Prime boogie > prime Duncan Much more dominant Much more talented Just didn't have the luxury of playing for the spurs during one of the best dynasties of all time Tim was a huge piece but if you swap boogie for Tim Duncan I believe the spurs win even more championships then they already did
The crazy thing is that we almost drafted Dame in 2012 but our GM was worried about Jason Thompson's restricted free agency so he drafted Robinson. He then overpays Thompson anyway who the next GM then salary dumps in the move you talked about. This team, man.
I thought the kings drafted Robinson because Thompson did not fit alongside cousins. Even worse, they traded Robinson for Patrick Patterson in the same season 😭
@@ILoveFood654 And they he forgot how to shoot & we traded him to Toronto. He then broke his nose & regained his shot, prompting Mike Malone to say that if he knew that was all it took he'd have broken his nose months ago.
@@ILoveFood654 Rudy Gay would have been best served being a team's 6th man but like their 4th best player; let him get most of his scoring with the 2nd unit where no one needs to get him shots but he's not taking shots away from more efficient players that are maybe less overtly talented.
Probably my craziest nba take ever is that if that pelicans team stayed healthy, they could’ve won a ring. Nobody was beating GSW in 2018, but in 2019 If that roster had stayed together and warriors are still hurt, I think they could’ve made a run. AD, Jrue, and Rondo have all been top 3 players on championship teams since then, and Boogie was unguardable. They swept Portland in 2018, and Portland made it to the WCF in 2019, it’s not out of the question that there’s a universe in which that team wins a ring of boogie doesn’t get hurt
Boogie used to be my favorite player. Despite all his flaws, I knew later in his career he would mature and stop being such a hot head. I just wish we could turn injuries off like in 2k. Injuries robbed us of so many great players.
Kings fan here.. Would love to see him back with us before it’s all over.. I appreciate all that he was for the franchise.. Shouldn’t have EVER traded him for Buddy Hield.. In the off-season no less.. But the Kings did him right by trading him to the Pelicans with another all-star in Davis.. Appreciate the Boogie awareness..
Well, isnt it the Kings mantra to trade everybody who openly talks about wanting to be in Sacramento? Cousins did, they traded him shortly after. Haliburton did this year, and they nearly immediately traded him as well...
Boogie to NO was a HUGE deal, friends and I stayed up all night thinking of the terror in our division as Rockets fans. They were definitely gonna work out, they were a killer duo for a few months up until the injury. Huge what if
They had just started picking it up right before he tore his achilles too , and the way AD , Jrue and Rondo played in the 2018 playoffs , adding Boogie woulda gave the warriors issues
@@HCXWinchester Cousins was also a far better three point shooter though. I’d argue individual shooting triumphs over individual defense in terms of importance
You forgot to mention the last few years in Sac, the ownership was secretly trying to sale and move the Kings to Seattle, which added to all the turmoil. So.. all the different coaches, all the bad draft picks, and the almost move of the franchise certainly had a impact on Demarcus. A very special player.
I’m just glad someone talking about how dirty Sacramento did Boogie w the talent they put around him, AND firing his best coach who is one of the most underrated in the league today
I can’t put into words how upset boogie getting injured was for me, more than even Derrick rose, I’ve accepted drose getting hurt because he is still acknowledge as great, but boogie doesn’t get that closure
It wasn’t an attitude problem, it was a scenery problem. We’re all talking about attitude issues and then he goes to the pels and suddenly there’s no issues. It wasn’t boogie, the kings were hilariously, a worse organization with boogie than they are now. If you were given a blind test, where you weren’t told the name of the superstar or the organization, and you were told the stuff the kings did to boogie, you’d assume they were trying to get him to demand a trade. The only reason the kings could sell the lie that boogie was tough to work with is that he played with all of his heart and wore his emotions on his sleeve when he played
The Kings did him so dirty. And honestly, they deployed him and Evans wrong. Coulda been a great combo but they just made them take up the same space and neutralize their strengths.
@@gotworc cant argue with the fact that the team was mismanaged in general from top to bottom, but let's not all ignore the fact that this man had several extended game suspensions from irrational acts of emotional outbursts on the court, not to mention all the verbal acts on media outpost, and the 2 times he got physical with 2 sacramento media team members.
