[Game] Game 11: Sacramento Kings vs. New Orleans Pelicans. 11/18/14 7 PM PST, 10 PM EST

Anthony Davis...


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The argument against him seems to be, if I may paraphrase here, "he dunks too much."

Also, the media likes him too much.
I think anyone who's in love with AD, has to love Blake Griffin too. I think Blake Griffin is better than AD, but a lot of people overall will not admit Griffin's talents.
 
Collison had a +7 in a 6 point loss. McCallum -16 and Stauskas -15.
And Collison only plays 30 mins? Less than 4 in the 4th quarter? What the hell was Malone doing

In Malone's interview, he said that that Collison wasn't playing that well in the 3rd. I think he jumped to a conclusion way too soon and it may have cost us. Collison is one of our players who we should just stick with, even if he seems to be a bit off. He helps the team more with his court generalship, then even his individual game would sometime indicate
 
Collison had a +7 in a 6 point loss. McCallum -16 and Stauskas -15.
And Collison only plays 30 mins? Less than 4 in the 4th quarter? What the hell was Malone doing

Hell, Collison and Ben had the only +s for the Kings and the two bench guards had the biggest minuses.


Umm, yeah
 
In Malone's interview, he said that that Collison wasn't playing that well in the 3rd. I think he jumped to a conclusion way too soon and it may have cost us. Collison is one of our players who we should just stick with, even if he seems to be a bit off. He helps the team more with his court generalship, then even his individual game would sometime indicate

Yea you don't bench a guy down the stretch because the team played a bad quarter after he just had a 8 assist first half.

JT got iced by the coach as well
 
It's been Davis vs. Cousins in terms of the future best big man in the NBA. The only one who keeps Cousins relevant is Shaq. No one acknowledges Cousins at all. I'm watching ESPN right now, and they had a segment on Anthony Davis.. The question for them was, "Would you rather watch Kobe, or Anthony Davis?" Cousins get 0 love from the media..

Why can't we be like the media and not care about Anthony Davis? That's what they do to Cousins.
That's not quite true. Things are changing. From the article brick posted. It feels lot like praise.

"Quite simply, Cousins is one of the league’s most unique and ascendant forces. He’s a top-five guy in points, rebounds, and free throw attempts per 36 minutes. And yet, he still hasn’t earned a true superstar reputation. Perhaps it’s because he plays for a team that’s been absent from the playoffs since 2006. But there’s hope for Sacramento: If anyone in the league is going to suddenly turn a miss into a make, it’s Boogie."

I don't recall as a kid feeling like if I liked Magic Johnson I had to therefore hate Larry Bird. Times have changed I guess.
 
Tyreke definitely changed his pivot foot on that dagger shot over Cousins that gave them a 5pt lead. so that's cool

And Tyreke misses that shot 8 or 9 times out of 10. But since he was playing us, his horrible 1st half had to turn into an excellent 2nd half due to karma.

If Tyreke was a consistent clutch performer or even a consistent player in general, he'd still be wearing a Kings uni. Solid player on the right team, but in no way worth the $$ he got.

On a side note, it seems Ryan Anderson will forever torture his hometown team. Why we continue to leave that cat wide open every time we face him is beyond me. As much as the Kings need a player like him, seeing him do what he did tonight is like salt in an open wound.
 
In Malone's interview, he said that that Collison wasn't playing that well in the 3rd. I think he jumped to a conclusion way too soon and it may have cost us. Collison is one of our players who we should just stick with, even if he seems to be a bit off. He helps the team more with his court generalship, then even his individual game would sometime indicate

Yea you don't bench a guy down the stretch because the team played a bad quarter after he just had a 8 assist first half.

Not sur
Hell, Collison and Ben had the only +s for the Kings and the two bench guards had the biggest minuses.


Umm, yeah
Yet Ben sat out until like 5+ mins left and DC sat out till 3+ mins left. Perfect execution
 
Yea you don't bench a guy down the stretch because the team played a bad quarter after he just had a 8 assist first half.

JT got iced by the coach as well
Yeah rotations 2night were awful, he kept Cuz out of the game way to long as well in the 4th and he should have at least tried using Sessions.
 
The argument against him seems to be, if I may paraphrase here, "he dunks too much."

Also, the media likes him too much.

The argument is that he can't carry your offense. (Like Dwight can't.) He's not Lebron/Durant level and it's too early to start saying that just because of advanced stats stuff. He's like somebody bred Gerald Wallace with Dhalism from Street Fighter. It's amazing, but his defensive awareness/IQ needs to improve and he needs a go to shot on offense.
 
