SG Daequan Cook (Ironi Hai Motors Nes-Ziona - Israel)

[ScriptOhio]

DDN

Long season, but no regrets for Dunbar grad Cook

No I wouldn't have any regrets either:

Salary2008: $1,184,400

per ESPN - Daequan Cook Stats, News, Photos - Miami Heat

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Check out his game history. He's been very inconsistant, however, he does have several very good games. He's only 20 (will be 21 in three weeks) and has a tremendous potential to be a real star in the NBA.

ESPN - Daequan Cook Game Log - Miami Heat

 

[Buckskin86]

Heat's Cook goes back to school
Rookie Daequan Cook will take classes at Ohio State this summer, but the Heat hopes he will learn on the court, too.
Posted on Sun, Apr. 13, 2008
BY SARAH ROTHSCHILD
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JOHN VANBEEKUM / MIAMI HERALD STAFF

Heat rookie Daequan Cook is going back to Ohio State for summer classes with some former Buckeyes teammates, fellow 2007 first-round draft picks Greg Oden and Mike Conley Jr.

Cook, who left Ohio State following his freshman year, wants to continue working on his business management major. But as far as the Heat is concerned, Cook's most important education will come on the court.

''Me and Coach [Pat Riley] had a talk a couple months ago before I went to the D-League about how the next six months are going to be the most important time of my career,'' Cook said.

Cook has been erratic. He can be a productive sharpshooting perimeter guard at times, but when his shot is not falling from long-range he has been a nonfactor. In 56 games, he has averaged 8.3 points and 1.2 assists, while shooting 37.3 percent from the field.

''His game is immature,'' Riley said. ``His game is talent. He's got talent, that's a given. He's got athleticism, he's got a shot, he's gotten better, but there's a real immaturity to his approach and his focus.

``I think young players they just don't understand how the great ones can just lock into a game, lock into what their role is, lock in and not get distracted during a free throw or whatever it is. Right now, he's too inconsistent but he's not far away from [getting] it either.''

Cook's close friend, Conley, the guard drafted fourth overall by Memphis, said they have leaned on each other during their humbling rookie campaigns.

Cook, Conley and Oden will reunite in June, when summer classes start. They also might live together.

''It'll be what we want because we're still college students at heart,'' Conley said. ``We'll be around a lot of people our age.

``It will be kind of something to get away from the NBA life and go back down to earth a little bit.''

Cook, who turns 21 on April 28, added: ``We miss it.''

Heat's Cook goes back to school - 04/13/2008 - MiamiHerald.com

 

[Buckskin86]

Rookie guard Daequan Cook led the Heat against the Raptors with 22 points, one off his career high, with six rebounds and three assists.

"He was sharp, focused," Riley said.

At a loss, Heat's '07-'08 matches '88-'89 -- South Florida Sun-Sentinel.com

 

[Steve19]

One of them affected the APR, IIRC. So, if they come back and take classes, would that have a positive impact.

Whatever, I am very pleased to learn all three will come back for summer classes and that they will be around to interact and mentor our incoming and current basketball team members. It says a lot about Ohio State and the values these three kids have.

I've forgotten who it was but years ago there was a guy from New York who flew in on one weekend a month and paid professors to deliver classes just for him over at that hotel that used to be on High Street across from north campus. He was a multimillionaire and wanted to finish his degree. Good to have these three millionaires return!:osu:

 

[jimotis4heisman]

One of them affected the APR, IIRC. So, if they come back and take classes, would that have a positive impact.
oden, no. cook and conley finished the year out.

Whatever, I am very pleased to learn all three will come back for summer classes and that they will be around to interact and mentor our incoming and current basketball team members. It says a lot about Ohio State and the values these three kids have.

I've forgotten who it was but years ago there was a guy from New York who flew in on one weekend a month and paid professors to deliver classes just for him over at that hotel that used to be on High Street across from north campus. He was a multimillionaire and wanted to finish his degree. Good to have these three millionaires return!:osu:
newyorkbuck?

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[OSUBasketballJunkie]

Dispatch

NBA: Heat's lost season opens door
Cook, Quinn take advantage of opportunity to show off their talents
Wednesday, April 16, 2008 3:34 AM
By Rob Oller


THE COLUMBUS DISPATCH

MICHAEL DWYER Associated Press
Chris Quinn has made 63 of 155 shots (.406) from three-point range.

