And So It Begins: Anonymous DeMarcus Cousins Hit Piece No. 1

is the one I see on the court. So far, I have zero complaints.

The end.

That could mean anything from a front office flunkie intern to someone who lives near Arco.

If you watch Cousins on the bench with his teammates, it all seems pretty congenial to me. Lots of joking and laughter and high fives.

When you say consider the source, I look at the author of the piece and discount this information immediately. Chad Ford? You might as well ask a bus driver in Belgium for reliable Kings information.

It was Voison..We all know it..look at her article on his Assist /turnover…Damn you Aileen…Damn youuuuuuuuuu! (Sarchasm Alert)

And, you will see in the next day or two when an article comes out in our local news paper who started this. Clearly this is “insider foreshadowing”- where someone uses a friend in the media to set up something so it validates their own soon to be released story.

This is stab in the dark crap like the “Evans, Landry and Greene all came into camp out out of shape” B.S. that got slipped in on Wednesday. There is a lot to the inner workings of the media going on here but I can’t say too much.

People are wondering who the source is. Funny, if I’m reading this correctly, it says sources.

Still, it’s Chad Ford so whatevs…

1) Cousins wants to be good, which is really important.

2) He’s a very, very offensively talented big guy who has been coached well to date. The things that should be easy for big guys on offense he does well and the right way.

3) He’s not ever going to ge a real good defender, he might someday be a good one but, he’ll have to want it real bad.

4) I haven’t seen the head case stuff too much, but he plays basketball like a fat guy. He’ll hustle when he thinks it matters, but when he doesn’t think it matters, he won’t. If he thinks a plays going to be over before he can get back on defense, he’ll loaf. He doesn’t have the go 100% all the time gene in him. To his credit, Westphal already yanked Cousins once for walking back up the court on defense (at least it seemed so to me).

Fat guy basketball player-itis isn’t terminal, professional hustle can be learned, but he’s going to have to work at it, and it remains to be seen if he’ll do that or not.

Unless Ford wants to cite specific incidents he shouldn’t print this.

Here is recent comments by PW regarding DeMarcus in response to out of town reporter. (I think before Nets game) He does say he is “not always easiest to understand” and “quick reaction” but overall very positiive…..

PW asked if he was pleased with DMCs attitude

Why would anyone think that Ford is more plugged in than the local guys? Especially when the Kings as a franchise have tweaked Ford’s nose in the past?

I no longer am upset by these stories, as I hold ESPN overall in such low regard when it comes to their in know no depths reporting. The fact of the matter is that the national guys do not have additional access, and they grant this team about 1% of the attention that the local guys – and that’s probably the way it should be for a non-playoff team playing in a small market on the west coast. That said, if I’m not getting it locally, I’m taking it with a silo of salt.

Trust me, since Chad Ford works for the Bret Favre Show, I mean ESPN, we automatically assume its 100% accurate. I can go through millions of “stories” that ESPN posts that came from “sources” and ended up being false.

We all hope it isn’t and we can rightly point out that Chad Ford is often times full of shit, but what if it’s true?

Worst case scenario, I don’t think it really matters that much.