veganfan21 wrote:
What am I "half right" about, FF? LTG as usual is distorting the argument. Here are my positions:
Simmons is talented
Simmons doesn't work hard or at all on his game despite his team needing him to develop another dimension as a player
Because he refuses to improve himself, he's a biitch
Because he's refusing to join his teammates because he's angry about being exposed as a biitch, he's even more of a biitch
It's not about yips, it's about being soft and immature. Put up 1M shots over the summer to develop a jump shot. Not that hard. You have three months. Sounds like he'd rather burn 1M on cars instead. He didn't have "yips" when buying those cars. in sum, he's a biitch. Nothing half right here.
Simmons is not just talented. He’s ridiculously talented right now even if he never improved upon what his regular season last year showed.
I dont really know whats going on with him, and either do you. All indications from everyone connected says he does work hard on his game, he hits jumpers and threes in practice and practices them often, hes got some type if perfectionist mental block that tells him not to shoot them in games for fear of failure.
^thats not my opinion or speculation, thats what dozens of connected NBA folks say. I tend to think they aren’t all lying and there’s truth to it.
It seems clear he has a mental issue he cant overcome right now. If you wanna go retrograde and say that means hes a soft biitch, im not gonna argue with you over it, but it seems to me its a little more nuanced than that.