[Game] Kings v. Clippers - 2/26/16 - 7 PT, 10 ET
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I hope cousins goes to work with an elite hof big man & add a reliable hook shot with either hand on either side and make it his go to move. Also work on a baseline fade away off the post. That will put Cousins'game among the best bigs of all time.
The perimeter guard plays are entertaining but no one his size can handle that kind of pounding on the joints. It's good to have those skills and use them from time to time, but that can't be his goto moves.
I've seen him use the baseline fade here and there last year but very rarely this year.
His jump hook footwork is really not very good. He almost always spins into the paint and forces it which often gets blocked. As a result, he doesn't like to use hooks and he does struggle with taller players.
I want him to get so good at it that it's automatic. Boogie is so gifted that he can perfect it in one summer. Left hand, right hand, either side.
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Whatever magical change to his post play you imagine, if it has not happened by now, it will never happen. He's a solid post player, if not slightly overrated by people on this forum. My problem has always been that his back to the basket game too often is purely physical. He often shines that technical skill component here and there. He plays too much like Shaq when he should be playing like Duncan down low. He's no Shaq, which is obvious because he's known to lead the league time and time again in shots blocked.
I've always thought he'd be a better all round player if he dropped some weight, got a little fitter and quicker.
I like the way he's playing now at the moment. He's getting a good diversity of offense from different spots/plays on the floor. He's still getting free throws, efficient 3pt shooting, and paint touches, which also shows in strong rebounding efforts over the last 7 weeks.
I've always thought he'd be a better all round player if he dropped some weight, got a little fitter and quicker.
I like the way he's playing now at the moment. He's getting a good diversity of offense from different spots/plays on the floor. He's still getting free throws, efficient 3pt shooting, and paint touches, which also shows in strong rebounding efforts over the last 7 weeks.
That is my point with his game relying too much physically. Adding the finesse post moves along with that strength will make him unguardable.
I know he most likely won't ever develop it because none of these young generation guys are into these textbook skills. Just like bynum never wanted to learn the sky hook even though he had the inventor as his 1-1 coach. Its just what I would like to see.
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What do Koufus and Marco actually provide? Seriously the back ups to the back ups are better and they make close to 10 times less. Curry in one game played better than Marco has basically all year. This season was lost during the off season and Karls inability to stop playing favourites and insert Seth/Q into the line up after the initial 1-7 run and play WCS who has not played enough all year. Hard to win with a questionable GM and a coach who basically gave up ages ago combined with a core group thats use to lossing or getting carried by HOFers.
I won't even get into Mr Unreliable Rudy Gay.......
I won't even get into Mr Unreliable Rudy Gay.......
How can anyone watch that game and not come away with three things:
1. Our defense is horrific. The fact that these coaches are still sticking with "the system" is absurd. Id argue since our team is actually trying (vs teams like the Sixers, Lakers, Suns) that we have the worst defense in the league.
2. Boogies attitude when we are losing sucks out loud. It was embarrassing to have that kind of attitude out there. He played well, I just don't like it.
3. Every loss is a step closer to Karl being canned. So it's not the end of the world.
1. Our defense is horrific. The fact that these coaches are still sticking with "the system" is absurd. Id argue since our team is actually trying (vs teams like the Sixers, Lakers, Suns) that we have the worst defense in the league.
2. Boogies attitude when we are losing sucks out loud. It was embarrassing to have that kind of attitude out there. He played well, I just don't like it.
3. Every loss is a step closer to Karl being canned. So it's not the end of the world.
It is hard to believe, but I guess really not THAT hard to believe (because he is so good), that nowhere along the line... not in 4th grade, or 6th grade, or Jr High, or High School, or really anywhere in the guy's whole life - that he never had a coach who would sit his ass out when he's being a baby - and just burn that tendency out of him. I mean he needs freakin time-outs like you give a three year old.
DMC is not a locker room cancer, BUT... this stuff is a problem for his teammates - you can see it on their faces, the eye rolls and sighs when Boogie goes off... again.
It's too late now - you can't treat a mega-talent like a little leaguer. But it's a damn shame that when he WAS a little leaguer, nobody taught him to contain the crybaby instinct.
compare the maturity to Seth Curry. Seth was standing nearby when two Clippers fell down fighting each other for the ball and got whistled for a total phantom foul (not the wrist slaps that give Boogie such umbrage, but a legit "no touch" foul period. And this is a guy with reason to be frustrated - watching Marco get minutes while he sits and sits and sits and sits. Then he gets in the game, plays great but the refs give him zero respect - less than zero - in fact the refs are totally picking on him.
Seth just played on. A pro.
Can you only imagine if Boogie could just play on thru the bad whistle? Then you WOULD have Thibs knocking at your door (trust me, we don't have that now).
DMC is not a locker room cancer, BUT... this stuff is a problem for his teammates - you can see it on their faces, the eye rolls and sighs when Boogie goes off... again.
It's too late now - you can't treat a mega-talent like a little leaguer. But it's a damn shame that when he WAS a little leaguer, nobody taught him to contain the crybaby instinct.
compare the maturity to Seth Curry. Seth was standing nearby when two Clippers fell down fighting each other for the ball and got whistled for a total phantom foul (not the wrist slaps that give Boogie such umbrage, but a legit "no touch" foul period. And this is a guy with reason to be frustrated - watching Marco get minutes while he sits and sits and sits and sits. Then he gets in the game, plays great but the refs give him zero respect - less than zero - in fact the refs are totally picking on him.
Seth just played on. A pro.
Can you only imagine if Boogie could just play on thru the bad whistle? Then you WOULD have Thibs knocking at your door (trust me, we don't have that now).
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The Kings aren't good enough to make the playoffs even in an injured-riddled down year for the West.
Yes, let's get just mediocre enough to lose our pick and miss out on the playoffs at the same time.
Defense has been horrible...Karl has been horrible. I see none of that changing for the rest of the year.
Yes, let's get just mediocre enough to lose our pick and miss out on the playoffs at the same time.
Defense has been horrible...Karl has been horrible. I see none of that changing for the rest of the year.
Feh. Cousins' attitude is the same, whether we win or lose. If you only talk about it when we lose, though... miss me with that.
And there's the rub. Cousins didn't have anybody in his life that was willing to make him stop, when he was young enough to learn how to stop. And now, he's at the point in his life where the only thing that could get him to stop is someone or something that he's genuinely afraid of forcing him to.
And there's the rub. Cousins didn't have anybody in his life that was willing to make him stop, when he was young enough to learn how to stop. And now, he's at the point in his life where the only thing that could get him to stop is someone or something that he's genuinely afraid of forcing him to.