Get Cousins, Rudy & Ben to the NYC All Star Game
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Well if Stein wasn't concrete enough, here you go:
Adrian Wojnarowski @WojYahooNBA
Sacramento's DeMarcus Cousins has been left off the Western Conference All-Star reserves, league sources tell Yahoo Sports.
Adrian Wojnarowski @WojYahooNBA
Sacramento's DeMarcus Cousins has been left off the Western Conference All-Star reserves, league sources tell Yahoo Sports.
Ugh. Over and over again, this just feels like "this is how bad teams stay bad." I mean, we have one of the best players in the NBA, and a roster that, talent wise, can compete with anybody on any given night. Yet, somehow, we fire our coach after our best start in a decade. Our best player (arguably top 5 in the NBA) doesn't make the all star squad, and we're looking at another lost season. Our front office says they want to emulate the Spurs, yet we forgo their (the Spurs) defensive intensity entirely and let bad teams put up huge numbers against us. Why? We have the best offensive post player in the NBA and we want to run!? We should be slowing the game down and playing bully ball with opponents. Right now, we're wasting Demarcus Cousins. He's the best thing to happen to this franchise since Chris Webber. The front office needs to wake up and understand that pretty jump-shooting teams don't win championships. Big, athletic, grin-it-out teams win championships, and we just happen to have the perfect centerpiece for that (and Rudy Gay is not a bad second option in that scenario). I'm afraid that our central offices' myopia will condemn our franchise to another decade of irrelevance. Note to Vivek: We have the best post player in the NBA. Slow the game down, play defense, and let him dominate.
Sam Amick @sam_amick
Clippers point guard Chris Paul is also an All-Star reserve, I'm told.
Another reason for Boogie to hate Mr. CP3
Clippers point guard Chris Paul is also an All-Star reserve, I'm told.
Another reason for Boogie to hate Mr. CP3
I was talking to a Blazer fan today about an article quoting coach Stotts basically about how only winning teams deserve all-stars. This thinking is the only explanation for leaving a guy like Boogie out, and yet if you replace Aldridge with Boogie on the Blazers I feel like the Blazers are a better team. If you replace Boogie with Aldridge on the Kings, the Kings are a worse team. I could be wrong, but even if I am, I feel like the win/loss differences would be close. By the way, my Blazer fan friend agreed with me on all accounts. So, then basically they are voting in the players of the GM who can put together the best team...All Star game is a joke. Sorry if this whole paragraph is a jumbled mess, I'm just disturbed by my sudden hatred of all things basketball.
Marc Stein @ESPNSteinLine
In balloting coaches allowed to pick players at positions they deem advantageous to All-Star team. NOT limited to their everyday position
Well that's a stupid rule. Either way, DeMarcus should have made it.
In balloting coaches allowed to pick players at positions they deem advantageous to All-Star team. NOT limited to their everyday position
Well that's a stupid rule. Either way, DeMarcus should have made it.
What a joke.
DeMarcus is probably seething and rightly so. This should be his second AS appearance.
Thanks PDA and Vivek, you complete and utter morons.
Also a big shout out to the coaches, who have ruined the AS game with their pseudo-nonsense of only picking guys from winning teams (unless you're white of course, cough*Love*cough). Our record with and without Boogie should be enough to show how much better he makes his team.
I don't even want to think about this anymore or I'll make myself even angrier. You really couldn't blame Big Cuz for feeling like it's "me against the world". PDA and Vivek ruining his season and AS hopes, and coaches snubbing him like the bunch of idiots they are.
DeMarcus is probably seething and rightly so. This should be his second AS appearance.
Thanks PDA and Vivek, you complete and utter morons.
Also a big shout out to the coaches, who have ruined the AS game with their pseudo-nonsense of only picking guys from winning teams (unless you're white of course, cough*Love*cough). Our record with and without Boogie should be enough to show how much better he makes his team.
I don't even want to think about this anymore or I'll make myself even angrier. You really couldn't blame Big Cuz for feeling like it's "me against the world". PDA and Vivek ruining his season and AS hopes, and coaches snubbing him like the bunch of idiots they are.
Tim Duncan made it? Seriously? Did I go back in time to ten years ago or something?
Can someone please explain to me what the **** is going on? When was the last time in history of the all star game someone who was averaging Cousin's stats get left off?
The more I think about this the angrier I get.
Can someone please explain to me what the **** is going on? When was the last time in history of the all star game someone who was averaging Cousin's stats get left off?
The more I think about this the angrier I get.
G
This is the lowest point.
It doesn't get any lower.
Our franchise is a mess, and there does not appear to be a light at the end of this tunnel. I'm caving in, boys, don't know where to go from here. We are wasting away the career of the best big in the NBA as we speak, I hope he goes somewhere else.
It doesn't get any lower.
Our franchise is a mess, and there does not appear to be a light at the end of this tunnel. I'm caving in, boys, don't know where to go from here. We are wasting away the career of the best big in the NBA as we speak, I hope he goes somewhere else.