@@zacmarvel6369 they had no idea how to play to his strengths or pair other players with him, consistently threw him under the bus, kept changing coaches but not visions. Not saying he was a perfect player but he was mishandled, poorly coached and managed, and was prone to being frustrated then thrown into THE MOST frustrating situation possible. The Kings did him dirty.
Great video, Tucker. I can remember boogie in New Orleans. They were playing at such a fast pace that it was only going to be a matter of time before he suffered that Achilles injury.
Did you ever watch the video of the Kings war room during the 2014 NBA Draft? Shareef Abdur Rahim had been the Kings main scout that season and he wanted to go after Zach Lavine or Elfrid Payton. Chris Mullin and Mitch Richmond who were Kings execs also really liked Lavine and it looked like he was their pick. The problem was the owner was in the room with them and he came with a team of Yes Men around him. At some point the owner said "Nik Stauskas" and the entire room EXCEPT for Abdur-Rahim all start nodding their head . Great idea, Nick Stauskas, a good shooter in college who also happens to play the exact same position as their pick from the following season, Ben McLemore. The picked him and Abdur-Rahim resigned on the spot. He had spent an entire year scouting these players and had long since crossed Stauskas off of his list, saying that he would have a lot of issues getting his shot off in the NBA. A season later every single person in that room besides the owner was gone, all resigned for one reason or another but really what it came down to was they couldnt work with an owner who was going to make all the decisions. Eventually Vlade Divac was hired and as much as I like Divac as a player he was basically just a mouthpiece for the owner. It is no wonder why Sacramento, while doing well in a few drafts by finding Hield and Fox, are not in danger of making the playoffs in the foreseeable future.
Dude was an animal in his prime. I remember where I was watching that game against the Rockets on TV when he tore his ACL. Almost got to talk to him at a Big 3 game in Chicago after he signed with the Lakers. Sucks how his career has turned out.
You nailed on the Kings' awfulness. I was a fan during the Chris Webber/Peja Stojakovic days, but like everything else, they just did nothing with it. It became clear by the mid-2000s that the glory days of the late 90s/early 2000s era were gone and not coming back. Meanwhile, I start rooting for the perennial playoff team of the city I had just moved to, the Mavs. That was so worth it. The 2011 title run was incredible.
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I think Adrian Dantley had a really weird career as well, won rookie of the year and then traded by the braves, and then ended up being a scoring champion twice all star 6 times at his 4th team, hall of famer would love to see a video reflecting on some of these older players
I remembering watching the game Boogie got injured and I started crying because I knew it was over. That team was so nice to watch. Jrue, Boogie, and AD.
As a Grizzlies fan, I’m not complaining but I really wanted Boogie to sign with us this past offseason to back up Steven Adams. At this point in his careers he can be a valuable 2nd unit player and spot starter for a lot of teams.
I’m a young NBA Fan who has grown up in a household where basketball is the most important thing. My first real year as a fan was 2016-17 because I remember watching the 2016 finals with my dad and my cousins and being blown away by the comeback LeBron and Company made. I also remember almost crying (being 9 years old) when I heard KD was going to the warriors. That was the first season I got really into it. I was on spot left learning everything about everything about the NBA. I was watching full slates whenever I got the chance. And I remember developing a few favorite players. John Wall, DeMarcus Cousins, Isiah Thomas, Paul George, Gordon Hayward, Klay Thompson, Jimmy Butler, and LeBron. Of these players 6 have had career altering injuries and that isn’t even counting my favorite player for a couple of years Victor Oladipo who also suffered a career altering injury. I seriously think I may just be bad luck.
I started watching basketball the summer before boogie came to New Orleans and decided to be a pelicans fan because they were close to where I lived. I thought I was watching eventual champions and was so sad when boogie went down
I'll go ahead and say it. But Boogie was on his way to a HOF career, and then he got injured. I really hate it for him. He was starting his prime in NO, then it all came crashing down very quickly
To be fair with fredette, he was an amazing college player but the reason he failed at the pros was because he felt he needed the ball on every possession and didn’t want to play as a team which caused him to not perform good
The day he got hurt during that practice in LA I nearly cried bc I knew his career was pretty much a wrap at that point. Boogie was one of my favorite players for the longest. Some players have to deal with injuries throughout their career. Others a bad organization who doesn’t surround them with talent. Others a bad coach. Boogie had to deal with all 3 for literally his entire career. It’s crazy that you made this bc I was just watching that standoff he had with Harden the other night and was thinking about how weird and sad his career turned out to be.
