VIDEO: NBA Twitter is Roasting Ben Simmons After Clip Surfaces of Him Dominating in Pickup Game
By Thomas Carannante
Philadelphia 76ers fans can now stick it to all the haters (for the time being). Ben Simmons appears to have a jump shot (and even one 3-point shot!) in a meaningless offseason pickup game. Fans are incessantly talking about the young star after this video of him surfaced, but a lot of it is awfully critical, so it might be more difficult than expected for the Philly faithful to stave off these trolls.
Ben Simmons' jumper looks good.
— Yahoo Sports (@YahooSports) July 23, 2019
You read that correctly ?
(Via @ChrisJHoops)pic.twitter.com/Zwc5phwFck
Simmons came in HOT and drilled a three on the first play of the video, and then you can see him taking these dudes to school in every facet of the game. Now we just have to see all of this in unison on an NBA court, and all the critiques about Simmons' lack of a jump shot will go away.
Lmao lemme know when he hits them in an actual nba game where people are actually trying
— caleb (@CalebDavidson5) July 23, 2019
That's some tight defense, right?
”Ben Simmons’ jumper looks good.”
— Trader Danny (@Calirly) July 23, 2019
The defense: pic.twitter.com/z8p8gg2Cof
Despite him making a number of shots, some fans don't think his form is a recipe for success.
Literally the only thing that can save that jumper pic.twitter.com/74mPqCPAgh
— Farewell CP3 (@SammyBissett) July 23, 2019
And how about those fadeaways?
That ugly fadeaway isn’t going to translate and the fact that he’s shooting fadeaways when he can’t make a regular jumper just shows how far from the right path he is.
— ThomasAnderson (@ThomasA21053671) July 23, 2019
What about the free throws though?
Ben Simmons looking real good on a high school court playing against middle schoolers pic.twitter.com/tHpBCVDGSL
— Dobby Sports (@DobbySports) July 23, 2019
Yikes.
After all, remember all the practice videos of hoodie Melo? They never really amounted to much...
Mannnnn I don’t give a flying fuck what these NBA guys look like in some random gym during the summer. Y’all seen hoodie Melo compared to what he did when it mattered? Exactly. Next ?
— ThisIsCush (@cigarettes_cush) July 23, 2019
Yup, it's safe to say nobody is buying this.
Every time Ben Simmons shoot this season... pic.twitter.com/awDDtDaI28
— ❌ Dono ❌ (@DonoDaGoat) July 23, 2019
Philly fans are desperately waiting for this to happen at the onset of next season so they can stick it to all these Twitter scouts, especially after Simmons signed a max contract. That can't come soon enough.