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I'm just sitting here smiling thinking about all the Simmons non-love in the off-season & preseason.
No other explanation tbh
I'm just sitting here smiling thinking about all the Simmons non-love in the off-season & preseason.
If he doesn't he should. Played the game of his life, he deserves the praise he'll get.
I'm not going to call out anybody but it's really a shame some people doubted this kid and even said he's not an NBA player...
The posters who flood this forum w/ 1000 posts a day have been the ones shoving the anti-Simmons posts down everyones' throats since the beginning of the off-season.
Not going to lie, it started seeping into my brain too, but I should have known to not second guess my original thoughts on him as a player.
He just took a big fat all over ST.. tbh..
Good for him and good for the Spurs.. they need a player with his athleticism off the bench.
This game reminded me of when he took over that game vs Milwaukee. He's almost always the best athlete on the floor. Nice to see he can play under control
Obviously he won't be that hot all season, but hope he doesn't revert back to TO Simmons.
Simmons just needs to watch film of Will Barton (from last season), since that is the player he is most similar to. The Spurs desperately need a wing with his athleticism and explosive game, so I'm hopeful beyond hope that he can build from this game.
This was a great game. Doesn't suddenly make all those ing terrible turnovers since July disappear, tbh.
He's liable to go 0-7 with 5 turnovers in the next game, but you love his upside from being an X factor.
Barton is exactly the comparison I was thinking about earlier, tbh..
I really hope Simmons can put it together, though..this team desperately needs somebody to take some of Manu's load..
love him for this game, but consistency is the name of the game here...
don't expect him to have another game like this, but he also can't go down as low as he did at times last season
True.. but at the same time, Pop messed with his minutes more so than anyone on the roster. His minutes were inconsistent, not sure how you can be consistent w/ inconsistent minutes. If he can get consistent 15-18 minutes a night, even if it meant benching Anderson, it will do a lot for his confidence and the team. IMO
Yup, and it took Will nearly 5 seasons and injuries to key teammates to finally "put it together."
Like Simmons, he's a wiry, uber-athletic wing that has shown flashes of ability. Simmons has a much, much better support group on the bench and in the coaching staff, but he'll need to play consistent, with confidence and under control.
He brings a big element of athleticism that the team hasn't had in ages too. The same can be said of Dedmon inside....
He'll be up and down all season. That's why he's a bench player. But he was far more in control than he ever has before.
Have to love the pigheadedness going on.
Dude balls against the best team in the NBA and still hanging on hoping to be right are some.
He will regress to the mean and folks will be ting on him again because his game is rough around the edges.
He had great game though, that run down block was phenomenal.
If he does read ST. Great job tonight and great job working on your all around game.
All the hard work and time spent in Austin, summer leauge and training camps is paying off.
Keep it going
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If he just sticks to what he does well, like he did tonight, he can have success. Maybe won't put up the numbers every game, but his confidence will always be high, which certainly seems to help his game. Putting him in a position to dribble the ball off his foot because they're trying to make him into a point guard isn't a good way to give him confidence.
He was running pnr and isoes too. Way to not pay attention well to what was going on in the game.
He does well in a chaotic game. The Warriors play a chaotic game, but most of the time the chaos is on your end of the floor. We saw some glimpses tonight of how fast they are going to be able to run the score up on you; in mere seconds you'll be buried by 20.
He hit shots tonight. But he's not going to shoot 60% for the season. What I liked the most was that he played good D, and he hustled his ass off. That block was incredible - he just ran that play down from behind. And there was a play late in the fourth quarter. He got stuck with the ball at the end of the shot clock, got stripped, and wound up on the floor. He got up and got back in transition D. The Warriors still scored, but he put himself in position to help break up that play. He was fighting for rebounds and loose balls. If he keeps up that kind of energy and effort, he can still earn minutes on nights when his shot isn't falling.
nope. They didn't have him running the point until the last four minutes, when he started to turn the ball over and make bad plays. It looked just like summer league. The rest of the time he was getting the ball within the flow of the offense, and he was great at it. That's where he got his assists.
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