re: Ben Simmons isn't elite

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This is where he sits in the SEC

Points/Game - 3rd (19.8)
Assists/Game - 5th (4.9)
Rebounds/Game - 1st (12.7; next closest is at 9.8)
FG % - 3rd (55.6%)

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And I'll throw in that he's also in the Top 20 of blocked shots

Oh-- and in the decades and decades of SEC basketball--which has had its fair share of sort of OK basketball players like Pistol Pete, Shaq, Anthony Davis, Barkley, 'Nique, etc--

No player, of any classification, has finished Top 5 in all of those categories in the same year. Ever.

People who think Simmons isn't elite should play in traffic- they'll get as much out of it, as they do from watching a game of basketball.