Being no social media guy I'm obviously a bit late to the party, but can one of you fellow king fanss explain to me, how the narrative of Cousins as a lockerroom cancer and coach killer still has merit, when there are interviews out there like this?
"We can never replace what Cuz did for this organisation"
"Even before Vlade said that (refering to Vlades comments about not trading DC).....weird pause....I'm a little shaken up right now, because of the situation wit Cuz and Casspi"
"The people is what makes it so hard to leave SAC. You talk about the franchise, but it's the people outside of the franchise...."
"You can't find 30 points anywhere else...his rebounding.....
, his competitiveness, his determination, his fire...."
"it was real sad and we were speechless on a lot of different things"
"for us it going to take a while to get over the feeling he is not here in the lockerroom anymore"
"Those guys mean so mucb to me, my family and this organisation"
"Dmc made me a better coach. I'll miss DMC and Matt". I love them."
""You don't have to be an butthead to have talent and just because you are a nice guy doesn't mean you can play. Talent wins...."
" we are going to fight like crazy. That's where a guy like Matt means a lot. He was the leader of our lockerroom"
"Obviously DMC was a vocal leader. he talked a lot and helped guys as much as he could."
I mean I'm German and I know from limited personal experience, that US americans are a little bit more closed, when it comes to genuine feelings and will often be extremely polite. On top of that English is not my native language so I'm not necessarily good to really understand what lies beneath some comments in terms of intonation for example. So does this mean, these guys just don't want to say anything bad about former colleagues? Because I'm confused - these are actual quotes, not stories based on anonymous sources or anything, but actual quotes and every one of those guys seemed genuine to me. DC looked extremely sad and hinted he doesn't put trust in Vlades words. Joerger couldn't express anymore openly as an employee, that he doesn't necessarily agree with his superior. Tolliver praised DMC for his deeds with the community and his leadership.
Really any time I stumble over actual quotes of players or coaches about DMC it's mostly positive. But nonetheless it seems to be common sense, that he is a bad teammate, lockerrom cancer and coach killer, because......sources.....
Would be really interesting to get a few opinions, how people from a similar cultural background like these guys think about the interviews? Are those guys simply polite and lie about DMC, because they think it would be detrimental to their careers if they step up and say, that they are happy he is gone? Do they look like teammates, who have just been relieved from a dark cloud and the biggest bully in the league?