According to US media reports, the Bucks plan to lay off DeMarcus Cousins in order to ensure the flexibility of the lineup. As soon as the news came out, a stone stirred up thousands of waves, and many fans were lamenting for Cousins, how could the league's first center once fall into such a "downfall" situation?
Since joining the Bucks this season, Cousins has actually performed very well, playing in 17 games, averaging 9 points and 5.8 rebounds per game, and has played 22+8, 15+10 highlight moments. Even in the moment before the announcement of the cut today, in the Bucks' 111-117 loss to the Raptors, Cousins also handed over a brilliant statistic of 5 of 19 minutes, 46.8, 15 points, 10 rebounds, 3 steals and 1 block.
It seems that it is about to play the second spring of his career, but why is it still difficult to escape the fate of being cut? In fact, the main reason is that Cousins lost the 2 skill packs of defense and shooting. Since the beginning of this season, Cousins' true shooting rate has only been 46.6%, which is not high as a traditional interior line, and the three-point skill pack developed in recent years has only a 27.1% shooting rate this season. For the Bucks, who rely on outside projection, Cousins can only be a chicken rib.
In addition, Cousins has been extremely inefficient defensively this season, only 109.4, ranking 215th in the league. The devastation of injury has long since lost his defensive skill pack. The footstep movement can not keep up with the rhythm, and the change of defense is very difficult to meet the outside players, even in the face of the inside players, the footsteps are slightly better, he is also difficult to overcome.
According to Windhorst in a show today about the Lakers trading rumors, due to James's good performance in the center position, and Davis is also getting closer to a comeback, the Lakers may use Jordan Jr. and Bazemore to seek some deals, but the Lakers do not expect too much to gain in the transaction, and the main focus of reinforcements may be to buy out the market. So many fans hope that the Lakers can recruit Cousins, but don't get excited! Cousins was cut and difficult to become a Lakers dish, and the loss of skill packs was doomed to wander.
The Lakers have had a poor record this season and have been trying to get out of trouble by changing the lineup. But as mentioned above, although Cousins has found the second spring of his career on the offensive end this season, his two major skill packs of defense and projection have been lost very cleanly, and these two points are precisely the key to the Lakers' attempt to strengthen, so it is difficult to say that the current Cousins is the dish that the Lakers have been looking for.
According to Cousins' current performance, especially in the current impact of the epidemic, I believe that Cousins will soon find a new team, but it is not easy to get a long contract.
(Text/shitou)