Harden; beyond being accomplished were in actual bad situations that had reached their end. Not so here but again I also can't imagine putting on the sixers uniform again after that **** show...especially if I wasn't going to come back a whole new player...which at this point is not happening...at least not right away. he really is in a lose/lose situation..but I think Klutch really thought that the anti-sixers agenda would be on their side...when it just has not been lol. The only people defending Ben in the media are Klutch adjacent dudes and dudettes like Windhorst and Shelleborn. That throws a wrench in things for the sympathy battle.

Although I am sure another Embiid is a big poopy head article is on the way tho. Its there only path forward now. Gotta make it so it is even more obvious that the two can't play another game together. But again that's their job at this stage...

What anti Sixers propaganda?

Nothing attributed to Simmons has been remotely negative about the Sixers

That’s kinda my point. Everyone hates the sixers and their fans and it should be rather easy to use this to continue but very few people are on Bens side here

Which is why it seems like these leaks have failed. Normally this is when agents put out fluff pieces to get fans on their okayed side as leverage. David Griffin is getting bodied in articles probably leaked by Zions peeps for example. All of these articles only paint Ben in a negative light…never seen anything like that lol

[thenbaman]

Thanks for finally telling the truth Embiid.

Deaf, dumb, or blind? Which one is it?

Are you throwing personal insults my way, Mr Moderator?

Great we have simmons father and now his mother posting.

[Samson]

Deaf, dumb, or blind? Which one is it?

Are you throwing personal insults my way, Mr Moderator?

Great we have simmons father and now his mother posting.

We need to get BC's wife up in here and see what she thinks!

[thenbaman]

lol

[DCasey91]

Can we trade Ben for Ilyasova, Holmes, TJ, Saric，Bradley and Roco?

Bring Beli and Redick out of retirement. Embiid chills and watches Hulu live sports

Trade everybody else bar Maxey, Reed, Joe and Springer

Maxey
Redick
Roco
Ilyasova
Holmes

TJ
Springer
Joe
Reed
Bradley

Bass goes fishing in G league,

Saric is chilling, he’s here to single handily pull everybody together on good vibes alone.

I mean this is the greatest peak process team ever!

Lock for Banchero and Victor the year after.

Process back on track

[Negrodamus]

I can't wait for the next Woj "ESPN Sources: Ben Simmons is deeply hurt by recent comments from Joel Embiid, to the point that he vows 'never to wear the Sixers jersey again' and feels 'gaslit' about the team being built around him, sources close to his camp say. Story soon on ESPN." tweet

Lets just keep this soap opera going!

[RedSalsa]

Earth to Samson

The Sixers don’t want him back

The only reason why he’s still on the roster is that Morey hasn’t found a trade he likes

At least Simmons is being upfront about it

Earth to you , dude, you make 5000 posts about Ben Simmons on here a day, is it *really* that important? Go get a job or cook a meal or go outside and dig a hole, you'll feel better in no time.

[JRoy]

Ben does not come off well from these leaks.

But not going to condemn a guy over basketball...its not that serious lol. Again I don't see how any player could come back from that series and play for the same team again.....especially in this city. I don't blame Ben for wanting out...I don't think any of the leaks put out to hopefully force Morey's hand is a good look tho. Again AD and to a lesser extent Harden; beyond being accomplished were in actual bad situations that had reached their end. Not so here but again I also can't imagine putting on the sixers uniform again after that **** show...especially if I wasn't going to come back a whole new player...which at this point is not happening...at least not right away. he really is in a lose/lose situation..but I think Klutch really thought that the anti-sixers agenda would be on their side...when it just has not been lol. The only people defending Ben in the media are Klutch adjacent dudes and dudettes like Windhorst and Shelleborn. That throws a wrench in things for the sympathy battle.

Although I am sure another Embiid is a big poopy head article is on the way tho. Its there only path forward now. Gotta make it so it is even more obvious that the two can't play another game together. But again that's their job at this stage...

What anti Sixers propaganda?

Nothing attributed to Simmons has been remotely negative about the Sixers

That’s kinda my point. Everyone hates the sixers and their fans and it should be rather easy to use this to continue but very few people are on Bens side here

Which is why it seems like these leaks have failed. Normally this is when agents put out fluff pieces to get fans on their okayed side as leverage. David Griffin is getting bodied in articles probably leaked by Zions peeps for example. All of these articles only paint Ben in a negative light…never seen anything like that lol

I don’t hate the sizers or their fans, though PHI fans do have a reputation.

