Kyrie Irving just wants Ben Simmons to shoot a basketball.
During Wednesday night’s game between the Brooklyn Nets and the Milwaukee Bucks in Wisconsin, Irving drove to the basket and threw a pass to Simmons, who was in the lane with him.
But instead of going hard into the whoops at some points, Simmons quickly tried to pass through the rocks.
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Irving showed his frustration to his teammates, catching a heated microphone yelling “Shoot Ben!”
Simmons will get around the Bucks defense and find Kevin Durant.
Durant pumpfakes the shot, drives it to his left elbow, and hits a two-point jumper.
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The Nets lost 110-99 to the Bucks, and Simmons went 2-for-7 from the field in 34:28 playing time.
It may have been a point for Brooklyn, but Irving now has the same sentiments as many Nets fans. I was.
Simmons was also a first thinker of passes, as his last game against the 76ers in the playoffs showed.
But he fills the stat sheet with the Nets in terms of assists and rebounds. But the player, who is averaging more than 14 points per game for the Philadelphia 76ers, hasn’t had too much of a ball going into the start of the year.
Coming into the game with the Bucks, Simmons had a total of 13 shots in three contests and scored seven points for a total of 17 points. Simmons averaged 4.3 on the field per game as he averaged 28 minutes per game.
Simmons also fouled in two of his first three games, but this is different from him. Nash told the New York Post that he hoped Simmons would find “joy” in playing games he had been away from for a while again.
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“For me, I’m trying to remove the risk,” he said. “I don’t expect him to be 100 per cent in the short term, but I hope he tries to find it.” [joy] Join him in the game. “
Now, having players like Irving and Durant on the floor usually means fewer shot attempts. It also marks Simmons’ first time on the court in his NBA environment since his 2020-21 campaign, where he held out last year with the 76ers before becoming part of a James Harden trade that included the Nets. I was. His back injury then forced him to wait until this season to make his team debut.
As Simmons gets used to his new teammate, he will probably start shooting more balls, especially in situations closer to the rim.
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At the very least, I want to see that when Irving passes the ball.