I have to agree. Cousins has all the potential in the world. But taking responsibility for what he does and doesn't do is what will lead to success. Telling the Bee he feels lost is a wimpy thing to do. Are you a man or what. Get with the program. Go the extra yard. Close your trap. What is supposed to happen at this point? Nothing good can come from this except Cousins doing his best every play. Find a way instead of finding a way out.
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'Getting with the program" when the program is idiotic is not "manly". Its stupid, submissive, or both. If we want to talk real "manly" stuff, in the real world when a leader is not getting it done, the ambitious manly men are typical going to depose him.
Cuz can't win because fans are hippocrites. He fights Karl he's a cancer. He goes along with Karl, he's a wimp.
Part of it is many fans being not very good at basketball. Go the extra yard? Yeah. If Luke Walton had walked into the coaching position in Golden State and immediately told Steph Curry to play off the ball in the post, I'm sure all the geniuses out there would have told Steph to "just suck it up amnd go the extra yard".
The problem is so obvious that even a dunderhead like Grant has been remarking on it game after game. This is criminal misuse. THIS IS THE COACH. 100%. There is nothing sacrosanct about coaches, especially not at the NBA level where the players they coach are a lot more exceptional and rare specimens than the coaches themselves. Its the coach's job to maximize the success of his best players, not the other way around.
I did this math earlier this season, but here it is once again. This is A KARL PROBLEM:
DeMarcus Cousins FG%, Mike Malone: 86gms 717-1437 = .499FG% (TS% = .561)
DeMarcus Cousins, FG%, this season: 20gms 164-393 = .417FG% (TS% = .515)
This is criminal misuse of our prime asset. If we had a board of directors in a publicly traded company they would can the failed manager post haste.
This would normally deserve a full descriptive thread, but here is what any fool who knows the Kings should know, and yet George Karl does not. These are DeMarcus Cousins shot "heat" charts for the last 4 years. So not only Malone, but the last year of Smart too.
2012-13 Smart
2013-14 Malone
2014-15 Malone/Corbin/Karl (I'd be willing to bet the Malone part looked like the above charts, then got diluted by idiots)
2015-16 Karl (the little outside smudge here is outside the arc now)
And EVERYBODY who watched Cousins and knew their stuff knew this. This was Cousins' game. Strong midrange shooter, off the catch and shoot, from 18-20 feet, up around the FT line, not the angles. Left block post player. From either the block or the facing jumper, loved/preferred to fake or spin and slash to the rim instead. That's the game. All great players have them. You can trash any great player, just take away what they do well and make them do stupid stuff instead. Make Bron or Westbrook a spot up three point shooter. Make A.D. into a back to the basket player. Turn Curry into a post up guard. Its not hard. All you have to do is be an idiot an you can mess up anything you touch. In this case Karl has completely evaporated Cuz's midrange and post game to buy back a 31% 3pt shooter who now has to dribble 25feet just to get a shot off at the rim.
Do you know that its been NEARLY 30 YEARS since George Karl has a big man average 20+ppg for him? And that it happened 1 single time for him in 25 seasons as a coach? And that in the past 18 years George Karl has had exactly 1 "big man" ever average 15ppg for him? And that was Kenyon Martin in 2004-05, George's very first year in Denver, when he took over midseason? Martin averaged 15.5ppg that year, much like Boogie continued along after Karl took over last year. Under Karl Martin would never average more than 12.9ppg again.
In 9 years in Denver, Martin was the only one at 15.5ppg. Nene got as high as 14.6ppg.
In 5 years in Milwaulkee, if yo really wanted to squint and call Tim Thomas a "big" he averaged 13.3ppg. Otherwise its Anthony Mason at 9.4ppg (!)
In 7 years in Seattle both Kemp and Baker broke 19ppg, neither ever averaged 20ppg.
In 2 years in Golden State in Yr 2 Ralph Sampson averaged 15.5ppg in 25 games. In Yr 1, 1986-87, Joe Barry Carroll averaged 21.2pts...on .437 shooting.
In 2 years in Cleveland Mel Turpin never averaged more than 13.7ppg. Tweener forward Roy Hinson (similar to Tim Thomas) averaged 19.6ppg 1 year.
There is absolutely NO evidence, and never was, that George Karl has any idea how to coach a team built around a great big man. If you were to hire somebody with so inappropriate a resume for a job you'd probably get fired yourself. And hey, PDA did, but Vivek can't be. Its like hiring an old history teacher to teach calculus, because hey, he used to be a great teacher back when students were writing with quills and the Holy Roman Empire was a thing.
