If you only look at the book, Cousins joins the Warriors = NBA, the first pure center to join the championship team. Curry + Cray + Durant + Green + Cousins, the most gorgeous starter in history.
If you only look at the books, Curry, Cray, Durant and Cousins have a single 50-point ability and performance. Curry, Durant and Cousins can all be happy to play a triple-double; Cousins is the most technical center in the history of the league, and can adapt to all routines; compared to these years, the Warriors have to move to Bogu Special, McGee, Luny and Bell have limited offensive skills. Cousins is plug and play, and his mind doesn't move.
If you only look at the book, because Cousins promised a 5.3 million one-year contract, then the sum of the summer Green + Cray + Cousins added, that is, Paul's income alone, which constitutes unfair competition.
If you only look at the book, such as using NBA 2K to directly simulate it, the Warriors should directly win 75 games in the regular season and 16 games in the playoffs.
However, there are other things that can be pondered not only by looking at the books.
Cousins received a contract of 5.3 million, which was so horrendous. In his previous interview, he said that no team offered him a reliable contract. Most teams are pressing on him, and he only wants to go with the Celtics and the Warriors.
So it is probably the case - Cousins:
"You are all fucking and not actively contacting Lao Tzu? Hey! I want to go to a team at a low price and kill you!"
This kind of heart can be understood.
But why do most teams want to press the price, pressing a 25+13+5 averaging 2 three-pointers in the previous season, and the league's first pure center with a true shooting percentage of 58% ran for 5.3 million a year? Did they blink?
First, injuries: it is not a trivial matter with bruises. Of course, Cousins has always not bounced to eat, but the bruises will affect his movement and playing time. It has always been possible to restore the peak after a big injury, and it was Wilkins in the early 1990s.
The pain of Kobe and Webbers, we have all seen it.
The giant's foot injury is easy to repeat. The toe of the shark, the foot bone of Yao Ming, and the size of Cousins are also factors.
Second, attitude. Cousins’s temper is well known. He is not bad, he is just a bear child. Eight years ago, when he was in the trial of the King, the jumper in the three-point line made 80 of 95 shots, which made the King intoxicated: "His feel is very good. His passer is very different. He is only 19 years old. "But he is still not satisfied, desperately want to show, "You see I will do this, you see I will, I will..."
His relatives and friends stressed that he does not like to drink, and does not like to go to the party. His dream before playing basketball was to go to the NFL until he found himself too big and his knees could not hold his body.
His high school coach Otis Hughley said his previous character was very impatient:
"When he reads a book, he always likes to jump directly to the paragraph he likes. I am jealous of him, reading books, watching tactical books, and patiently turning from head to tail, reading one page at a time."
When he was in high school, he had to take medicine to relieve the symptoms of inattention. He lacks patience. In 2010, he admitted that he was hard to trust others. "I don't want people to see the real me." But, "Whenever someone understands me and says 'this kid is actually very smart', I won't show happiness, I won't seem to pay attention to this, um, Actually, I am listening."
This attitude is a double-edged sword for the team.
Third, he is very good, but he still has not played the playoffs.
Before the injury last season, Cousins finally integrated a great season. Originally, this is a time when a bear child finally finds his own world and begins to receive praise. He and Davis are about to complete the most amazing twin-tower experiment in NBA history, and everything is on the bright road. The result was hurt. Finally he still did not play in the playoffs.
But the subtlety is: before he was injured, he was 27 wins and 20 losses. After he was injured, he was 21 wins and 14 losses.
Davis stood in the center and brought the team into the second round of the playoffs.
On the pure center skills, Cousins does not think of the second person in the moment. He can do anything, but Davis is more suitable for this era than him.
In December last year, Mitchell brushed 41 points. That game can be seen as a model for the Cousins problem:
He can't prevent it, and the threat of blocking is not great; once the other party starts the pick-and-roll or copy the back door, Cousins is hung in the middle: he can't prevent the three-point line, he can only hang in the air, hope that the other party can not shoot, or Not fast enough.
