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Ben Simmons Rumors
All NBA Players
Position: F
Born: 07/20/96
Height: 6-10 / 2.08
Weight:230 lbs. / 104.3 kg.
Salary: $6,434,520
Born: 07/20/96
Height: 6-10 / 2.08
Weight:230 lbs. / 104.3 kg.
Salary: $6,434,520
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Tim Bontemps: Sixers wins 108-105 over the Knicks in a game that got far closer than anyone expected at halftime. Ben Simmons had 20 points, 21 rebounds and nine assists to lead Philly, which had its big four (Simmons, Embiid, Butler, Redick) combine for 84 of its 108 points.
Philadelphia 76ers forward Ben Simmons called his team “too soft” for the second time this season after Friday night’s 123-121 home loss to the Atlanta Hawks. Playing without star center Joel Embiid, who missed the game with a sore ankle, the Sixers allowed Atlanta to rack up 62 points in the paint while outrebounding Philadelphia 44-30. “Definitely,” Simmons said when asked whether physicality was the Sixers’ biggest problem. “I think we were too soft.”
“I don’t like the word ‘soft,'” Butler said, and added a whistle. “I just don’t think that we did what we were supposed to do. I’m not gonna say that anybody’s soft. I just think that we got beat in every aspect of the game. They came out from the jump and did what they wanted to do, and they did that for 48 straight minutes.”
Fit isn’t everything. You need a baseline of top-level talent to compete for titles, even if that talent overlaps. These Sixers hinge on how willing each of Simmons, Embiid, and Butler is to spend snippets of every game as Chris Bosh. “I constantly remind all three of them: You do not always get to win on your terms,” Brown says.
