The Rise and Fall of Demarcus Cousins
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- Опубликовано: 10 фев 2025
- Demarcus Cousins is one of the most talented bigs to ever touch a basketball, and he is currently sitting on his couch in his early thirties. The story of Boogie Cousins has many ups and many downs and today we tackle them all.
I will NEVER forget the John wall, cousins days. I live in Lexington still. 25 years old now. Was 12 in 2010. I remember the WHOLE school doing the “John wall” dance. I went to Bryan station on east end of lex.
LOVE your videos man!! Keep grindin homie💪🏾💯
Station Nation 💚💛
My step dad was on the team that won the little league World Series in the 70’s ! We used to go to Lexington once or twice a year to see my granny ! Got to play ball in an empty rupp arena back in the tubby smith days! My step dads name in mark forenback.
No wonder Lexington is such a Black shit-hole.
That Kentucky team was insane. It’s the team that got me into college ball
Wish he never suffered that injury. We could be seeing one of the best centers in the league now.
the best
Lmao😂
@@ii-kingfancy-ll3915 clearly you have never watched prime cousins.
He was to dumb😂😂
Boogie was absolutely ballin’ out on the Pels when he got hurt
Tyreek hill was always my favorite kings player
It's tyreek Evans.
Kings legend
@@alajuwonhiggins8865 lol he’s joking. The dude making this video called him Tyreke hill instead of evans 😂
@@swishcountyproductions make a video on him
To be fair I'd probably take Tyreke Hill over many Kings players of the past 😅
Demarcus Cousins and John Wall are two of the players that really got me into basketball. I lived just outside Lexington my whole life and my mom was a diehard UK fan but I only ever followed or played baseball. I knew Wall and Cousins off pure name recognition in our hometown though and when they went to the NBA I’d see them from time to time on the TV just DESTROYING competition and it made me so proud. Wish the league would’ve given Boogie and Wall both more of a chance these last 3 or so seasons. They still have a lot to offer a team.
They both don’t have a lot to offer
7:26 the irony of these players is most scouts/GMs didn’t really expect them to be what they became. Which says a lot about how often they can hit or miss with theses picks. 😅
Also it’s pretty funny how well mike coached cousins and now he’s coaching a even better version in jokic.
DeMarcus loved Mike Malone as his coach. When the kings fired him, he was like wtf????
Yeah that’s very true, think the drafting issue could also be a development issue in hiding
It's one of those fun examples of being right and wrong at the same time.
Cousins became better than what you would have thought and the Kings didn't do him any favours, but the temperament suggests that he would have been better suited as a Draymond-esque enforcer than a true first option on a winning team.
A bad attitude can stifle your life and trajectory. This guy is a masterpiece example of that. Dominant player but emotionally unstable creature...
Just dawned on me.....Both Sacramento players Boogie & Isaiah Thomas were inches away from HUGE paydays before injuries. WOW!! Boogies Achilles and Isaiahs hip. Damn
Became a kings fan when I saw them play live against the clippers, cousins was one of the reasons I stayed a fan
underrated channel! keep going brother.
Preciate that man, thank you!!!
Agreed!
Boogie should be in the league, he's 2-3 years past his 2 recent injuries an played well for the Nuggets, even post a double double in a stsrt for the Joker, definitely should be playing nba ball.
Na let his big baby ass sit at home
He looked decent on the nuggets for sure also on the clippers.
Love the hard work and number of videos you put out. Keep improving the editing, and you'll be 👌 I expect to see you at least at 50k subs by the end of the year. Love the content
Preciate that man, enjoying every bit of the process!
@Swish County i think if you keep doing vids like this, you'll continue to grow. Obviously stay diverse, you never wanna be a one trick pony, but making videos on some forgotten stars, like Boogie, is a good concept, and very entertaining
Demarcus Cousins was the personification of the Sacramento Kings
I think of Chris Webber 🤷🏿♂️
He was sweet AF but an emotional infant (the clips of Dunkin just Schooling him will always be my favorite memory of him)
Emotional lesbian
@@MIGGYME1 lol Dunkin made him so mad. Cousins thought he was sweet at first, scored a couple buckets on him and then Dunkin proceeded to destroy him and make him lose his mind. (You don't F with "The Big fundamental" Tim Dunkin
Holy Christ it’s Tim Duncan 🪨
Boogie had his run. A lot of great bigs careers have been cut down due to lower leg and/or back injuries. Yao, Sampson, D Howard, Larry Bird, etc real basketball fans will remember his reign during the early to mid 2010s.
