jcwkings
All-Star
Cousins has taken tons of free throws, refs will always be more reluctant to call them down the stretch.
[Game] Kings @ Knicks - 12/4/16 - 4:30PT/7:30ET
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To me it's more than that. Gay, Casspi, Collison & Lawson are set to be free agents. Tolliver and Afflalo can be easily cut loose too. None of the rookies are playing at all.
It does very little good for this team to progress under Joerger if most of the guys playing are gone next year and most of the guys that are left didn't play.
You can't build anything if the roster is being overhauled every season.
kingsboi
Hall of Famer
so if that is the case, then try something else?
kingsboi
Hall of Famer
You summed it up perfectly in one sentence.
Suicide King
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I know. I am just in the camp that a foul is a foul whether you have been to the line 1 time or 100.
And I think he did with the freak lineup......as far as Afflalo and Koufos...I think it's a process. If you noticed in the second half when he called the early TO, he looked at some of the guys coming off the floor with his hands raised as if to say....well. That's when he pulled those guys.
I think it's a process with the vets out of respect possibly? Can't tell you about Ben. Only thing I can think of is he's going to get dealt in about 10 days when more guys can be moved on Dec. 15
How much season is left? It's not like there's 15 games left
kingsboi
Hall of Famer
and you can go ahead and count that as moral victory number one thousand and four, I believe? 20 point deficit, expending energy, playing Cousins the entire second half it seems...ran out of gas down the stretch. This has to be the most minutes Willie has played this season.
theclash4u5
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Cousins is so dominate inside and yet 10 three's attempted? Why?
Well, not only that but, as Van Gundy likes to say, if it's a foul in the first quarter, it's a foul in the fourth quarter.
kingsboi
Hall of Famer
Falling in love with the jump shot too much
kingsboi
Hall of Famer
because the game was all ready lost, so its all irrelevant IMO.
Kingsfan23
All-Star
To me he's in worse shape as the season has progressed. Not moving as well on offense or defense
Bricklayer
Don't Make Me Use The Bat
and the occasional Thermopylae invocation, yes
theclash4u5
Starter
Another day, another loss...
Bricklayer
Don't Make Me Use The Bat
Because inside waits Noah, Porzingis, and in case people have forgotten, and they may have, Kyle O'Quinn has always bothered Cousins because he can match his strength. Then you throw on 44 minutes and the putrid first half shooting causing the Knicks to feel they can drop down on him at will and...
Its absolutely too many threes for my taste, but I know what the optics looked like to him. Best thing the Knicks do defensively is trot out lots of length.
Yeah, I've been a fan of Joerger's coaching in the aggregate, but this is now the fourth straight game that he's gone with this starting lineup after he said that he'd seen enough of it.
I've made no secret of how much I loathe the three-point shot. However, comma, whenever I read someone complain about why Cousins takes some many threes against a team with an interior defense like New York had tonight, I feel like the unspoken subtext of that question is, "Well, why doesn't he just post up, anyway, and force the referees to call the foul, like Shaq would have?" And the answer to that question is, because the referees don't give DeMarcus Cousins Shaq-like calls, that's why. Several of the defensive "plays" against Cousins inside would have been fouls against Shaq. And you can point to the box score and say, "But Cousins got sixteen free throws, though!" Yeah, and if Cousins got the calls inside that he should get, then he would have shot twenty-six free throws. If anything, it's almost like a reverse-Shaq effect, where referees decided to overcorrect in the other direction, except that other star players still get all those calls.
So, what ends up happening is that Cousins either tries to go inside, doesn't get the call, and misses the shot, and Kings Fans criticize his decision-making, or he stays outside and misses jumpers, and Kings Fans question his decision making.
Boogie_Fever
G-League
I'm salty after every game. Its infuriating.
Refreshing post-game comments from Cauley-Stein; a somewhat candid admission, that you don't always hear from players in his situation.
Suicide King
Starter
I do not like our starting line-up but Joerger (jokingly????) mentioned right after saying he was going small in that post game interview "Who knows, a few games from now I might go back". It seemed at least a half joke comment at the time. In hind sight however..
If they are trying to showcase 2k for something, he plays better when he is the back-up for Cousins at the 5 so that doesnt make sense either. Afflalo was probably my least favorite signing coming into the season. Granted I knew little about Tolliver so did not have any preconceived notions on him.
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Temple have been good for us. Barnes is okay, as long as we don't rely on him to play heavy minutes; he should be a 12-15 minute guy, instead of the 26 minute guy he has been. We don't really know what we have in Tolliver: he was lights out in the preseason, missed his first couple of shots of the regular season, and basically hasn't been given any burn since. Afflalo has been the only unqualified bad signing, to this point; there are at least three guys on the roster I'd rather see getting those minutes right now.
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