Last year was it for me with Simmons, he is a good player no doubt, but not going to be the #1 guy on a championship team, he is a complimentary piece only. He watched Gianiss in the playoffs and what he did with respect to greatly improving his shot year by year, bulking up big in teh weight room, and just driving to the bucket and absorbing contact and scoring. Simmons saw first hand how he had to pattern his game to take it to next level. And did nothing. Literally, tell me where Simmons game has shown any real improvement that just doesn't come via being in the league a few years. Still cannot and refuses to shoot at all from distance. Has not developed even a back to basket turn around jumper, hasn't developed really any back to basket low post moves. Only thing that has improved is his foul shooting from bad to average.
you go back and look at Jordan and Kobe and Lebron and Giannis from year 1 in league to year 5 in league and they made huge strides in their game. That will to be the best via year after year improvement just doesn't seem to be there for Simmons.