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I agree Simmons is the real ing deal. He used us all night long the other night, I'm buying his Magic jersey.
Ducks is a re .
20/7/4 on 7-12 shooting.
that PATFO suckers
Can't spin this ..The Magic have gotten a steal with Simmons at that price so far..We got BP3 for Simmons. Who is a better player for 1/7th of the price."b-b-but...but...but da' advanced stats say Simmons is a net negative player"
I agree Simmons is the real ing deal. He used us all night long the other night, I'm buying his Magic jersey.
Ducks is a re .
Although I will admit that I would rather have signed Simmons for the contract he got than signing Mills and Pau for the contracts they got.
One wonders why he didn’t want to come back and that can very well be the reason. He was only going to play like that with a full green light and a system that suit his game. He wasn’t going to achieve his potential in the Spurs being a system player. It’s like I have to repeat it. He didn’t want t stay here.
One can question why he didn’t want to stay here but he didn’t and it wasn’t Kyle. They were very good friends and Kyle had nothing to do with him not getting what he wanted. PATFO did what Manu back, Patty etc, and Simmons wanted to grow up, spread his wings, freedom.
I Declare Bull ... Simmons wanted a deal and Pop wanted to keep Manu, Pau, Anderson and Mills around for whatever reason. Simmons is a good guy and taking the high road. He wanted to be here, I know that for a fact. He is letting Pop off the hook.
Spurs suck.
Or pay twice as much as Simmons makes and get you a fatty mills
Anderson gets like 2 mill a season and is nowhere in the stratosphere of what Pau and Mills are earning. For Manu, it isn’t so much the money since he’s in a good contract but the fact that he consumes possessions, playing Time , and the role that JSimms wanted. If you just want to hate on Kyle that’s fine but he had nothing to do with that. Wouldn’t surprise me to see the balling again in the summer or something.
Wouldn't call him a better player yet, tbh. Too early.
Should've let patty go and given Simmons patty's money
I don't think he necessarily didn't want to. He was just smart enough to know Pop would never trust him over old man Manu and give him the 6th man role he deserves.
Simmons was the first wing off the bench over Manu at the end of last season, tbh. He got a lot more minutes than Manu.
You put it succinctly but it’s basically what I meant. So long as Pop has the bar of soap everything will be alright (in his mind). Then they also couldn’t pay him what he initially wanted which was in Mills Vecinity. He spoke a lot about feeling restricted by the Spurs not feeling free to play his game and make mistakes. He’s hapoy where’s he’s at. Why can’t guys just be happy for him?
It's pretty simple. Pop and the FO insist on bringing back over the hill players and giving them the minutes Simmons should have been getting. That's why he left. He should have been getting Manu's regular minutes and Manu should have been getting his sporadic/fill in minutes.
I said we should have let Patty go, and you would have only had to pay Simmons 8-10M to come back. Less than Patty for a better player. Disastrous off-season decisions from the FO.
I got Brown on my fantasy team too (and Rozier), so not really. Incidentally, fantasy completely changes one's perspective on games.
I'm doubtful that would have extended into this season, but it's all speculation now.
So do I; I replaced Hayward with him when he went down. I also have Irving and Horford, so this game wasn't all bad from my perspective.
Simmons would be starting right now instead of Anderson. If he would have played well then no way Pop relegates him to any other thing than 6th man of the team, tbh.
Perhaps, but would he have the role he wanted? Simmons didn't think so.
Simmons was never very fond of San Antonio to begin with. To me it is clear that neither the Spurs nor Simmons tried very hard to stick together, tbh.
You're probably right, tbh
As soon as Simmons slumps off folks here will be looking the other way, pretending they never said about it.
He's in the beginning stages of being a journeyman player. He's not worth keeping around because he doesn't do anything better than anyone else on the team but he does it good enough for to give them a breather.
Anderson is only starting bc Kawhi is injured. Even in games he played well (tonight was his worst game imo) I was concerned for him bc his playing time is not guaranteed. I hadn’t even seen BP3 play this well when I made that comment. It’s about what role he would have if everyone was healthy and when the Spurs has Patty, Manu and one of Rudy or Pau off the bench I don’t think he would have gotten the same opportunities frankly. In a healthy Spurs he’d still be 9th it 10.th guy feeling restricted, the whole whizz he talked about. One can’t hate him for wanting to spread his wings for real, instead of having to wait for guys to get injured or others to get rested to get his chance. He said it: he wanted to compete against the elite nightly. He didn’t like getting benched for mistakes... Pop’s shenanigans he didn’t like that . Just be happy from r him ppl.
Also so on the other side of the coin, BP3 and Rudy Gay have played well, until everyone is healthy it’s unfair to judge Pops real vision yet.
If Simmons would be here, he would be the one starting for Kawhi, not Kyle. Like it happened on the playoffs last season.
At the end of last season Simmons was already the first wing off the bench over Manu. If he had stayed, I don't see why he wouldn't have kept the same role, tbh.
There’s a truth here too. He speaks fondly of the Spurs where he got his opportunities for the first time and he got the coaching and training he needed but he wanted to move on and the Spurs might have wanted him, but he wasn’t signed at 12:01 is all I will say. If they REALLY wanted him he would have been priority over the rest of the shizz they did.
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