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New Orleans Pelicans: First Term Report Cards

By Seth Nefsky

November 22, 2015: New Orleans Pelicans logo during the game between the Phoenix Suns and New Orleans Pelicans at the Smoothie King Center in New Orleans, LA. New Orleans Pelicans defeat Phoenix Suns 122-116. (Photograph by Stephen Lew/Icon Sportswire) (Photo by Stephen Lew/Icon Sportswire/Corbis via Getty Images)
November 22, 2015: New Orleans Pelicans logo during the game between the Phoenix Suns and New Orleans Pelicans at the Smoothie King Center in New Orleans, LA. New Orleans Pelicans defeat Phoenix Suns 122-116. (Photograph by Stephen Lew/Icon Sportswire) (Photo by Stephen Lew/Icon Sportswire/Corbis via Getty Images) /
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4. DeMarcus Cousins: B

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DALLAS, TX – NOVEMBER 3: DeMarcus Cousins (Photo by Glenn James/NBAE via Getty Images) /

Before you press post on that scathing comment you have boiling in the appropriate section below, remember when I said that this report card is based on relative performance?

Okay good, just making sure.

Since his red-hot start, which lasted until early-November, DeMarcus Cousins has seen an expected regression to the mean. In his last 15 games, Boogie has averaged a great, but frankly underachieving, 23.1/11.9/4.7, and his percentages have dipped as well.

It’s not that Cousins has been playing bad, but instead playing like DeMarcus Cousins, and so that is why his grade is not in the A’s. I will bump him up from a B- to a B because DeMarcus Cousins has put up the lowest foul rate of his career, averaging 4.7 per 100 possessions.

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