I don't disagree with anything else you said, but 47% from the field for a post center is not that great
Exactly. Howard and the Rockets are married until Dwight opts out. It'd be a PR disaster to trade Howard now even if it makes sense. Ariza, KPap, Jones, a 1st, and a future 1st....do it Durryl Moorey!
yet hasn't had much success since entering the league. never been a huge fan of him as he doesn't seem to make the players around him better, as it does seem like players find it difficult playing with huge complainer like him
Oh come on. Have you seen the team around him? No one is winning with that Kings team unless you are LeBron James and even that hobbled and banged up Cavs team in the Finals had more talent than the Kings did last year.
That's because he's had like 6 coaches in the past 4-5 years and never had a semblance of a good roster.
the kings haven't had a season winning higher than 35% of their games with him. that's terrible. they're roster isn't too great but definitely not completely as bad as some would think.
Definitely a concern. Though the microcosm of the organization around him played out so hilariously this season. Start out 5-1, and 9-5... then he gets the viral meningitis. The team goes into a spiral. Malone gets fired. he gets two more coaches during the year, including one that apparently hates him. Organization matters.
yeah the stability definitely is a huge factor but it just seems very off to me that Sac can't even come close to being around a .500 team since Cousins entered the league 5 years ago. Good player individually no doubt and has talent but definitely not a superstar as i think I read in some previous posts.
47% definitely wouldn't be that great for your average center, but Cousins isn't just a 10 ppg post center, he does a lot of damage from high post and mid range, he's the go to man, when it comes to his %'s we shouldn't be comparing him to others centers but more so to other superstar scorers, because that's what he is. So i'd 47% is pretty solid for somebody who puts up 24 points, Aldridge averaged 47%, Dirk & Bosh 46%, Marc & Pau 49%. Not to say he doesn't have room to improve, Davis is putting up 24 and averaging 54%.
<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Just spoke with a very irritated Vlade Divac. Said he is not trading Cousins, and denies Karl pushing for any deal involving All-Star center</p>— Ailene Voisin (@ailene_voisin) <a href="https://twitter.com/ailene_voisin/status/613429060694179841">June 23, 2015</a></blockquote> <script async src="//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>
Why would the Kings trade Cousins? Because he's a knucklehead! More than 52% his shots during his career have been jumpers, but he only shoots 32% on those shots. You're not going to win a championship let alone be a playoff team with a center taking so many jumpers @ such a low FG%.
This is now looking like nothing more than ESPN letting itself get used again by an agent to generate a story. Though Burt did mention at the deadline (between cocktails) that the Rockets were making a push for Boogie.
:grin: Spoiler <blockquote class="twitter-tweet" lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">I'm hearing rumblings that the Rockets are all in on DeMarcus Cousins..if Morey can pull this off--the hookers, cigars and scotch are on me.</p>— Burt Steele (@burt_steele) <a href="https://twitter.com/burt_steele/status/568126622668230656">February 18, 2015</a></blockquote> <script async src="//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>
Karl's former team, Denver, also is a possibility -- with Malone and D'Alessandro there and with Karl pushing the idea of "putting the band back together" from his Nuggets tenure, a person with knowledge of the situation said. League sources say Karl is enamored with the idea of a deal that would send Kenneth Faried, Ty Lawson and Wilson Chandler to Sacramento. The Nuggets, who have the seventh pick, are open to trading Lawson and Chandler. But Faried would be difficult to trade before July since his contract includes a poison-pill provision; his incoming salary for the Kings ($10.45 million) would be vastly greater than his outgoing salary for the Nuggets ($2.25 million) if traded during the current league year. http://www.cbssports.com/nba/writer/ken-berger/25222603/draft-buzz-possible-landing-spots-for-demarcus-cousins