D Howard was fine. He recover from the injury. The problem is his game nvr evolved
@@choosiseng8651 Howard still managed to play after injuries but he was a different player. He relied on his Uber athleticism to put up all star stats. He even fell out of dpoy discussions afterwards, defense being his bread and butter.
@@choosiseng8651 lol no dipshit 😂😂
@@choosiseng8651 those back injuries he had before getting traded to LA cost lot of his game like athleticism.
He was the top 10 most talented big I’ve seen frfr
Just found your channel. I love your videos man! Super cool how you really deep dive guys careers. This channel will have 100k subs soon, def has that vibe
Means a lot man, thanks for the kind words!
Sadly I watched about every game cousins played in sac. He was in sac for a tough era for sure but he didn’t do himself any favors. He wasted about 2 fouls a game for the first 5 years of his career fouling people after he missed a shot. If he didn’t foul that player, he would yell at the refs and miss out on playing defense on the other side of the floor. And for whatever reason when the basket was made, he always grabbed the ball out of the net and handed it to the other team, rather than just letting it go and playing D. I’d say he cost the kings about 10 points a game by just being an absolute fool on the above issues plus getting T’d up. The stats were there, and he worked hard to get rebounds. He was and still is a very polished offensive player, but as the game moved away from the basket , he was basically the dinosaur right next to the meteor when it hit the Earth. All in all this guy cost himself about $200 million in salary because he was a jerk. Kings bailed on him and he never got the max deal. Then injuries hit and as of 2023 he’s nothing more than a boarder line NBA player.
His biggest issue was his attitude problem. That’s the reason he fell to us at 5 in the draft. They thought he would mature but he never did. I remember getting court side tickets 3 rows back from the court one game. He had an attitude with EVERYONE the entire game! Including his teammates. I remember his teammates constantly tried cheering him up the entire game but it wasn’t working. They were patting him on the back and he was shoving their arms out of his way.
Exactly.. He also ran guys off of the team and alienated himself from the media.. He was a great community guy though, but this dude and everyone else is acting like it's all on us... They finally saw after we traded him
@@grammysworld5449 what guys did he ran off the team exactly, he had no one to play with besides it, evans was clear rotation player by the team he left and there was no one else who was even a good 6th man that was on your team, and the kings couldn’t draft couldn’t develop anyone and oh ye consultancy had top 5 worst coaches in the league during his time this is all on your team buddy
@eddieblack3767 please don't tag me if you don't know what you're talking about.. Go cope somewhere else, I don't have time for the paragraphs needed go correct your misinformation "buddy"
@@eddieblack3767 also Sacramento IMMEDIATELY had a better record than we ever had with Boogie with the exact same front office.. Go sit in the corner until the adults are done talking man
@@grammysworld5449 Who did he run off 😂
That Summoning Salt music at the end.... Lol. I was like, "Wait, what am I watching?"
The goat of outros
Love ur videos man, always find a video of yours that answers a question that i happened to be thinking about recently 😂 u deserve more subs
preciate ya g
I love through the whole vidoes you make you show highlights of the player even when your saying their weaknesses as players an I think you keep it 💯. Keep up the good work bro an I love how you always positive
Thanks for the love man!!!
A lot of the information on this WAS WRONG.
@@blowc1612 so educate us an or explain
@@darth_uchiha8853 if I need to explain a lot of wrong information about cousins, means you don't know enough about basketball to explain it. I followed Cousins career closely as a Kings fan and liked his game a lot but he contributed a lot as to why may of Kings picks didnt pan out. Also Marquis Chriss was not a Kings pick. Also acting like Kings were drafting bad the whole time just because they didn't know how to draft using hindsight, many of the Kings pick in this period is justified at the time. Also saying Giannis should had been drafted by the Kings is straight nonsense. Even the bucks knew he was a project and didnt know he would pan out. Also saying Kings made a terrible trade by trading cousins buddy is nonsnse. Kings has a hard time getting a good deal because of his attitude and Kings 100% did the right thing, I was mad at the time, but quickly understood that paying cousins the super max for 5 years was a terrible idea when Cousins never shown signs of maturity.
