In the basketable Nets defeat to the stag, Simmons only scored another 4 points.
If you watch this game, you can find that Simmons not only has serious psychological problems, but also has physical problems. It is very likely that the waist injury brings great psycho-fear, which makes him so timid.
But because basketable nets was reversed by the stag, Simmons fell into the network’s group mockery again.
So far, basketable Nets have played 1 win and 3 losses in 4 games. Simmons has scored 21 points, 23 rebounds, 30 assists and 18 fouls. He now has an average of 4.3 shots per game, while in the 4 years of playing in Philadelphia (not counting the first year of injury), he has an average of at least 10 shots and at most 12.3 shots.
There is also a reference data that can be used as a reference. Simmons used to be the snatch King in 2020, with 2.1 steals per game, but the first four games of the new season were snatched three times in total, two of which came from this pair of bucks.
The last time I played the grizzly bear, I have found that Simmons held his waist with his hands after a confrontation. Today, he appeared again to the stag. Once he tried to attack the letter Yanis with “three slow steps”, and the ball fell behind, he bent down, it seemed that he couldn’t straighten up, and then he supported his waist with his hands.
Waist problems are more troublesome than psychological problems.
Simmons had a lumbar spine surgery this year. Theoretically, now he can play basketball. He must have passed strict medical examination and recognition, and there can be no problem according to reason. However, he held his waist with his hands after more than one confrontation, either the waist strength did not meet the requirements of confrontation, or there were still problems.
Of course, there is another possibility that he still has a huge psychological shadow, which makes him afraid of confrontation, even if he has recovered from waist surgery. The more afraid you are, the softer your waist and the more you move, the more pressure your waist bears, which in turn puts more pressure on your mind. This is a vicious circle.
Basketable nets didn’t say there was a problem with his waist, neither did Simmons mention it, nor did American reporters ask. I don’t know why he didn’t ask. According to the reason, professional journalists should take it out and ask.
Everyone thinks that he just hasn’t played for a year and needs time to adapt. Nash had said this before fighting the Bucks, and repeated it again after the game, calling on everyone to support Simmons and give him confidence. Owen also said after the game:
“You (reporters) always come here to ask me what happened to Ben (Simmons). You know he hasn’t played for two years. Give him a chance. We fully support him, and you also support him. We just need to be more sure of him and let him play his own ball.”
However, Simmons’s failure to attack on the court obviously made Owen feel incredible. Three minutes after the start of the second half against the stag, Owen’s quick attack was blocked. He threw the ball to Simmons and went out of the terminal line. However, he found that Simmons didn’t look at the basket but just turned back to find someone, I was so anxious that I shouted under the basket, “shoot quickly, Ben!” Because basketball hoop of his head was filled with microwheat, the sound came out.
Simmons gave the ball to Durant.
If you only need to support him and give him confidence to go back to the previous Simmons, things will be simple. In fact, his problem is quite serious. In NBA history, there is only one starting player who has played more than 100 minutes, scored less than 25 points and scored less than 25 rebounds, that is Simmons.
He and Wei Shao have the same negative impact on the team at present, but in different ways. Wei Shao is not allowed to vote, Simmons is not attacking, the ball to find someone first, rather than looking for baskets. There are only 10 people on the court, one radish against one pit. If you don’t attack, the opponent will have one more person to guard restricted area near the basket, just like nurkich going to the opposite position, the letter counterposition Simmons, they were all released to assist in defense. Restricted area near the basket was extremely crowded, and the strong and weak side transfer lines crossing restricted area near the basket were also blocked.
The bizarre phenomenon that Simmons did not attack was that from the seven eastern semi-finals against the Eagle last year, to the fourth quarter, Simmons had only three shots added up. At that time, it was generally believed that Simmons was in conflict with enbede, fighting with the head coach and deliberately not attacking, because they thought he was too bad at shooting.
Now basketable nets the whole team is so supportive of him, starting in the field, all kinds of strength, why doesn’t he attack? In addition to psychological reasons, only the injury is used as an explanation, either the waist is not good, or he is afraid of hurting the waist again.
The problem of basketable nets, of course, is far more than Simmons not attacking, and this team is not ready to play in the new season.
Perhaps Mr Ma thought Simmons would appear on the court in a brand new state. Nash also designed a lineup to let Simmons play number 5. Since he was a three-time All-Star, he entered the best defense for a while, there is no need to make up for the big center if the famous small lineup is No. 5. In basketable nets, we tried our best to train two young centers Claxton and sharp to play the main force and substitute.
However, Clarkston is very thin. Although he is as high as 211, his weight is only 97 kilograms. NBA players’ standard figure is perfectly balanced in height and weight, with Jordan as the standard, height 198 and weight 99kg. Another center Sharp is also 211 tall and weighs 120 kilograms. The same 211 tall Simmons 108 kilograms is much more normal.
Simmons, who has always been strong in defense, is not hard at all now. He was hit by Xi ‘an and flew down by letters. In the fourth quarter, once a letter scored easily on Simmons’s head, he made a gesture of “too small”, which made people angry and did not pay for their lives.
It is conceivable that the three players who played center, one thin, one tender, one soft, and basketable Nets defense, have become one of the worst defensive teams at the beginning of the new season, both Pelican and grizzly bear lost more than 130 points.
Therefore, Durant had to be both a father and a mother. The stag was against his enemy, but Durant scored 33 points, leading 12 points in the first half, and was reversed by the stag.
To put it bluntly, it is mercilessly reversed by letters. In the first half, he just threw a shot on the outside line, but the middle distance was not accurate, so he only had 9 points. After the beginning of the third quarter, the letters began to attack the basket, and even put on the basket with free throws, and took 17 points in one breath. In front of the letters, the basketable Nets defense of restricted area near the basket is like ripped underpants, with a naked view.
In fact, from the beginning of the new season to now, only Durant has one basketable Nets players who are really ready, with an average of 32 points and three games of 30 +. There are several role players who may be well prepared, but there are not many opportunities for performance, such as defender Sumner.
Owen was supposed to be the core of Durant’s level. Now he has an average of 27 points, but only 28 percent three-point shot percentage. Today he is 0 out of 7 bucks. Three-Point King Harris returned, three-point goal 12 4.
Basketable nets the only hope is that Simmons returns to normal. How long will it take? No one knows.
Simmons can only return to normal and cannot go on like this. Otherwise, it will not only affect the basketable Nets season, but also affect the next two seasons, because his contract was signed in 2025. No team will let a player with an annual salary of 3500 to 40 million only shoot four or five times a game, scoring four or five points.
But it is not clear whether Nash can wait until Simmons returns to normal. Today, he was furious with the referee at mills blocking foul and was sent out by two T’s. It was not so much that he struggled with the whistle, but reflected his inner anxiety.
Nash may also want to stimulate the vitality of the team members through this anger, but it didn’t work at all. Under the heavy bombing of letters, the difference was getting bigger and bigger.
Because the ball was in Simmons’s hand, and he still didn’t mean to attack.
Su Qun column