[zeeb]

As an Aussie who grew up watching Ben's father play several seasons, a likeable, solid but unspectacular workhorse PF, I've always tried to like Ben Simmons. I've always wanted him to succeed. But it's become very difficult to defend him. It's become difficult to even like him.

I've followed his career for a long time and recall him playing for the junior national team as a 15-year-old. I identified years ago that his attitude is a major stumbling block for him, stemming from a mental weakness of sorts. He also seems to have social issues. He's an introvert, which isn't a problem itself, but it's much more than that. He has always appeared to be a bit of an outsider. He has a history of feeling entitled. He has a history of struggling to reconcile.

He basically forced the Australian national team to change coach because he refused to play for the national team coach who had previously cut him from the World Championships team as a 17-year-old. This same coach selected him in the regional qualification tournament as a 15-year-old, but that didn't matter. Like his social media off-season highlights packages, he teased Aussies with the prospect of playing for the national team, but again and again, he would pull out in the last minute, leaving his teammates puzzled about what happened. Andrew Bogut recalls a story prior to the 2019 World Cup where he basically just disappeared without warning after previously turning up to practice. Simmons didn't contact any of his teammates. Then before the 2021 Olympics, the new national team coach based the whole game plan around Simmons turning up, because Simmons gave the impression he would play. This time he didn't even turn up to training. The irony is, the national team ended up snatching a bronze nonetheless, utilising an appreciative, cooperative and extremely likeable Matisse Thybulle.

Simmons is clearly a very talented player, and I have no doubt he could have a decent jumper in the NBA. He was a respectable midrange shooter as a 15-year-old. His father, who only had an ugly 15-footer in his first few years playing in Australia, developed a reliable 3-point shot later in his career. But the jumper isn't Simmons' problem. His mentality is. This mental fragility is just getting worse. And the more focus there is on it, the more he will panic in those crucial situations.

He has always had a pattern of decreased productivity from 1st to 4th quarters throughout his career, which could be due to any number of reasons. But I suspect much of it can be summarised as this: fear of choking.

It's even possible to identify his fear of choking from his splits by actual margin lasts season. When his team is down 1-5, he hits FTs at 78%! In that situation, his mentality is more aggressive, more focused, not second guessing himself because he doesn't have the prospect of choking to contend with. When the score is tied, he is still active, he is crashing boards at a peak rate, but his FT% plummets to 52%. When up just 1-5, he becomes hesitant, and when he has time to think, like in FTs, his FT% is at that dismal 54% level.

Any NBA team that wants him should be hiring a team of psychologists to work with him. Although one wonders if Ben would ever cooperate, because he also has a history of only working closely with his trusted, inner circle. He might, like throughout this saga, just get offended and withdraw.

[NYSixersFan]

I don't think Joel Embiid is dumb at all , but if *calling* someone dumb is racist, we've just basically gotten to the point we need to nuke the world and explode in a fiery implosion of woke offendedness and that's that, Dr. Strangelove time. Love The Bomb.

I mean really now.

I still wear my Redskins gear and have been called racist quite a few times. Although living in a "woke" city I guess it's no surprise.

Embiid is a smart guy, but when english isn't your first language, people can mistake that as being dumb, I guess.

[ankle420breaker]

They should just throw a potato on their helmets and keep the Redskins name.

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[Lovetron Joe]

Earth to Samson

The Sixers don’t want him back

The only reason why he’s still on the roster is that Morey hasn’t found a trade he likes

At least Simmons is being upfront about it

Earth to you , dude, you make 5000 posts about Ben Simmons on here a day, is it *really* that important? Go get a job or cook a meal or go outside and dig a hole, you'll feel better in no time.

The job thing might be okay, cook a meal-more than okay, however digging a hole does not do anything for me.

[mithrandir17]

If after this week Ben still won't report to practices and games, the management should just ask the players that are present to not answer questions regarding Ben. The tag line should be "We are just focused on players that are here right now". All these back and forth between Ben and the sixers are just giving Ben what he wants.

[NYSixersFan]

They should just throw a potato on their helmets and keep the Redskins name.

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Or just get rid of the native american images and keep the name....at this point I'd rather keep WFT instead of a new name.

[Sixerscan]

Read on Twitter

lol

[Iverson Armband]

Lol where is a our resident Clown, Tomjas

[Skates]

Read on Twitter

lol

Injury report: Hurt emo feelings, out 10 days to forever.

[Stanford]

LOL

Why didn't they just do that to begin with?

[Negrodamus]

Wow, if they do that then 1) the commissioner needs to step in and 2) players need to leave Rich Paul. Is there a strategy on their part, like at all?