Talk me through your Ben Simmons column.

Your your six years column here breath brown, which was needing him to take a three to such an extent that he was gonna go to find him.

What's the story here?

No, it wasn't going to find him, But he did sit down before the season, Tony in with his parents, by the way, and said, Listen, we need you to shoot threes for our team to space the floor to help everybody.

If you don't, I convince you I can do that.

Don't make me do that.

I want you to shoot threes.

But if you want, you have an event.

You if you don't take them.

This was a real thing that was on the table in the end.

Brett Brown.

He's too good a person, honestly, to use that technique, and I think you have to remember if you read the story and I think you'll see that there's there's, there's a mental component to this Tony, why the men's isn't going to shoot that three until he's ready, and I think it's wrong to browbeat him into doing it.

And I think Brett Brown agree now.

I will tell you this that my sources tell me that the front office and some of the ownership one it background to do that.

And he didn't Well, that's okay.

That's great to know.

What do you think this says about the long term viability of the relationship?

And of the Philadelphia 76?

I think Ben Simmons is gonna end up shooting threes.

But the point that I tried to make in the store or and it's a good one, I think because I talked a bunch of coaches throughout the league is this.

Let's say Ben Simmons ends up shooting 2 to 3 threes a game.

Okay, because that's what everybody wants him to do.

Let's say he make 2 to 3 threes a game.

What's gonna change 20 when it comes to the playoffs and their garden?

Ben Simmons, who's unbelievable driving to the basket, who's an unbelievable post up player.

If in a tight game at the end of the game, what are you going to do?

You're gonna lay off Ben Simmons just like with Johannes.

Now Johannes is shooting threes, but in a big playoff game in a tight game, what are you gonna do, You're gonna bet you're gonna lean back and say, Have had a big guy because everything you else you do, you do it better.

So that's why I don't think it's his biggest deals.

Everyone makes out.

It's not a big deal, but it's certainly something people make something out of because we talked about this every week for the entirety of this embassies and we had would be paid.

You were part of 90% of those show Is your well adverse?

So what?

So what they're doing in Philadelphia?

How do you take in that a coach had to sit down and play and say, I'm gonna venture if you don't do this.

I think it is a big deal and you touched about Jackie.

What?

My thought has been a along.

He stay sacks.

I think he has the yips.

I think he's afraid to take three Borders.

I gets a 1,000,000 you because he's a great basketball player.

You don't think during the off season Magic Johnson was good friend years.

Jackie Magic Johnson shouldn't couldn't shoot threes when he came in the league, not at all.

And what he did during the off season was going on and she pushed shots.

They won't get about 20%.

It's an entirely different game now.

That's what we're talking about.

The need for Volume three.

Well, I think that it made a magic honest from the outside that teams didn't have to go out guardian at the three point line.

I'm just saying I think he's afraid, I think was a good idea to sit down with and the Breeze parents in there and say, Hey, we really need you to If he thought a 34 game, it doesn't make them what there is to make.

China couldn't make free throws, but yet he still with the free throw line all the time.

I just think it makes a big mistake that he's not just honestly trying those, and I think it is a middle situation that he's just afraid to do.

It needs to get over that fair or he's not gonna be a full rounded player.

He's gonna be a double double every night out of triple that.

Wilkens again can't make reporters and warning shoe.

It's a Jackie such a fascinating window into relationships between players and coaches, but and the Nugget about the family.

Clinton Yates.

How did how did that register with you?

That struck me is really weird.

I mean, I know it for me.

What executed teacher stocks, your parents and you're not going over trusting too much.

Wasn't that required of learning?

And that's what I don't really understand about the Senate when they're scared.

Whether he thinks it's a personal agency thing.

Like, you know, this is a part of your game.

There's gonna help you and your team be better.

Why do not what?

He's giving this a try?

That psychology is very difficult for me to sort of understand it.

I'm not saying it's not justified, but whatever it is, six years need to know because I don't want a broad brush generations.

But I can't imagine a player 15 years ago say, Guess what?

I'm not doing this because it just doesn't suit me as the human being more largely, and that, to me, is very strange.

It speaks a little bits awards.

You know what his goals are in basketball, and I'm not judging them.

It's just like you want to get this, and that's why it's weird for me to understand Jackie, can you think of any historical camps, you know?

Or least maybe you saw a relationship and it went one way or the other.

Historically, in the MBA between player and coach like this, this is I'm it really can remember anything quite like this because he's so good.

And I mean, he's really talented player.

He could be an all n b a player even without that three, but But the two things I would say about is Number one.

I think there's, you know, one of the things Brett Brown also said in this story was if Ben Simmons got to play with House money, if they weren't expected to be good for the Sixers, and he just got to go out and make mistakes like most rookies, do you think he'd be jacking up threes all the time?

A lot of the message with expectation and pressure of these number one picks in the quote unquote process.

That, to me is important.

And I think in the city like Philadelphia that contributes to it.

He gets roasted on Twitter.

This kid is an unbelievable basketball player and I have some sympathy for, because I've spent some time.

Then why are his parents involved?

His brothers?

His agent, David Simmons, played for Brett Brown in Australia.

The parents are around.

They're part of Ben Simmons is.

I want to say, your group, they're part of his inner side.

So I think that's right.

That's that's a very, very good point.

Um, by the way, Clinton someone I have to ask you, toe bringing your parents right now we have something we need to talk about.

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