He was surrounded with championship talent in GS and Kerr is a great coach yet Cousins did not impress although many were hoping he would play a big role. He just didn't care.
when he’s talking abt the guards boogie played with in sacramento, really shows you how good they are at waisting and ruing careers with some crazy potential
I remember one of the first games of basketball I ever payed attention to was a warriors playoff game where he played very well in the fourth quarter and I had heard his name but I knew nothing about basketball in general and I was like damn this guy's really good, why didn't he get more minutes
remember boogie beeing switched on to a small quick guard in crunchtime...and he did something ive never seen...he clear picked i believe DJ augustins pocket in isolation and went coast to coast to seal the game...watching him play was beautiful...thx boogie
Boogie is really a double case of "what if": 1) What if he wasn't traded by the Kings? Worst (tied with Wolves?) run franchise of the past 15 years 2) What if he didn't get hurt when in New Orleans? The duo of AD & Cousins was really something scary.
The cousins era is when I really started to watch basketball and start to grasp it more I’m a kings fan and even back then with not great understanding of the game of basketball I could tell that they weren’t getting him any help, I was excited for rondo coming cause it meant some kind of hope but still nothing and then we traded him for buddy which is when I had a good grasp on the game and I was so upset, he was my favorite player and all love to buddy but if we would have just kept cousins and got him some real help his career could have gone so much better
Him to that warriors team if he ever got completely healthy was redic k.d, steph,klay,draymond and a healthy boogie? Yikes to bad he came back and was off if what 2 years of bad injuries.. john wall n cousins played together smh crazy.. dude defin has a wild career story
I still believe that that Pels team would’ve got the best battle to Golden State if Cousins didn’t get hurt. Those two would’ve been a nightmare for that defense without real bigs and right before his injury those two were amazing with Rondo and Holiday.
That was really it, what sunk Boogies career to what it is today is his Achilles injury/other following leg injuries and his reputation with the refs. Got teched a lot because of his reputation and never really changed how often he would get irate with refs even after the injuries and the injuries sapped his jumping making him less of an offensive threat from beyond the arc and less of a defensive threat in the paint.
@@calumwainwright9545 yes he would have. The celtics had the no1 pick that year and traded down with philly to finesse them since they knew that they were picking tatum and fultz was concensus at no1. LA were bullied by hype to pick Lonzo so Tatum wasn't on their radar. Some Mock drafts actually had Tatum lower than Josh Jackson. No way SAC or anyone else in the league doesn't pick fultz with that pick.
Boogie was the most unlucky player possibly in NBA history, or at least of the last decade. So many different moments where you are left asking what could’ve been.
I don’t disagree that the drafts were a flop-but to say they missed all those all stars is hindsight bias. Who’s to say Dame is Dame if he goes to Sacramento? Same with all the others you mentioned. But I learned from and enjoyed this video. Keep it up!
I'm a pelicans fan and i absolutely agree with everything, people seem to forget that even after cousins went down the Pelicans swept the Blazers with a core of AD holiday Rondo and Mirotic. If cousins was healthy we could've given the warriors competition in the 2nd round
Gotta understand the history of the Maloofs to understand the bad management. They went bankrupt because of the palms casino and made terrible decisions year after year. Then kept threatening to move the team.
so the league judges players based on how healthy they are not how good they are. But boogie means scary good, and someone you don't see or hear coming. And that is the definition of what demarcus cousins brings. He is so versatile and can play any position. Before his injury DC was the best center in the game. Six yrs in a row. Dre even said so at the time. It's that fight he has in him, fierce. Sactown to NewOr. And carried GS in the '19 playoffs. He is still, with 30 mins ; 21pt 11reb a game. Boogie means he has unseen power.
