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Message: [QUOTE="Melancer46, post: 3885310, member: 1674"] I think it's one thing if they can't shoot, but Simmons basically can't score in the halfcourt at all and if you're going to be a player like that, you have to at least be the primary creator for your team and the offense runs through Embiid now so it just really makes him a liability offensively. Like Rubio for example similarly struggles as a shooter and isn't very good creating his own shot around the rim either, but when he was a +/- darling, his teams put the ball in his hands and let him run the team, get everyone else in the right positions, etc. Simmons can't really offer that with how Embiid-centric the team has become (and for good reason, he's obviously an incredible player). Edit: "Similarly struggles as a shooter" probably isn't the correct phrase. Rubio is a bad shooter. Simmons literally doesn't shoot the ball. [/QUOTE]