MUST READ article on Cousins
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Finally I found an article that was too long for me. 
I gave up when it got to the modern Boogie era as I think I already know the story. I think it should be required reading for people who dislike him or are always criticizing him.
What I didn't know is how incredibly athletic he was as a kid. There was no time in his life where he seemed physically immature. Of course than I think Boogie is one of a kind athletically.
He'll manage his demons some day without losing the competitive fire. I've always thought that was inevitable but the shift in attitude from this year compared to last is striking. That's why I thought Amick's article was a cheap shot. You can make Boogie look bad when you are a writer. He will give you ammunition. Bravo, Amick. You are so clever. The total story tells you why he will be one of the greatest and I think it is lazy to focus on the bad as it does nothing to tell you who Boogie is.
As a society we love hearing bad things. Makes us feel better in our average, perhaps insignificant little lives. Watch TV and see what reality shows are popular. They are in large part the shows that show the freaks and miscreants of our society. Good people are not interesting. They don't sell.
I gave up when it got to the modern Boogie era as I think I already know the story. I think it should be required reading for people who dislike him or are always criticizing him.What I didn't know is how incredibly athletic he was as a kid. There was no time in his life where he seemed physically immature. Of course than I think Boogie is one of a kind athletically.
He'll manage his demons some day without losing the competitive fire. I've always thought that was inevitable but the shift in attitude from this year compared to last is striking. That's why I thought Amick's article was a cheap shot. You can make Boogie look bad when you are a writer. He will give you ammunition. Bravo, Amick. You are so clever. The total story tells you why he will be one of the greatest and I think it is lazy to focus on the bad as it does nothing to tell you who Boogie is.
As a society we love hearing bad things. Makes us feel better in our average, perhaps insignificant little lives. Watch TV and see what reality shows are popular. They are in large part the shows that show the freaks and miscreants of our society. Good people are not interesting. They don't sell.
Finally I found an article that was too long for me. I gave up when it got to the modern Boogie era as I think I already know the story. I think it should be required reading for people who dislike him or are always criticizing him.
What I didn't know is how incredibly athletic he was as a kid. There was no time in his life where he seemed physically immature. Of course than I think Boogie is one of a kind athletically.
He'll manage his demons some day without losing the competitive fire. I've always thought that was inevitable but the shift in attitude from this year compared to last is striking. That's why I thought Amick's article was a cheap shot. You can make Boogie look bad when you are a writer. He will give you ammunition. Bravo, Amick. You are so clever. The total story tells you why he will be one of the greatest and I think it is lazy to focus on the bad as it does nothing to tell you who Boogie is.
As a society we love hearing bad things. Makes us feel better in our average, perhaps insignificant little lives. Watch TV and see what reality shows are popular. They are in large part the shows that show the freaks and miscreants of our society. Good people are not interesting. They don't sell.
I gave up when it got to the modern Boogie era as I think I already know the story. I think it should be required reading for people who dislike him or are always criticizing him.What I didn't know is how incredibly athletic he was as a kid. There was no time in his life where he seemed physically immature. Of course than I think Boogie is one of a kind athletically.
He'll manage his demons some day without losing the competitive fire. I've always thought that was inevitable but the shift in attitude from this year compared to last is striking. That's why I thought Amick's article was a cheap shot. You can make Boogie look bad when you are a writer. He will give you ammunition. Bravo, Amick. You are so clever. The total story tells you why he will be one of the greatest and I think it is lazy to focus on the bad as it does nothing to tell you who Boogie is.
As a society we love hearing bad things. Makes us feel better in our average, perhaps insignificant little lives. Watch TV and see what reality shows are popular. They are in large part the shows that show the freaks and miscreants of our society. Good people are not interesting. They don't sell.
