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Just can't shoot free throws.
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Ben Simmons - if he had grown up playing footy
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Just can't shoot free throws.
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Simmons would be a taller Casboult. Great hands and marking ability, only to shank it 20m directly in front.
I can envisage him being injured every couple of years and having a stop-start career, wouldn't be as good clearance player as Nic Nat but maybe even more mercurial tapper. Possibly couldn't hit the side of a barn considering his 3pt shooting.
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Would be a great ruck, with good follow up skills at ground level and play like having another mid at stoppages and around the ground.
Would be terrible when resting forward and have a lot of niggling injuries over the journey.
Would be terrible when resting forward and have a lot of niggling injuries over the journey.
He would have waited a few years to go to Wimbledon though.
Nah, that's Exum I reckon.
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He would still miss his shots at goal
Players would give him free kicks off the ball because they knew he would turn it back over right away.
he'd just be a poor set shot. like levi casboult bad.
Simmons' passing (both execution and vision) is elite
Didn't Josh Jenkins play basketball at a higher level than Pendles?
Obviously athletically, he'd be the best specimen we have ever seen in the AFL.
211 cm 109 kg with measurements that beat anyone in the vertical jump etc and speed and agility for his size is insane.
So he'd have the ahtletic profile, he's obviously highly dextrous and co-ordinated.
Questions would be around game sense, footskills, endurance, how much he could handle the physical stuff, etc.
Theoretically, could be anything.
211 cm 109 kg with measurements that beat anyone in the vertical jump etc and speed and agility for his size is insane.
So he'd have the ahtletic profile, he's obviously highly dextrous and co-ordinated.
Questions would be around game sense, footskills, endurance, how much he could handle the physical stuff, etc.
Theoretically, could be anything.
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Ha
Have seen videos of him drilling goals from the 50 metre line on YouTube looks like a beautiful kick a lot better then his basketball shooting from all reports he was an elite junior footy player
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Prolly drains 3 pointers in training but come game time ..........
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Who knows but going buy the video the bloke knows how to kick a footy . Patty mills is the one that would have been definitely been a Afl star watch some of his junior football highlights
Who knows but going buy the video the bloke knows how to kick a footy . Patty mills is the one that would have been definitely been a Afl star watch some of his junior football highlights
For all the Buddy Franklin talk and the like of 1.2 million dollar seasons, mills has averaged about 10x that the last 3 seasons 17/18 through to 19/20 seasons. The money difference is huge.
Simmons for the next 4 years of salary in the NBA for a total of 192 million AUD.
Plus lower tax, more money from endorsements, easy access to In'N'Out burger, longer careers.
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Probably wouldn’t attempt a shot on goal from outside 50.
would look to handball it off after taking a mark in the goalsquare
Prime AOTY candidate, in which role he would proceed to cut Australia off at the knees.
Probably been mentioned, but he did play footy. He started playing in U12s I think and won the league bnf the next year as the ruckman or something . At 13 he would have been around 6'-6'1"
Not sure how far he could have gone but let's be honest, with the money differential basketball is the smart choice
Not sure how far he could have gone but let's be honest, with the money differential basketball is the smart choice
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Jenkins never actually got on the court at NBL level and I’m reasonably certain never played for Australia in underage level which a fair few AFL players would’ve