Daequan Cook

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They are like two shipwrecked castaways who found water on an otherwise dry and desolate island.
The Miami Heat's boat sank long ago. The team's 14-67 record is worst in the league. But while the franchise has settled onto the ocean floor of the NBA, Daequan Cook and Chris Quinn have managed to more than just survive the disastrous season. The two players with ties to Columbus -- Quinn is a product of Dublin Coffman and owns a home in Powell; Cook played for Ohio State's 2006-07 Final Four team as a freshman -- have risen from the muck by gaining valuable playing time. They are turning heads even as the league shakes its head at the futility of their team.

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[Buckskin86]

Happy camper: Cook knows event's value
By Ira Winderman | South Florida Sun-Sentinel
May 27, 2008

Daequan Cook laughs about the Orlando draft camp somehow being perceived as a marginalized event.

If not for the combine, and not for the fact that it includes three days of scrimmages, we well could still be talking about Ohio State guard Daequan Cook instead of Heat guard Daequan Cook.

The annual event, which gets under way tonight at Disney's Wide World of Sports complex with a round of drills, was significant for Cook, and could be just as significant for this week's participants.

"That last day last year really changed everything for me," Cook said. "That put me over the top. When I went to work out for teams, they said that's what did it for me."

Until the third round of scrimmages, Cook was just another face among the 62 draft hopefuls, with a pair of uninspired 14-point outings.

Then, on a Friday, the getaway day for league executives and scouts eager to catch flights, Cook took flight with 22 points. Less than a month later, he would be drafted at No. 21, immediately dealt from the 76ers for Heat No. 20 pick Jason Smith.

"I had no idea the Heat had their eyes on me," he said. "But I remember how nervous I was."

Cook, who left Ohio State as a freshman, said he never second-guessed his decision to compete in last year's Orlando scrimmages.

"It was important to me," he said. "That's what I really was basing my decision off of, if I was capable of playing on the next level.

"There were a lot of players that were jealous of the guys who didn't work out, thinking they should be working as hard as we were. Regardless, I got to give that first impression. That was important to me."

Happy camper: Cook knows event's value -- -- South Florida Sun-Sentinel.com

 

[Buckskin86]

Four 2007 Draftees on Notice
By: Jason Fleming Last Updated: 6/7/08

It's extremely difficult to effectively decide whether or not to pick up an option on a player who has played only one season in the NBA, but that's exactly what teams need to decide this summer on all first round picks from the 2007 Draft.

Daequan Cook, Miami HEAT ? Cook got playing time for the putrid HEAT, playing 24.4 minutes in 59 games, but that's really not much more than playing NBDL ball. Cook's shooting percentage was bad (38%) and his rebounding (3.0) and assist (1.3) numbers were way too low for the amount of minutes he played. Still, that was a bad, bad season and every player on this roster will be given a new chance this fall under new coach Erik Spoelstra. Cook's problem is he plays the same position as Shawn Marion, who will likely be back. If his numbers weren't that good when Marion wasn't there, what is he going to do to earn minutes when Marion takes 40 a game at the small forward spot? He will need to step up his game immensely to prove he deserves time.

HOOPSWORLD | NBA News, Rumors and Information

 

[Buckskin86]

Cook unlikely to help Heat find right path
By Greg Stoda
Palm Beach Post Staff Writer
Monday, June 23, 2008

Miami ? It seems a stretch, and the Heat needs to make it work.

Right away, that is.

Because otherwise what Miami did Thursday night in the NBA /*Draft*/ will be even more bizarre than it looks in harshest first light of speculation.

The Heat took Jason Smith, a 7-foot power forward/center out of Colorado State with the 20th pick moments before a trade report surfaced stating the Heat would trade him to Philadelphia for Daequan /*Cook*/.

/*Cook*/, by the way, was the 21st pick, which means the Heat must really, really have wanted whatever money comes with the deal.

Oh, and /*Cook*/ is a 6-5 shooting guard, which happens to be Dwyane Wade's position. So, the Heat, with an assortment of potential holes to fill, apparently chose someone to do reserve work behind a superstar.

Huh?

Not that anyone should expect /*Cook*/ - or any deep first-rounder, for that matter - to be special straight out of the gate.

But would having /*Cook*/ become a rotation player immediately be too much to ask?

Someone who can contribute important minutes as a rookie?

Wade soon enough is going to need a partner of high caliber who isn't named Shaquille O'Neal if Miami is to recover its good name.

That guy almost certainly isn't going to be /*Cook*/, but the Heat needs to be attractive beyond Wade when it finally clears considerable spending room under the salary cap in the next few years.

It's simple: /*Cook*/ can't turn out to be a Dorell Wright (the 19th pick in 2004) or a Wayne Simien (the 29th pick in 2005), who happen to be the Heat's all-but-forgotten picks out of the two first-round opportunities since Wade arrived.

