Game 32: Sacramento Kings @ Boston Celtics - 12/31/14 - 10 am pst 1 pm est
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What you saw today was bad. But the problem is that as a Celtics fan you've probably only seen DeMarcus play one time this year. The strides, not only in his game, but in his attitude and leadership that Cousins has exhibited over his four years in purple are remarkable, and I for one am not willing to erase them over one bad game. We have a pretty good idea what factors precipitated today's meltdown - which is something we have not seen all season, or even most of last season. It's a combination of frustration over the firing of Coach Malone (Malone was most decidedly 100% NOT "coach-killed" by Cousins) and some very suspect refereeing that ignored hacks on him down low and inexplicably refused to give him obvious continuation on the (only) two fouls called in his favor. In fact, if you noticed, on the Tyler Zeller flagrant-1 the officials did NOT give continuation despite the fact that he was very obviously going up when he was hacked. He got the free throws because the foul reviewed to be a flagrant-1.
So we understand why he was frustrated. He needs to do a much better job of not giving in to that frustration. Today he did not. But in the recent past he has, and while we're upset at how this game turned out, don't expect to see Kings fans agreeing with your assessment. Cousins is far too good, and has come much too far, for us to turn on him over one bad game.
And, while you're welcome to your opinion, let me give you one of my own: If Cousins were on the Celtics, you guys would have 20+ wins right now.
So we understand why he was frustrated. He needs to do a much better job of not giving in to that frustration. Today he did not. But in the recent past he has, and while we're upset at how this game turned out, don't expect to see Kings fans agreeing with your assessment. Cousins is far too good, and has come much too far, for us to turn on him over one bad game.
And, while you're welcome to your opinion, let me give you one of my own: If Cousins were on the Celtics, you guys would have 20+ wins right now.
I'm afraid that this is going to take some time to correct and as a result there will be further pain. There always is. It pains me to think that not too long ago the Kings were gelling with each other and with the head coach. They were playing defense and earned some success. They were finally being talked about and written about in a positive way. Now the rug got pulled out from beneath the team. It happened pretty quickly, too. The F.O.'s decision has backfired.
It is difficult explaining such a complex subject as Boogie's mood to someone who already thinks they have him figured out. This was the first game in how many games that we saw his temper? At that, it was predictable. There are many Kings fans with a similar attitude with a similar cause. I don't care what other people think especially those who have not paid attention.
Bull****. If that were true, you would respect us enough to NOT put in your two cents, especially since it's pretty clear you have no idea what you're talking about. I am not going to bother to argue with you ... I am going to (in my moderator voice) tell you that the name of the board is KINGSFANS.com We didn't tolerate Laker trolls and we will not tolerate trolls from other boards who think it's their role in life to come and lecture us about our team.