There's a lot of Cousins threads going on right now but this is something I've been wondering for a while and it doesn't seem to fit in any of the current threads.
How come Cousins never gets any easy baskets?
Now there's a lot of you here that pay better attention to basketball fundamentals than I do but why is it that Cousins never gets set up by his teammates for an easy bucket? When I say never, I'm talking like I can only remember one or two easy buckets for him on the entire season where we ran a set play and at the end of the play you had a pass to Cousins that set him up for an easy score. His efficiency for a center is terrible at 45%. It's not because he's not good at getting the ball in the basket. It's because every one of his field goals is a hard fought, 1 on 1, 1 on 2, 1 on 3 affair where he's either doing it all on his own or shooting from the outside. It's no wonder why he's not very efficient for a center.
One thing I've noticed is that we never use him in a pick and roll. He comes out to screen and when the point guard runs by him, instead of rolling to the hoop like Cauley Stein or Kofous, he just steps back behind the 3 point line or just inside of it. Why is this? I'm all for his solid 3 point shooting but can we get the big man an easy bucket once in a while? I don't understand the point in forcing him to have to work so hard to get points when no one else seems to have to deal with it.
Now I don't buy the idea that we can't do that because he's always double teamed. There are plenty of other superstars in the league that get a free 4 or 5 points a night due to their teammates setting them up. I just don't understand why we force Cousins to battle out of these insanely predictable sets that are the root cause of him turning the ball over 6-7 times a night now that the league has caught on.
How come Cousins never gets any easy baskets?
Now there's a lot of you here that pay better attention to basketball fundamentals than I do but why is it that Cousins never gets set up by his teammates for an easy bucket? When I say never, I'm talking like I can only remember one or two easy buckets for him on the entire season where we ran a set play and at the end of the play you had a pass to Cousins that set him up for an easy score. His efficiency for a center is terrible at 45%. It's not because he's not good at getting the ball in the basket. It's because every one of his field goals is a hard fought, 1 on 1, 1 on 2, 1 on 3 affair where he's either doing it all on his own or shooting from the outside. It's no wonder why he's not very efficient for a center.
One thing I've noticed is that we never use him in a pick and roll. He comes out to screen and when the point guard runs by him, instead of rolling to the hoop like Cauley Stein or Kofous, he just steps back behind the 3 point line or just inside of it. Why is this? I'm all for his solid 3 point shooting but can we get the big man an easy bucket once in a while? I don't understand the point in forcing him to have to work so hard to get points when no one else seems to have to deal with it.
Now I don't buy the idea that we can't do that because he's always double teamed. There are plenty of other superstars in the league that get a free 4 or 5 points a night due to their teammates setting them up. I just don't understand why we force Cousins to battle out of these insanely predictable sets that are the root cause of him turning the ball over 6-7 times a night now that the league has caught on.