by Charlie O

SACRAMENTO–The Kings DeMarcus Cousins is everything to the Kings and in the last two wins for the Kings he’s been everything for Sacramento. Cousins is truly one of those one of a kind players to build your entire team around he is the foundation. The guy is averaging a little more than 23 points a ball game with 12 rebounds with three assists and he’s doing that within 33 minutes a game.

Cousins latest performance is that of a phenomenal player that is an all star player, for the all star game coming up on the 15th he had to kind of back end it for the Lakers Kobe Bryant because of the type of season that Cousins has had and the numbers that he’s put up really would have justified him for being reserved for the all star team out right.

NBA Commissioner Adam Silver is not going to back end anyone to be a replacement but the team around him had to look at Cousins and say “that guy is an all star.” The Kings in one of their two wins beat the Indiana Pacers and that was because they took some pressure off Cousins and Cousins had been handling the pressure during the Kings entire eight game losing streak.

Cousins during the streak was trying to carry the team on his back personally and trying to carry the situation which is really tough for a player to do game in and game out. What the Kings did is early on the opponents would be double teaming and triple teaming Cousins Darren Collison and Rudy Gay started working the press on Cousins and taking the pressure off of Cousins.

When Collison and Gay took the scoring pressure off Cousins Cousins became like this rebounding machine and he pulled down 19 rebounds. This is going to sound odd for people who don’t know much about Cousins but he scored only 20 points in that game he had 19 rebounds to go with it. Collison had 23 points and Gay was lighting it up with 31 points and they were all working as the big three again.

The three players Collison, Gay and Cousins averaging just around 60 points together in every contest that’s been a key for the Kings to win when they do that. In the game against the Pacers they scored 74 of the 99 points that the Kings scored, there were only 11 bench points in that game. The three of them bound together and made that happen. They did that on Cousins back in the middle underneath and were able to kick the ball out. The reason for the recent success the Big Three bound together made that happen and they didn’t do that on Cousins back.

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