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Message: [QUOTE="Ghost, post: 1304557, member: 581"] Eh, Cooney is what he is... 1. Teams gameplan for Cooney by guarding him tight. It's not much of plan - it's pretty much don't let the white kid on Syracuse get a shot off with his feet set. If he takes a tough look, he won't make a high percentage. Boom. I'm sure it's HEAVILY emphasized though leading up to our games. 2. Not having anyone capable of penetrating hurts him. It hurts everyone to be honest. If he played with a more dynamic point guard, a Flynn type, it would cause a bit more chaos and help out Cooney a bit. Ennis was good - but didn't exactly wreak havoc on the defense - he was just insanely under control. 3. Cooney is the worst post-passer in the history of the program. He could have helped himself in life by learning how to throw the ball into the post. We could give Joseph a bat and he could knock out everyone on the court except the guy guarding Cooney and there is a 75% chance he still reverses the ball instead of going inside. Rak is picking up double teams like it's his job. He's also a capable passer out of the post. Even that second where his defender has to turn and make a decision on a double might be enough for Cooney to make a break and get a tiny bit of separation. Alas, Cooney can't pass for diddly-squat - especially into the post. 4. Cooney can't shoot very well if he's not set. Obviously. 5. A lot of Cooney fans love to laud him for the UNC game, but that's one of those where he think his weakness shines through. Kids loves to hunt shots. Games like that are where you start to see why he can be a problem in my mind, and should sit at times. Somebody said before that G could use some more Cooney in him, and Cooney could use some more G. It's quite true. That game sort of highlights why... G had two shots against Duke from three that he should have taken, but hesitated in the second half. Cooney takes those, and probably makes those. G probably makes those as well. Yet, he hesitates. G goes off for 19 in the first half, the defense adjusts their game, and so does he. Cooney has no such restraint. G helped give us a lead, and he's patient going forward - probes the defense, adjusts...Just because you got us the lead doesn't mean it's your lead to blow. That being said, Cooney hits a couple shots against UNC, and says, "Trevor, you my man, are on fire......game on, b*tches!!!!" And then it's a **** show. That's sort of how he plays. In the second half against UNC, Christmas is 5/6 from the field and getting to the line as well. He also assisted on one of Cooney's makes. His only miss was his first shot of the half (he did miss a three at the end of the game that I'm not counting). Cooney is 4/14 and one of his makes came during Rakeem Christmas 3 point shooting party-time. One of Trevor's shots in the second half came with 1 second on the shot clock. Almost all of the rest were within the first 15 seconds of the shot clock. He hunts shots - and a lot of those were iffy shots (at least as I recall). People are okay with them because "who else is going to score," but that seems like a lot of nonsense. I didn't even think that game was a particularly horrible example of him taking a ton of bad shots overall, but I do think it gets referenced a bit as a great Trevor game. If anything, his second half all but took us out of the game. [/QUOTE]

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