Long story really short, the 76ers have a player who is an incredible athlete but doesn’t feel comfortable taking jump shots far away from the basketball hoop.
Thus, defenses can ignore him when he’s out on the perimeter.
His coach told him publicly to take one 3-point shot per game. Coach said he doesn’t even care if he hits it or not.
The player basically refused to do it.
It’s more detailed than that, but the 80⁄20 is a young incredible athlete with immense potential on the team refused to follow his coach’s (incredibly reasonable) instruction.
In most sports and at most levels of play in sports, that’d get you benched by the coach.
But in the NBA, when a coach and star player feud, the coach gets fired around 9 times out of 10. (The other time, the star player gets traded. But the coach usually gets fired first in the NBA.)
It’d take a few paragraphs to tell the whole story if you don’t already follow basketball, but this —
https://www.cbssports.com/nba/news/76ers-coach-brett-brown-wants-ben-simmons-taking-at-least-one-3-pointer-a-game-moving-forward/
Long story really short, the 76ers have a player who is an incredible athlete but doesn’t feel comfortable taking jump shots far away from the basketball hoop.
Thus, defenses can ignore him when he’s out on the perimeter.
His coach told him publicly to take one 3-point shot per game. Coach said he doesn’t even care if he hits it or not.
The player basically refused to do it.
It’s more detailed than that, but the 80⁄20 is a young incredible athlete with immense potential on the team refused to follow his coach’s (incredibly reasonable) instruction.
In most sports and at most levels of play in sports, that’d get you benched by the coach.
But in the NBA, when a coach and star player feud, the coach gets fired around 9 times out of 10. (The other time, the star player gets traded. But the coach usually gets fired first in the NBA.)
Thx for the explanation!