re: Ben Simmons couldn’t meet LeBron hype — now he’s out $40M

Stuff like this wouldn't happen if they just let the kids go pro right out of high school. That rule of going for one year makes no damn sense.

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his kid is why i have a dislike of basketball in general, so many big heads who think it's about themself, especially when it affects the team as whole which plagued a bunch of the players of the basketball team and CJJ didn't hold himself above these players and control them

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Let's be honest. You only watched because of Simmons and you're mad because he didn't live up to your unrealistic expectations.

Dang the rookie pay scale is shitty

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So how is that a waste of his time?

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Again, I'm not disagreeing. Just interpreting what I believe the perception is around Simmons' choice in college.

Not surprising for a player that can't score outside the paint.

Ben Simmons has no heart. I'm not sure why he gets defended here. It is obvious.

He is a good, not great player. No
Fire or passion. It is what it is. We are only talking about it because of the hype.

Maybe if he had signed with Arizona

I agree that nobody blew it for Ben Simmons. He did it to himself. He never was the player everyone said, and even some still say, he is. This video really nails the things I have been saying all along.

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Weakness in his game:

1. Perimeter shooting
2. Toughness/Length on offense and defense
3. Mentality - Running away from shots and taking off plays on defense.
4. NBA Fit - 6'10" PG but can he play that position in the pros? Needs great shooters around him.

Oh yeah this was based on his game before he ever played one minute for LSU and he brought exactly the same problems with him when he came here. Could Johnny Jones have done a much better job coaching him and everyone else. Without a doubt. But was Simmons the type of player that any team could ride into the tournament on his back. IMHO not at all. At a Duke, Kentucky or Kansas where they could surround him with four other high school all americans the weakness in his game could have been protected but his stats that everyone talks so much about would have been way down.

LSU hyped Simmons too to sell tickets.

In hindsight was that good? Maybe for the bottom line it was, but looking back could it have destroyed team chemistry and given Simmons the big head?

Perhaps and we will never know, but if Simmons had gone to Duke, Ky. or Kansas that would not have happened and it may have been a key reason his "team" chose LSU. We don't know that either, but it's obvious Simmons was being marketed for a big pay day.

Preseason LSU touted him as a superstar. That's a fact. How can anyone say otherwise?

But I agree the national media bought into all the hype too. It wasn't just LSU.

And who really knows what the NBA scouts thought? Like the NFL scouts they aren't going to tell you what they really think, but you will find out when they draft.