kalel123 wrote:Just because you are too blind to see, doesn't mean the facts aren't there. There have been many times the point was explained on these boards, you only need to go and look it up. I'd rather not waste my time rehashing what's been said many times before because the effort will be wasted on you. Don't blame other people for you being dense.PerfectJab wrote:You're seeing what you want to see but you cannot actually point out facts that show the organization throwing Simmons under the bus. You've come to a conclusion reading into the narrative set by the media based on the non committal answer that Doc Rivers gave. You want to know why there was a narrative? You want to know why the question was asked? Because everyone else was thinking it! Now people want to twist it around like the organization created it? Please! It is definitely worthy of an explanation as there are no facts to reinforce your assertions. Where are the facts?kalel123 wrote: This is probably not worth both our times if you still need that part explained to you after all this time.
Kalel, I've legitimately not had a single person on these boards say they think that video posted above is actually an aggressive act of 'throwing Simmons under the bus.' Many people on these boards have indulged the idea that there's a Simmons vs team war going on and many folks have just run with that as a fact, but when you're looking at it closely that was almost entirely generated by the media and social media because it's a fun storyline that keeps people talking for weeks. The Sixers played a disappointing series, Simmons played bad, there was hours worth of post-game hemming and hawing by various Sixers players and staff, and within that two 4-second clips were taken out of context and repeated ad nauseam for weeks.
Fwiw, the most anyone has said was 'well you have to walk on eggshells since you can't piss off someone as fragile as Simmons.' I guess I can get that point but that's a far cry from 'poor Ben, the team destroyed his manhood!'
