Trae Young On Ben Simmons Passing Up The Easy Layup On Him 

This comment is amazing 😂

No he saw the best Hawks player in many decades though…

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Players are also more willing to open up with JJ because of his time in the league which allows for a more free flowing conversation other than just question-answer like you would get from a traditional journalist.

@@bobbywrtm ok.

Yours sincerely, The new media - Dray

*trae young says something and gets taken out of context by the media* Next day on espn: "I AM DISGUSTED WITH TRAE YOUNG'S COMMENTS!" -Stephen A. Smith | First Take

Trae Young shot 39% FG that series 💀 🔒

@@Oppenheimer1967 to be fair trae shoots that against any team because he a shot chucker

@@Zay0321 I remember seeing a recap of that series and the guy from the video was like "they shouldn't sag off of him from there cause he can be dangerous", when he shot from curry range, and I'm like bro hes missing a majority of them

@@PuchuKt Trae is most definitely a dangerous shooter he just falls in love with taking bad shots. It’s like Giannis starting a Euro from the 3 point line more often than not….Not necessary.

@@jeremiah_12 of course he's dangerous, just not enough to elicit a defender from the logo

It’s All in His Head

That's why I felt it was a mistake for him to pass up playing for Australia in the Olympics. Get that last image out of people's minds. But now it's stuck there.

@@philalexander7902 fax he couldve shadowed that play by getting back in action but now made fuss of it , it put a spotlight on that moment

@@philalexander7902 agree, he should of played in those games

@@a1_med Thats not how the media works, people arent just going to forget what happened even if they watch the man play. They would have just been like "He can do this in the Olympics but not when it matters most.

No one’s going to because Trey Young is not a rim defender there was no excuse for why Ben Simmons didn’t put that ball in the hole with authority down two.

Who cares people Make mistakes get over it

@@KnicksNYanks84 a lot of these basketball fans don’t care, they’ll take anything personally lol

you sound like english is your 3rd language but you speak as fancy as possible to seem more fluent

@@PeakApex lol so true. Learn the grammar first before using the big words lmao.

It’s the way to go nowadays. These “big” networks like ESPN, Fox, etc…it’s not even worth the energy anymore. So disingenuous. These types of formats are awesome. REAL conversations with REAL people.

@@BlacknWhiteBadger88 Fax man why would anyone want to watch people yelling at each other like mad dog and skip bay less over this

There's no curtain, you can go to the games yourself and talk to them if you want. Why yall keep acting like the NBA is some secret society that you're getting exclusive access to?

Trae is just overall a much higher level offensive creator in the half court than Simmons, in terms of creating his own shot or driving lane, manipulating and collapsing a defence and capitalizing on it with a variety of passes (although simmons is also a phenomenal passer but a mid playmaker)

1 word giannis

Huge difference between being able to shoot, and ACTUALLY shooting the ball. Ben wasnt confident. Sixers couldve easily won the series if Ben was aggressive and not shy away from layups or free throws. Foul trouble alone wouldve put pressure in Hawks

@@leadeaus1090 I think their playmaking is closer than you think Ben Simmons just can't capitalize from it because if you can't shoot you won't be able to even draw attention to yourself to be able to get others open to make the play

If you can't be a *threat* to shoot, you can't play. If I never have to close out on you, the offense is always a man down. Making your man guard you is rule number one on offense.

But he’s goated at the line

@@Firefitty he is, he’s more great than Shaq at missing free throws

His subconscious said it. That’s how deep the fear is.

@@lemongavine oh ,u can read people's minds with that pea brain

Exactly. Ppl forget he's the same size as Giannis. You think Giannis cares who's coming his direction?

@@gringoboy701 1--2 inches shorter than Giannis but i get ur point

@@spamandjamjamandspam8669 that’s nothing

@@gringoboy701 nope cuz he will just travel and bulldoze his way through

Nah but him not wanting to shoot free throws makes sense. I never even considered that.

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Goat comment

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That chain worth maybe half

they hate because he’ll give u 40 to beat u at home and then bow at half court 😂 but trae is that dude fr

Not a lot of people hate him nowadays Only Knicks fans lmao

@@janseanmarwyn4703 i see a lot of hate on him

@@cade816 Word

@@janseanmarwyn4703 I feel like majority of Knicks fans enjoy the rivalry between him. Like they play it up because it’s fun and Trae can take it but I don’t think the majority of them legitimately hate him.

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@@KingKobra49 real 💀

Intimidator HOF

No doubt

HANDS DOWN LOL LOCK DOWN DEFENDER

BRO LMFAO. Trae had me crying cuz literally the whole time he was trying not to align at Ben Simmons. Reminded me of when I’d be in school trying not to laugh when I was in trouble 🤣🤣🤣

He shot a historically low 34% from the line that postseason. He essentially missed twice as many FTs as he made.

That's true he was choking from the line and he seemed rattled and afraid to go to line

I’m in Philly what u say is Very true and what made it worst was people defended him for two years up to that postseason

And all the good players/picks we could’ve gotten for him

Theres a rule in the NBA from hack a shaq from back in the day idk why they not applying it for ben

I was there. It looked even worse in person.

He was just trying to stick up for him and not add any more fuel to the fire lol

@@Ez3s The sky is blue and cars go vroom

@@andrewpayette621 huh?

@@nicolasyl3498 basically said yo mama you bozo

@@andrewpayette621 Ben Simmons held Trae Young to 39% FG that series

Lmao 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 good one

He choked in the playoffs tho

@@pieceoflintifoundonthefloo554 Still 1-1 in a playoff series against a 1 seed. Also had the most points and assists in the regular season for the 2nd time in NBA history.

