I might have to reinstitute my BEN SIMMONS JUMPER ALERT program. For a while there it seemed like he was hitting one every game, or even more than one, but I’m not really seeing them anymore from him. Where did they go? Obviously, they’re not a good shot for him at this point, but since when has that stopped anyone from shooting anything? Marcus Smart goes out there and shoots a bajillion threes a game and people still like him kind of. Simmons could totally make a habit out of popping midrange jimbos and people would love him for it. He could even shoot threes, I bet.
It is kind of fun to see how good he is going to the basket even when the defense knows exactly what’s going to happen. They can’t stop him. He just goes in there and either dunks it with fury or does one of those crazy flips. Or, in a first for him, he backs down a defender, then turns around and dunks it like Shaq used it to.
I’m now going to watch some Shaq highlights, I think. First up: the one where he dunks on Chris Dudley then pushes him to the ground.