I know this will make you mad but....
I think cuz should be beyond a "whisperer" or trustable coach. Feel, he's a star player. He's playing for great coaches at the Olympics, and should be growing up. He needs to change some things about himself outside his playing skills and maybe having new 'shooters' in terms of coaches might be a good thing. Cousin needs more good players around him not more love and "atta boys". It's about him being good.
Besides he's got you, Brick. The best big brother he could have.... (I tried to insert a winking emoji here but it didn't show up) All bets are off of course if he's got another year of Rudy Gay and Mcelmore starting with him. I loved Corliss as a player and hope cuz appreciates him from afar.
That's all fine and well if we were a normal franchise with strong culture and proven success. We are exactly the opposite because we have managed to **** up things that were impossible to **** up.
People LOVE to pick on Cousins and blame him for everything that has gone on with the franchise since he was drafted. Truth is we have been a well established rabble when we drafted him and continued to be a rabble all the way through his years here. If this was ANY other star or superstar player in the league, they would have pissed this franchise off before you could blink. So we really should be grateful and should be catering to him to a degree and work our asses off to make sure we repay his faith.
I highly doubt that ANY other all-star would have stuck with such a incompetent franchise for 6 years and not even coming close to play off appearances. Just take a look at all the moves we have made since we drafted Cousins and be honest. If it was any of us in Cousins' shoes we would have left this franchise a LONG LONG time ago yet despite all that, he sticks with us, gives us another chance again and again and again.
Hopefully this is the clean slate where Cousins trust Joerger and vice versa and they have each other back. If they don't we are in a lot of crap as a franchise. If this is the fresh start then we will go forward like we should have with Malone. If it is yet another false start, I can guarantee you that neither Cousins nor coach Joerger will see out the end of their contracts and we will continue to spin in circle of incompetence where mediocrity would actually be an achievement.
