” I’m not a doctor, I don’t make the decision. Of course Ben Simmons, like Kawhi Leonard, would like to play more games and minutes. But like other players in the league, he must rely on the judgment of his medical staff. ” I can only tell them how I feel, but at the same time I will trust their decision and what they think is best for me. », develop the australian.
At the moment, the best for him is to play intermittently. Suffering from knee pain and a pulled calf, the former 76ers player has missed five of the Nets’ last seven games.
Caution is needed with a player who has regularly exceeded 30 minutes of play since the start of the season. ” At the start, we wanted to keep pushing Ben to play as many matches as possible so that he could progress with the group on the court. We realized that maybe we had pushed too hard for a guy who hadn’t played for a long time. We learn from these situations and we become smarter “admits Jacque Vaughn.
The goal of the Nets was however to gradually change his playing time and rest it for a second evening of “back-to-back”. But by the fifth game (with extra time) of the season, the Australian was playing 37 minutes and this rule on two consecutive games was only applied twice in five occurrences.
” I think we continued to increase their playing times, but not to the point of overloading them. We want these two to be healthy by the end of the year. “, continues the technician by including the situation of TJ Warren, also returned from a long absence. The latter plays 17 minutes on average since his recovery, where Ben Simmons spends 27 minutes on the ground, his lowest playing time in career.
” So we have to be smart about how we use them in the future, whether it’s back-to-back or the number of minutes played in a game. We have enough depth to use their minutes wisely and be able to play at the desired pace. But yes, we want to work so that all our guys are in a position to play ‘back-to-backs’ “, fixed in any case the coach of the franchise.
| Ben Simmons | Percentage | Bounces | |||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Season | Crew | GM | Minimum | Shots | 3 points | LF | Off | Def | Early | pd | party | Int | bp | CT | Points |
| 2017-18 | PHL | 81 | 34 | 54.5 | 0.0 | 56.0 | 1.8 | 6.4 | 8.1 | 8.2 | 2.6 | 1.7 | 3.4 | 0.9 | 15.8 |
| 2018-19 | PHL | 79 | 34 | 56.3 | 0.0 | 60.0 | 2.2 | 6.7 | 8.8 | 7.7 | 2.7 | 1.4 | 3.5 | 0.8 | 16.9 |
| 2019-20 | PHL | 57 | 35 | 58.0 | 28.6 | 62.1 | 2.0 | 5.8 | 7.8 | 8.0 | 3.3 | 2.1 | 3.5 | 0.6 | 16.4 |
| 2020-21 | PHL | 58 | 32 | 55.7 | 30.0 | 61.3 | 1.6 | 5.6 | 7.2 | 6.9 | 3.0 | 1.6 | 3.0 | 0.6 | 14.3 |
| 2022-23 | BRK | 19 | 27 | 61.4 | 0.0 | 54.5 | 1.0 | 5.7 | 6.7 | 5.8 | 3.6 | 1.3 | 2.4 | 0.6 | 8.3 |
| Total | 294 | 34 | 56.1 | 14.3 | 59.6 | 1.8 | 6.1 | 8.0 | 7.6 | 2.9 | 1.7 | 3.3 | 0.7 | 15.4 | |