@@blowc1612 by man
I just want to say, Jimmer Ferdette was ON TOP OF THE WORLD back then. He was the clear number one pick that year. Hindsight was 20/20 100%.
This was a much needed video man. Thanks for such quality content 🙏🏾
Preciate that, thanks for watching!
Just subscribed after watching 2 videos I’m a fan
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One of my favorite big men since the 2000s.
This dude could've been a top 25 player off all time. He had that ability and talent. He is the modern day Derrick Coleman, 💯%
Then you didn't watch derrick coleman 😂
Still a legend. NBA didn’t want him to be great. It’s no secret.
.... keep playing that victim card.. fkin GINNER.
Much of most sport is mental. All the talent in the world won't cover up mental weakness and you'll just be added to the long list of gifted athletes that didn't have "it"
So naturally gifted
5:30 did you say tyreke hill? I’m pretty sure you meant to say evans but maybe I heard this wrong idk. Good video. Loved watching wall and cousins together that team was fun
Whoops lmao good catch
@@swishcountyproductions close enough 🤣
was looking for someone else that caught this 😂 tyreek hill and boogie on the same team someone gettin they ass beat fr
Cousins was the shit!!! Crazy skilled for such a big guy. He was the closest thing I have seen to shaq. Very very dominant!!
Lol what
He says he got his front teeth knocked out four times in high school like it’s nothing. And just keeps talking 😂 😭
Had stuff to cover bro lmao
Watching that boogie injury live was painful, great vid mane!
Glad you enjoyed!!
Really enjoying your channel my man 👍
Preciate that a lot man thank you!!
Good video. Should also note that Kings management told the players (all of whom wanted GK gone) that he would be fired by AS break. There are also people lying about him running off guys like Seth, which could not be further from the truth. George Karl was talking trash about that team and telling guys like Seth that they wouldn't be in the league in a few years, and Cousins would publicly go against that. GK also tried to get people in the Kings media fired for criticizing him because he was so terrible at his job. People still trying to blame him for the Kings constant and repeated failures are beyond clueless.
I remember Sacramento loved this guy and was actually happy when he got traded
I don't understand why the Los Angeles Lakers don't sign DeMarcus Cousins to vet minimum. The one position on the roster that they are NOT three deep is center.
Add to that the fact that his old teammate Anthony Davis is still there, and more injury prone than ever, and this should be a no-brainer. In fact, the Lakers did work out Boogie about a month or two ago, so I feel like something weird is going on behind the scenes. 🏀
*Boogie as an individual player would’ve been legendary without the injury.*
Revived the position in a lot of ways
I've wished the Sixers would sign him the last two years but we got DeAndre Jordan, Montrezl Harrell & Dewayne Dedmond. Awesome. 2nd round exit here we come 😩
once Boogie Cousins went down in 2017-18 , that Achilles tear was absolutely went downhill for sure 100%%%%
I think the only part of the kings story you missed was that when they traded boogie they were on pace to lose their 1st round pick. By trading and tanking they could have drafted Fox and Donavan Mitchell… but they traded down and took Justin Jackson and Harry Giles.
And both became serious bums😂
Lol oddly enough that 10th pick we traded for was Malik monk who’s now a king having a career year
@@pirateslifeforme I thought it was Zack Collins?
That 10th pick became Monk. We would had been Fox and Monk. I wanted Monk
@@BoatsNhoes824 Giles had too many injuries. Jackson has a ring.
I remember seeing him with Jidion man it’s so sad the coaches wasted his potential and his injuries
Nice job, I'm glad I caught the premiere. I hope Boogie ends up a role player somewhere...
Preicate you watching man, it's sad that it's come to that point
He could’ve turned into what Jokic is 🤯
In that recruiting class, NC State finished second for Cousins, Wall, and Derrick Favors. It hurts
I'm still mad that UAB wouldn't guarantee him & Bledsoe the ability to transfer if the coach at the time was fired or left. They both wanted to stay home and I wanted to see UAB with both of them
Hell yeah. You already did one on Demarcus Cousins. lol
Feel so old 💔
The bullet part has me cryinngg
Perfect segway to the rise and fall of john wall
thank you for making a video about one of my fav players!
instants subscribe :D
Thank you too!