Not the most tragic career ever, but certainly left a lot to be desired. Even after Sacramento, once he seemed to finally get his mental stuff under check for the most part, it's like he was cursed. I remember that year on the Pelicans, I was really getting behind the Cousins is an MVP level player talk. Then the Achilles, I think he's torn his ACL twice, at least once. Then the quad, 2-3 different teams with different roles and playstyles. It's not hard to see why he could never be the same player.
Boogie was one of the prototypes for modern day centers and he deserves a lot more recognition
Naw. His ego ruined it for me. Rarely does someone get humbled when they need to but thank god he did.
@@alexhennigh5242 you sound insanely weird
Got DESTROYED EVERY POSESSION by a 38yr old Tim Duncan though. Proves modern Stat padding ain't all that big
@@johnle1535 who didn't get dominated by Duncan??? I'll wait.
Prime boogie > prime Duncan
Much more dominant
Much more talented
Just didn't have the luxury of playing for the spurs during one of the best dynasties of all time
Tim was a huge piece but if you swap boogie for Tim Duncan I believe the spurs win even more championships then they already did
Let’s be real; if the Kings hadn’t dealt the pick swap that became Tatum, they would’ve drafted Josh Jackson anyways knowing the Kings.
True, i wont be surprised if they use that to draft a fisiotherapyst. XD
Ur not even wrong bro. Or we woulda picked another papagiannis anyways
Exactly what I thought. Chris Webber was the last great Kings team. I was in my mid teens
The crazy thing is that we almost drafted Dame in 2012 but our GM was worried about Jason Thompson's restricted free agency so he drafted Robinson. He then overpays Thompson anyway who the next GM then salary dumps in the move you talked about. This team, man.
I thought the kings drafted Robinson because Thompson did not fit alongside cousins. Even worse, they traded Robinson for Patrick Patterson in the same season 😭
@@ILoveFood654 And they he forgot how to shoot & we traded him to Toronto. He then broke his nose & regained his shot, prompting Mike Malone to say that if he knew that was all it took he'd have broken his nose months ago.
@@danielshaltes911 and then traded him along with a decent grevivis Vasquez for Rudy gay, which his play style leads to more losses than wins.
@@ILoveFood654 Rudy Gay would have been best served being a team's 6th man but like their 4th best player; let him get most of his scoring with the 2nd unit where no one needs to get him shots but he's not taking shots away from more efficient players that are maybe less overtly talented.
By 2017 the kings could've had a core of Cousins, Dame and Tatum. What a joke of a franchise.
Probably my craziest nba take ever is that if that pelicans team stayed healthy, they could’ve won a ring. Nobody was beating GSW in 2018, but in 2019 If that roster had stayed together and warriors are still hurt, I think they could’ve made a run. AD, Jrue, and Rondo have all been top 3 players on championship teams since then, and Boogie was unguardable. They swept Portland in 2018, and Portland made it to the WCF in 2019, it’s not out of the question that there’s a universe in which that team wins a ring of boogie doesn’t get hurt
2018 could've been a run for them also. the warriors had no answer for size that was mobile like both of them
@@skinniesANDtitties Raptors wouldve demolished them stop this non sense
@@se78n39 idk about demolished man chill out
@@se78n39 lmfao absolutely not relax
@@griffinlilly9751 2 ppl who dont know shit about basketball^
Boogie used to be my favorite player. Despite all his flaws, I knew later in his career he would mature and stop being such a hot head. I just wish we could turn injuries off like in 2k. Injuries robbed us of so many great players.
Too many
Derrick rose still pains me
I love that Boogie is with Malone again, but I really wished the Bucks had kept him. He deserves a ring.
why does he deserve a ring?
Watch him get one with Denver as a contributor as to being a role player with the bucks
@@bmangrem uhh for working his ass off to come back from like 3 career threatening injuries.
@@raheempryce6159 He won’t be in Denver next season, and Denver’s not winning this year
Denver could be a dark horse to win the chip💯
Kings fan here..
Would love to see him back with us before it’s all over..
I appreciate all that he was for the franchise..
Shouldn’t have EVER traded him for Buddy Hield.. In the off-season no less..
But the Kings did him right by trading him to the Pelicans with another all-star in Davis..
Appreciate the Boogie awareness..
