Ziller: Time for Kings to consider life after Cousins

During the first half I was praying he would post up and make some moves on the block. He's owned Brook before, in tremendous fashion, but he just didn't attack that way. I totally agree that knocking down the outside jumper opened things up, but I'm not saying he should never shoot. I'm saying that his outside shot should be used to open things up for him instead of it being a staple of his game that he relies upon to generate production. I do not want the see the DMC who average 4~5 3's a game. I want to see the DMC that fires a wide open 3 when his man leaves him space, rather than walking up the court, getting a pass from Rondo and then firing off a quick 3 with 16 on the clock.
It appears to me that is what they are using his 3pt shooting for is to open up the paint. Cousins only seems to keep taking them when they are falling.
 
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The kings are not a great shooting team. Rondo is Rondo, BMac and Gay are inconsistent from deep. Yes they got Casspi and Marco, but outside those guys the deep threat is more of a warning. Opposing teams, most of them, are superior in that regard.
I just saw that Kings rank 3rd in the league in 3pt% (live and official, on the team stats top-10 lists showing in the ORL-WAS broadcast)...

"Most of them"?
Care to revise your statement to correspond with the facts?... :D
 
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