John Schuhmann, NBA.com’s longtime advanced stats writer (and founder of NetsDaily), does one of his patented film studies Wednesday on Ben Simmons and sums things up this way: “There is potential for greatness.”
Here’s the bottom line for Schuhmann: Simmons has skills on both defense ... and offense ... that fill a lot of Brooklyn’s needs: bringing “plus” defense and offering unheralded offense that can fit neatly with Kevin Durant, Kyrie Irving and, as he notes, “two of the top four guys in career 3-point percentage (Joe Harris and Seth Curry).”
Schuhmann starts with the Nets failings — and some mostly forgotten successes — last year before analyzing where Simmons fits.