The Bucks are really like a roller coaster this season, the big three at the beginning of the season lack of arms and legs, a series of losses, the record ran to eight places away, but as the personnel continued to tidy up, the big three re-dressed, the Bucks launched the offensive as a defending champion, instantly came to the third place in the East, and there was no win gap with the second Nets in the recent time. But this roller coaster just drove to the top, there was another landslide, alphabet brother is sick (not new crown), so today the Bucks home against the Raptors, alphabet brother absent.
In fact, against a team like the Raptors, the Bucks should be able to win even if they are single-core, but the result is not satisfactory. The Bucks, who had no one to defend Siakam, sent 18 turnovers across the team, defeated the Raptors, suffered two consecutive defeats, and reflected the team's dependence on the alphabet brother. And today I want to talk about this is not this, but NBA reporter Shams Charania, the Bucks plan to lay off DeMarcus Cousins.
Cousins was cut, and this time it really wasn't a little surprise! Why? Because the Bucks have signed Cousins so far, Cousins has really played too well and contributed too much to the Bucks. Lopez played a game this season, suffered an injury in the back, the season was reimbursed, the Bucks were forced to use Portis, Portis is indeed very hard, 31 games so far in the season, averaging 27.8 minutes per game, contributing 15.3 points, 8.9 rebounds and 1.3 assists, according to this, Portis can definitely get a big contract.
But Portis has a limited role, Portis has a basket, but it is unstable; and these are not the most important points, the most important thing is that Portis may play the Bucks starting the fifth position for 48 minutes? So, Cousins' value lies in this, rotating the center. Cousins' physical fitness is indeed declining after several major injuries, but his current attitude is too good and sincere. After the Bucks beat the Magic on the road in the last game and Cousins contributed 15 points and 5 rebounds, Bucks coach Budenholzer said after the game: "Cousins really stood up for us, he was scrappy, let us always keep competitive! ”
If Mike Budenholzer's words don't mean anything, let's look at the data! In 17 games, Cousins averaged 16.9 minutes per game, averaging 9.1 points, 5.8 rebounds and 1.1 assists per game, and shot a total of 13 three-pointers in 17 games, averaging plus-minus per game 2.9, a net win of 2.9 points; in addition, advanced data shows that Cousins' net efficiency is 7.7, 48th in the league, 117.1 in the offensive efficiency, tenth in the league, and the game contribution value is 11.8; the Bucks against the Rockets, Cousins got the second start of the Bucks' career this season, contributing 18 points and 8 rebounds in 28.0 minutes; and then the next game the Bucks played the Lone Ranger, Cousins contributed 22 points, 8 rebounds + one three-point data. Conversely, the Bucks' rotational center Sandro averaged just 3.9 points and 2.3 rebounds per game.
Cousins is about to be laid off by the Bucks, and the Bucks general manager said: "We made some strategic decisions to reserve a lineup seat, but nothing can stop us from continuing to work with DeMarcus in the future. "22 points + 18 points, but suffered from the Bucks' differential treatment, but they had to be laid off by the Bucks." Not to feel sorry for Cousins, the Bucks have given him these 17 games, Cousins has shown the value of his body, after the 31-year-old experienced a major injury, not surprisingly, there must be other teams to throw olive branches to Cousins. Just feel sad for the Bucks, the alphabet brother is now the "new king dangli", leading the bucks to attack the defending champion, the bucks management can not see the pearl, to tell the truth, Middleton can say no pity, Holliday can say no pity, but only the alphabet brother can not do it!