😃😀😃😀
Well, isnt it the Kings mantra to trade everybody who openly talks about wanting to be in Sacramento? Cousins did, they traded him shortly after. Haliburton did this year, and they nearly immediately traded him as well...
@@Smido83 the kings do be kinging
Boogie to NO was a HUGE deal, friends and I stayed up all night thinking of the terror in our division as Rockets fans. They were definitely gonna work out, they were a killer duo for a few months up until the injury. Huge what if
They had just started picking it up right before he tore his achilles too , and the way AD , Jrue and Rondo played in the 2018 playoffs , adding Boogie woulda gave the warriors issues
A lot of the time when Boogie was in New Orleans I thought he was better than AD. He was so dominant offensively, and just packed the stat sheet.
And 0 defense while AD is dpoy caliber player? Its a two way game people.
@@HCXWinchester Cousins was also a far better three point shooter though. I’d argue individual shooting triumphs over individual defense in terms of importance
Lmao no shit he was op
@@HCXWinchester who gives a shit about defense when you're literally the biggest most dominant scoring big man in modern history
@@HCXWinchester soft
You forgot to mention the last few years in Sac, the ownership was secretly trying to sale and move the Kings to Seattle, which added to all the turmoil. So.. all the different coaches, all the bad draft picks, and the almost move of the franchise certainly had a impact on Demarcus. A very special player.
I’m just glad someone talking about how dirty Sacramento did Boogie w the talent they put around him, AND firing his best coach who is one of the most underrated in the league today
I know youll mention it in a video, but Minnesota choosing Wesley Johnson over Gordan Hayward AND Paul George is truly tragic.
Gotta be one of the last “this guy is basically a 3rd year NBA player and isn’t dominating in college” top 5 picks ever
@@SportingLogically for real. Him being 23 and producing subpar numbers should've been an obvious sign.
I can’t put into words how upset boogie getting injured was for me, more than even Derrick rose, I’ve accepted drose getting hurt because he is still acknowledge as great, but boogie doesn’t get that closure
I find it funny how Boogie was all smiles on draft day but after he played for the Kings he was always mean muggin’. 😂
If he didn't have the attitude problem, he could have been a top center. And including that unfortunate injury.
Wdym could’ve been a top center he was the top center until that injury
@@Warrenbtw fr man they forgot Boogie was THAT guy. Boogie in his prime would eat up Jokic and Embiid in the paint.
It wasn’t an attitude problem, it was a scenery problem. We’re all talking about attitude issues and then he goes to the pels and suddenly there’s no issues. It wasn’t boogie, the kings were hilariously, a worse organization with boogie than they are now. If you were given a blind test, where you weren’t told the name of the superstar or the organization, and you were told the stuff the kings did to boogie, you’d assume they were trying to get him to demand a trade. The only reason the kings could sell the lie that boogie was tough to work with is that he played with all of his heart and wore his emotions on his sleeve when he played
For him to barely get MVP talk is crazy, but i guess it does make sense when people don't consider his number when your on a bad team/organization.
he was the best center until getting injured
The Kings did him so dirty. And honestly, they deployed him and Evans wrong. Coulda been a great combo but they just made them take up the same space and neutralize their strengths.
Bro, the kings didnt do him dirty. He was an absolute problem there.
@@zacmarvel6369 because they were a joke and still kind of are. the front office was absolutely terrible the entire time he was there.
@@gotworc cant argue with the fact that the team was mismanaged in general from top to bottom, but let's not all ignore the fact that this man had several extended game suspensions from irrational acts of emotional outbursts on the court, not to mention all the verbal acts on media outpost, and the 2 times he got physical with 2 sacramento media team members.
@@zacmarvel6369 they had no idea how to play to his strengths or pair other players with him, consistently threw him under the bus, kept changing coaches but not visions. Not saying he was a perfect player but he was mishandled, poorly coached and managed, and was prone to being frustrated then thrown into THE MOST frustrating situation possible. The Kings did him dirty.
@@zacmarvel6369 Boogie was far from perfect, which Tucker mentioned in the video, but the Kings created a poor atmosphere for him and other players.
Great video, Tucker. I can remember boogie in New Orleans. They were playing at such a fast pace that it was only going to be a matter of time before he suffered that Achilles injury.
