Cousins is below avg in his shot selection. His mid range conversion rate sucks for a guy with his game and above avg outside shot. Even considering that he's out of shape and doesn't get any help setting up his shots, no one on this team is even close to his level. That's kind of why he excites people.
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Cuz is a poor finisher inside at this point, but no reason to believe he won't get better. His problem isn't getting good looks, but rather he's off balance many times after his initial move. But I've already posted his mid range %'s, which I guess the trolls ignore, which show he's on par with guys like Kobe, Monta, Melo and Gay, guys you obviously don't want shooting mid range jumpers if you live in a troll bubble, and far better than most PF's or C's.
Those players have similarly low percentages on outside shots because those are bailout shots, unassisted usually more than half the time. With the shot clock expiring Kobe Bryant taking a contested fadeaway might be the best outcome.
Cousins compares very well with other centers with his outside shot %, especially considering that most other bigs have a much higher % of their outside shots assisted (usually 80+ %). My problem with that is the fact that he's having to take those sort of shots. Not necessarily his fault, but that's the card he's been dealt.
Cousins should be getting a lot more (assisted) outside shots, because he hits them at a pretty good clip. But if the best look you can get a 270 pound center is a contested one-on-one jumper, something's wrong.
Cousins compares very well with other centers with his outside shot %, especially considering that most other bigs have a much higher % of their outside shots assisted (usually 80+ %). My problem with that is the fact that he's having to take those sort of shots. Not necessarily his fault, but that's the card he's been dealt.
Cousins should be getting a lot more (assisted) outside shots, because he hits them at a pretty good clip. But if the best look you can get a 270 pound center is a contested one-on-one jumper, something's wrong.
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Cousins was the best player for the Kings before he was even drafted by the team. Cousins legend knows no bounds. Hell, Cousins is the best player on the Raptors, and the Warriors as well. Also, look at Cousins second half stats when he played with IT. His FG% went up. So all those idiot talking heads like Grant Napier, and other sports idiots look at the full season FG% and don't realize that in the second half of the season we were top 10 as a team. I see no reason we cannot continue with that trend.
Cousins was the best player for the Kings before he was even drafted by the team. Cousins legend knows no bounds. Hell, Cousins is the best player on the Raptors, and the Warriors as well. Also, look at Cousins second half stats when he played with IT. His FG% went up. So all those idiot talking heads like Grant Napier, and other sports idiots look at the full season FG% and don't realize that in the second half of the season we were top 10 as a team. I see no reason we cannot continue with that trend.
I am thinking MT is the odd man out. Either that or they are content with leaving Evans at SF full time (which most of us here are not OK with).
I can see the Kings trading MT before the season starts. I would say Evans is probably on the list after MT if they cannot get good value for MT. Then probably IT. I don't want to have to worry about getting 4 guards minutes though. Three of them are too good to be less than 35 minutes a game.
I can see the Kings trading MT before the season starts. I would say Evans is probably on the list after MT if they cannot get good value for MT. Then probably IT. I don't want to have to worry about getting 4 guards minutes though. Three of them are too good to be less than 35 minutes a game.
4th guard would be Cisco/Salmons. That's how teams play 8 man rotations - a backup PG, backup SF/PF or PF/C, and backup SG/SF. Lakers for example, started Fisher, Kobe, Artest, Gasol, Bynum. Blake off the bench playing PG unless they go small, Barnes and (noble) Odom, and the rest of the guys don't play very much. You start going beyond an 8 or 9 man rotation and you'll have trouble developing lineup chemistry, unless you're still very strict about rotation times and lineups, which Mr Smart frankly isn't.
Your 4th guard sits on the bench not getting more than 10 mins a game. Problem for us is our official guard platoon contains only 1 player above 6'4/6'5.
Your 4th guard sits on the bench not getting more than 10 mins a game. Problem for us is our official guard platoon contains only 1 player above 6'4/6'5.
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My opinion is that this talk about a 10-12 man rotation is because Smart fears making the tough decisions and telling hi hometown friend MT, that he'll only get 15-20 mins per, or telling one of IT/Brooks they're a strict backup and will only get 15-20 mins per. Hope I'm wrong, but my guess is he doesn't have the balls to make the tough decisions, whereas just playing everyone out of position and going small, and switching whole lineups in an attempt to keep everyone happy is much easier. He can still be everyones friend that way, well, until their agents call.
You don't want to give an $8M (or whatever figure MT is making) that you signed to a long contract only last summer, only 15-20 minutes a game. Frankly, MT is too good to settle for that, and we have lot tied in him for that.
I understand your point though. If IT is more productive overall, and two can't share the floor due to size, then MT should see reduced minutes. Trade is the obvious solution there, though of course, that's easier said than done.
Before Rockets dropped the Asik bombshell on Bulls, I thought they were the perfect trading partners. They needed an SG upgrade anyway, had a big guard in Rose to play alongside MT (though he shall be out most of this year), and some defensive minded big men we could use.
I doubt they match offer on Asik. If they do, we might be able to get Gibson from them.
Another poster had suggested Noah. I don't think they shall pay Asik to let Noah go. Even Gibson is unlikely, but if they match, and the season doesn't go too well, they might be forced to make a move.
I understand your point though. If IT is more productive overall, and two can't share the floor due to size, then MT should see reduced minutes. Trade is the obvious solution there, though of course, that's easier said than done.
Before Rockets dropped the Asik bombshell on Bulls, I thought they were the perfect trading partners. They needed an SG upgrade anyway, had a big guard in Rose to play alongside MT (though he shall be out most of this year), and some defensive minded big men we could use.
I doubt they match offer on Asik. If they do, we might be able to get Gibson from them.
Another poster had suggested Noah. I don't think they shall pay Asik to let Noah go. Even Gibson is unlikely, but if they match, and the season doesn't go too well, they might be forced to make a move.