Miami can't afford to wait on /*Cook*/ or anybody else, because current circumstance - the potential loss of several core players - dictates otherwise. The Heat isn't an aging champion anymore; it's just aging.

Cook unlikely to help Heat find right path

 

[osugrad21]

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Beasley to headline Heat team in Summer League

By CHRIS PERKINS
Palm Beach Post Staff Writer
Tuesday, July 01, 2008
MIAMI ? Forward Michael Beasley and guards Daequan Cook and Mario Chalmers will headline the Heat's Summer League team, which will plays five games in five days beginning Monday in Orlando.
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[Buckskin86]

Heat's Michael Beasley has cracked sternum; Daequan Cook out with separated shoulder
By Ira Winderman | South Florida Sun-Sentinel
July 4, 2008

The Miami Heat's summer camp is exacting a far greater toll than could have been anticipated from such offseason workouts.

The team not only confirmed today that Michael Beasley, the No. 2 overall pick in last week's NBA Draft, has a "slight crack" of his sternum, but also revealed that 2007 Heat first-round pick Daequan Cook will be sidelined for two to four weeks with a slight separation of his left shoulder.

While Cook will now miss next week's summer league in Orlando, the Heat is hopeful that Beasley nonetheless can compete in the week of games at the Orlando Magic's practice facility.

Cook was injured during the second of two practices Thursday at AmericanAirlines Arena.

For Cook, who struggled at times last season and even was briefly demoted to the NBA Development League, the offseason inactivity could impact his chances for a spot in next season's rotation.

He had been expected to start during the games in Orlando. The 6-foot-5 shooting guard averaged on 8.8 point on .381 shooting last season after being taken with the No. 21 overall pick in the 2007 draft out of Ohio State.

Heat's Michael Beasley has cracked sternum; Daequan Cook out with separated shoulder -- South Florida Sun-Sentinel.com

 

[osugrad21]

DDN

Dunbar's Cook has separated shoulder


Associated Press

Saturday, July 05, 2008

MIAMI ? Michael Beasley slightly cracked his sternum in a collision with a teammate earlier this week, yet still could be with the Miami Heat when the team opens summer league play Monday.
Daequan Cook won't be so lucky.
The Heat announced Friday, July 4, that the former Dunbar High School and Ohio State star has separated his left, nonshooting shoulder, meaning he won't be available for the five-games-in-five-days summer league schedule starting Monday in Orlando, Fla. Cook ? who suffered the injury Thursday night ? will be sidelined 2-4 weeks, a significant blow because the Heat hoped the second-year guard could use a strong summer showing as a springboard into the 2008-09 season.
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[osugrad21]

Miami Herald

Shooting guard Cook is latest hit by injury bug

Daequan Cook could miss up to four weeks because of a separated shoulder, meaning the Heat's past two first-round draft picks are injured.

Posted on Sat, Jul. 05, 2008


BY MICHAEL WALLACE

[email protected]


GASTON DE CARDENAS / EL NUEVO HERALD

Injuries are disrupting the Miami Heat again.
Derailed by a rash of injuries last season, the Heat begins its summer preparation with its past two first-round draft picks banged-up.
Shooting guard Daequan Cook will miss this week's summer league in Orlando, and he could miss up to four weeks because of a slightly separated left shoulder, the team said Friday.
Cook, the 21st overall pick in 2007, was injured during practice Thursday at AmericanAirlines Arena. The Heat also could be without rookie forward Michael Beasley, the second overall pick in last month's draft, for at least the start of the summer league.
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[OSUBasketballJunkie]

uh-oh......

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The Heat stretched the $5.6 million midlevel exception to accomplish that. In addition to Diawara, it used midlevel money to sign sharp-shooting forward James Jones and rookie point guard Mario Chalmers.
But there seem to be as many questions about the Heat's recent free agent additions as there are answers.
Jones was signed to fill the long-range shooting role for which Daequan Cook, a first-round pick last season, was being groomed. Diawara is an athletic defender in a similar mold as restricted free agent Dorell Wright.

 

[OSUBasketballJunkie]

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Guard Daequan Cook, recovering from summertime shoulder surgery, said he's 100 percent healthy. Cook missed participating in Summer League, which was a bit of a setback.
"It was very frustrating because I had worked very hard and was looking forward to playing with Michael (Beasley) and Mario (Chalmers)," he said.

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Daequan Cook essentially has been put on notice with the invitation of former Gator Matt Walsh to camp.