Acunsa Gipuzkoa has the best LEB Oro three-point shooter on his team. Ben Simons (Michigan, United States, 1991) averages 50.5% from long range thanks to 51 hits out of 101 attempts and has a particular duel with Calvin Hermanson ( TAU Castellón) for being the top three-point shooter. Before the dispute of the day this weekend Simons, with better percentages, is nine goals below his compatriot, who is shooting with a 40% accuracy.
The great and most outstanding quality of a marksman is that he has no memory. When it comes to executing his shooting mechanics, the game he is playing does not weigh him down. “My mentality is always that I’m going to make the next shot,” says Simons. “It doesn’t matter if I’ve previously failed five consecutively or if I’ve scored the previous five. I always think I’m going to hit the next shot.” That’s how cool and confident this indispensable specimen is in modern basketball. And if not tell Pablo Laso and what he is suffering this course without a shooter like Jaycee Carroll.
That trait could be verified on Sunday in the match against Coruña in Illunbe. Acunsa Gipuzkoa was 5 of 25 from the goal and Simons was 0 of 3, a slab that did not influence the Cadillac-born, with 56-49 and two minutes to play, to sentence from his favorite distance.
Asked how a shooter is forged, the power forward goes back in time to his childhood. “Training has been with me since I was very young. Every day after school I had to wait for my father to get off work to pick me up, and he kept pulling me until he came and we went home. I’ve shot a lot of shots my whole life.” Does training or talent matter more? “I hope that a great fault has been the constancy, because I have worked very hard for many years.”
He shoots better than Ben Simmons
The defenses are focusing more and more on Simons and, above all, the bigger teams with the greatest physical potential are managing to stop the power forward of the squad led by Lolo Encinas. He is not an unknown player, he has experience in the ACB and in the Eurocup and not just anyone can hinder his path to a comfortable shot.
In recent days, Estudiantes made a great defense against him, crashing into the indirect blocks that are on the baseline and automatically changing defenders so that he leaves without space at the 6.75-meter line. «I am noticing that they are being very aggressive with me, but the beauty of our team is that we do not have a player who scores 20 points each game, but there are several who score between twelve and nine, and that is because we share very well and very quickly. the ball”.
Ben Simons acknowledges that he is not free from jokes about sharing a first and last name with NBA point guard Ben Simmons, now with the Brooklyn Nets, who is often mocked for his lack of outside shooting ability. He is 5 of 34 on three-pointers in 275 games, 14.7%. «I usually get a message on networks when I play a good game in the shot. We are totally opposite players to whom only an ‘M’ differentiates us », he concludes, revealing that« marketing companies sometimes call me believing that I am the NBA player ».
«For the match in Palma we don’t have to look at the classification»
Acunsa GBC faces two consecutive games away from home, starting with the one on Sunday at 12:00 against Palma. The Balearic Islands have won their last two home games against Lleida and Coruña and Oroz has warned of their improvement. “I don’t know what happened in that locker room, but they have turned the dynamic around. For this game we don’t have to look at the standings, but we have to focus on their most recent games.”
