{"id":345793,"date":"2023-08-31T09:57:36","date_gmt":"2023-08-31T07:57:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/?p=345793"},"modified":"2023-08-31T09:57:36","modified_gmt":"2023-08-31T07:57:36","slug":"ben-simmons-i-dont-intend-to-come-back-the-same-player-i-was-last-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/ben-simmons-i-dont-intend-to-come-back-the-same-player-i-was-last-season\/","title":{"rendered":"Ben Simmons: I don\u2019t intend to come back the same player I was last season"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Ben Simmons cant\u2019 wait to be back on court after missing the entire season 2021-2022 and only playing 42 games last season.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">I\u2019m excited because I know I can do it,\u201d Simmons told Marc J. Spears of ESPN Andscape on Aug. 25. \u201cSo, that\u2019s the exciting part for me. [Last Thursday] night, I\u2019m like, \u2018Yo, let\u2019s get back in the gym.\u2019 I\u2019m excited. I get to do something I love to do at a high level. Regardless of what people say, I\u2019m a three-time All-Star, All-NBA player, [All-] Defensive Team. I\u2019ve done things. I\u2019m not somebody that hasn\u2019t done anything.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">\u201cBut at the end of the day, that\u2019s what you want to do. You want to go out and compete against the best in the world and be one of the best.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Simmons has been working out five days a week for at least five hours per day to get his body ready.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">\u201cFor me to come back and dominate people will be great,\u201d Simmons said. \u201cI don\u2019t intend to come back the same player I was last [season], because that\u2019s not even close to where I am. I get excited because I\u2019m like, \u2018Damn, I would [expletive] on the player I was last year.\u2019 But I know where I was at last year, so it\u2019s easy to say that. But it\u2019s just fun to go and do the thing that you love when you\u2019re out there. That\u2019s really it for me. I don\u2019t really ask for too much.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">\u201cSometimes I think about [my recent struggles]. I\u2019m like, \u2018Damn, that\u2019s a lot.\u2019 Sometimes I sit down and break it down. \u2018That was exhausting that I was having to deal with all that.\u2019 But I feel like there are different situations you can handle, and this is a good test for me. 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