Portland Trail Blazers young guard Anfernee Simons has started off the year averaging career high numbers in points, assists, rebounds, steals, field goal percentage, and three point percentage through four games. Despite the small sample size, the increase in production stems from a changed mindset coming into this new season. Jason Quick of The Athletic talked to Damian Lillard’s longtime trainer, Phil Beckner, who has taken Simons under his wing in these last few years.
Simons kept the Blazers afloat in the first half against Memphis, a game that could have ended very differently had Simons not showed up in a big way that night.