Thon needs to go to college. hes no way near ready for the nba.

Ben Simmons to 'postpone' playing for Australia, will forgo 2016 Rio
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Ben Simmons informed officials for Team Australia on Friday that he will not compete for the country's basketball team in the 2016 Olympics in Rio de Janeiro.

"Ben Simmons will postpone playing with the Australian Olympic team this summer in order to concentrate fully on his NBA activities following the upcoming 2016 NBA draft,'' Simmons' agent, Rich Paul, said in a statement.

"Australian Olympic Team training and competition takes place at the same time as the various NBA summer development programs, and therefore, Ben will look forward to his national team participation at some time later in his career.''

The consensus national freshman of the year, Simmons, 19, is projected to be the top player in the draft. He averaged 19.2 points, 11.8 rebounds and 4.8 assists for LSU. He drew comparisons to Magic Johnson and LeBron James for his passing and court vision.

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Despite Simmons' brilliance, the Tigers had a disappointing season and failed to reach the NCAA tournament.

In May, Simmons was one of 26 players named as a candidate for Team Australia. The list included seven NBA players, led by Golden State's Andrew Bogut, San Antonio's Patty Mills and Cleveland's Matthew Dellavedova.

Simmons told Australian team representatives that he is open to playing for the team in the future, perhaps as soon as the summer of 2018.

Simmons was born in Melbourne, Australia, where his dad, David Simmons, starred in the Australian National Basketball League. Ben Simmons lived in Australia until moving to the United States for his final three years of high school at Montverde Academy in Florida.
http://www.espn.com.au/olympics/basketball/story/_/id/15165104/ben-simmons-play-australia-2016-rio-olympics

72 wins.
End the Spurs home run and stop them going undefeated at home
Most road wins in a season
Also become the first team to ever go a full regular season without back to back losses

And people questioned whether the Warriors would be as good as last season :lol: :cool:

Edited by sydneycroatia58: 11/4/2016 12:06:21 PM

NBA has no plans to take a game to Australia in the foreseeable future

check out one of the comments :lol:



:lol:



Edited by condemned666: 4/5/2016 02:36:13 PM

Yes Cavs. Taking it to Game 6.

Kyrie Irving shot the lights out. Such an amazing basketballer and athlete. Ridiculously good technique, it seems to me, and knowledge of how to get a shot away.

Hopefully LeBron and Kyrie carry on at this rate.

And maybe Matthew Dellavedova helps out a bit.

The only way Delly can help is by not playing at all.

He's been awful...but Kev love has been worse.
Best not to play delly or love at all

Edited by Socawho: 14/6/2016 04:36:12 PM

It's the only way they have any chance, and even then it won't be enough imo.

What is apparent now is that the Cavs are really in fact a Big 2 ...not a Big 3.

Love has as much trade value as Carl Landry

I think Irvings performance tonight has made it possible for him to stay at the Cavs...but win or lose this series, Love won't be in Cleveland next year
:lol:

Edited by Socawho: 14/6/2016 05:12:30 PM

Would Lue choose Mo Williams over Delly when resting Kyrie? Delly would be better at defending Curry than Williams

Delly has looked out of sorts this series

The commentator or analyst was asking that (can't remember which and whether it was during the game or post-game).

He suggested that Dellavedova is a much safer bet defensively. Hopefully he'll be able to restrict Curry. But Williams will bring more offence-wise.

He's been shit on defense. 3 fouls in 2 minutes

James had an unbelievably good day with his jump shot. He won't have 2 more of those, and considering even with him doing that I still think the Warriors win that game if Draymond was playing. Pretty he averages more minutes than any other GSW player and is critical to their structure. I think they'll finish it in 6, but can't fathom that they would lose a game 7 at home.

Yeah this series he's been poor. Was better in last season's playoffs

Boguts injured...might be done for Rio

He just can't catch a break. For the Warriors it just means they go to the death lineup with Draymond at the 5.

Edited by sydneycroatia58: 16/6/2016 03:02:57 PM

He must be just about ready to snap.

James won't shoot like that again, he only shoots well like that 1 out every 10 games

He's averaging like 3 assists per 13 minutes, which is better than Kyrie.

Kyrie is keeping cavs in it...can't say the same about delly

Delly's keeping his seat warm, can't say the same about Kyrie

All evens..delly looks like he's been demoted big time...only saw garbage time

Credit where credit is due, pure greatness from LeBron

Disappointing but I'll actually be surprised if the Warriors win game 7 tbf.

Going for Cleveland purely because I have two King Charles cavaliers lmao

Curry really does seem to sook a lot.

Really hoping the Cavs can win this.

Him and LeBron sook about the same really, same with all the big players.

Edited by sydneycroatia58: 17/6/2016 06:58:08 PM

Even as a GSW fan it's hard not to feel good for the city of Cleveland :lol:.

Been a long time coming.

How do you feel becoming the 1st team to lose from 3-1 up? :lol: