Boogie deserves some criticism. His attitude at times is out of control. I was at the Warriors game and he literally killed and momentum. After his T it was a disaster going forward. I just think he isn't the core of the problem. The problem is bad draft decisions, bad free agency signings, the inability to get a trade done that will benefit the roster, lack of talent, etc. which has nothing to do with Boogie. And the longer the FO continues to mess up and not get stuff done, the longer and more Boogie gets blamed for all of it because he is visibly frustrated with losing over and over.
Sorry if my post goes OOT but take this as a personal response to your post. I speak on my behalf alone.
I agree with your post. My personal gripe with some posters on this board is the inconsistency in their stance. The vets are either proven winners or they're not. You can't say they are one moment, or say that the team has talent one moment, and then the next say that it's not Cousins' fault his team mates suck. You can't say that George Karl is to blame for bad defense and Joerger will turn things around, and then not say anything when the team continues to play bad D. You can't say it's stupid that the coach has Cousins' camping out at the 3 point line, and then praise Cousins for his versatility and offensive repertoire the next season when he shoots even more 3s. You can't say that the FO sucks at drafting and that no FAs want to come to Sac, and then say that the route forward is to keep Cousins and get top FAs to come to Sac. And the common denominator in all these inconsistencies is that everyone else is to blame, or that everything should change, except Cousins.
Now, to your point, Cousins is definitely not the biggest problem with this team in terms of basketball talent and production. And I personally try to stay away from getting into subjective debates as to whether Cousins is a bad team mate, whether his emotions are good or bad, whether he's efficient or not etc. At the end of the day I care about results, and nobody can say that this team is showing any results unless they're delusional.
To me, the question is not whether Cousins is a good/elite player or not. That's unquestionable. The question is how do we move forward? Some here are taking the approach of just throwing any and everything at the wall that is Cousins until you find something that sticks. I can understand that approach although I don't agree with it. To me, that's the definition of insanity when you keep doing the same thing year after year and get the same results year after year and still expect a different result the next time around. You could make a case that you can really only take 1-2 years as a sample size due to all the instability the Kings organisation has faced, and that's a fair argument, although again not one I necessarily agree with. My position then, is that moving Cousins needs to be an option and consideration. Yeah, we might end up winning 20 games for a season or two, but is that really any worse than sub 40 games year after year? Maybe our franchise just has no hope, and all of us are trying our best to cling on to whatever hope we can find. To thus write off anyone who thinks we should trade Cousins, or to call them idiots or trolls, is just as bad to me as someone who's sole intention is to trash Cousins.
Another way to look at it - if the rest of the roster sucks, are on short term deals and aren't going to be here in the foreseeable future, what's the point of talking about their performance on the court? If Cousins is the only key piece and everyone else is just bad then we should only bother focusing on Cousins' performance and behavior. That doesn't mean Cousins is the core problem, it just means that the core problem is a given and there's no point in talking about it. We're not going to become a significantly different, better, or worse team by moving Ben McLemore. Our future isn't going to be determined by whether Koufos remains on the team or not. So if the core problem is a bad roster sans-Cousins, how are we going to change that?