Hassan Whiteside , Devin Ebanks , Staley Robinson , Damion James , Eric Bledsoe. And Donatas Motiejunas isn’t even in march madness! He’s in europe, they didn’t think this through.

   This futile season might have a happy ending afterall ? Now can they maintain the suckyness when it counts or will they just win enough to move us out of the top three lotto spots? I really have no faith in the FO ability to do the right thing so I’m halfway expecting them to blow this Golden opportunity :>)

Wall tuner or cousins and this season would not have been a complete wash.

As a life-long fan of the Warriors and a current resident of Lexington, KY, I have a pretty good perspective on DeMarcus Cousins and why he would be a good fit for the Warriors. The idea that the Warriors, if given the opportunity, would take Turner over Cousins is not only laughable; it would be a monumental mistake. I think given the Warriors’ strength at guard that, no matter how talented Wall is (and he is everything people say he is), Cousins is much more what the Warriors’ have always needed: a great rebounder, an intimidating defender, and an offensive force in the center/power forward position, which the team has never ever had.

It may be luck for the Warriors that Cousins is so misrepresented by the national media. People believe what they want about him based on a few incidents, but I can tell you that they have little basis in fact. I have seen every minute of every game Cousins has played in college and have watched all the local interviews with him. He’s bright, he’s funny, and he is not at all like the national media have portrayed him (as one sees in this post as well). He is, admittedly a little immature, but even here, he is growing up quite rapidly; he is becoming much more savvy around the media and he is dealing with the unfair perception of him by the media quite maturely.

Cousins is experiencing what all great big men experience in college. Just yesterday, Coach Calipari complained to the local press about how Cousins is treated much the way Shaquille was at LSU. There simply are no college front court players who can match up one on one with Cousins; so to slow him down (nobody can stop him), they literally mug him almost every time down the court. Instead of retaliating, Cousins just plays. Watching him play is a bit like watching the young Shaquille play at LSU. He muscles his way through defenders like few college post players I have ever seen and yet plays with more finesse than one would expect from a man his size.

Although the daily wear of playing NBA basketball might be a bit overwhelming for Cousins in his first year in the league, there are few big men out there in the NBA right now who I would be afraid to send Cousins out to play against. He is a superb defender, has tremendous footwork, and a ton of aggression. And the development of his play over the course of his freshmen season has been, to me at least, nothing short of astonishing. He was simply nowhere as good a player in November as he is today and he continues to develop almost every game.

The one large hole in his game right now is that he rarely passes out of the post when double or triple teamed. In part it must be because he realizes that he rarely needs to, that he can still get to the basket (which, unfortunately I can’t say of Patrick Patterson, however much I like his game). It is not that he is a poor passer or makes poor decisions in the post, but he does not yet know how to exploit the double-team other than forcing his way through it.

One never knows how it will all play out, but to me it looks like Cousins’ ceiling is higher than Dwight Howard’s. And if you don’t think that would be good for the Warriors, I don’t know what else one would want.