On December 15, Beijing time, the CBA officially updated the registration information of foreign aid, and the Shanxi men's basketball team completed the registration for Jonathan Simmons, a foreign aid who briefly played for Liaoning last season, and will now join hands with Felder to play for the Shanxi men's basketball team.
Simmons is 32 years old, 1.98 meters tall, plays as a striker, has excellent athleticism and good defensive skills. In the past, he has played for the Spurs and other teams in the NBA, because of his excellent defense against the Rockets against Harden, as well as the overbearing dunks he has contributed in many games, and Simmons has also been impressed.
Last season, he briefly joined Liaoning, played 16 games for the team, averaged 9 points, 2.4 rebounds and 1.6 assists in 12.1 minutes per game, performed average, and failed to integrate into Liaoning, and in the end, he broke up with Liaoning.
During his time playing for Liaoning, Simmons made the deepest impression of winning the Beijing team's opponent Qiu Tian. In that attack, Simmons took Zhao Jiwei's pass from the basket to contribute to Qiu Tian's tomahawk partition, and this shot made Liaoning coach Yang Ming can't help but cheer loudly.
As a foreign player with average offensive skills with the ball, Simmons is difficult to take on the role of the offensive end, but if he can play his running jump and defensive advantages and let him run in a fast rhythm, he can still help the team. This season, Shanxi, which please return to Yang Xuezeng, is such a team, of course, due to the lack of excellent point guards in Shanxi, it remains to be seen how Simmons can play in Shanxi.
With the registration of Simmons, the Shanxi men's basketball team will also use double foreign aid in the second phase of the regular season, after they had already used small foreign aid in the first stage and had been a teammate of the Cavaliers and James. At present, the CBA has Liaoning, Qingdao, Shanghai, Ningbo, Tianjin, Shenzhen and other teams have registered double foreign aid.