Depending on which aspects of his game you focus on, saying Philadelphia 76ers rookie Ben Simmons arrived as advertised is either praise or condemnation.
During Sunday's 83-70 loss to the Chicago Bulls at the Las Vegas Summer League, Simmons took steps toward removing the negative half of that binary. All he had to do was shoot.
Through two games at the Utah Summer League and one in Vegas, Simmons' passing eye, court sense, speed, handle, size and slithery skill were undeniable. There were times when he looked like a bigger version of prime Grant Hill: sprinting upcourt at an alarming pace, eyes scanning, dribble on a string and just hunting for angles:
As advertised.
But even at this early juncture, opponents have been capitalizing on the other expected part of his game.
The cushions defenders offered Simmons on offense kept getting bigger; the I-dare-you leeway got bolder. The book was out, and everyone had read it: Let Simmons shoot it from the perimeter because it's clearly the one thing he doesn't want to do. In some ways, Simmons' tentative outside approach has been worse than err ...
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