How do you begin Ben Simmons with one other non-shooter?
Regardless of how a lot they’ve all tried to speak their method round it, that’s been the elephant within the room, the query that’s plagued each coach Simmons has had within the NBA, from Brett Brown and Doc Rivers in Philadelphia to Steve Nash and Jacque Vaughn in Brooklyn.
Now it’s hanging over Jordi Fernandez.
No one at HSS Coaching Middle is deluding themselves as to the massive image. The tank was on the minute the Nets traded Mikal Bridges to their archrivals and reacquired their first-round draft picks within the subsequent two offseasons. And dealing away Dennis Schröder final weekend simply accelerated the method.
