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Wednesday, November 18, 2015

NBA Inside The Player Of The Week (Nov. 10-16)



DeMarcus Cousins is the NBA Inside The Player Of The Week, and this is the first of his career with many more to come. What earned him this award? Let's take a look, Inside the player of the week.

The Kings have won all 3 of their games this week, one of them being against Andre Drummond and the Pistons. In those 3 games, Cousins has averaged 36.3 Points, 10.7 rebounds, and 1.7 blocks. He has been the main reason for their success this past week.

Cousins had a major bounce back after the week before when he had a bad game against the Spurs, and reportedly cussed out Coach George Karl in the locker room after the game. Cousins took it personally to make things right with the team, and you could tell from his bounce back performance this week.

One major factor in Cousins being player of the week was his 3 point shooting. This week he shot 60% from beyond the arc. And it wasn't like he shot 5 threes this last week. He shot 9-15 on three point attempts this week. He played shot really well.

Something really impressive that we don't see from Cousins that much, was him limiting his turnovers. He only averaged 2.7 turnovers this week. While it is a small sample size, it is still strange to see knowing that Cousins hasn't been so careful in the past with handling the basketball. Last season he was 2nd in turnovers and the year before he was 5th in turnovers. So only averaging 2.7 turnovers this week is a big accomplishment for D-Marc.

The Kings really aren't that great defensively, but without Cousins, they aren't great offensively either. When he is on the court, the Kings have a 105.7 offensive rating, and when he is off the court, they only have a 96.8 offensive rating. Think of it this way, if they didn't have Cousins, the Kings would be ranked 30th in offense and 25th in defense, so it is a good thing they have Cousins. Let's face it, if the Kings didn't have Cousins, they probably wouldn't have won that many games this week, if any.

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