That's interesting and unfortunate, and might well be a reaction to Cousins emergence as much as anything -- as I understood it the flu kept down his minutes in recent games, but the writing may be on the wall there from the agents' perspective.
Frankly Dalembert has given us EXACTLY what was advertised, and exactly what we need. He is right at the top of the league in rebounding and shotblocking rates -- to put it in persepctive he is 7th in the NBA in rebounding rate, .1reb/per 48 behind Blake Griffin, and ahead of Chandler, Blair, Duncan etc. etc., and 4th in the leage in shotblocking rate, AHEAD of Dwight Howard, Marcus Camby, Hibbert, Duncan, and virtually everybody else -- and the shooting percentage is nearly irrelevant given that he takes all of 4 shots per game. I would not give him up right now, UNLESS this very thing happened. He's a major player in the league. Not a star, but a longtime starter/top reserve and one of the best at what he does, and there was always the question of how the minutes were going to play out here. If Cousins emerged, Daly was going to have to be able to play next to him to get his accustomed minutes, and whiel we have experimented with that, and pretty sucessfully, it hasn't become a major part of the game plan. I wonder if the situation will improve once the expected Landry trade is completed. If not and if this continues as an issue we might actually have to consider moving Dalembert or risk just losing him, which would suck. We need what he brings, and in terms of being an impact player, changing the flavor and flow of the game, he is probably the third best guy on the whole team at it. You can fill the minutes he gives with a DeAndre Jordan or somebody who can accept the fewer minutes and say well he's a shotblocker/rebounder too, but he's just a pale imitation, not a guy who can change the whole flavor of the game with it like Daly can.
And his agent wanting to call in to get a "clarification of his role" must have been an amusing conversation. So does everyone else dude.