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Did you ever watch the video of the Kings war room during the 2014 NBA Draft?
Shareef Abdur Rahim had been the Kings main scout that season and he wanted to go after Zach Lavine or Elfrid Payton. Chris Mullin and Mitch Richmond who were Kings execs also really liked Lavine and it looked like he was their pick. The problem was the owner was in the room with them and he came with a team of Yes Men around him. At some point the owner said "Nik Stauskas" and the entire room EXCEPT for Abdur-Rahim all start nodding their head . Great idea, Nick Stauskas, a good shooter in college who also happens to play the exact same position as their pick from the following season, Ben McLemore.
The picked him and Abdur-Rahim resigned on the spot. He had spent an entire year scouting these players and had long since crossed Stauskas off of his list, saying that he would have a lot of issues getting his shot off in the NBA.
A season later every single person in that room besides the owner was gone, all resigned for one reason or another but really what it came down to was they couldnt work with an owner who was going to make all the decisions. Eventually Vlade Divac was hired and as much as I like Divac as a player he was basically just a mouthpiece for the owner.
It is no wonder why Sacramento, while doing well in a few drafts by finding Hield and Fox, are not in danger of making the playoffs in the foreseeable future.
Dude was an animal in his prime. I remember where I was watching that game against the Rockets on TV when he tore his ACL. Almost got to talk to him at a Big 3 game in Chicago after he signed with the Lakers. Sucks how his career has turned out.
*Achilles
Great video. Huge Boogie fan, sucks that he got such bad breaks….
I love this content man, awesome channel!
I remember playing 2k11 and the game was trying to make Derrick Favors and Wesley Johnson sound like amazing rookies lmao
Great video I loved boogie I think he would've been in talks with some greats if he was never injured
It's funny that even non sac fans know the feeling we as king fans got that season with malone and boogie.
You nailed on the Kings' awfulness. I was a fan during the Chris Webber/Peja Stojakovic days, but like everything else, they just did nothing with it. It became clear by the mid-2000s that the glory days of the late 90s/early 2000s era were gone and not coming back.
Meanwhile, I start rooting for the perennial playoff team of the city I had just moved to, the Mavs. That was so worth it. The 2011 title run was incredible.
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Prime Boogie was combination of KAT & Bynum. A true imposing force 👊
I want to disagree, but this is so weirdly accurate
More facts
Well put together video. You earned a sub
Prime boogie is my all time favorite player. Man had skill with an attitude to match.
I’ve always liked cousins. Disappointed that his career has been underwhelming, but happy that he’s now on my team.
That boogie AD thing was working really well
Spot on. Great video!
I think Adrian Dantley had a really weird career as well, won rookie of the year and then traded by the braves, and then ended up being a scoring champion twice all star 6 times at his 4th team, hall of famer would love to see a video reflecting on some of these older players
I'm so happy that my Nuggs picked him up. He has been a godsend and finally brought a balance to our struggling bench.
We love these DEEP dive videos.
Awesome work
THEY ALSO GAVE US LUKA LMAOOOO
Who remembers the video of that greasy haired fan screaming at Boogie on the Warriors bench saying he ruined the league for signing there LMAO
Biggest " What IF " NBA history if DeMarcus Cousins not injury in Pelicans
I remembering watching the game Boogie got injured and I started crying because I knew it was over. That team was so nice to watch. Jrue, Boogie, and AD.
As a Grizzlies fan, I’m not complaining but I really wanted Boogie to sign with us this past offseason to back up Steven Adams. At this point in his careers he can be a valuable 2nd unit player and spot starter for a lot of teams.
I’m a young NBA Fan who has grown up in a household where basketball is the most important thing. My first real year as a fan was 2016-17 because I remember watching the 2016 finals with my dad and my cousins and being blown away by the comeback LeBron and Company made. I also remember almost crying (being 9 years old) when I heard KD was going to the warriors. That was the first season I got really into it. I was on spot left learning everything about everything about the NBA. I was watching full slates whenever I got the chance. And I remember developing a few favorite players. John Wall, DeMarcus Cousins, Isiah Thomas, Paul George, Gordon Hayward, Klay Thompson, Jimmy Butler, and LeBron. Of these players 6 have had career altering injuries and that isn’t even counting my favorite player for a couple of years Victor Oladipo who also suffered a career altering injury. I seriously think I may just be bad luck.
