Hopefully it was PDA.
One AND ONLY Cousins trade rumors thread
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Chubbs
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One can hope for scenario 3.
Bricklayer
Don't Make Me Use The Bat
Because PDA was the carrier of the news, Once he left, all of a sudden dirty laundry from his regime everywhere. Throw in draft ngiht coming up, and teams eager to see if the can shake us down on Cuz with their draft picks...perfect timing.
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jdbraver
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So the Iggy and Melo snake in the grass about Karl was coincidence?
HereWeBoogie
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Iggy's came when he was in Golden State and Mark Jackson was fired.
Bricklayer
Don't Make Me Use The Bat
Probably it.Or hate to be too literal, but if he is in Mexico, maybe he was out on a hike and really did see a snake in the grass and decided to tweet about it.
Tommorrow he's going to tweet a fish icon to represent the fish he caught today, and we're all going to be wandering what he thinks is so fishy. Ah, life in the twitter age.
Livinthedream
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Cousins for the most part is pretty responsible on Twitter. His simple cryptic tweets are brilliant. Let's him say what needs to say without getting himself in trouble.
ninjabiscuit
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You guys have stronger stomachs than I do. I literally can't listen to him take calls. He immediately becomes so acerbic and venomous toward the callers that it makes me angry. No idea how he still has a show.
Kingster
Hall of Famer
Napier -
Cousins has an inability to coexist with his teammates and make it a team; it's counterproductive to winning. He's not talked to one player who left the Kings who said he liked playing with Cousins. He will never be a winner unless he fixes that part of his personality. If he's able to fix that last hurdle, he will be great with a capital G.
Cousins has an inability to coexist with his teammates and make it a team; it's counterproductive to winning. He's not talked to one player who left the Kings who said he liked playing with Cousins. He will never be a winner unless he fixes that part of his personality. If he's able to fix that last hurdle, he will be great with a capital G.
HereWeBoogie
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i know for a fact from talking with an ex Kings players friends/family that everyone hates to play with Cousins is NOT true.
Isaiah Thomas for example seems to be pretty friendly with him....
His kentucky teammates (PPatt, Wall, Bledsoe) love him
There are a few players who i do know for a fact that HATE playing with him, like JT, but who cares what JT thinks?
Isaiah Thomas for example seems to be pretty friendly with him....
His kentucky teammates (PPatt, Wall, Bledsoe) love him
There are a few players who i do know for a fact that HATE playing with him, like JT, but who cares what JT thinks?
Hoovtrain
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my main issue with him (other than being a mouthpiece) is that he really provides no sort of constructive back and forth with his callers on anything. Most guys on other shows will have a back and forth with callers on various scenarios, hypothetical's included. He just responds with something along the lines of "i don't deal in hypothetical's" or "how would i know who the Kings may target in FA/Draft?! i have no idea what the FO wants to do or who will be here next year". Uh ok. Your job is to sit and shoot the sh*t about sports and discuss all sorts of scenarios. I know some of the callers come off like half wits, but he really makes zero effort to have any sort of open dialogue.
Kingster
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Peter_Gibbons
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I'll settle for seeing Cousins wearing Karl's jacket and playing coach a la Keith Smart at this point.
Kingster
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Napier isn't talking about being friendly with Cousins; he's talking about players who are friendly with Cousins off the floor, but can't stand playing with him.
Cleveland made it to the Finals and actually took two games from the Warriors with not only a completely hobbled team (LeBron was the only starter left from opening night) and with LeBron James openly disrespecting his coach the entire time. And while that narrative gained steam/traction during the finals and beyond it was noticeable all year. LeBron often wasn't even paying attention to Blatt in timeouts. He routinely made his own calls etc. I've seen lots of player/coach relationships that were strained but never one THAT obvious on a contending team. Just strange.
But my point, same as the Kobe/Phil/Shaq storyline of years past, is simply that it's very possible to not get along, or even to hate your coach and/or teammates and still be successful. Vlade says Cousins isn't going anywhere and that Karl isn't going anywhere. Both are signed through the next three seasons. Time for both of them to put on their big boy pants and find a way to be successful.
