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- Cousins helping U.S. defend post game (from Marc Stein, ESPN):

" If Ayon can hurt the American bigs in single coverage, you can be sure Pau and Marc Gasol possess the same capability in everyone's hypothetical USA-Spain final Sept. 14. And that's why Cousins is gradually starting to get more playing time.

Cousins' interest in defense has always been qu…