As for the Amick piece, I'm wondering if he/his editors had caught wind that this Abrams story was in the works, and wanted to move his story out quickly to get in ahead of this one. Might explain the seemingly hurried execution. After some time, I think Amick was meaning to focus more on how the narrative has changed about Cousins rather than on Cousins himself, but, for whatever reason, it didn't come out that way. Maybe I'm being too charitable.
wow... now that is a f***ing article. instead of leveling one-sided criticisms at cousins, instead of throwing darts at the easy target that's been painted on cousins' back, abrams asks questions. more importantly, he appears to ask the right questions. he doesn't assume, he inquires. he interviews those who know demarcus best. he's not interested in spear-heading a smear campaign. he's got no skin in the game. he just wants to do justice to demarcus cousins, the man. i love how DMC responds when asked if his reputation bothers him:
it's wonderfully revealing. beneath the scowl, there is an intelligent, endlessly introspective and thoughtful young man. he's certainly not perfect. he's not always right. but i'm glad abrams gave cousins the opportunity to speak for himself...
that said, i certainly don't expect every article written about demarcus cousins to be a full-blown think-piece, but i also don't expect to see writers continually scraping the bottom of the barrel for their misguided attempts at character assassination, as we saw with the recent sam amick article. abrams does justice to the complex individual that DMC is. as a kings fan, as a demarcus cousins fan, i am endlessly appreciative...
it's wonderfully revealing. beneath the scowl, there is an intelligent, endlessly introspective and thoughtful young man. he's certainly not perfect. he's not always right. but i'm glad abrams gave cousins the opportunity to speak for himself...
that said, i certainly don't expect every article written about demarcus cousins to be a full-blown think-piece, but i also don't expect to see writers continually scraping the bottom of the barrel for their misguided attempts at character assassination, as we saw with the recent sam amick article. abrams does justice to the complex individual that DMC is. as a kings fan, as a demarcus cousins fan, i am endlessly appreciative...
OK, I read the whole article. Cousins is right: every negative thing said about him is correct but, and I can't remember if he said this (old age showing), the negative doesn't tell the whole story. The first time I heard Cuz in an interview I knew we had struck gold. I don't claim to have some magical insight no one else has but my training and experience DOES give me knowledge very few other people on this forum have. I have one special area of expertise. He is a sincere, thoughtful young man who is a straight shooter with, at that time, a lack of understanding of a lot of things in the NBA and life and a helluva drive and the resultant temper. I called him immature along with everyone else on this forum as I learned in the Navy that people don't understand subtleties when describing a person's personality and the word "immature" seems relatively understandable. It is especially a good word as it implies that he can change. The thing is, there are parts of Cousins that are incredibly mature. That's what I saw.
I have removed Amick from my Christmas card list. I value fairness.
I have removed Amick from my Christmas card list.
I value fairness.
“I told him I probably wasn’t a good head coach for him because I wanted him to be better defensively, to do the right things on the floor,” Smart said. “But what he needed more than anything at that time, last year anyway, was someone that could really, really be with him and spend a lot of time with him. When you’re head coaching, you still have 14 other guys you’re trying to manage.”
hmmm.... to me this shows a key reason Keith could not be successful.
A successful Head Coach doesn't try to "manage 14 guys" and delegate a specialist to deal with his strongest player. A more proven approach is to "manage the top performers" and delegate the management of the bench guys.
Take Adelman for example. It wasn't so much that he had a deep doghouse all the time, but he was not going to lose sleep or pull his hair out over the 6/7/8 guys in his rotation much less the end of the bench. He knew which side his bread was buttered on... and he took care of CWebb and Vlade. Lol could you imagine him handing over CWebb to some special assistant coach because he was high maintenance, so he could spend more time working with a second unit guy?
Smart just had the wrong perspective here... off by a mile.
Great article - and so timely in the wake of the Sam Amick disaster.
hmmm.... to me this shows a key reason Keith could not be successful.
A successful Head Coach doesn't try to "manage 14 guys" and delegate a specialist to deal with his strongest player. A more proven approach is to "manage the top performers" and delegate the management of the bench guys.
Take Adelman for example. It wasn't so much that he had a deep doghouse all the time, but he was not going to lose sleep or pull his hair out over the 6/7/8 guys in his rotation much less the end of the bench. He knew which side his bread was buttered on... and he took care of CWebb and Vlade. Lol could you imagine him handing over CWebb to some special assistant coach because he was high maintenance, so he could spend more time working with a second unit guy?
Smart just had the wrong perspective here... off by a mile.
Great article - and so timely in the wake of the Sam Amick disaster.
Great article and very informative. Of course, it only reinforces some of the criticisms that I have of Cousins. Luckily, Cousins is aware of those short-comings as well, and hopefully that will put him on a path to overcome them. Malone came off great in the article as well, much more confident in his abilities after reading this article.