How DeMarcus Cousins Has Put the Kings in a Tough Spot

He may not like it, but he also has to know that a bad reputation is going to hurt him a lot more in the long run than it will the Kings. I know he doesn’t have a Team Cuz, like Evans does, (what is it his sister living with him?) But hopefully Mom gets on the phone and jumps his butt, along with his agent and everybody else who cares about him. Honestly, it doesn’t matter whether he is right and PW really is at fault. Because right now, anything he does is just going to make other teams look down on him even more which will hurt his value down the road. He may be too young and stupid (they seem to go together) to see this, but his handlers know.

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Look at whats happening in Miami. 3 veteran superstar players seem to be clashing with their coach. Frustration with losing causes these things to happen. Granted, they are doing it in a more mature way, but their are subtle shots given to Spoelstra. Look at how frustrated we are with whats going on? Imagine how much worse it is being a player, in that situation?

But, I do feel this adds weight to the fact that we need to trade for some proven vets who can help mentor and put some of the young players in their place if they act up. Easier said than done, but if Petrie can get something like that done, I think it will help the team in the long run.

First off it was a mistake picking up westfall through 2011-2012-magoffs did that.what did he do oh yeah we won 12 more games that year before.also spencer hawes was saying this to coach last year so do tyreke. hawes gets benched ,tyreke does not.this coach is bad for our team yes cousins is a young kid with alot of money but the signs were there before we draft him.so our team is really messed up now but before this it was still messed up and getting worse.fire westfall and let mario take over.looks like we will be picking in the draft this year at 1 or 2?

Kids get angry, frustrated, and upset. So do coaches. Perhaps PW has lost the team, perhaps the team has just lost too many games. Either way, I would be more concerned if no one was pissed off after losing this much.

The Kings are in a tough spot, because they have promoted the Hades out of this kid, and this kid is apparently turning Paul Westphal’s life into Hades on Earth. Every man is responsible for his own actions, and Cousins is to blame for acting unprofessionally at practice. But the Kings fed this when they pumped him up with extranormal attention and confidence.
 
In other words, there aren’t banners with Derrick Favors’ face hanging off the side of Newark’s skyscrapers.

I just can’t see how one could blame the Kings for “pumping him up with extranormal attention.” Favors, being the 2nd pick in the draft, is a large part of the Nets franchise whether there are banners around New Jersey or not. If he was getting kicked out of practice, Nets fans would be freaking out and people would be calling that franchise out. And I doubt Cousins all of a sudden is acting this way because he is in some banners. Top lottery guys see where they go in the draft, they see how much praise they receive for their potential and know there place, how they are viewed. Whether there are banners around town or not, it is pretty clear that whoever we picked was going to be considered a major building block of the franchise, someone we really need to depend on to be competitors down the road.

Sorry but this is the same kid we saw on draft night and the Kings marketing department did not somehow change him. The Kings might have actually tricked people into thinking DMC does not really butt heads with coaches or maybe people just wanted to believe.

Needs to be around a tough veteran big man. He is surrounded by kids, and thats doing him no favors. I feel if there was a veteran big in the locker room we would probably see less of this conflict with the coaches. Westphal is essentially teaching a class of Kindergartners right now, and you can ask ANY teacher just how tough that is. Especially if some of those kids have ADHD! lol!

There are expectations of improvement for this team. Those expectations are what cause the issue. And I think what is at the heart of the issue.

There were expectations that we would be better defensively because Hawes was the cause of all our defensive woes and we got Dalembert.

We brought in Landry who is a low post scoring threat.

We got another high pick in Cousins who is considered a franchise player and cornerstone of the team.

We have young talent with another year under their belt and that should be showing some development. Both Donte’ and Omri both have talent and showed a lot last year. This year should be nothing but up for them.

We got Cisco back from injury and he really does shoot as well as K-Mart from the outside. Our outside shooting should be much better by adding him.

Beno showed a huge advance in his play last year and that seems to secure us some assurance that his play with Tyreke, really well last year, could do us some good.

I don’t know that the issue with DMC puts PW or the team in a worse or much worse position than the losing and that fact that the above gave us some EXPECTATIONS that are not being met.

Losing puts this team in the toughest place possible because everybody is going to be frustrated with not achieving what seemed likely.

I’m not going to say who was right and who was wrong, since none of us know all the facts. But, to say that any player, young or old can’t become dissatisfied and disagree with the coach is nonsense.

Kids in college have to worry about their scholarships and so they buckle to the power of the coach. For any NBA coach to think that he has the same power over professionals with guaranteed contract, and skills that will make them valuable to the other 29 teams, is ludicrous.

The point that if Tyreke should feel the same way as DeMarcus, it would mean the end of Westphal, should make it very clear that this isn’t as much about DeMarcus as it is about Westphal. The only way this comes out to be a good thing for PW, is if DeMarcus was upsetting the other players and PW made the move to appease the other players on the team. If this was over simple head butting between DeMarcus and Westphal, the majority of the team could actually be on Cousins side.

Westphal has made too many bad choices regarding his players for me to give him the benefit of the doubt on this one. From starting May and Mason and yes even Brockman, from punishing Hawes and no one else and then doing that rediculous dance to show some kind of solidarity, to calling Donte the 11th or 12th best player and then starting him again, to then benching Omri after saying he would start if we didn’t need him off the bench, and it goes on and on and on. PW screams that he needs consistency out of his players, but he isn’t consistent in his words or actions from one game to the next.

The only way the Kings and DeMarcus lose on this one is if the dispute came about because of Westphal’s giving Evans preferential treatment, that DeMarcus and the rest of the team feel is unfair. If that’s true, then we may be on the verge of another Shaq & Kobe melodrama, and that would make Paul Westphal the worst coach in the History of the Kings.

It won’t happen until Lebron fires Spoelstra and we can hire him.

A guy can dream right?

Everything that has happened they have set the course for these events. Getting a new ship or crew can help only if the owners quit picking Skipper’s’ and Gilligan’s to guide this tiny ship… at this point I would settle for more Ginger’s and Mary Ann’s, at least it would be easier to watch.

All the crap and drama and finger pointing… so are you saying your buddies Maloof should not take any blame for all of this crap?

Because ’Sheed is an extraordinarily talented and tough big man who (1) was a freaking head case early in his career with the Jail Blazers, (2) but became a team player and team leader with the Pistons, (3) is respected by players, and (4) probably recognizes that if he had gotten his act together sooner, he could have been a better player than he was.

Is this such a bad idea? I mean, who better than Rasheed Wallace to help make sure DMC has a better career arc than Rasheed Wallace?

Even if Westphal was the worst head coach in NBA history, the players don’t have license to argue with him when he’s trying to do his job. You can’t run a team as a democracy. The coach’s job is to coach (and, in theory, to win), and the player’s job is to do what they’re told and to play their best. If a player honestly doesn’t agree with what the coach is telling him during practice, he can certainly talk to the coach after practice, but it’s in no way okay to argue about it in the moment. What good could have come of that? What if Westphal said “Okay DeMarcus, we’ll do it your way. Clearly I don’t know what the hell I’m talking about, so what does it really matter”?