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[QUOTE="Ghost, post: 1190687, member: 581"]
Nothing that hasn't been said before, but Cooney has a lot of things working against him in regard to how fans perceive him:

1)  I think a coach or two have said he's the best shooter they've had the pleasure of witnessing (one of?).  His Freshman year you chalk that up to a lack of playing time, or confidence.  However, I think when people are heaping that kind of praise upon a kid the expectation is going to be that he turns out to be more than a streaky shooter from deep.  Patterson is streaky.  The kid who was getting all this praise?  I think people will expect more.

Not saying that's fair in judging his play, but it certainly leads a bit to the disappointment when he's continuing to look like the same streaky TC we saw last year.  (Through two meaningless exhibition games)

2)  When Cooney isn't hitting shots - it's not readily apparent to fans what else he offers.  Do defenses overplay him that much?  They focus on him a lot, but his inability to take advantage of overplays doesn't help us much - opens up the offense a bit for everyone else, so we do have that.

When Dion wasn't hitting shots, he could explode to the rim.  MCW could get to the rim.  Triche was somewhat capable, although insanely reluctant, but even he showed more than Cooney.  Most guards offer up something else, not so much w/ TC.

So we have a fairly decent defensive 2G, that when he's not hitting shots, isn't doing much.  He doesn't feed the post very well - or at least doesn't do it very often, but he can reverse the ball like a machine.

I don't know - that stuff stands out when he's not hitting shots.
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