Demarcus is the biggest disappointment tonight. He mailed it in first quarter. George Karl is just an a**hole. Says one thing, does another. That man would rather go to the grave doing it his way than adjust at all. I hate that guy. I can't stand looking at him.
Players have nothing to do with rotations. Nothing. He has 2 PGs (small ones at that) and Marco running SF while Omri is on the bench. Our best rebounder and inside scorer is 25ft from the basket 75% of the time, on both defense and offense. There is not an ounce of logic there. None. It has cost us game after game. We get creamed in the early 4th 8-0 run immediately. Karl takes a time out and comes back with the same exact line-up. Who does that?
We've seen driving work before, particularly with the bench unit. But when our best players keep dribbling off of their knees on a drive, and when our best players do best in the mid range/post, we really ought to stop putting them on the perimeter as much as we are right now.
Cousins has a lot of issues going on right now, but I don't think he's looking to get traded. My biggest gripe is don't talk about all these meetings with the players about how the team has to be focused better and then proceed to come out looking like this. Don't waste my time. Don't get my hopes up. Suck if you want, you're good at it. B**** at the refs, you're good at that too. But please don't talk about making a "run" unless you are dead set, because it makes the team look even more like a joke when they play like this.
There's no leader and we have a coach who is probably finished. He's got nothing left and even worse, he has no clue what to do with this roster. Cousins is playing awful. Truly. He hasn't had a good game in weeks, maybe even over a month. Nothing recent that you can look back at and say "Yeah, he destroyed that team." He's been playing with such a pee poor attitude at times that it's hard for me to watch him. What is it? Injury? Entitlement? I don't care. There is no leader on this team. None. Cousins has now had 5.5 seasons to show leadership qualities and he hasn't. He's improved, but he can't lead a team emotionally and mentally. He can't even control himself some of the time. That's not how leadership works.
Half of Cousin's shot were jump shots (I just went through the play by play). He took 3 threes and 8 other jumpers. I didn't lay all the blame on Karl, but he's definitely getting his fair share from me. He seems incapable of making in game adjustments. Teams rattle off big runs and he comes back with the same ridiculous lineup that got us in trouble in the first place. Why? Here, you played horrible, so play some more? The main reason we lost was because of defense. We scored enough to win, but when you're running 2 PGs out there at almost all times and a scrawny/thin SG as your SF, then yes, even scrubs will have great nights. Rudy should be ashamed of himself. Watching him play horrible defense (and knowing that he can do significantly better) is almost unbearable. Time after time, his man is camping out at the three point line (as in just standing still) and he's nowhere near him. And Cousins? You call yourself the leader? Ha! Couldn't lead a horse to water let alone an entire team.
