How overrated is Demarcus Cousins?

Patrick Kane

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Been saying this for a minute. He don't play winning basketball

Yeah it's a wrap for this nikka. As skilled as he is and as good as he is truthfully, he's just not an impact player.

The man will fill up the stat sheet with points, rebounds, assists, blocks and STILL lose very badly. Consistently too

He just doesn't help his team win basketball games. He needs to be a second or third option and chip in those numbers playing a sidekick role and that not gonna work with Anthony Davis
 
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Do you think it's an issue where he has to slim some? Then again isn't he somewhat smaller from his days in Sac? :ohhh:
 

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If he stopped shooting 3s it would be higher

For a guy who shoots 7 three's a gamw those r good numbers
Yup. There's a reason for the true shooting percentage stats. He's shooting 53% on 2 pointers which is what you would expect. Overall true shooting percentage is at 53.3 on the year.

I do agree he needs to cut back on turnovers and hustle more consistently, but overall this NO roster is just a bad fit around two big men like that. You need them surrounded with nothing but 3 and D guys. Not nearly enough consistent shooting on that roster. It's simple minded as fukk to just blame Cousins as if NO was a big winner before getting him.
 

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WHEN HAS A CENTER EVER SHOT 47% FG
WHILE SHOOTING 6 THREES A GAME?


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You're asking a question that is entirely irrelevant to the issue, which is WHY HAS DEMARCUS COUSINS NEVER SHOT 50% AT THE NBA LEVEL?

A better question is: why the hell is he taking so many threes?

He shot 43% and only took 0.2 threes per game his rookie year
YEAR 2 he shot 44% and only took 0.2 threes per game.
YEAR 3 he shot 47% and only took 0.3 threes per game.
YEAR 4 he shot 49.6% and only took 0.1 threes per game.
YEAR 5 he shot 46.7% and only took 0.1 threes per game.
YEAR 6 he shot 45.1% and only took 3.2 threes per game.
YEAR 7 he shot 45.2% and only took 5.0 threes per game.


So, whether he's taking no threes or 6, THE MATH says he's not shooting as well as an NBA big with his usage should be shooting in YEAR 8.
 
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