After being here for a year, I really do believe we’ve identified what and how, and now we have to do the do part.
And while that has often revolved around Simmons being an unwilling 3-point shooter, in these playoffs Simmons went from being a 60% foul shooter in the regular season, the territory he has been in for each of his four NBA seasons, to 34.2% in the postseason.
First thing I said was, ‘We got to get him to the line 10 times a night.’ And to want to get to the line 10 times a night.
Because he has so much greatness in all the things around him that he does, and there’s areas he can fix quickly, in my opinion, and get better, that will take him to another level.