48% last season, actually. and howard was 70%...
and while i'd like to see cousins' assisted baskets climb a few percentage points (via the pick and roll), the very thing that makes DMC so special in the contemporary nba is that he's a rare old school-styled back-to-the-basket center who can truly "go to work" on the low block. you're simply not gonna pile up the assisted baskets with that style of play (and, for the record, we're not likely to see grievis vasquez's inflated assist totals from NO because of it). dwight howard, on the other hand, is almost entirely dependent upon his ballhandlers to lob it to him down low where he can catch the alley-oop or make an immediate move to the basket for the dunk...
but now that his athleticism is faltering, howard struggles against a set defense without a PG to feed him the lob or initiate the pick and roll. it's been the knock on howard his whole career, that he has very few go-to moves in the post. he's only more recently figured out the drop step, and he still doesn't use it enough. but demarcus cousins doesn't need a PG to compensate for a lack of post ability, and it's why i've long maintained that the kings don't need the "true PG" that so many around these parts have been clamoring for. such players are generally useless alongside first options like DMC. shaq didn't play with any (in his prime), neither did olajuwon, etc. in my estimation, it's a failure of the front office to not recognize that you don't need to invest a lot of value in the PG position if cousins is your franchise cornerstone...