DMC issued statement

parenting??? I'm 20 years old and my grandmother has cancer... no kids. I swear to god people on here are just... I don't even know. If you have any criticism for a select few players people come out to rip you in full force. I'm dealing with a lot more **** than most of you right now and I have been just as much of a fan of this team as anyone else on here, posting for the last 5 years when this team doesn't go to the playoffs and even when we didn't even have any young players. I can handle losing, this team does a lot of it. But if the article is true and Cousins does this type of stuff on the regular(especially things like getting in a fist fight with Donte last year) and he's bullying people in the org, and it doesn't clear up, I would probably not be nearly as much of a fan of this team as I am now. I love the sport of basketball but at the end of the day it's about guys bouncing a ball up and down a court and trying to shoot it into a basket, it's not friggin life or death and just because DMC is physically talented at it doesn't give him an excuse to treat people badly. If he thinks it does then that gives me a reason not to be a fan of his.

btw I'm in no way a fan of PW, IMO he should probably be fired. I don't know who to believe in the Cousins/PW spat. But if the article is true I lost a hell of a lot of respect for Cousins and am very dissapointed in him. The Kings were here before him and they'll be here after him, well maybe not in Sacramento but they will exist as an organization. If PW did single out Cousins to the media before the game and wouldn't explain why after that and Cousins really did just say "well if you think I'm so bad then trade me" I don't really blame him. But if he is getting away with bullying people and making everyone else miserable, then I don't really care if he stays. If you all want you can have a different opinion but that is my opinion.
Me thinks a lot of guys are just misinterpreting your opinion. Perhaps it would help to just try and make it as clear as possible so we don't get into unnecessary arguments (with non-trolls)
 

Kingster

Hall of Famer
Which is completely shortsighted insanity.

You are literally talking about intentionally making that mistake that everyvody still talks about wistfully 20 years later in a "what if" fashion. As in "what if we hadn't been short sighted idiots".

"Just last week, Cousins had another verbal altercation with Westphal after Westphal called him for a technical in practice, several sources said."



Doesn't that speak volumes - Cousins blow up at Westphal because he calls him for a technical in practice?

Maybe we were short sighted when we drafted him. That is a possibility, isn't it?
 
All reports leading up to yesterday suggested there were no problems with Cousins and Westy, and that Cousins had matured somewhat. Yet Westy says it's the tip of the iceberg, and has yet to offer a single example. If things were so bad between them before this, and this was just a final straw, then why did all reports suggest otherwise?

Even Westy's reason for sending Cousins home is deeply in question. Very telling that our beat writer, another Bee journalist, and bloggers near this team everyday when in Sac, all highly question the validity of Westy's statements.
the coach does not have to give examples. Cousins has a history dating back to college of not having respect for athourity. He needs to grow up and stop being a spoiled little rich kid.
 

Spike

Subsidiary Intermediary
Staff member
the coach does not have to give examples. Cousins has a history dating back to college of not having respect for athourity. He needs to grow up and stop being a spoiled little rich kid.
The coach also has a history of not being able to communicate with his players. It's a two way street.
 
At BMiller52, how can you possibly know that you're dealing with a lot more s*** than most on here? You have no idea what I or anyone else is going through in the real world. So I'd appreciate it of you stop trying to draw sympathy towards yourself and please stop bringing in your personal life issues as a form of judging DeMarcus.
 
The coach also has a history of not being able to communicate with his players. It's a two way street.
Oh hello, Gary Payton? What's that you say? Things went down between you and Westphal? He almost single handedly wrecked the Supersonics?

Anyways, sure, Cousins has immaturity. We know that. But you people that say he needs to stop being a "spoiled little rich kid"...guess what?

He is. He's 21. I'm sure alot of you were *******s to some degree when you were 21, and that was without millions of dollars. I know I was, and at the ripe old age of 22, I can say I'm a little more mature, at least I would hope, than I was at 20 or 21.

And Kingsfan, you're wrong. If a coach is going to publicly bring out that "it's only the tip of the iceberg", then he should provide examples. You can say he doesn't have to all you want, but the fact of the matter is if you're going to air out the dirty laundry, it sounds rather fishy if you're just going to say "**** happened" rather than actually go into detail.

And Cousin's college coach handled him just fine. So you tell me where the main problem lies.
 
parenting??? I'm 20 years old and my grandmother has cancer... no kids. I swear to god people on here are just... I don't even know. If you have any criticism for a select few players people come out to rip you in full force. I'm dealing with a lot more **** than most of you right now and I have been just as much of a fan of this team as anyone else on here, posting for the last 5 years when this team doesn't go to the playoffs and even when we didn't even have any young players. I can handle losing, this team does a lot of it. But if the article is true and Cousins does this type of stuff on the regular(especially things like getting in a fist fight with Donte last year) and he's bullying people in the org, and it doesn't clear up, I would probably not be nearly as much of a fan of this team as I am now. I love the sport of basketball but at the end of the day it's about guys bouncing a ball up and down a court and trying to shoot it into a basket, it's not friggin life or death and just because DMC is physically talented at it doesn't give him an excuse to treat people badly. If he thinks it does then that gives me a reason not to be a fan of his.

btw I'm in no way a fan of PW, IMO he should probably be fired. I don't know who to believe in the Cousins/PW spat. But if the article is true I lost a hell of a lot of respect for Cousins and am very dissapointed in him. The Kings were here before him and they'll be here after him, well maybe not in Sacramento but they will exist as an organization. If PW did single out Cousins to the media before the game and wouldn't explain why after that and Cousins really did just say "well if you think I'm so bad then trade me" I don't really blame him. But if he is getting away with bullying people and making everyone else miserable, then I don't really care if he stays. If you all want you can have a different opinion but that is my opinion.
Its all right BMiller, I got the gist of what you were saying. I still wouldn't trade DMC though:)
 
I don't really know Cousins and I am not going to call him a bully or petulant child based on darkened accusations. All I have is Westphal's word which has already proven shaky.

I can understand Cousins not meshing well with every type of person. I just don't want to jump out to big accusations like cancer or bully at this point.
 
At BMiller52, how can you possibly know that you're dealing with a lot more s*** than most on here? You have no idea what I or anyone else is going through in the real world. So I'd appreciate it of you stop trying to draw sympathy towards yourself and please stop bringing in your personal life issues as a form of judging DeMarcus.
has nothing too do with wanting sympathy, I don't care about your opinion at all. All I am saying is if this **** is true it gives me a reason to not be a fan of his, and if you have a problem with it too bad. DMC has a problem with his coach and maturity, there are people out there with real problems right now. He doesnt need some guy on the internet protecting him from a post he'll never read, and just because I have a different opinion than you doesn't make it the worst post in the world or anything like that.