Post#231 » by LamarMatic7 » Sun Jan 20, 2013 12:26 pm
So I've seen two back-to-back Kings games the last two days. Some things I took away from seeing DMC seeing as he's been a popular debate topic around NBA forums lately.
There isn't much bad you can say about his game. This guy has it all to be a Hall of Famer. From rebounding to the various ways he can score, to court awareness, to his amazing passing ability. As far as basketball as a game goes there is only thing I would criticise him for. In my opinion, he posts up too far from the basket. He has such an amazing, agile and big body that it would be hard for most guys to do anything, if he posted up right outside the paint more often. Instead he likes to settle for receiving the ball 15-feet or farther from the hoop and work from there. Sometimes he won't even put the ball on the floor and will simply bail out the defense by taking a jumper over the defender's out-stretched arm. He does have range, however, he should take those shots when he's 35 and a third option on his team, not now. He's 110/180 at rim, 43/137 from 16 feet and farther out. Use your jump hook more often, DeMarcus...
He still has miles to go to learn how to behave though. Imo, the absolutely worst thing about his attitude is the way he will talk with refs after every single call against him. And by every single call, I really do every single damn call. That's a very bad tendency which can ruin one's career, just ask Rasheed Wallace.
While his body language seemed okay at Memphis, it was horrible at Charlotte. He acted like a 6-year-old who wanted his parents to see that he's not happy with what they have made him do. If a team-mate would turn the ball over, he'd have a Rick Barry "god, I'm playing with a bunch of scrubs" expression and would walk slowly back while Kemba Walker is leading a Bobcats fast break. The worst part is that it even happened the times when Cousins himself screwed up. He moved around like he was playing in the 60s and used the least energy he could get away with. Whenever there was a whistle on a play that involved him, he'd excessively act like he got hurt when the call was on the opponent or took too much time to settle back in the game whenever it was a personal foul on him. He also did bull like tying his shorts and completely ignore whatever Charlotte was doing on offense when we started off the second half. A bad habit I noticed was him slowly drifting off to the offensive end for a possible fast break after the Bobcats put up a shot and rely on his teammates to get the rebound. There were instances when he left them out-matched on the glass.
Considering all this and him doing stupid **** like tying his shorts and still getting ready to play to start off the second half while the Bobcats were already attacking a solid 10 seconds, he still was the best player on the floor. He did his best at looking as disinterested as possible, yet he still finished with a 17/10/4...
If I am any other GM in the league, I'm constantly calling Sacramento and getting on their nerves with a proposal for a trade. If I ever do land him, sign two veteran bigs to teach him about life and put him on his ass every practice (think Juwan Howard and Rasheed Wallace), get an assistant coach who would get on his bull every day (think Charles Oakley) and get a real head coach.
