Official 2017 NBA Offseason Thread: Media Days begin

[Moheezy]

All I want for xmas is a Ball vs Simmons / Lavar vs Embiid matchup.

I think it is pretty realistic. Both are/were meh shooters who like to go left a lot and have pretty solid passing ability.

Even though he is a lefty, his layups are almost exclusively with his right hand. In fact, if you've never seen him play, you'd think he was right handed. He is pretty much ambidextrous.


That being said, Odom is a realistic comparison, but his potential is much much higher if he reaches it.

 

[Moheezy]

A rookie is gonna come close to averaging a triple double
This is why Sixers fans cant have nice things

This is where all the hype came from the last two days. I love the confidence, but let's watch him play a game before anything else (coming from a die hard Sixer fan).



He also seems to be a gym rat and wants to be great so that's a good sign.

What will be very interesting to see will be the leadership of the team. Simmons seems to be a bit immature (it may just be an age thing) and I don't see Fultz having the charisma to motivate a team, his interviews are boarderline cringe worthy with generic comments.

Even though Embiid is a clown, I do think he can be the leader of the team and lead by example. Getting those Vets around them is absolutely critical to making this work.

 

[LebronHasMoreFinalsMVPs]

All this hype but still hasnt played a game.

 

[buc em]

All this hype but still hasnt played a game.

It's the offseason buddy. Unless you'd like every conversation in here to be about Kyrie's trade demand or some TMZ **** about what a player is doing off the court then **** like this is going to be discussed about one of the most hyped #1 picks since LeBron getting ready to make his debut this season.

 

[gaiiige]

All this hype but still hasnt played a game.

neither has lonzo

 

[LebronHasMoreFinalsMVPs]

Lonzo not putting pressure on himself.

 

[lynchpin33]

Slap yourself thinking Simmons can avg a triple his first year.

Unless they are boxing out for Simmons to steal rebounds and passing the ball back to Simmons if they can't score in under two dribbles this isn't happening. Winning is already complex for Philly lets not make it more difficult with another year of this nonsense.

 

[LebronHasMoreFinalsMVPs]

Winning is a foreign language to Philly

 

[buc em]

Lonzo not putting pressure on himself.

Omgzzzz so much pressure saying that he's better than he was last year.....HOWS HE EVER GOING TO LIVE UP TO THIS??

You'd think Ben's dad said his son is better than Steph Curry and that he has a $500 signature shoe and asked for a $3 billion dollar shoe deal or something

 

[Lovetohate3000]

Lola at people thinking Simmons is lebron. Philly fans are buns. Hype up everything

 

[Maximus Meridius]

10-10-9 is close to a triple double and it needs 82 more assists, crazy.
What's not close is...

10-9-8
10-11-8
10-12-8
15-15-8

Unless you have a 9+ in each category, with payt games you are way off.

10-10-8 requires 164 more assists to average a triple double.

Basically you get it or you are not close.

Yes and dude wants to know why 6 rebs is realistic but 10 ain't.

This is where all the hype came from the last two days. I love the confidence, but let's watch him play a game before anything else (coming from a die hard Sixer fan).



He also seems to be a gym rat and wants to be great so that's a good sign.

What will be very interesting to see will be the leadership of the team. Simmons seems to be a bit immature (it may just be an age thing) and I don't see Fultz having the charisma to motivate a team, his interviews are boarderline cringe worthy with generic comments.

Even though Embiid is a clown, I do think he can be the leader of the team and lead by example. Getting those Vets around them is absolutely critical to making this work.

This is all good to me what Simmons is saying. Dude has great potential, if he putting the work in he should say this.

 

[LebronHasMoreFinalsMVPs]

Ppl can differentiate lavar and lonzo. Lonzo is humble. Talking **** on twitter and saying your going to be better than last year no ****. If he plays a minute he will be better than last season.

 

[miggyme1]

heres the stat lines for each next season

points/assists/reb

lonzo

17/7/5

simmons

14/5/6

fultz

23/4/4

 

[LebronHasMoreFinalsMVPs]

heres the stat lines for each next season

points/assists/reb

lonzo

17/7/5

simmons

14/5/6

fultz

23/4/4

You got banned for a week?

 

[LebronHasMoreFinalsMVPs]

Lonzo prob will avg more assists.

 

[miggyme1]

You got banned for a week?

nah think it was like 3 days i just been busy with work. Im back though. CANT KEEP A GOOD NINJA DOWN.

 

[buc em]

heres the stat lines for each next season

points/assists/reb

lonzo

17/7/5

simmons

14/5/6

fultz

23/4/4

You're drunk as hell at noon on a Tuesday.

 

[wavycrocket]

My dawg Ben....it's shine season dummy.

Ben rey go off this year. #JustWaitOnIt

 

[miggyme1]

You're drunk as hell at noon on a Tuesday.

u need to get league pass. those are all realistic numbers....but why am i trying to have an intellectual convo with a bucs fan......smh.

 

[antidope]

I just think it's aggressive. Those averages you listed have only happened six times ever and one of those was Westbrook last year.

https://www.basketball-reference.com/play-index/tiny.fcgi?id=qY4hN

I said the same thing when Buc Em said it. I'm not knocking you for it though. I wouldn't be mad if he put the numbers up.

This was and will remain my point about these Simmons averages.

 

[HIM]

10-10-9 is close to a triple double and it needs 82 more assists, crazy.

Well it's the Sixers so he would only need like 50 more assists to go from 9 to 10.

 

[Based Jesus]

You're drunk as hell at noon on a Tuesday.

Whole city of Philly been drunk

 

[pums]

The lengths he would go just to remove the swoosh

 

[lamekilla]

Clown

 

[addict4sneakers]

If I was getting that kind of money from Adidas, I'd tape 3 stripes on my jersey


Plus I think he's contractually obligated to cover it up