re: ESPN on Simmons - It's hard to appreciate a great player on a bubble team

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If you replace Simmons with Buddy, LSU would be absolutely awful this year.

And that isn't a knock on Buddy either

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Not so fast....Hield is a better college player.....and while I do agree we would miss simmons rebounding ability we would get an extraordinary basketball player in return who can win games nearly by himself (which at this point Ben cannot).

LSU could realistically win 8 or 9 games in conference without Ben or Buddy....and that's not absolutely awful is it?

What we do not know is how this team would respond to not having Ben or how the chemistry of the team would be affected. It would also create more opportunities for others like B. Sampson who would definitely be further along than he is now and is a complete mystery to me.