Hey, How About a Post About DeMarcus?

He could be Stephon Marbury, emmensley talented but, never able to put together enough of a mental approach to maintain his place in the league. Marbury even had KG in Minnesota to help him and still couldn’t keep it together.

restoring sanity to the Sactown Royalty blog, one post at a time.

Sorry, I hadn’t posted that yet today.

Today’s players are difficult to deal with due to many factors. Coaches that manage the players could be more important that coaches that orchestrate the X and O strategy.

Player attitudes is allegedly one of the reasons Jerry Sloan retired. So this isn’t just about DMC, but about the attitudes of young players and who best to manage them.

Here in Sac…You take young lottery picks, with new millions and enormous egos, and place them with less talented veterans and an inexpensive journeyman coach. How could THAT not work?

Then ownership promises to cash in on their salary cap flexibility with big signings and we get Chuck Hayes. An undersized tough veteran that is a role player and not an impact player as promised. DMC is supposed to be mentored by a guy that he abuses in practice or feels highly more talented than? I don’t know that I would….

I don’t know if firing Westphal is the right or wrong thing to do…but in my opinion, you’re hired as the head coach to make a difference in the games of Tyreke and DMC. Neither player has made the strides envisioned (Tyreke underperformed last year in part due to injureies and DMC has not evolved) When you don’t do what you were hired to do, you get fired in the real world…and in the NBA.

The offense looks pretty bad on most occasions with isolated play and a general lack of flow and movement off the ball.

You might be right that things won’t get any better without PW….it could further coddle DMC.

OR the transition to Keith Smart could help give DMC somebody he can relate to, somebody he is willing to listen to, somebody with a different approach that is well received by him and makes a difference.

even if Cousins is very much in the wrong and needs to be moved, he screwed the franchise over by making this spat public. Now all we’re going to get are lowball offers and be lucky to get pennies on the dollar for a trade. We can’t even do cap space because the Kings are already on or near the salary floor. Cousins maturity should be handled, even if it means moving him, but they’ve got to keep it in house. Too late for that now. Bring on the future 2nd rnd picks #sarcasm

Thanks for this, Section. A breath of fresh air to hear an even-handed and cool-headed perspective.

I think it said ’Don’t believe everything you’ve heard.’

We just have to keep hammering it at him that he has to be accountable for his actions on and off the court. In time, he’ll get it.

Its about westphal sucking as a coach.

for restoring some sanity to Sactown Royalty, for not jumping to conclusions about what is really going on, and for not being blinded by any preconceived bias or hate toward PW or DMC. That’s 3 recs worth of good stuff all in one post.

and the entire song I was thinking of DMC sitting at home singing this song to PW. Listen to the song and try not to laugh.

…game 7 v. Lakers, when Peja airballed his 3.

DMC would probably get along better with the robot.

As I recall, when Spencer spoke out about that no player on the team knew what Westphal wanted them to do Reke was in the background agreeing with him. When Cuz spoke up the lack of offensive clarity, Reke was heard in the background agreeing with him and when the situation exploded it was Cuz who took the brunt of Westphal’s frustration and anger.

When Spence went down I speculated that although there were many other players echoing his sentiments Spencer took the hit because he was not particular popular with the other players and was a safe target for Westphal to make and example of.

Now, going on two years later, Westphal does the same thing with Cuz and while I’m guessing that he may be more well liked than Haws was, the players are getting tired of the constant disruption he creates. As I recall, when Chuck Hayes corrected DMC for laughing after the loss, Cuz was not the only player laughing in the locker room.

Two question that remains unanswered for me is what set him off? I guess it’s akin to asking why do postal workers go postal? What did Westphal do to elicit such a strong reaction from Cousins who at the very least has more than a little self awareness and realizes the hit his rep takes everytime a negative incident is made public. Is it the same thing that caused the passive – aggressive Reke to play like an automon for the three games after the Lakers win?

My second unanswered question is who authorized that singularly lame press release? Who in the organization could have possibly thought anything good would come from first taking the issue public and doing so in less than a semi – pro way? While I don’t know for sure I bet Westphal is not authorized to send out press releases on his on, particularly one that reduces the trade value of one of the teams most valuable assets by possibly million of dollars.