I'd love to see Ball alongside Simmons. I think they would be great together. Great passing.
I'd love to see Lou Williams return to Philly and play PG alongside them two. A scorer like Lou Will would be a great fit alongside their passing ability.
Lou Williams has another year on his contract in Houston. Is there some indication that they want to trade him?
I'm not sold on Ball but I think he'd work best sharing the load running the offense with someone like Simmons. I think he'd fail as a ball dominant PG. You can never have too much great passing. It would really make life easier and probably healthier for Embiid not to have to create so much offense on his own.
Lou Williams = no, just a picture of what type of guard I'd like to see alongside Ball & Simmons.
Agreed on Ball. I think he's best off with a lot of help. A second ball-handling guard and a playmaking forward like Simmons would be excellent for him. Do not like Ball in a PG-centric offense where he has to create everything.
I just don't see or like that fit there with Simmons. It seems like Embiid should have the ball in his hands a lot, and having both Simmons and Ball on the team wouldn't be a good fit with as ball-dominant all of them are. They'd just take away touches and opportunities for Embiid.
Fultz fits much better with Embiid in my opinion, especially with Simmons in the mix, too, though it'd be impossible to get all three of them together.
I'd say Fultz is more ball dominant than Ball. Ball played off-ball quite a bit in UCLA's half court offense and was pretty effective with catch and shoot 3s and cuts to the basket. Simmons and Ball are both pass first which would greatly benefit Embiid. Embiid will get plenty of good, easy shots from their passing. His turnovers should go down significantly and he'll be able to spend more energy dominating defensively. Embiid averaged 2.1 assists with the Sixers poor shooting which should go up significantly if Ball's funky shot continues to fall at a high rate.
All that being said if Fultz and Ball are available at #3 the Sixers are taking Fultz. However unless Fultz has a medical red flag, I don't see anyway he falls to 3.
I'm not sure that I agree with any of that. I think Ball is clearly more ball-dominant than Fultz (or at least Fultz's game is much more compatible off the ball), but Fultz's terrible team this past year made him much more ball-dominant than Ball on a much better team with many more options.
I also disagree with the assessment that Fultz is a pass-first guy. Ball clearly is, but I think while Fultz is a willing and good passer, he's got more of an "attack and score" mentality than a "pass first/set up others" mentality.
I'm also suspicious of Ball's shot translating to the NBA. Yeah, he took a lot of deep threes, but I don't think that much movement on his shot translates to sustained shooting success in the NBA.
And I think Ball and Simmons have a very similar game, or as similar of a game as a PG and Point Power Forward can have. They're both looking more to make plays and set others up rather than score. But that requires having the ball much of the time and being the primary initiator of the offense, which I think takes away too many touches from a stud like Embiid.
I just think they'd maximize their team with only one of those types of playmakers (Simmons, Ball, or Fultz) alongside Embiid, who should probably have the ball in his hands 60-70% of the time anyways. Once he learns to pass out of double-teams, he'll be unstoppable, just like Lebron is unstoppable by being a great passer out of double teams. Having two other playmakers will only take precious touches away from your best player.