I feel like Bill decides his opinions just on vibes and then throws out random reasoning. When he used to write he had to rationalize and explain himself more

Yeah but Payton Pritchard is good! He just is!

(For the uninitiated, “he just is” is a common Simmons-ism)

Dudes just spewing random shit now to stir up clicks, nobody in their right mind looks at the Heat roster and wonders who’s able to play defense lol

Yeah this made absolutely no sense if anything the defense is the thing everyone is confident in.

Zach even criticized him in a way. He said something to the effect of: “are you reverse reverse jinxing” the Heat

This. Myself along with a lot of other people with doubts for the Heat wonder who can score 20 points per game being a permiter scorer, and who can reliably iso and create their own 3 point shot if the Heat need a 3 to win or tie a game

The defense isn’t an issue to me, as someone who sees the Heat as a 6th to 8th seed

he mentioned the offense too but he doesnt care enough to dig into it beyond “giannis and bam cant play together” so he just goes blah blah blah defense

I’ve said this before but Simmons feel’s like an uncle who clearly follows the sport but doesn’t actually have hard hitting or insightful analysis

No doubt he can be entertaining but I don’t think many people watch him for his deep takes on the game

Yea does Simmons have something against the Heat or Giannis. Miami is clearly going to be a top 6 team in the east. “Who’s guarding Tatum?” lol. Tatum guards himself always taking dumb ass shots. No one is thinking how are we going to contain Jayson Tatum going into this season.

ESPN pushes narratives for money. Bill is a mostly harmless idiot. He can be suckered into pushing false narratives, but ESPN is just a gross organization. Saying he’s better than them is damning with faint praise.

He’s a fun hang and hired smart people around him like Zach Lowe who ESPN fired.

Pretty sure he’s not and we have the usual Bill meltdown post whenever it happens (and I gleefully peruse it)

He’s an unabashed Celtic fan which makes him a Philly, Heat, and Lakers hater.

Does he?

Bill (rightfully) gets shat on all the time about being a biased idiot when it comes to basketball.

But, I also think he is much more self aware than most of the ESPN guys. He’s been pretty open his whole career about just being a fan and not an expert, but has consistently found his place in the media landscape.

And I have always said that Bill (and this also applies tk Cuban as an owner) is what happens when you give a normal fan this kind of platform - and both do a better job than 99% of us would do in their place.

I also don’t enjoy shows hosted by two nerds. Needs to have a former player or I don’t give a shit.

He is one single level above Stephen A.

because he’s white and loves cringe pop culture references like redditors

Everything else ?

Yes. Bill is a good conversationalist but doesn’t really know ball.

No one in the east besides OO and sometimes scottie and OG