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This is hilarious considering how he used wcs when he was healthy and his preference in running 2 and 3 pg lineups. He's just saying what he knows people want to hear. The proof he cares will come in lineups and rotations not in words. Karl is as disengenuous as it gets. His players know it and we should as fans as well.
James Ham @James_Ham 2m2 minutes ago
"When you just get outhustled & a team puts forth more effort than you on the floor & they win that way, it's a terrible way to lose." -Cuz
Bingo. This is the exact reason we lost in Washington, Portland and now to Philly in the past 10 days.
"When you just get outhustled & a team puts forth more effort than you on the floor & they win that way, it's a terrible way to lose." -Cuz
Bingo. This is the exact reason we lost in Washington, Portland and now to Philly in the past 10 days.
A 35 - 40 win team with a coach that has no future, a owner that spreads dysfunction, and a unproven GM doesn't seem like a situation that attracts anything other then the mid level pieces we got this summer. You're cap situation also isn't going to elevate you above the competition. With all that said I understand the logic of rolling with Cousins and gambling that you can find some diamonds in the rough that will get you to the next level, but if you're foundation with Cousins is this shaky then what's the point?
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HOFers are winners. Cousin, nor anybody on this team right now, are winners. People have said that DMC is so emotional because he just wants to win and gets frustrated at this hamster wheel of a franchise, and yet when the team is actually in a position to take over the 8th spot and push up a weak conference, what do we see? Do we see smart, heady play from a vet? Do we see guys seize the opportunity and play with passion like hungry wolves? Do we see a guy who is leading his teammates in going after what he's desperately been seeking his entire career when it is right there for the taking? Cousin is a HOF talent, but is not a HOF player.
Those would be on him, but on several of them Cuz was mugged and to the ground on the other end of the floor. No way for him, or anyone, to get back in time from that position.
And its got nothing to do with Cuz. That's just basketball. Any team, any level. If you see a big man show big on a penetrating guard, and then his man get an alley oop behind him that's really not on him, unless the penetrating guard is so offensively inept that the big is not supposed to challenge him.
Watch good defensive teams play and what you'll always see is the forward on that side of the floor step down in to cut off the passing angle.
And actually when you see that, it normally open the corner three, so the forward has to try to spin back and recover if a skip pass is made. At which time the big's job is to get back and remake contact with his big cover, and fight him for a potential board.
Its jsut the way the game flows. By far the best idea is just not to have your guards get blown by in the first place. From there its a cascade failure.
And its got nothing to do with Cuz. That's just basketball. Any team, any level. If you see a big man show big on a penetrating guard, and then his man get an alley oop behind him that's really not on him, unless the penetrating guard is so offensively inept that the big is not supposed to challenge him.
Watch good defensive teams play and what you'll always see is the forward on that side of the floor step down in to cut off the passing angle.
And actually when you see that, it normally open the corner three, so the forward has to try to spin back and recover if a skip pass is made. At which time the big's job is to get back and remake contact with his big cover, and fight him for a potential board.
Its jsut the way the game flows. By far the best idea is just not to have your guards get blown by in the first place. From there its a cascade failure.
People seem to want to snap their fingers and *poof* a shiny new contender appears, but its unlikely.
make the playoffs, get the monkey off your back, a little exposure. your players gain trade value as they are no longer members of the sad sack Kings. people listen more to the coach, The offseason plans involve guys looking ahead and thinking time to take the next step. You give Cuz status, and Rajon regains status, and maybe you recriut somebody. But none of that stuff is possible for a 20-something win team.
make the playoffs, get the monkey off your back, a little exposure. your players gain trade value as they are no longer members of the sad sack Kings. people listen more to the coach, The offseason plans involve guys looking ahead and thinking time to take the next step. You give Cuz status, and Rajon regains status, and maybe you recriut somebody. But none of that stuff is possible for a 20-something win team.
It makes you wonder, why are they not stepping up? Why aren't they playing hard, knowing they are so close?
Is it because everyone is playing in an offense that they know is not working? Imagine doing something that you know is not going to work everyday because your boss keeps insisting.
Remember, its not only Cousins that is lacking that hunger and energy lately.