lipoli390 wrote:Cam - If we had drafted him we would have traded him by now. Drafting him would have been the right decision based on the principle of drafting the best talent. But trust me, Cousins is widely regarded around the League as a bad seed and very bad teammate. The Kings have been trying to trade him for the last couple years but haven't found takers willing to give a lot of value in return. Sooner or later a team will give up quite a bit to get him and he'll be traded. But it won't be the Wolves. It will be a team with someone like David Kahn at the helm. And no matter where he goes, Cousins will be a problem -- unless he were to somehow end up with the Spurs surrounded by Tim Duncan, Tony Parker and Greg Popovich.
We can't make statements like that. Players develop, act, respond, etc differently depending on who is around them. It's easy to miss handle talent. I'm not putting it all on coaches b/c Cousins is his own man, but they can certainly make a difference. Coaches can literally make or break a guys career in pro sports.
"I ain't pumped up. I've just got a lot on my mind," he told reporters. "The crazy thing about it is, I've just got a question for y'all: How you gonna stop God's plan? How you gonna do that? How you gonna do that? That's all I want to know. How you gonna stop God's plan?
"Man, this city done put me through so much, and I stayed loyal to it the whole time. Hey, I just wanna know, how you gonna stop God's plan? God gives his hardest battles to his strongest soldiers. The marathon continues. I'm out."
This guy is a total head case, glad we didn't draft him.
lipoli390 wrote:Cam - If we had drafted him we would have traded him by now. Drafting him would have been the right decision based on the principle of drafting the best talent. But trust me, Cousins is widely regarded around the League as a bad seed and very bad teammate. The Kings have been trying to trade him for the last couple years but haven't found takers willing to give a lot of value in return. Sooner or later a team will give up quite a bit to get him and he'll be traded. But it won't be the Wolves. It will be a team with someone like David Kahn at the helm. And no matter where he goes, Cousins will be a problem -- unless he were to somehow end up with the Spurs surrounded by Tim Duncan, Tony Parker and Greg Popovich.
I think he has to land someone where like Cleveland where he is not the best player. If Love was signed past this year I wonder if the Kings would do Love for Cousins?
