As soon as Cousins "seriously considered coming to the CBA" news came out, it caused a huge response among fans like a bombshell. Although the news did not reveal the team that offered him, some Shougang and Liaoning fans have imagined that he can break up Guangdong by joining.
2018 2018 All-Star Western Conference Starting Lineup (Award-Winning)
2017 2017 All-Star Western Conference Bench (Award-Winning)
2016 2016 All-Star Western Conference Bench (Award-Winning)
2016 2015-16 All-In-House 2nd Team (Award-winning)
2015 2014-15 All-Time 2nd Team (Award-winning)
2015 2015 All-Star Squad (Award-Winning)
2011 2010–11 Rookie First Team (Award-Winning)
This resume, combined with the NBA career average of 20.4 points and 10.6 rebounds per game, can dominate most CBA foreign players. But the failures of Jefferson, Boozer, Stoudemire, Ken JanMartin, Spez, and Scola in the CBA illustrate that the former NBA interior line, who is over 30 years old, is by no means a matter of fame alone.
In my opinion, Cousins has the following weaknesses that have led to the fact that his CBA journey is likely to end in failure.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="11" > fiery temper, and the tournament system may deepen the conflict</h1>
Cousins has never been a good player, and in the 10-year rookie season, he has clashed several times with the Kings' center coach and physical coach, and in order to adapt to the NBA, the King specially hired his high school coach to ease the tension between him and the coaching staff.
In 2012, due to a quarrel with head coach Smart, Cousins was almost banned by the Kings indefinitely. Although it was not executed in the end, the King's management asked him to see a psychiatrist.
Although this violent temper has relented with the decline of his state, no one can say whether he will return to his old ways after coming to China. Especially in the tournament system, whether the long-term closure will cause him to be dissatisfied, to follow the example of Wilson Chandler and leave, this kind of mood of your time bomb. Not only was he afraid, but his teammates and managers were even more afraid.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="15" > state decline is plagued by injuries and plays contrary to world trends</h1>
When former wolf king Al Jefferson came to Xinjiang, some fans chanted the CBA finale. The perfect interior singles technique, the highest season average of 21.8 points and 10.8 rebounds per game, let many fans think that he is unstoppable in the CBA. But the truth made everyone's glasses shattered, and Jefferson was cut by Xinjiang after only 10 appearances, leaving an embarrassing statistic of only 15.1 points and 7.5 rebounds. In the classic game in which Guangdong's three main players Yi Jianlian, Zhou Peng and Weems were absent but killed Xinjiang in extra time, Jefferson did not get 1 minute of playing time.
The reason for Jefferson's sluggish performance in the CBA is that his form has been seriously declining, and he only had 7 points and 4 rebounds in the Pacers before coming to the CBA, which is only slightly higher than the rookie season. And his interior singles have gradually become marginal under the NBA's trend of pursuing three-point and offensive and defensive conversion speed. Even in the relatively slow-paced CBA, his movement speed can't keep up, and it is natural to be eliminated.
Cousins' situation is similar to Jefferson's, after the Pelicans broke with the 17-18 season, Cousins' health is not as good as before, and there are new injuries in the Warriors and Pacers, so he has also become a low-paid veteran because of the top salary player. Better than Jefferson is that he still has three-point shooting, but if he wants to be able to mix in the CBA with an unstable shooting percentage, he is thinking too much.
CBA nearly a decade of champion interior line, in addition to Sichuan Haddadi is a traditional inside line, such as Bass, Morris and Hayslip are known for projection, Diogu inner line singles ability is very strong, but Guangdong that year won the championship he is not a key person. Guangdong has completely abandoned the big foreign aid in the past three seasons, except for Thompson, who fights the fire, who has not used the internal foreign aid. After Guangdong led the whirlwind of fast play outside the double small, the speed of attack and defense of the CBA League has been greatly improved. The traditional internal line has been hit hard as a result, and the inability to keep up with the speed of attack and defense has greatly weakened their power, and the 4 times in 4 quarters have made their situation worse, and many teams use large foreign aid to fill the time when small foreign aid is not present.
In this trend, the situation that Cousins faced can be imagined. With his previous fame, he certainly did not come to the CBA to give a hand to other foreign aid. But the trend is so, and his current decline does not have much say. In my opinion, his ending will not be much better than that of the half-orc Farid.
The CBA is no longer the era of balloon stars walking sideways, and judging by the current situation of his cousin, he is more likely to go out sideways, and it seems that he has long been doomed to leave the field.