Nalod wrote:BRIGGS wrote:One thing that was annoying me last night was Sims not keeping his hands up enough or helping off his man near the hoop. He played pretty good for a first year guy no doubt but good habits are important. Keep your hands up when needed on D move off your man when needed.
I think Beer posted a “Make randle look bad” post, that randle was slow to get back on D, then got iso’d vs quick guard and beaten off the dribble (as if that would not happen to most players though!). I watched it a few times and SImms did not come to help. Granted, if he did perhaps his guy gets fed but still randle might be able to switch. It made Randle look bad but was Simms suppose to switch.
This is rim protection and not everything I understand what was the right move or not.
Im not impressed by sims as some of you are. He can jump, that I can see. No offense.
By contrast I see the rebounds and am encouraged by what he does. He is the same age as Randle. Mitch last few games doing more offensive rebounding and really getting up over the crown for feeds. This was not there the first 20 or so games.
Sims is not Draymond Green on defense. And even if he did have that potential it won't show up for many years; the decision to help is not an easy one and you often just can't stop better O.
I thought I saw some very good things from Sims defensively that would tell me he has some growth potential there.
His picks are solid, can't tell how his spacing and awareness is after he rolls; Mitch and Noel seemingly have little in that area.
IMHO Knicks don't have 1 passer at the level that would maximize any of the big vertical guys in Sims, Mitch. Rose and Kemba are decent and occasionally make an alley oop pass but they are not PnR connoisseurs by any stretch.
Sims has 1 M and I'm OK with that 
12/21/2021 8:04 AM