The problem that troubled 76 people and two generations of coaches is now in front of basketable Nets coach Nash.
How to make good use of Ben Simmons? The former 76-man coach bright Brown tried to transform Simmons into a power forward, but his experiment ended in failure. Doug Rivers returned Simmons to the position of organizational guard after taking office, but Simmons still did not fulfill all his talents. Later, Rivers wanted to transform Simmons into a 76-person adtokunbo, but before his idea was tested, Simmons filed a transaction application.
Now, Nash has an answer to this problem. He plans to copy Rivers’s idea and train Simmons in the direction of organizing the center. When Clarkston and Sharp are not present, Simmons will play number five. Simmons also said himself on the second day of training camp that he was willing to play center.
The question is, is it reliable for Simmons to play the organization center?
In theory, this is already the best solution to unlock Simmons’s strongest combat power. Because letting Simmons play the center of the organization can not only continue to play its excellent passing ability and defensive ability, but also cover up its projection weakness as much as possible. With a lineup of basketable nets, they are more confident to transform Simmons towards the center of the organization, because the number and grade of basketable nets shooters are more than 76 people in the past and even any team in the current league. However, even if there is a successful template of adtokunbo, the implementation effect of this scheme is unknown due to the inherent problems of Simmons.
On February 16, 2021, Simmons played his career masterpiece in the 76ers and Jazz World War I. In the absence of enbede, Simmons reached the starting center position. His side was Tobias-Harris, sess-Curry, Danny Green, Mike Scott, a typical one-star configuration. In the whole game, Simmons scored 15 out of 26 shots, 13 penalty for 12 scores, 42 points, 9 rebounds, 12 assists, 1 snatch, 1 cap. In the open space, Simmons is crazy about one-on-one, fighting back, blocking and dismantling.
This game gives ample imagination to the idea of “Simmons playing the organization Center”. Some insiders believe that Simmons should play the organization center in a full-space lineup like adtokunbo.
In an interview with HoopHype, a coach of the Eastern team said: “I will let Simmons imitate adtokunbo’s play and match him with the shooter.” A coach of the Western team also said, “Simmons has comprehensive skills. I will match him with a shooter, like the stag used adtokunbo, to open space for Simmons, in this way, Simmons’s attack will be more creative.”
In terms of body shape, athletic ability, playing style characteristics and even defects, Simmons does have many similarities with adtokunbo, which makes it reasonable for Simmons to develop his way to adtokunbo.
Last year during the offseason, rivers and 76 general managers Brand went to Los Angeles to lobby Simmons to participate in the training camp. At that time, Rivers promised Simmons that he would change his use method, let him stagger the playing time with enbide more, play more center, and match him with Harris and the other three shooters. Rivers also specifically mentioned adtokunbo, who hoped Simmons would become the letter elder brother of 76 people. However, Rivers’s idea did not impress Simmons.
Simmons’s personal Will is one of the obstacles, and another obstacle is that 76 people have insufficient resource reserves. Before switching to Harden, the resources of 76 shooters were not bad, but they did not have a reliable stop and take off the ball. After Simmons came to basketable nets, his attitude changed and he was not so resistant to the center. One of the main reasons was that the basketable Nets lineup made him see hope.
The first is the shooting Group. Basketable nets is one of the teams with the richest reserves of high-quality shooting resources in the league. Owen, Mills, sess-Curry and Harris all hit at least 40% in the three points last season. If you look at the three-point hit rate of receive the ball, these four figures are even more horrible, with the lowest Owen reaching 40.9 percent.
Don’t forget, Durant, who hit 38.4 percent of his career in basketable nets, also introduced Royce O’Neal, who hit 38.1 percent of his career in the offseason, warren, who shot more than 40% in three points for two consecutive seasons before the injury.
With such shooter resources to open up space, Simmons can play its misplaced singles and low offensive ability. In the last season of 76 people, Simmons scored 1 point per round of singles and 0.96 points per round of low attack. At the same time, Simmons can also give full play to his ability to create three-point shot opportunities for outside shooters. From the 2017-18 season to the 2020-21 season, Simmons sent 996 three-point assists, second only to weishao in the same period.
The second is to block and remove the ball holder. Simons’s brokerage team has always believed that the biggest loss of Simons’s career is that this is obviously an era when super block and remove the ball holder is popular, however, he has never cooperated with the super displayer. Maxi and Milton are not elite players. Due to the lack of resistance and passing ability of the team-mates blocking and dismantling attacks, and there is always a big center in the inside line to occupy space, Simmons 76 people’s career hundred rounds blocking and dismantling shield attack is only 0.4 times.
Different from basketable nets, Owen scored 0.98 points per round of block splitting last season. Durant’s figure was 1.05 points, including cess-curry, which could also be split, last season, he scored 0.98 points in each round of block and split, the same as Owen. If Simmons is more involved with them to split and play as a cover person, and the outer space is opened, Simmons’s frequency and efficiency of blocking and dismantling can be improved a lot.
Simmons’s defense is the last thing to worry about. No matter playing No. 5 in the small-sized lineup or playing the point guard in the traditional formation, Simmons has many ways to help basketable nets defend firmly, he can not only shrink the inner line and give priority to protecting rim, but also be responsible for preventing the opponent from holding the ball outside as he did when playing the eagle.
However, basketball matches are the same as solving arithmetic questions. A difficult problem has standard answers and may not be able to solve the problem-solving ability. It was also pushed to the No. 5 position to play center. With the same lineup configuration, can adtokunbo play the dominant performance, Will Simmons be able?
This is not necessarily the case.
Last season, adtokunbo relied on his abnormal talent to hit 60.8 percent of the terrorist breakthrough, and the previous season reached 63.5 percent, however, the last season of Simmons’s healthy competition broke the shooting rate by only, and the ability to break through the killing was far less than that of adtokunbo.
For opponents, the simplest way to deal with Simmons, who plays center, is to foul strategy. The free throw shooting rate of Simmons career is only 59.7%, and there is no sign of progress since entering the career. However, the free throw shooting rate of adtokunbo career is 71.8%. He has proved his free throw ability in key matches many times.
Before thinking about how to organize the center to kill the quartet, Simmons might as well think about it first. If the opponent takes “hack-a-Shaq” against him, with his free throw ability and psychological quality, can he throw a free throw into it?