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[QUOTE="Ghost, post: 1221173, member: 581"]
I think some are exaggerating how easy it is to "freeze" a player out of a game at this point.  If it was that easy you would have a whole lot of good shooting two guards that seemingly went for anywhere from 18 to 2 points on any given night.

Cooney's shooting ability helps open things up a bit, but seemingly, at this point, Cooney needs a perfect storm from everyone else on the team just to be a capable shooting guard.  You'd hope your 4th year Junior (second year starting) two guard could alleviate some of the pressure on your Frosh point guard, not the other way around.  TC and Joseph are what we have though at this point.

Honestly, it's not like they're scheming to stop Cooney, they're telling their players, "hey, mark that kid tight - he's their only shooter."  And voila, you've just figured out the magic trick to shutting down TC.  Guard him tight.  It's not like coaches are having sleepless nights pondering how you stop our wunderkind.

Is he as bad as some are saying?  Certainly not.  Ultimately, on this team, his shooting is incredibly important, so either the coaches need to figure out a way to get this kid open more often (even when he's been open going back to the exhibitions he's not hitting a good percentage of threes), or he needs to exploit the overplay when he does get touches.   Which, thus far, he seems mostly unable to do.

I think everyone knows what he offers though, you just have to hope he can continue to progress off the bounce - he's never going to be much of a creator on offense though.  If he can get to the rim, or hit some mid-range jumpers, it will hopefully open up his game a bit.  I don't know...PG-SG-SF...we don't have a good mix going right now.  None of them compliment the others very well.  Oh well.
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