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If you liked our report regarding Draymond Green’s recent appearance on a podcast hosted by Portland Trail Blazers guard CJ McCollum, this is your lucky day.
There was so much on that bone that we saved some for leftovers. Today’s take: DeMarcus Cousins.
Green forged a bond with Cousins shortly after Boogie signed with the Warriors this past summer. Perhaps it’s because they are cut from the same cloth: big, strong, intense, fearless, fiery and prone to technical fouls — sometimes to excess.
Anyway, here is Cousins in a (really big) nutshell, according to Green:
“The way I look at DeMarcus is very similar to some of these big cities. You look at some of these big cities that are known for tourism or tourist attractions. If you turn on the news, the only things you see about those big cities are those great things that are happening. What you don’t see is all the gang violence and the drug violence that’s also going on in the city. They don’t tell you about that because (they want) you still come and tour that big city.”
A bit confused? Never fear. Green brings it back around.
“With DeMarcus, they don’t tell you all the good positive things he’s doing and the great person he is. They tell you about the techs, they tell you about, ‘Oh, he got mad at this play. He got mad at that play. He did this wrong. He did that wrong.’
“They don’t tell you about all the great things that’s going on with him. And so he’s kind of the opposite of what they do with big cities, but very similar in the way it’s operated.”
That’s a shrewd, if meandering, message about the folly of preconceived notions.
But for me, the best part of Green’s presentation is the potential for a killer alternate nickname for Cousins:
“Big City”
You heard it here first.