Davis's long-range shot is not as good as Cousins, Davis's back and strength is not as good as Cousins, Davis's pass is not as good as Cousins. But Davis's move, change defense, complement, rotation, face basket attack, and the end of the basket are all above Cousins. Davis is an ostrich and Cousins is a rhinoceros.
And this era is to run and fight.
This is an era when Capella can play the Western Conference finals and Dwight Howard can't find a job.
So slightly: Cousins goes to the Warriors, he has to change his play, and maybe even, he has to be a role player.
The foundation of the Warrior System is flexibility, speed, space, infinite change of defense and pursuit of counterattack. When the Warriors are going to the playoffs, they will not be able to hold on to five small starters. Without him: in order to maintain the offensive space, the defensive end can be changed infinitely, and can follow the team.
The adjustments that Cousins needs to make include:
Injury recovery.
Keep your body size, it is best to lose weight.
Follow it.
His freedom will definitely drop more than before, he has to adapt to less ball and more moves.
The adjustments Cole needs to make include:
- Change the Cousins line. For example, let him stay with the second lineup and use the back and high position to make the second lineup.
——It may be appropriate to slow down, reduce the number of defending and counterattacks, and increase the share of opportunity.
- Adjust defensive strategies, such as reducing infinite defenses.
Considering Cousins' injury and recovery, if he can accept playing time of about 30 minutes per game, reduce the number of singles in the ball and increase the high level, he will become a perfect addition to the Warriors.
An example of a football: In 2009, Ibrahimovic won four league titles in Italy, scored a hand and went to Barcelona. After 16 goals in a year, he also won the league title, but he was very upset and turned away. After nothing, the system of Barcelona was limited, and:
"Messi Harvey Iniesta is so cow, how do you treat Guardiola like a primary school student?"
Two basketball examples:
Bob McAdoo, the 1974-76 three-time NBA scoring champion, the 1975 regular season MVP, can be said to be the Stoudemire of that era - who would say, such a man with a fork, why not Into the NBA 50 big? - Because of frequent transactions, but also because of injuries, it was not very good. Going to the Lakers in 1981, when the bench scorer, brushed two championships, and not white: in the 1982 playoffs, he averaged 17 points and 7 rebounds in 28 minutes.
In the history of college basketball, in addition to the Tiangou who did not accept Bill Wharton, the third-year rebounding king + block king + 4 assists with the Blazers to win, fourth-grade injury only played 58 games still regular season MVP, after the injury began. In 1985, he went to the Celtics and became the backup of the three tigers. He won the sixth man of the year and won the championship.
The example of McAdoo and Wharton is extreme, and Cousins’ strength is not to be replaced, but this is his psychological preparation for the Warriors:
If Cousins is willing to do a high-level strategy + rebounding machine + second team back attack, and reduce the playing time to follow, the Warriors can break all records.
But if he is not happy, the situation will become very speculative, and we know that once the Warriors' offense and defense have lost their fluency, they will be chased by the Rockets. The 2016 Olympic National Team, when Jordan was present, the US team played better than Cousins in the game - Jordan's skill is only a fraction of Cousins's, but nothing more than winning + can run.
So in the end, the key is Cousins' own body recovery and mentality.
Taking a 5.3 million contract does not mean that he really doesn't love money: he still hopes to have a good contract next summer, so he needs to have good performance; he is a bear child whose attention is not easy to concentrate, and he still likes to let Everyone looks at "I will do anything."
But the advantage is that Cousins has received more than 5.3 million contracts. He should have prepared everything and decided to be a good boy and accept all roles. "You don't give me a good contract. I will kill you. !"
After all, as mentioned above, he is not a bad boy, and he is never selfish. He just needs everyone to praise him and encourage him. He needs the Kings to hire his high school basketball coach to hire his bear child.
In my mind, he has always been like this: