Legend's solution to arrest 'sad' Simmons decline

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Australian hoops large Andrew Bogut has urged Ben Simmons to enactment with a sports scientist to rediscover his aged signifier aft a nightmare season.

Simmons, a three-time NBA All-Star, has been a shadiness of his erstwhile aforesaid for the Brooklyn Nets this season.

The 26-year-old is averaging vocation lows successful changeable attempts (5.6), points (6.9), rebounds (6.3), assists (6.1), and has changeable conscionable 43.9 per cent from the escaped propulsion line.

After averaging successful excess of 4 escaped propulsion attempts per crippled done his archetypal 4 seasons with the Philadelphia 76ers, Simmons has averaged conscionable 1.4 escaped propulsion attempts per crippled this season.

Bogut called his compatriot's diminution "sad to watch" and said his struggles stem from a fearfulness of being enactment connected the escaped propulsion line.

"I don't deliberation it's thing different than helium doesn't privation to spell to the escaped propulsion line. People saying he's not playing hard oregon not giving effort oregon doesn't look similar helium wants to beryllium retired determination – I don't deliberation it's immoderate of that," Bogut told SEN Breakfast.

"I deliberation it's arsenic wide arsenic helium has the yips astatine the escaped propulsion line. I went done it for a mates of years wherever you're shooting the shot atrocious and it is simply a lonely place.

"If helium was shooting 60-80 per cent helium would beryllium fine, but helium does not privation to get to the enactment and the mode helium plays basketball, a ace assertive feline who gets connected the rim.

"You look astatine his archetypal mates of years successful Philly and past look astatine this existent play – erstwhile was the past clip helium tried to dunk connected someone? He hasn't done it this season. He's frightened of getting deed and fouled and getting to the escaped propulsion line.

"His biggest contented this off-season isn't astir grooming oregon astir getting escaped throws up, it's going to beryllium moving with a sports scientist and trying to get implicit that hump.

"It's bittersweet to watch. As a hoops instrumentality I privation him to bash well, I privation him to instrumentality abdominous and get his mentals right, but it's hard to ticker astatine the moment."

After opening the play playing starters minutes, Simmons' playing clip has dwindled successful caller weeks arsenic his struggles person deepened.

Simmons has played conscionable 19.2 minutes per contention successful February, good beneath the 31.8 minutes per crippled helium played successful October.

The Aussie has 2 years near to tally connected a woody which volition spot him nett much than $110 cardinal earlier helium becomes an unrestricted escaped cause successful the summertime of 2025.

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