It's been Davis vs. Cousins in terms of the future best big man in the NBA. The only one who keeps Cousins relevant is Shaq. No one acknowledges Cousins at all. I'm watching ESPN right now, and they had a segment on Anthony Davis.. The question for them was, "Would you rather watch Kobe, or Anthony Davis?" Cousins get 0 love from the media..

Why can't we be like the media and not care about Anthony Davis? That's what they do to Cousins.
I take it you've never heard of Bill Simmons?
 
That's not quite true. Things are changing. From the article brick posted. It feels lot like praise.

"Quite simply, Cousins is one of the league’s most unique and ascendant forces. He’s a top-five guy in points, rebounds, and free throw attempts per 36 minutes. And yet, he still hasn’t earned a true superstar reputation. Perhaps it’s because he plays for a team that’s been absent from the playoffs since 2006. But there’s hope for Sacramento: If anyone in the league is going to suddenly turn a miss into a make, it’s Boogie."

I don't recall as a kid feeling like if I liked Magic Johnson I had to therefore hate Larry Bird. Times have changed I guess.
I don't think the media fully respects Cousins yet. They've acknowledge him a few times, but it was because they saw a "mature change" in Cousins. Not a single write up about his game. ESPN will post AD's block on their front page, but wouldn't even mention Cousin's big block in today's game.
 
Cousins' interviews are getting better and better, especially after tough losses. Really giving insight to his much improved mental game and maturity. Really like what we're seeing and hearing from him. This organization and team has had a tremendous impact on him
 
I don't think the media fully respects Cousins yet. They've acknowledge him a few times, but it was because they saw a "mature change" in Cousins. Not a single write up about his game. ESPN will post AD's block on their front page, but wouldn't even mention Cousin's big block in today's game.
Nor should they we lost, who cares anyway who get's more hype and who does what, it's about getting a W and we didn't do that 2night and until we do that on a regular basis no one is going to pay attention to the team.

People are impressed by different things, if someone is impressed by a guy scoring 20 points on spoon feeds more power to them.
 
It's been Davis vs. Cousins in terms of the future best big man in the NBA. The only one who keeps Cousins relevant is Shaq. No one acknowledges Cousins at all. I'm watching ESPN right now, and they had a segment on Anthony Davis.. The question for them was, "Would you rather watch Kobe, or Anthony Davis?" Cousins get 0 love from the media..

Why can't we be like the media and not care about Anthony Davis? That's what they do to Cousins.
http://espn.go.com/espnradio/podcast/archive?id=9545077

http://grantland.com/

Cousins seems to be getting plenty of love to me: maybe you're just paying attention to the wrong media?
 
Nor should they we lost, who cares anyway who get's more hype and who does what, it's about getting a W and we didn't do that 2night and until we do that on a regular basis no one is going to pay attention to the team.
But the Q was why can't Kings fans acknowledge AD's greatness. To directly answer that, why should they? The media doesn't acknowledge Cousin's greatness like they do AD.. So why should I?
 
Malone said he went with Ray over Collison because he didn't think Collison was playing well and he wanted someone to run the team. Not sure what game he was watching.
Ray's job tonight was to give the ball to Omri or Gay.... wtf? Collison could've done that. The last person who he should've been playing based on performance was Nik. That's a bad response from coach.
 
JT played an awesome first half and then barely plays in the 2nd half. Meanwhile Landry is out there giving open looks to any and everybody
Monty Williams actually did a pretty good job keeping Thompson out of the game in the second half: neither he nor Cousins can defend Ryan Anderson, so he put a lineup out there that forced us to go small.
 
No one's hating on him. Just sayin' the dude is painfully overrated. He's a great talent, but he has a REALLY talented team that helps him get easy buckets. If you switched Cuz and AD, do you think AD still scores 25? And like Cuz showed tonight, any kind of muscle against him in the post = bad for AD.

If it comes to a choice between Boogie and AD, I take Boogie because he can create for himself. As to AD, he's 21 years old and who knows what he will be like in 5 years? I don't think I have said or written anything that would indicate that I am over rating him. Certainly he's a very good basketball player and when he learns more moves as a center, could be quite a bit better. A few years ago he was a guard and then grew 8 inches. Maybe he is still learning how to be a center. If saying that all he does is finish what guards have set up for him is something that requires minimal skill, I wonder why there aren't more players who score as much as he does.
 
