Zach Lowe " DeMarcus Cousins ruined Nik Stauskas"

Prince187 · Post #1 » by **Prince187** » Wed Feb 22, 2017 12:22 am

Zach "The stories about Demarcus Cousins berating Nik Stauskas. Threatening to fight Nik Stauskas on the plane to China." Windhorst "He's getting hounded and bullied everyday by Demarcus, I felt bad for him." From Zach Lowe's podcast around 17 mins and on, http://www.espn.com/espnradio/play?id=18725359.

I don't remember hearing anything about this at the time. Does anyone have any details or stories they can share about how Cousins used to treat his teammates ?

Post #2 » by **City of Trees** » Wed Feb 22, 2017 12:23 am

I don't recall hearing about the flight to China but I do remember how DeMarcus would yell at Nik on the court.

I'd recommend Garrett Temple and Anthony Tolliver's twitter timelines to anyone wondering what 2017 Boogie is like with teammates
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Dr Aki · Post #3 » by **Dr Aki** » Wed Feb 22, 2017 12:25 am

so is DeMarcus a bully?

Roseability · Post #4 » by **Roseability** » Wed Feb 22, 2017 12:26 am

God forbid a teammate yelled at him. His career is over.

Zenith · Post #5 » by **Zenith** » Wed Feb 22, 2017 12:28 am

Roseability wrote:God forbid a teammate yelled at him. His career is over.

Seriously, you can't ruin someone who's not on the way to ruining themselves anyways.

Devassa · Post #6 » by **Devassa** » Wed Feb 22, 2017 12:30 am

"1... 2... 3... Nick rocks"

shawn_hemp · Post #7 » by **shawn_hemp** » Wed Feb 22, 2017 12:33 am

Don't people usually get on someone's case when they think they are capable of being better?

Not saying Cousins is a saint, far from it, but Stauskas is who he is.

It's not like a known loud-mouth berating him made him suck

If he let someone else's comments dictate his performance than he was never going to be good in the first place

dorkestra · Post #8 » by **dorkestra** » Wed Feb 22, 2017 12:35 am

I dont know about the situation, but bullying makes me sad, so I hope it isn't true.

Prince187 · Post #9 » by **Prince187** » Wed Feb 22, 2017 12:35 am

Roseability wrote:God forbid a teammate yelled at him. His career is over.

Again I'd really like some more details but from what I understand it was far from yelling at him on the court. He was extremely cruel and mean to him off the court. I heard there was a rumor that Cousins once made a rookie cry and that rookie was supposedly Stauskas

mesomorph · Post #10 » by **mesomorph** » Wed Feb 22, 2017 12:36 am

i bet all rookies were bullied year after year. this may be the reason why kings wanted to get rid of him. It is not possible to build a team where the best player who suppose to be a leader of the team spend his time bullying the rest of the teammates.
Good luck for pellicans lol

Dr Aki · Post #11 » by **Dr Aki** » Wed Feb 22, 2017 12:38 am

Watch on YouTube

shawn_hemp · Post #12 » by **shawn_hemp** » Wed Feb 22, 2017 12:38 am

Isaiah Thomas was a rookie on the Kings

He turned out ok.

jackwindham · Post #13 » by **jackwindham** » Wed Feb 22, 2017 12:41 am

Thomas and Stauskas are two different people. Some can handle themselves better than others. Thomas obviously has that desire to be great.

Arsenal · Post #14 » by **Arsenal** » Wed Feb 22, 2017 12:46 am

shawn_hemp wrote:Isaiah Thomas was a rookie on the Kings

He turned out ok.

He also gave Ainge and Stevens the inside dirt on what a POS Cousins is, which is why they had ZERO interest in him.

Post #15 » by **KF10** » Wed Feb 22, 2017 12:46 am

Watch on YouTube

MotownMadness · Post #16 » by **MotownMadness** » Wed Feb 22, 2017 12:46 am

Post #17 » by **KF10** » Wed Feb 22, 2017 12:47 am

Watch on YouTube

shawn_hemp · Post #18 » by **shawn_hemp** » Wed Feb 22, 2017 12:50 am

jackwindham wrote:Thomas and Stauskas are two different people. Some can handle themselves better than others. Thomas obviously has that desire to be great.

I guess there is a fine line between hazing rookies and making them feel unwelcome.

All I'm trying to say is: Stauskas hasn't made any big strides since joining the Sixers, so I don't think you can blame Cousins for his lack of progress.

You can blame Cousins for being an ***hole, but not for holding Stauskas back.

Mirotic12 · Post #19 » by **Mirotic12** » Wed Feb 22, 2017 12:52 am

mesomorph wrote:i bet all rookies were bullied year after year. this may be the reason why kings wanted to get rid of him. It is not possible to build a team where the best player who suppose to be a leader of the team spend his time bullying the rest of the teammates.
Good luck for pellicans lol

Probably just rookies he thought he could bully. I seriously doubt Cousins was bullying a monster like Papagiannis for example.

ShazamDaShiznt · Post #20 » by **ShazamDaShiznt** » Wed Feb 22, 2017 12:54 am

even some of the all time greats used to bully their teammates, especially Mike, and no one has a problem with that. If Boogie starts winning lotta games with the Pelicans they will forget about that too. If not then they will continue this boogie is the biggest nba evil narrative.

I wonder how often the media talks about boogie giving back to sacramento community, cause he gave a lot, but seems like those news are not interesting to anyone