City of Trees wrote:SacKingZZZ wrote:bleeds_purple wrote:
Spot on IMO. Was thinking the same during the game. WCS was really nice. He's a really big presence on the floor even if he doesn't put up stats. You can feel the difference right away.
Koufos was useless out there and only clogged it up for Cousins AND created a mismatch with Cousins having to guard Dudley. I see the idea behind starting him but if things continue the way they seemed last night I'd expect a change here.
Koufos showed some of his value last night when he came back in as the lone big and just blocked up the rim area. Cousins foul problems last night had everything to do with him having to guard Dudley out high. If Joeger is deadset on having Koufos and Cuz play together then he needs to put Kosta on the PF. That way if a foul needs to be taken to stop the play it's not Cuz having to commit it.
Cousins tends to reach in for the steal when his man puts the ball on the floor to make a move. Cousins guarding PF's will lead him to frequent foul trouble. I dont like it. Cousins is a Center and he should play similar to how Memphis used Gasol.
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And in this case he was guarding a SF. Then on the other end they didn't get the ball down low to him to capitalize. Joerger ditched it when it was clear that Cousins was going to struggle on the wing so that's a good sign.