By Tommy Matthews
Ben Simmons remains the “elephant in the Nets room,” one league executive told Heavy.com.
Simmons “kind of skated on a lot of the criticism” amid the Kyrie Irving and Kevin Durant drama.
“Brooklyn had questions and problems with Kyrie and KD from an organizational standpoint, but at least those guys could play,” the exec said. “They were good. Ben has been less than good.”
“When you guard him more like a non-shooter, it’s hard for him to make decisions, because the decision that you need to make is shoot the ball,” the executive said.
“… Ultimately for Ben, shooting is the Kryptonite. His decision-making when people are up into his body and he’s running full speed down the court and he’s in the open court with his size, he’s pretty good. But in the half-court, his decision making struggles because he can’t shoot.”
The 26-year-old ex-Sixer has two years and about $78 million left on his contract after this year.
