Chapter 1098 [Thinking on Your Knees, Ignoring Everyone]
"DeMarcus, you remember, no matter what happens tonight, how many points Jason Guo scores, you have to control your emotions, and you must not conflict with him, you know?"
Terry Stottes, the 58-year-old coach of the Trail Blazers, gave center Cousins a lesson in thought because he told his teammates in training that if Guo Xu dared to block and dismantle him again and again, he would let Guo Xu not be able to eat and walk around.
Everyone felt that he really did it, because he couldn't think of the serious consequences of the conflict with Guo Xu, and he generally didn't go through his brain before speaking and doing things. He thinks on his knees, and he's happy to be able to keep up with his opponent when he moves sideways on the court, and he gets angry if he can't keep up.
"I understand." Cousins frowned, the corners of his mouth drooping, like a bear child who was forbidden to throw firecrackers into the manhole cover, completely unable to understand that his parents were afraid that something would happen to him.
"Your expression doesn't look like you understand...... I really don't want to see you eat technical fouls anymore. Stottes smiled wryly.
Cousins was the league's most technical foul player last season, and he was fouled twice against the Mavericks in November.
In January, in the Kings' home loss to the Clippers, Cousins smashed the ball directly into the back of the head of Paul, who was running forward, under the basket, and everyone who watched it felt painful.
What a feud this is? There's definitely a sense of revenge in it!
However, the reason why Cousins adopted the method of "smashing angrily" is only because he thinks that Paul is a player who likes to use small actions such as fake falls, and he has suffered Paul's loss in this regard, thinking that he has been bullied by Paul!
Cousins entered the league in the 2010 draft, and was played by Guo Xu in the regular season in the first three seasons of his career, and he always felt that Guo Xu was embarrassing him Cousins.
After Guo Xu retired, the two formed a bigger bond.
Last season, when Guo Xu was a guest commentator on TNT TV, he chatted with O'Neill and others about Cousins, and used the retired Yao Ming as a reference.
Barkley thinks Yao Ming's offensive ability in the low post is incomprehensible, but his movement ability is average. Cousins has more offensive tools and more three-point shooting ability, and he has the potential to become the NBA's No. 1 center. In the small-ball era, Barkley thought Cousins' ability would blow up Yao's reputation.
O'Neill immediately retorted: "You are an insult to me and Yao Ming, please don't compare the current inside line with us, it is not a level of dominance at all." ”
Guo Xu joked: "Fortunately, Yao Ming retired, otherwise you should kiss the donkey's ass again." Can Cousins compare to Yao Ming? He passed the first round of the playoffs first and shot over 50 percent from the field. ”
Guo Xu's words are very weighty, and many fans on the Internet immediately said that Cousins is a brush. Although his stats were more beautiful than the peak Yao Ming last season, averaging 24.3 points, 12.4 rebounds, 3.6 assists, 1.5 steals and 1.7 blocks per game.
Cousins was not happy, believing that he was the true leader of the Trail Blazers, as evidenced by management's abandonment of Aldridge to keep him. Actually, he's really a brush, and Aldridge has to go.
Coach Stottes was very helpless about this incident, and he felt that if the team management had sent Cousins away earlier, Ade might have stayed.
When Cousins frowned and cried, Stouts couldn't understand whether he hated his opponents, or his teammates, whether he was disgusted with the audience, or whether he was disgusted with himself. His eight-character eyebrows were originally quite joyful, but with his expression, they became extremely tangled, with a sense of decay.
For Cousins to lead the team to win, the prerequisite is that no one messes with him. Such an unruly person who even fights himself when he gets angry will be the treasure of the team?
Then Stotters talked to point guard Ricky Rubio alone, emphasizing the matter of defending Guo Xu.
Rubio listened very seriously on the surface, but in his heart he actually wanted to say: This really doesn't need to be emphasized, I definitely can't prevent him.
Fans also have mixed reviews for the handsome Spaniard. He has a good sense of the big picture, a keen eye and a coquettish pass. But at the same time, the shooting that was so bad that he couldn't bear to look directly at it was also a problem that Rubio had been unable to solve for many years, and he was even nicknamed "Lu Yizhong" by Chinese fans.
His shooting has never been able to practice, and it has also made the management lose patience, and if the Trail Blazers don't play well this season, they will have to trade Rubio and Cousins to completely rebuild.
Rubio's shooting can't be practiced, he's an incomparably precocious and unimproved player.
He made a name for himself at the 2006 U16 European Championships and was called the "Golden Boy". In the semifinals against Croatia, he scored a super quadruple-double of 19 points, 10 rebounds, 13 assists and 11 steals to lead Spain to the final. In the final against the Russian team, he played 51 points, 24 rebounds, 12 assists and 7 steals.
And then he's always been like this, he has no shooting talent, and he doesn't seem to have much to win**, and he doesn't seem to be able to win.
In the game that night, the performance of these two important players was really poor, and Guo Xu bullied Rubio and Cousins. The coach knows very well that the Lakers will give the ball to Guo Xu, but he can't prevent it.
Guo Xu's performance can be described as a song.
I can only use one sentence of poetry, which contains my sincere intentions and heart. I beg you, cousin, to listen to it, and after listening to my words, I hope you will not dislike it. In fact, there are only three of my sentences, this sentence, this sentence, and this sentence, and there are only three of them. One, two, three, oh...... I'm sudden! I'm sudden, you're sudden! I'm sudden, you, you!
Cousins was in the front of the defensive position, and Rubio was not fast enough to chase the defense, and Guo Xu shot three points directly. Guo Xu generally scored only 10 points in the first quarter, but it broke out in the second quarter, scoring 17 points in 7 minutes.
In the second half, Guo Xu was even more fierce, scoring 26 points and 2 assists in the third quarter.
In the last quarter, Guo Xu played for a while and scored 10 points, he played a total of 38 minutes, scored 63 points, 4 rebounds and 6 assists, and scored 60+ in two consecutive games and 50+ in three consecutive games.
And Guo Xu is not good at defending this game, and every round is to put Rubio two meters away and let him throw casually, fans feel that this is too tough.
Rubio exploded with 10-of-17 shooting, 2-of-4 three-pointers and 6-of-7 free throws to finish with 28 points, 2 rebounds and 14 assists.
It's a pity that he couldn't win against Guo Xu with this kind of data, and in the end the Lakers won by 15 points. Rubio is a tall defender who is 193cm tall and weighs 87kg, and getting around cover has always been his weakness.
Guo Xu kept looking for cover to misplace Cousins and Meyers-Leonard, Rubio had no choice, and the two interior lines were about to be stupid by Guo Xu.
Trail Blazers backup point guard Brian Roberts is a 185CM tall and 78kg player.
The brutalized Cousins came back in the final quarter, playing only 28 minutes before leaving the court with six fouls and a foul for running over Guo Xu while defending. This action looks a little dangerous, but fortunately Guo Xu is fine.
The foul made headlines, and the 6 billion pot spewed Cousins. The media also thinks that this baby is basically wasted, Guo Xu is recognized as the first person in history, other players don't dare to comment indiscriminately when they are interviewed, Cousins dares to maliciously hit him, isn't this mentally retarded? Does he want to mix it up?
These people don't know that the coach specifically told Cousins to control his emotions before the game, otherwise they would have been even more surprised.
Because of this foul, the Trail Blazers management is ready to trade Cousins in the middle of the season, and with his current data brushing, maybe a team that only looks at the data will want him......