Anybody asking any more of DeMarcus Cousins is frankly being ridiculous.
I don't care who you are. You're being ridiculous. Its not about who you are, its not about you being a friend, family member, media member, its about situational ignorance, because even people who should know better sometimes display it.
Numbers are your friends, not to teach you the game, but to keep you honest. To keep you from making spurious arguments.
Here's what the numbers say after tonight:
Cousins is now averaging 30.7ppg on .567TS% in 2016. Those are MVP level numbers in a normal year.
With tonight's game he completed the climb back over .450 shooting, and his TS% returned to within .001 of last's year's .545.
After tonight's game Cousins is now averaging 28.6 pts/per36 minutes. That's the most prolific scoring season out of any center in 40 years. Shaq never scored this prolifically per minute. Neither did Hakeem, Admiral, Ewing, Moses.
When you sit around questioning his conditioning, his committment, his competitiveness, his focus you are being ridiculous, and I'll explain why: because he is putting up all time numbers, some of the greatest numbers we've seen out of a big man, in his current state. When you sit around and complain he could be better! He needs to do more! And worse yet if he doesn't do more we should dump him! You are quite literally demanding he be the ****ing GOAT big man before you'll be satisfied. And that is asinine. You don't trade superstars. You don't trade superstar bigs in particular. And when you have the greatest big man of his generation you don't sit around kvetching about how disappointed you are.