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Yumm. Wife and I found some remnants of a delicious cookie of yours buried in the freezer last weekend
Wait, NBA refs are no longer going to call fouls on stars jumping into defenders?! I would guess that will decrease the number of FT attempts in an average game by about half.
Yeah, I'm not sure if "Curry is good at basketball" is really all that earth shattering news.
Well today he is supposed to meet with team officials prior to the shoot around. They should have suspended him for two games so that the distraction this week had one less “decision” to be dealt with.
Morey should be fired if he can’t resolve this in a year, let alone four. How could dragging this out four years be in the best interest of the team and organization?
Simmons becoming the test case for this is the worst thing that could occur for the mental health movement.
Tobias Harris
The plausibility is exactly why he and his team went with this strategy next. Something tells me his issues would clear up the second he was traded.
i have worked in the mental health industries for years, and i would say that 90% of Ben's issues derive from a mental health block. it is an official Axis 1 diagnosis, can't say for sure.
what's interesting is looking back to the Markelle Fultz situation in Philly too. he isn't a superstar all of a sudden, but his game has certainly improved (ignoring injuries of course) once he has been able to play somewhere else. the difference with Fultz though is that he never had this mountain of crap poured on him like Ben has got for years, and exponentially worse for the last 4 months.
could be he's got anxiety/depression/something and he isn't handling millions of fans, the sports media attention, his own organization destroying him 24/7 for months on end and he's just had enough.
that's a lot of pressure.. and, yes, lots of other athletes perform under pressure but everyone is wired differently.
if he's going through the wringer and can't take it.. but he gets traded and things settle down.. then suddenly he performs well, it doesn't mean he tanked in Philadelphia (necessarily). could just mean he found a better fit mentally, emotionally, etc.
i know i mocked his suckiness and think he's over-rated, but i'd never attack the guy personally on Twitter, Facebook, at games, etc. unfortunately there are hundreds of media outlets and millions of other people who have absolutely no problem doing just that and they dngaf if he kills himself because of it.. they'll just label him weak while wearing their green Mental Health Awareness ribbons.
Agreed. I keep going back and forth on if Ben actually has these issues or if he's faking it. There's lots of evidence on both sides of the argument. Obviously always thought the Ben hate was unnecessary and had that mob mentality. I do wonder if this is all calculated by his agent, but would feel awful if that wasn't the case. The fact that Harris defended him after he spoke to the team makes me wonder a bit though.... the details of that talk or what Ben told them probably will never be released. At this point I'd rather just move on, it hurts my head trying to figure out if I feel bad for him or think he's just being conniving.
not sure we'll ever know. Which is frustrating as a sports fan.... because people get enjoyment out of either loving or hating a player.
I feel like he did follow the playbook on how to force your way out of town and Morey refused to play along. Most teams would have taken the best deal and not let it come to this. For better or worse, the Sixers don't seem to operate like most teams.
