well the argument is that the recent game that Cousins missed this year, the ball played very well and the team just appeared different.....and I know they won that game.....
And it's a ridiculous point (I won't even dignify by referring to it as an "argument"). The Kings record w/o Cousins the past 7 seasons is atrocious. Excluding this season when the bench finally started to show some life, the plus-minus during stretches when he wasn't on the floor was an embarrassment. You know why that is? Because the team hasn't had any talent other than him.
Now people want to suddenly point to one freaking game the Kings won against Boston as some type of validation that they can be better w/o him? Go back 1, 2, 3 seasons ago and you'll find a game they won w/o him too yet the team still sucked! What's next? The Cavs are better w/o LeBron because they manage to win from time to time when he doesn't play?
The argument being that it wasn't working when Cousins was here, so let's see if it works when he's not......It either does or it doesn't, no middle ground.....
This is an even worse correlation. Do you know how many W's the Kings had the 4 seasons before Boogie was drafted? 33, 38, 17, 25.
They weren't winning well before he got here. As stated numerous times in various threads now, they've continued losing with him because they've added no impact talent the past 6 drafts and haven't fared any better in free agency. The only gems they found were Hassan Whiteside, who they couldn't manage to develop themselves, and Isaiah Thomas who they also traded for nothing in return but a useless trade exception.
The reason it "isn't working" is because of the instability, incompetence, and lack of qualified people in ownership and the front office over an extended period of time. Correlating the losing to Cousins simply because he got mixed up in it all is missing the mark completely.
In short. the Kings aren't addressing the real problem. Vivek doesn't want to admit that he doesn't have a clue how to run an NBA team nor is he seemingly aware that Vlade Divac is totally and completely unqualified for the job that he handed to him. As bad as the previous GM was, he never would have willingly made a trade like this one.