@@captaintrechabomb982 he not gonna f** you lil bro

@@pieceoflintifoundonthefloo554 There aint to many superstars in the history of the NBA that havent

@@pieceoflintifoundonthefloo554 bro relax not every L is a chokejob, sometimes you get outplayed

Luka,Trae, and Tatum* fixed it

@@714shaz ain’t no way you said that with a straight face bum

@@devilpvp571 the eastern conference finals mvp under two guys that haven’t made the finals?? Ok

Nah ben Simmons soft but him and Joel was leading the east for years Zo is a great player but he not on Ben Simmons level

Lonzo over Ben any day. I'd take anyone over someone who doesnt want to play or make excuses to while expecting to get paid.

Ben didn’t even drive that much bc his touch around the rim is not good for a 6’10” super athlete. He’s such a waste of talent.

@@iamidnight9731 to quote trae DPOY young “recency bias”

@@wavyboytbigbucks2852 a player that plays or player that is Downy soft maybe even pillow soft that can play but won’t cause “muh fewwings are hurt”🤔😂

I’d say Ben made his own bed, as a Sixers fan “great” is what we wanted him to become and “great” was the opposite of what he gave us

I feel like people needed to be realistic with his skill set. He didn’t have franchise scorer ever written on him. As a point forward his role was to facilitate and play defense which he did. The way I saw it was simple, Simmons FT shooting was hurting the team. A ball player will be the first to tell you, if your shot isn’t falling you need to be productive elsewhere. He realized he couldn’t make an offensive impact and potentially hurt his team at the FT line so he was passive. Philly had 3 guys who were scoring 20,30+ a night in Curry, Tobias and Embiid (who also deserve some blame for the loss) but wanted Simmons to asset himself offensively? As a coach you need to realize and make adjustments, which I didn’t see. The backlash he received after was absolutely unreal. Not sure if I’ve ever seen anything like that and for his teammate and coach to throw him under the bus after was a little insane, also something I’ve never seen. Ironically they got Harden (an all time scorer) who was just as much of a dissapearing act but gets no blame because “he’s a playmaker now”. Um… Simmons is pretty much solely a playmaker?

@@thecomebackkid7892 Multiple all stars, all nba, all nba defense isn’t great? I understand the frustration of the lack of shot attempts but to not acknowledge literally everything else that he does at an elite level is pretty disrespectful imo. Keep in mind he achieved all these accolades without a jump shot. Seems to me that accepting who he is as a player and building with that would have been the more viable option until the sixers organization burned that bridge. As a result sixers traded for someone who also refuses to shoot during important times and does not play a lick of defense and who is also out of his prime.

@@BayAreaHoops415 James still offers perimeter creation even at this age is a much better playmaker than Ben is. “Washed Harden” was still getting blitzed and doubled on the drives bc they knew we couldn’t knock down shots off kick outs (except Danny). “Accepting his skillset” was never enough for Philly fans bc we knew he had that ceiling. And we did accept that skillset until it became an unbearable on the court

@@ethanle9785 He’s a really good player but great players can unlock new levels in their games. Donovan Mitchell, Giannis, Siakam, OG, hell even Joel, and more recently Jordan Poole have all taken that next step and that’s what I feel like a great player is. It’s more so mentality than skills and accolades. The desire to want to improve, the desire to want to compete, the desire to want to win, the desire to want to do whatever it takes to get there. And u don’t always get there, but the effort has got to be there

Trae is 7 2 right?

@@jwatson181 8 2

@@aricitak5846 I would pass every time!

Basically just told him that his defense is trash 😂😂😂

Bro told him his defense was trash to his face 😂😂

@@zach6808 😂 I don’t think it’s trash defense more of trae being a guard and Ben bein a big man basically

I mean Ben is twice the man's size. Good defender or not, that should be a bucket when he was set up that close to the rim.

ben probably thought it was clint capela LOL

What do u think about Harden?

@@xdawn We've had Ben for 5 years. Please don't compare.

@finance I was trolling 😜

Imagine saying to someone that he had to shoot 5o At least Shaq percentage to help his team. 🤣🤣 That's how bad you can be. But I remember Ben Wallace too he was way worse than Shaq

Funny how you say its embarrassingly all on Ben and his FT % when Embiid literally missed 2 free throws Down 3 with 21 seconds left in game 5 of that same series.

@@Mattjonesll Ben did A LOT wrong that game but nobody ever talks about him locking trae up (5-23), 13 assists w/2 to, embiid’s 8 turnovers, and now this year embiid and doc are saying “give harden a break, he’s a playmaker 🥺”

@@kdot1507 no one brings it up because when they needed him to simply just dunk the ball he passed it and that lost them the game

@@Mattjonesll ok...Embiid couldn't make free throws at that particular game while Ben couldn't make them the whole series. Embiid bad, Simmons worse. Are you happy?

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I kind of needed this right at this moment. Thank you.

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Frank Knilikina too of course

Lol who tf are you

Bro really squeezed in Deandre Ayton

Did you make that mistake as a professional athlete ? Did you make that mistake making a 100 million dollars? This ain’t an open pick up game at LA fitness. Stop it.

@@stephenhill3134 lmao stfu it’s funny how mad people that aren’t even Philly fans get when you even try to give him even a sliver of resistance. Ain’t no damn reason anybody should be that boiled up about it he’s still a top 30 player in the league and he will forever be more successful in life than you will ever be

@@stephenhill3134 final moments of a game 7 too it’s ridiculous how people still defend him for that

Yeah, just 8 inches shorter