re: Sign and trade cousins for derozan

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it would be an interesting series and pose some legit problems for the Warriors, but Cousins's defense would kill the Pels. he couldnt play in space before his injury, doubt he will even be at that level again.

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Probably, but they always knew that when they got him. The point of getting him was to make the other teams have to play a bigger lineup. the Warriors cannot play a lineup of Steph/Klay/Iggy/Durant/Draymond against AD/Cousins. As long as AD and Cousins are on the court, one of the big dummies on their team has to be in the game, which disrupts their flow and spacing on offense having someone like Zaza out there.
If that happens, then they have 2 guys on the court that you absolutely do not care about shooting the ball, one of which isn't a threat to do anything with the ball unlike a passer like Green/Iggy, which makes it a lot easier to play help defense and recover back to the shooters. As long as AD is roaming around the paint, they aren't attacking the rim, and you could see that as the series went on. Unless they were positive AD wasn't getting to them, they were dribbling back out and looking for something else b/c no one was going to challenge AD after game 2, and the times they did, AD usually won. The Warriors knew it was pointless to challenge AD, so they patiently waited until they got a better shot, even if that meant dribbling back out of the paint after getting by their man.