In Malone's interview, he said that that Collison wasn't playing that well in the 3rd. I think he jumped to a conclusion way too soon and it may have cost us. Collison is one of our players who we should just stick with, even if he seems to be a bit off. He helps the team more with his court generalship, then even his individual game would sometime indicate

That's crap. My next question for coach would've been, "what did Nik and Ray do then in the 4th that merited giving them the minutes as opposed to Darren?"

They certainly weren't playing "well." :rolleyes:
 
I take it you've never heard of Bill Simmons?

Bill thought Cousins would bomb the FIBA tournament and the USA team was hopeless without Davis. He said repeatedly that if Davis gets in foul trouble or hurt and all they had was Cousins or Drummond then USA was screwed.

He then yells BOOOGIE and smiles.
 
Ray's job tonight was to give the ball to Omri or Gay.... wtf? Collison could've done that. The last person who he should've been playing based on performance was Nik. That's a bad response from coach.

the interviewers were very hesistant to point it out and even asked him in a round about sort of way, he got off easy during the interview i would say.

If this were New York or LA he would have been grilled over and over.

Oh well everyones inclined to mistakes and hes earned an experiment or two but lets see if he learned from them on thursday.
 
Monty Williams actually did a pretty good job keeping Thompson out of the game in the second half: neither he nor Cousins can defend Ryan Anderson, so he put a lineup out there that forced us to go small.

I'd buy that if we didn't decide Landry was the defensive solution to that lineup
 
That's crap. My next question for coach would've been, "what did Nik and Ray do then in the 4th that merited giving them the minutes as opposed to Darren?"

They certainly weren't playing "well." :rolleyes:

One of the areas of improvement early in this season, is that we need to play our best players more. It appears that we're a bit "gun shy" of possibly wearing them out with a lot of playing time. I think Collison especially, can handle a lot of playing time with no problem whatsoever
 
If it comes to a choice between Boogie and AD, I take Boogie because he can create for himself. As to AD, he's 21 years old and who knows what he will be like in 5 years? I don't think I have said or written anything that would indicate that I am over rating him. Certainly he's a very good basketball player and when he learns more moves as a center, could be quite a bit better. A few years ago he was a guard and then grew 8 inches. Maybe he is still learning how to be a center. If saying that all he does is finish what guards have set up for him is something that requires minimal skill, I wonder why there aren't more players who score as much as he does.
I look at it like this: I would take DeMarcus Cousins over Anthony Davis, but I would also take Anthony Davis over any big in the NBA not named DeMarcus Cousins. For that matter, I would take Anthony Davis over any player, at any position under 26 years old in the NBA not named DeMarcus Cousins.
 
But the Q was why can't Kings fans acknowledge AD's greatness. To directly answer that, why should they? The media doesn't acknowledge Cousin's greatness like they do AD.. So why should I?

The Media doesn't acknowledge Cousins so I won't acknowledge Davis.

That's really your argument?
 
I'd buy that if we didn't decide Landry was the defensive solution to that lineup
Might as well buy it, anyway: what Williams does with his lineup has no bearing on what Malone does to counter it. He knew that Thompson couldn't guard him, and he knew that he couldn't take Cousins off the floor. He thought that Landry might stand a chance. He was wrong, of course.

I probably would have given Hollins a chance. Hell, at least Evans would have given him a prostate exam, for his trouble.
 
The Media doesn't acknowledge Cousins so I won't acknowledge Davis.

That's really your argument?
My argument has been that Anthony Davis cannot create his own offense. That has been ignored, and someone asked why can't Kings fans acknowledge AD's greatness, like Cousins? Why not ask the media why they don't talk about Cousins as much as they do AD?
 
I look at it like this: I would take DeMarcus Cousins over Anthony Davis, but I would also take Anthony Davis over any big in the NBA not named DeMarcus Cousins. For that matter, I would take Anthony Davis over any player, at any position under 26 years old in the NBA not named DeMarcus Cousins.

I second this
 
But the Q was why can't Kings fans acknowledge AD's greatness. To directly answer that, why should they? The media doesn't acknowledge Cousin's greatness like they do AD.. So why should I?
The Media doesn't acknowledge Cousins so I won't acknowledge Davis.

That's really your argument?

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But the Q was why can't Kings fans acknowledge AD's greatness. To directly answer that, why should they? The media doesn't acknowledge Cousin's greatness like they do AD.. So why should I?

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The media has been all over Boogie this year. To AD's level? No, but part of AD's appeal is that he's two years and some change younger than Boogie