2020-21 Around the NBA Thread

[Mainstreet]

Eddie Johnson on Ben Simmons.

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[Finito]

He stays at the 3pt line because Ben Simmons plays like a center on offense and kills their spacing. Without Simmons, Embiid would be able to be a low post Center, where no one in the league can contain him.

you can see he’s dead tired they’ve called him out on TNT numerous times

 

[Cheesebeef]

Eddie Johnson on Ben Simmons.

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EJ is the best.

 

[SunsTzu]

167 million dollars lol

He signed for 167mil but was designated for super max if he made an all NBA team in 2020, which he did. He'll be making 40mil in the last year of that deal...

 

[Finito]

He signed for 167mil but was designated for super max if he made an all NBA team in 2020, which he did. He'll be making 40mil in the last year of that deal...

ouch

 

[Hoop Head]

you can see he’s dead tired they’ve called him out on TNT numerous times

Playing with a torn meniscus can be tiring.

 

[SunsTzu]

Eddie Johnson on Ben Simmons.

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I don't know what his work ethic is like, but from what I've read on 6ers boards is that he is more interested in IG models than working on his game.

 

[AZ Native]

Playing with a torn meniscus can be tiring.

Exactly, I have one now. Not that i could EVER be in the NBA.

 

[AZ Native]

Playing with a torn meniscus can be tiring.

Exactly, I have one now. Not that i could EVER be in the NBA.

 

[Finito]

Playing with a torn meniscus can be tiring.

oh that’s right he did hurt his knee. I forgot about that

 

[Vacard]

No....he does not go hard on coaches. Steve Wilks was the worst head coach I’ve ever seen and SAS pretty much went on national TV and called the cardinals a racist organization for “not giving him a chance”

you think the situation and team is Dallas is the same as Philly? Lol ok

Boohoo get over it. Too even put race in this conversation and to claim SAS doesn’t go hard on black players/coaches is insanity to say the least. SAS said much more egregious takes over the years towards black athletes and you pull up that ONE instance?! Get a life.

 

[Mainstreet]

I don't know what his work ethic is like, but from what I've read on 6ers boards is that he is more interested in IG models than working on his game.

I'm sure some team will trade for him.

 

[Evil Ash]

Eddie Johnson on Ben Simmons.

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To go further on this on tnt they just showed an amazing stat ... Ben Simmons shot it 3 times in the 4th qtr THE ENTIRE SERIES.

Dude is broken

 

[Finito]

Boohoo get over it. Too even put race in this conversation and to claim SAS doesn’t go hard on black players/coaches is insanity to say the least. SAS said much more egregious takes over the years towards black athletes and you pull up that ONE instance?! Get a life.

I hit a nerve? Lol I’m an adult capable of having a legit conversation about real things. If you want to ignore it go ahead

 

[Cheesebeef]

To go further on this on tnt they just showed an amazing stat ... Ben Simmons shot it 3 times in the 4th qtr THE ENTIRE SERIES.

Dude is broken

wow.

 

[Finito]

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[Vacard]

I hit a nerve? Lol I’m an adult capable of having a legit conversation about real things. If you want to ignore it go ahead

You’re a liar bringing up half-truths. And you got called out on it. Get over it!

 

[Hoop Head]

If Philly's loss falls on any one person then it should be Simmons. You can't be paying someone max money to hide or ride the bench in 4th quarters.

Doc is in year 1 in Philly, he's barely had a chance to implement his own system. Firing him so soon will scare away any quality candidates. You need to give Doc another year, at least.

 

[Proximo]

Inside the nba acting like the bucks have the title locked.

Why? I feel the west has it locked.

 

[Hoop Head]

Inside the nba acting like the bucks have the title locked.

Why? I feel the west has it locked.

Let them think that way. Barkley is a huge jinx. I hope he puts money on Milwaukee.

 

[SunsTzu]

Inside the nba acting like the bucks have the title locked.

Why? I feel the west has it locked.

Because TNT has the ECF games and ESPN has the WCF. That is likely going to dictate how each network covers the conference finals.

 

[Cheesebeef]

Inside the nba acting like the bucks have the title locked.

Why? I feel the west has it locked.

because none of them believe in the Suns. So we’ll have to keep busting everyone’s ass.

 

[Finito]

You’re a liar bringing up half-truths. And you got called out on it. Get over it!

i mean not really and you haven’t brought anything to the table as far as proof just pretty much na uh type stuff.

if you feel that way that’s great

 

[Finito]

If Philly's loss falls on any one person then it should be Simmons. You can't be paying someone max money to hide or ride the bench in 4th quarters.

Doc is in year 1 in Philly, he's barely had a chance to implement his own system. Firing him so soon will scare away any quality candidates. You need to give Doc another year, at least.

In this series Philly blew an 18 point lead and 26 point lead. What part of that falls on Doc? Of the 8 biggest blown leads in playoffs Doc has coached 5 or something like that.

6 times a Doc team has blown either a 3-1 or 3-2 series lead.

He’s proven time and time again don’t matter if it’s Orlando, LA or Philly when things start going back he can’t make adjustments.

his playoff record is down right embarrassing.

 

[Cheesebeef]

In this series Philly blew an 18 point lead and 26 point lead. What part of that falls on Doc? Of the 8 biggest blown leads in playoffs Doc has coached 5 or something like that.

6 times a Doc team has blown either a 3-1 or 3-2 series lead.

He’s proven time and time again don’t matter if it’s Orlando, LA or Philly when things start going back he can’t make adjustments.

his playoff record is down right embarrassing.

He’s won an NBA title, took a totally beat up and dragging Celtics within 15 minutes of another NBA title against a stacked Lakers team. He also won NBA Coach Of The Year with Orlando with a team that had one of the worst rosters I’ve ever seen. He guided the Clippers, one of the worst franchises in the NBA to the playoffs for like six straight years, including even after they got rid of CP3 and Blake. And he totally held that Clippers team together to beat GS in a series where the team was ROCKED by the Sterling bombshell where the team wanted to flat out quit that was probably one of the biggest distractions any playoff team could ever deal with.

He also has more than his share of total meltdowns... but always in the second round of the playoffs (except for that Orlando team that had no business being up 3-1 in the first place over Detroit).

So, he’s got some GREAT, some GOOD and some AWFUL.

overall I think that makes him a solid playoff coach... that I’m glad isn’t ours.