Was going to reply but...
If the Jazz were not such a young team with a brand new, unproven head coach I would want Cousins on the team. Just not a good fit right now imo.
Team USA Announces 12 man roster this week! - Does Hayward make the team ?
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Was going to reply but...
If the Jazz were not such a young team with a brand new, unproven head coach I would want Cousins on the team. Just not a good fit right now imo.
Stifle Tower
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Don't want Cousins because he's a knucklehead. NO team with Cousins will ever amount to anything. He's a franchise player (supposedly). Kings have actually put some decent talent around him. But Sac has underachieved and he's been a negative force, not a team leader. In many respects, he's like Dwight Howard. When things are going their way and they're getting calls and teammates are giving the ball to them every time down the court, they're fine. But throw in a little adversity - or heaven forbid - a teammate who also wants to score some points, and they start whining like little boys, pouting or throwing tantrums.
What was left out of the article is that the Wall he punched was John Wall. Talk about getting along with your teammates.
Capitalization strikes again. Not "the wall", "the Wall".
Never said anythign about if he should make team USA or not. TBH I think he should. I was going with the flow of talking about Cousins on the Jazz.
mellow
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I'll go on record here and say YES! Rudy over Cousins everyday of the week and twice on game day.
How does the Kool-Aide taste?
+1 to TriangleMan for the this
Also, though this points me to looking at another perspective to the "punching the wall" scenario. If a team mate is punching the wall because he is frustrated with himself in some manner is notably different than he's punching the Wall because he's frustrated with teammates who "won't throw me the bleepin' ball." Often, the frustrated-at-self situation is someone who is is hyper competitive and you pay a price now and again with an outburst but looooove their competitive nature. On the other hand those throwing fits about teammates' behavior are simply bad teammates themselves. My limited view of Cousins is he's mad at the refs or something/someone else, not frustrated with himself.
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The practice starts in 30 minutes. Those are the teams for the scrimmage they will do.
Definitely think White teams wins.
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definately agree.
The practice starts in 30 minutes. Those are the teams for the scrimmage they will do.
Definitely think White teams wins.
Not really fair teams imo.
Durant, curry, and the brow on the team? Wtf?
The other team has the better coach though imo.
Hantlers
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So you would take Gobert over Cousins?
His attitude issues are overstated. ****, maybe Kevin Love has the same attitude issues. Underachieving teams and he won't even play for team USA because it might hurt his value. Guess we probably don't want him either. We only want nice, gentle, hustle players with limited talent.
♪alt13
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What I specifically mean about Cousins is the countless times he does something dumb on the court that is detrimental to his team. Like how he pouts if he falls down without a call, is more interested in arguing with the ref than getting back on D or throwing a dumb fit over a bad call and getting T'ed up or ejected. Happens everytime I have watched him play. Guy is immensley talented but he needs a no nonsense coach and team around him to control his emotion. To focus it in productive ways because Cousins seems unable to do it himself. Unfortunately the Jazz are not that team yet. If they were then adding cousins to this group would be awesome.
All the fire in the world doesn't help if you seem incapable of controlling it.
The practice starts in 30 minutes. Those are the teams for the scrimmage they will do.
Definitely think White teams wins.
This was yesterday btw.
Did anyone watch?
This.
Will rep if anyone can give a rundown of what happened, been unable to find anything about them online. Especially in relation to Hyward and Burke.
From Hayward's blog thingy"
"First and Foremost: I need to be a much better shooter than I was last year. I'm constantly working on shooting and continuing to develop my mid-range game. I have to get better thse next couple of years.".
Good to see that he can acknowledge there is a problem. He is saying the right things at least.
He also mentions that Coach Q went out to Vegas and met with Hayward at the Team USA camp. Really like that sign from Coach Q.
He also takes, imo, a very veiled, back handed swipe at Corbin.
Keep at it Hayward and come back better than ever! GO JAZZ!!!!
"First and Foremost: I need to be a much better shooter than I was last year. I'm constantly working on shooting and continuing to develop my mid-range game. I have to get better thse next couple of years.".
Good to see that he can acknowledge there is a problem. He is saying the right things at least.
He also mentions that Coach Q went out to Vegas and met with Hayward at the Team USA camp. Really like that sign from Coach Q.
He also takes, imo, a very veiled, back handed swipe at Corbin.
Keep at it Hayward and come back better than ever! GO JAZZ!!!!
mellow
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Purplesaurus Rex was my favorite. A delightful blend of grape and lemonade. Do they still make that?
Coach Ellis
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If they don't, then they should. Sounds awesome.
Not sure if they do but it is very easy to make. Make grape Koolaide and Lemonaide and just mix straight up. Pretty darn close.