But my point, same as the Kobe/Phil/Shaq storyline of years past, is simply that it's very possible to not get along, or even to hate your coach and/or teammates and still be successful. Vlade says Cousins isn't going anywhere and that Karl isn't going anywhere. Both are signed through the next three seasons. Time for both of them to put on their big boy pants and find a way to be successful.
twslam07
All-Star
Interesting that his teammates that were a part of a winning team like playing with him while reports of his teammates from this losing team tend to not like playing with him...
Chubbs
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I wonder why.He said that know Cousins' doesn't like him much.
We all acknowledge Boogie isn't perfect.
But every teammate that's left does not dislike him. That's going too far. His Kentucky teammates he's still tight with. I'm sure there's other examples.
I don't know where Grant is coming from. They haven't kissed his ass. They've fired a coach he loves and hired one he doesn't know. How is this kissing cousins ass?
ninjabiscuit
Bench
Kingster
Hall of Famer
I think it's continually deferring to Cousins over all the other players in order to appease him - in practice, game plan, coaching, etc. That's what Napier is talking about.
jcwkings
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Napear said on the court, off the court he says most guys like DMC. Like it or not, this is an issue. On GS everyone loves playing with Steph ditto Lebron. The only guys I can think of are Jordan and Kobe who teammates hated playing with. Those guys were so good it didnt even matter, their winning and legacies spoke for themselves.
HereWeBoogie
Hall of Famer
I don't see the problem with that. You think KD isn't being deferred to more than Dion Waiters in the locker room out in OKC?
gunks
Hall of Famer
In Grant's world not trading a top ten player for scraps = kissing said top ten player's ass?
Kingster
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From Howard Beck:
".....but you and I know where there's smoke there is fire; reports are that DeMarcus has asked for a trade over the past month and that George Karl wants there to be a trade. If there are issues between Karl and Cousins, something has to give.
...but during the time they have had together are there enough conflicts built up for each to find out they can't work with the other guy.
....there's no doubt in my mind that conceivably these two can work together, but it looks like these guys don't want to work together. Maybe they get together, but I would be concerned if I were a Kings fan.
...the draft get interesting at #2. Russell might be in play. People think he's going to be really special. From #2 - #10 there are going to be no no-brainers in there; Lakers might want to move that #2; maybe in July move it for Cousins....the one thing that's clear is that through top 7 to 10 there are some really good players.
Just in from Karl: FIBS AND LIES. That's what Napier reports from Karl in a Sacto Bee report
".....but you and I know where there's smoke there is fire; reports are that DeMarcus has asked for a trade over the past month and that George Karl wants there to be a trade. If there are issues between Karl and Cousins, something has to give.
...but during the time they have had together are there enough conflicts built up for each to find out they can't work with the other guy.
....there's no doubt in my mind that conceivably these two can work together, but it looks like these guys don't want to work together. Maybe they get together, but I would be concerned if I were a Kings fan.
...the draft get interesting at #2. Russell might be in play. People think he's going to be really special. From #2 - #10 there are going to be no no-brainers in there; Lakers might want to move that #2; maybe in July move it for Cousins....the one thing that's clear is that through top 7 to 10 there are some really good players.
Just in from Karl: FIBS AND LIES. That's what Napier reports from Karl in a Sacto Bee report
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Elise10
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Will admit I was surprised by that given their "history" but Cousins did ask his fans to follow Isaiah on Instagram
Kingster
Hall of Famer
I have no idea, but Napier said, yes, he doesn't think KD is deferred to like Cousins, and he made a point of saying that specifically.
The Hammer
All-Star
Ok who can give me an update after the day's developments? I'm up through about 6 am this morning... I can't read though (Don't want to read through) the last ten pages to parse out the nuggets. In a few words... What are the highlights of the last ten hours?
gunks
Hall of Famer
Back on page 19 or 20, there are some quality Vlade quotes posted on various twitters.
Basically Vladefather told the media to STFU and that both Karl and Cousins are staying.
The aftermath of that is that there ARE issues between Cuz and Karl, so at this point we're all just hoping they can work it out, or at the very least, be professional leaders on this team.
So, you dont have to worry about Cuz rocking eggplant and pee (Lakers colors) anytime soon.
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