Foshan wrote:I remember seeing a clip of Greek freak before a game, his mentality: Dunk everything.
I would love for Ben to come out with that mindset tonight.
Although Simmons is very athletic Freak is on a whole other planet.
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Foshan wrote:I remember seeing a clip of Greek freak before a game, his mentality: Dunk everything.
I would love for Ben to come out with that mindset tonight.
Foshan wrote:I remember seeing a clip of Greek freak before a game, his mentality: Dunk everything.
I would love for Ben to come out with that mindset tonight.
VDT wrote:Foshan wrote:I remember seeing a clip of Greek freak before a game, his mentality: Dunk everything.
I would love for Ben to come out with that mindset tonight.
Yes people like to complain about his jumper a lot but in fact the first thing he needs to try to improve (and should have done already) is his finishing at the rim. He either doesnt try to challenge the defense at the rim or when he does he tends to move away from the rim instead of moving to the rim and initiating contact. He also needs to be able to finish with his left which he seems incapable of doing at the moment.
phillynative wrote:VDT wrote:Foshan wrote:I remember seeing a clip of Greek freak before a game, his mentality: Dunk everything.
I would love for Ben to come out with that mindset tonight.
Yes people like to complain about his jumper a lot but in fact the first thing he needs to try to improve (and should have done already) is his finishing at the rim. He either doesnt try to challenge the defense at the rim or when he does he tends to move away from the rim instead of moving to the rim and initiating contact. He also needs to be able to finish with his left which he seems incapable of doing at the moment.
Ben just doesn't have the frame , strength or length to consistently impose his will in the paint without having the touch
Bum Adebayo wrote:phillynative wrote:VDT wrote:
Yes people like to complain about his jumper a lot but in fact the first thing he needs to try to improve (and should have done already) is his finishing at the rim. He either doesnt try to challenge the defense at the rim or when he does he tends to move away from the rim instead of moving to the rim and initiating contact. He also needs to be able to finish with his left which he seems incapable of doing at the moment.
Ben just doesn't have the frame , strength or length to consistently impose his will in the paint without having the touch
The frame is there, his body is absolutely elite in terms of strength or the possibility to add more pounds. The issues I see are first and foremost that he is a bit soft when going up and doesn't have a killer mentality to attack and destroy his defender like a Giannis. The length is second, just nowhere near as long as Giannis. But I watch Zion and how he scores and I think when you have a great combination of strength and explosiveness, you create more separation between your defender with his frame colliding with defender with force and it is not as much of an issue. But yeah, then there is the touch.
phillynative wrote:VDT wrote:Foshan wrote:I remember seeing a clip of Greek freak before a game, his mentality: Dunk everything.
I would love for Ben to come out with that mindset tonight.
Yes people like to complain about his jumper a lot but in fact the first thing he needs to try to improve (and should have done already) is his finishing at the rim. He either doesnt try to challenge the defense at the rim or when he does he tends to move away from the rim instead of moving to the rim and initiating contact. He also needs to be able to finish with his left which he seems incapable of doing at the moment.
Ben just doesn't have the frame , strength or length to consistently impose his will in the paint without having the touch
Jams60 wrote:Neither am I but I can imagine a time when it is workable. I just can’t imagine a time when someone with the injury history of Embiid is capable of being healthy 2 or 3 years in a row.
Kobblehead wrote:Lacks the length of Giannis and he lacks the strength and pure mass of Blake Griffin. He's caught in the tough middle of just being a 235 pounder with t-rex arms. So him trying to physically dominate people is harder for him than those two.
PhillyPhilly wrote:BEN IS 22 YEARS OLD AND HAS WON THE ROY AND IS AN ALL-STAR ALREADY IN HIS FIRST TWO YEARS. Folks really are acting like trading Ben is somehow gonna transform us into golden state overnight..smh. Our best five have barely played 11 games together, ELEVEN GAMES, and yet impatient fans are begging to tear it down in favour of a pipe dream. It makes no sense whatsoever.
Kobblehead wrote:Lacks the length of Giannis and he lacks the strength and pure mass of Blake Griffin. He's caught in the tough middle of just being a 235 pounder with t-rex arms. So him trying to physically dominate people is harder for him than those two.
Bum Adebayo wrote:No way Simmons is only 235lbs, he is at least at 250lbs.
Negrodamus wrote:Every time I see a condemnation of Ben Simmons and a request to be trade, I think back to how absurd my evaluation of Ben was treated during the predraft process where I said he could be a rich man's Boris Diaw, a nice player but not the number 1 pick.
Now I'm completely on board with taking the wait and see approach with him because he's 6'11 and moves like a guard. It would have to be for an all star for me to move him.
The larger issue I have is the front office not having similar foresight on Ben when I said "you have no choice but to build this entire team around him: everyone else on the floor needs to be an above average to excellent shooter". Instead, we trade two above average shooters for a great player who is an average shooter that needs the ball in their hands. Redick has gone cold; so has Tobias. Our other answer for that third shooter is..... Mike Scott? Jonathan Simmons? TJ McConnell? This is a disaster of the front office's (Colangelo AND Brand/Brown) making.
Hating Ben for becoming what he always has been and will continue to be is a very silly approach to me.
Negrodamus wrote:Every time I see a condemnation of Ben Simmons and a request to be trade, I think back to how absurd my evaluation of Ben was treated during the predraft process where I said he could be a rich man's Boris Diaw, a nice player but not the number 1 pick.
Now I'm completely on board with taking the wait and see approach with him because he's 6'11 and moves like a guard. It would have to be for an all star for me to move him.
The larger issue I have is the front office not having similar foresight on Ben when I said "you have no choice but to build this entire team around him: everyone else on the floor needs to be an above average to excellent shooter". Instead, we trade two above average shooters for a great player who is an average shooter that needs the ball in their hands. Redick has gone cold; so has Tobias. Our other answer for that third shooter is..... Mike Scott? Jonathan Simmons? TJ McConnell? This is a disaster of the front office's (Colangelo AND Brand/Brown) making.
Hating Ben for becoming what he always has been and will continue to be is a very silly approach to me.