re: Do we have a final 4 quality basketball team next year?

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Simmons is not a huge scorer.


He absolutely is, just because he also looks to pass doesnt make him NOT a huge scorer. Simmons still averaged damn near 30 points per game this year on the best high school team in the country with a handful of Div-I signees.

I hate to use this comparison but he is very very similar to Lebron. He can drop pretty much whatever he wants whenever he wants but is so good with the ball in his hands is more than capable of getting everyone else involved and with to the attention on him can put up PG assist numbers.

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And Odo was a fantastic rebounder before he came to LSU and Gray was the leading scorer in JC. Sorry but you have to prove it to me by doing it in SEC games. High school is one thing but the SEC is another.

Simmons will have much better shooting teammates to pass the ball to and won't have to try and score as much as he did in high school. The main ways he scored that I saw on video was taking it all the way on a fast break or scoring off of a drive or a p
utback offensive rebound.

Against good college defenses he won't get near as many opportunities to get a break away or score off of a drive. When he drives he will get fouled a good amount of the time. I still stand by my statement that a lot of his scoring will come from free throws and the better he hits them then the more he scores.