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Ben's take on ROY

I would love to see those two scrap cuz I know DM would take him out even at the size disparity. Simmons is a gigantic bitch.

Anyway. Basketball.
 
If he played for LA. Boston. New York. I think it would be different. It's why I think fellow players should be voters. Because they play against the other. A player can see who's who on the court. Reporters who vote only see highlights and probably never see "Jazz" games. Sure they know his name. But he isn't on prime time TV. So how much have they really seen? But something has to be said of Donovan being in a tougher conference. Tougher division. Facing better opposing guards. Not a knock on Simmons at all. Just the difference between east and west.
 
As much as I like Donovan more (x100000000000000 more), Simmons will win it. The best we can hope for is 'co'-ROY.

But who cares anyways, ROY really means nothing tbh.
 
Tak said:
Wouldn't Joe and Dante getting a ring be better? It's a honest question, I'm not aware of Ben's hype level in KoalaLand.
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Longley has three rings, Delly has one, Patty Mills has one, Baynes has one, Bogut has one, so not really, Simmons having a big game makes the 6 o'clock news, basketball is almost never on the 6 o'clock news. So its a whole different level.
 
Bulletproof said:
This idea that being snubbed fires players up is based on what? Has Donovan said anything to substantiate that idea?

Rooting for your player to get snubbed to fire them up is kind of silly imo.
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You don't think Players are motivated by this? Your wrong.
Et tu Brute said:
My take on Ben Simmons comments is that it is part PR but really an indication of how he feels.
He would think that DM is a talented overhyped volume shooter/scorer who doesn't contribute to winning like he does. He constantly mentions his diversified impact on games - and I think he feels disrespected by the media in general. The thing that I bet would annoy him is that everyone always stresses how he is the 2nd best player on his team, and almost no one in the media says the same thing about DM.

I also think people don't realize that he projects to be better than Embiid.
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I disagree
Et tu Brute said:
This is what's weird though. Remember at the start of the year everyone was just talking about Ball and Dennis Smith Jnr and Tatum.

People had forgotten about Simmons and Mitchell was under the radar.
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They didn't forget about Simmons, just that the TRUE rookies were the more recent news, and Simmons technically isn't a rookie
 
Thee jazz fan said:
They didn't forget about Simmons, just that the TRUE rookies were the more recent news, and Simmons technically isn't a rookie
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I think we have this backwards. Technically, that is, according to the rules, he's a rookie. But he's not actually a rookie. He is merely technically a rookie.
 
infection said:
Somebody explain the Simmons Aussie thing to me... I know he was born in Australia, but he went to high school in America and doesn't have an accent. Is this like Shawn Bradley being German?
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no, he went to his first 3-4 years of what we call high school here (middle school there?) and i think moved over to the US to attend the last 2 years of high school i think. He's defn actually Aussie but his smugness is very un-Australian. He's not really known in popular culture, but if he was he would be roundly criticized for his attitude. We have this thing called the tall poppy syndrome, it's a national pastime to cut down anyone who's gotten too big for their boots.

having said that, like Rubashov said we've been waiting for an Olympic or World champs medal for 30 years so i'll like him for 2 weeks every 4 years...
 
DownUnder said:
no, he went to his first 3-4 years of what we call high school here (middle school there?) and i think moved over to the US to attend the last 2 years of high school i think. He's defn actually Aussie but his smugness is very un-Australian. He's not really known in popular culture, but if he was he would be roundly criticized for his attitude. We have this thing called the tall poppy syndrome, it's a national pastime to cut down anyone who's gotten too big for their boots.

having said that, like Rubashov said we've been waiting for an Olympic or World champs medal for 30 years so i'll like him for 2 weeks every 4 years...
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How does national team success stack up (for you) against NBA championship? I know more international people view it as bigger. For the most part, we don’t GAF about it. I was glad when the US lost in the early 2000s. It started to represent everything I hated about the NBA and I hated the unbeatable hype.

I suppose, though, I like the Jazz because I grew up with them as the hometown team, which I guess the NT functions as a lot of peoples’ “home town team.”
 
infection said:
How does national team success stack up (for you) against NBA championship? I know more international people view it as bigger. For the most part, we don’t GAF about it. I was glad when the US lost in the early 2000s. It started to represent everything I hated about the NBA and I hated the unbeatable hype.

I suppose, though, I like the Jazz because I grew up with them as the hometown team, which I guess the NT functions as a lot of peoples’ “home town team.”
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Yeah its much bigger, basketball is kinda like a subculture here, so for true believers an Olympic medal is a big thing.
 
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