I started watching basketball the summer before boogie came to New Orleans and decided to be a pelicans fan because they were close to where I lived. I thought I was watching eventual champions and was so sad when boogie went down
I'll go ahead and say it. But Boogie was on his way to a HOF career, and then he got injured. I really hate it for him. He was starting his prime in NO, then it all came crashing down very quickly
"Kings had the worst 5 year management ever!"
2018-2023 Lakers: Hold my beer!
@Andrey Diaz Mickey mouse ring and only because Kobe passed away or else they don't win, and because covid struct
this was a great video
To be fair with fredette, he was an amazing college player but the reason he failed at the pros was because he felt he needed the ball on every possession and didn’t want to play as a team which caused him to not perform good
I got to see AD and Boogie in Charlotte before he was injured and it was awesome
Crazy how 16.5, 8, 3.5 was, "wasn't able to contribute really in any way" with the Warriors but 8.5, 6, 2 is finding his role with the nuggets lol
I fear Boogie Cousins, met him in person at his comedy show and he’s no joke
Love this man so happy he's on my team such an amazing back up big!!!
I'm a HUGE DeMarcus Cousins fan. I have multiple jerseys of his. I hope he does good with the Nuggets
Cousins was a beast, we need a video on the 2011 draft (redraft)
2010! I did 2011 not long ago
The day he got hurt during that practice in LA I nearly cried bc I knew his career was pretty much a wrap at that point. Boogie was one of my favorite players for the longest. Some players have to deal with injuries throughout their career. Others a bad organization who doesn’t surround them with talent. Others a bad coach. Boogie had to deal with all 3 for literally his entire career. It’s crazy that you made this bc I was just watching that standoff he had with Harden the other night and was thinking about how weird and sad his career turned out to be.
He was surrounded with championship talent in GS and Kerr is a great coach yet Cousins did not impress although many were hoping he would play a big role. He just didn't care.
I was watching him play The Nets and I was thinking how weird his career was then boom this video pops up.
Love your vids, but the title could've just been "Why do the Sacramento Kings exist"?
I hate this franchise more than the Lakers at this point. Last year is it. If they can't make playoffs, I'm done 100%
Fredette was a beast in college. Robinson was a beast at Kansas.
when he’s talking abt the guards boogie played with in sacramento, really shows you how good they are at waisting and ruing careers with some crazy potential
He was my favorites center in the league. I remember arguing with buddies about him.
I remember one of the first games of basketball I ever payed attention to was a warriors playoff game where he played very well in the fourth quarter and I had heard his name but I knew nothing about basketball in general and I was like damn this guy's really good, why didn't he get more minutes
The kings kinda remind me of the Ottawa senators bad management bites you in the ass when you screw up
remember boogie beeing switched on to a small quick guard in crunchtime...and he did something ive never seen...he clear picked i believe DJ augustins pocket in isolation and went coast to coast to seal the game...watching him play was beautiful...thx boogie
There was one center that could do such things, he played 30 years ago in Houston
Boogie was one of my FAVORITE players to watch ball during his sacramento years. If only he was drafted by a competent franchise.
10:24 Can't forget when he was also signed to the 2020 lakers and took a couple squad pics then never played a game
Boogie is really a double case of "what if":
1) What if he wasn't traded by the Kings? Worst (tied with Wolves?) run franchise of the past 15 years
2) What if he didn't get hurt when in New Orleans? The duo of AD & Cousins was really something scary.
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What happened with boogie is still so surprising to me. It was out out of nowhere in the blink of an eye
Has talent but doesn't seem to really care. His time with the Warriors he seemed like a big baby and it was hard to watch.
Prime boogie was a goat
now he’s a youtube prankster
As a pels fan, that Achilles tear changed everything for us.
The cousins era is when I really started to watch basketball and start to grasp it more I’m a kings fan and even back then with not great understanding of the game of basketball I could tell that they weren’t getting him any help, I was excited for rondo coming cause it meant some kind of hope but still nothing and then we traded him for buddy which is when I had a good grasp on the game and I was so upset, he was my favorite player and all love to buddy but if we would have just kept cousins and got him some real help his career could have gone so much better
This season boogie has demolished entire benches
What people don't understand is his numbers went up in every statistical category since he had first entered the NBA.
Until the Achilles injury
This sounds like a Bill Simmons podcast lol
*I think I remember hearing Kevin Durant say Jimmer Fredette was one of the best shooters he's ever seen 😆🤦🏾♂️🤷🏾♂️
Him to that warriors team if he ever got completely healthy was redic k.d, steph,klay,draymond and a healthy boogie? Yikes to bad he came back and was off if what 2 years of bad injuries.. john wall n cousins played together smh crazy.. dude defin has a wild career story
I still believe that that Pels team would’ve got the best battle to Golden State if Cousins didn’t get hurt. Those two would’ve been a nightmare for that defense without real bigs and right before his injury those two were amazing with Rondo and Holiday.
If you play DeMarcus cousins career 10, 15, 20 times.... You're sounding a bit like you're on the Ringer broadcast
Lol
In terms of 4 year peaks, Boogie was one of the best.
Fredette and Robinson were legitimately bad picks draft is a gamble but the book was out in those 2
And his grandson is a very successful social media influencer
He puts up empty stats though. Team never became a playoff team with him
Cousins is one of the most unluckiest players in nba history.
Him and isiah thomas
That was really it, what sunk Boogies career to what it is today is his Achilles injury/other following leg injuries and his reputation with the refs. Got teched a lot because of his reputation and never really changed how often he would get irate with refs even after the injuries and the injuries sapped his jumping making him less of an offensive threat from beyond the arc and less of a defensive threat in the paint.
No matter how he plays these days he still has the coolest nickname in all of basketball. Boogie. That's a hard one to beat.
He gonna be back
6:26 let's be real. If the Kings still had that pick they'd have taken Fultz in a heartbeat.
Fultz wouldn’t have been on the board
@@calumwainwright9545 yes he would have. The celtics had the no1 pick that year and traded down with philly to finesse them since they knew that they were picking tatum and fultz was concensus at no1. LA were bullied by hype to pick Lonzo so Tatum wasn't on their radar. Some Mock drafts actually had Tatum lower than Josh Jackson. No way SAC or anyone else in the league doesn't pick fultz with that pick.
Boogie was the most unlucky player possibly in NBA history, or at least of the last decade. So many different moments where you are left asking what could’ve been.
Nice video
Rondo and Boogie was a trip
How about DeMarcus Cousins III ??
Boogie had a 3 year stretch where he was unguardable
I don’t disagree that the drafts were a flop-but to say they missed all those all stars is hindsight bias. Who’s to say Dame is Dame if he goes to Sacramento? Same with all the others you mentioned. But I learned from and enjoyed this video. Keep it up!
I'm a pelicans fan and i absolutely agree with everything, people seem to forget that even after cousins went down the Pelicans swept the Blazers with a core of AD holiday Rondo and Mirotic. If cousins was healthy we could've given the warriors competition in the 2nd round
Gotta understand the history of the Maloofs to understand the bad management. They went bankrupt because of the palms casino and made terrible decisions year after year. Then kept threatening to move the team.
so the league judges players based on how healthy they are not how good they are. But boogie means scary good, and someone
you don't see or hear coming. And that is the definition of what demarcus cousins brings. He is so versatile and can play any position. Before his injury DC was the best center in the game. Six yrs in a row. Dre even said so at the time. It's that fight he has in him, fierce. Sactown to NewOr. And carried GS in the '19 playoffs. He is still, with 30 mins ; 21pt 11reb a game. Boogie means he has unseen power.
Not the most tragic career ever, but certainly left a lot to be desired. Even after Sacramento, once he seemed to finally get his mental stuff under check for the most part, it's like he was cursed. I remember that year on the Pelicans, I was really getting behind the Cousins is an MVP level player talk. Then the Achilles, I think he's torn his ACL twice, at least once. Then the quad, 2-3 different teams with different roles and playstyles. It's not hard to see why he could never be the same player.
I unfortunately, live in a market that shows kings basketball. Boogie was the only thing that made it watchable for YEARS.
He did really well in Milwaukee we shouldn't have let him go