@jameskobo9980 do we have scammers on yt now lmao
Trying to get rid of them all shits super annoying
He was definitely blacked balled
What him and AD could've been, if he didnt tear his Achilles, we would've re-signed him, and would've been a matchup nightmare for years.
Great video man
Great video bro earned a new sub 🔥
Preciate you man👊
Prime Demarcus cousins was a problem in Sacramento 😢🔥
Need to do one on Montrezl harrel
We’re finally landing by home is the song at the end
Great video
Thanks!
Good video young man..
Thanks for watching!
As a nuggets fan, just wanna thank the kings for Michael Malone…he got us the 1 seed. 😂
Cousins on the nuggets was great. His temper was in check, because of Malone of course, but ever since his injuries, he was so immobile, it was sad to see when remembering his kings days. Injuries suck, I’m sure if it wasn’t for the leg injuries, he’d still be playing…at least in China lol
Was cool to see them back together, kinda funny how similar jokic and boogies skill sets were
As a kings fan I was pissed when they fired Malone. It was one of the only coaches boogie got along with. I remember we were doing well heading into the season and boogie got some kind of illness and missed like 12 games. We lost most those games and By the time he came back we had a losing record and they had fired Malone.
‘14: Zack Lavine, JOKER (But everybody missed on him)
‘15: Myles Turner, and Devin Booker
‘16: Sabonis, Siakam, DJ.Murray, Brogdon
The almost Kings roster is elite
Lmao woulda gone 82-0
I remember boogie was set to be the highest paid player at the time at like 219 million with that super max. Instead vlade divac traded him for a bag of chips. One of the worst trades in nba history but then again if we signed him at the super max we would have been screwed too because that was the beginning of his downfall.
9:41 andddd Michael Jordan took that personal and made sure to claim that title too lol
He being blacklisted. Still better than most centers in the NBA
Tyreke hill was one of the fastest players in nba history wish it would have worked out
Good stuff bro
Appreciate it bruh
It sounds crazy to say now, but i remember everyone saying to just cancel the season when cousins joined the warriors. And they didn’t even win that year
Shoutout to Coach Allen
Our son Rochelle is in Stockton California
Glad I'm not the only one who's made the mistake of calling Tyreke Evans, Tyreek Hill lol
Did I thought what Demarcus Cousins did @ 13:18? 😂😂😂
Dude could’ve been a hockey star .
Lmao
How do you have less than 10k subs,i was so surprised when i saw that. Kepp it up mate,no doubt your channel will get big
Preciate that man!!
He can help so many teams right now man.. I get that his behavior his holding him back but man, no NBA team is willing to give him a 10 day? It’s insane and it shows that he’s being blackballed by the NBA because he’s still that guy
No he can't. Teams being trying him out. Even reunited with Malone.
He isn't being black balled. He had multiple 10 day contract last year. He played for Nuggets and Bucks. He just can't do anything and still has an attitude problem and can't guard anyone.
@@blowc1612 He’s one of the best backup Centers in the league you don’t know what you’re talking about… His behavior is literally the only problem
@@sandyscheeks9624 you have no clue what you're talking about. He is one of the worst defenders, if your back up can't defend they're not worth it. Like I said both Nuggets and Bucks tried him out last year. Didn't work.
He had the potential to be the next CWebb. Just didn't figure out how to find a home
If it wasn't for the injury on the pelicans he would be top 15 today
Did he say "Tyreke Hill"?? 😂🤣 Close enough, I guess. 5:35
Kings legend tyreke hill😈
I miss the boogie era
He's a 20-10 player in 30 minutes a game. He played 654 games. HoF numbers. Per 36 he's even more crazy, obviously.
Yeah he was on track forsure, don’t think he’s got a big enough case right now for it unfortunately
I hear some Jon Bois influence with that outro music.
The goat
Single parent homes breed monsters. Sometimes the monsters can get tamed but many times they don’t.
5:31 Tyreke Evans, not Hill🤣🤣
Lol no idea why I said that never mixed them up in my life before I recorded this
dude got a FREE ring from the lakers
Actually if the Kings didn't draft Demarcus, Kings would still rise. He destroyed the team chemistry of the Kings. Attitude issues can be a problem for the team. Paul Westphal tried to change the culture. They were on the rise until Demarcus destroyed. Toxic, volatile player.
Suscrbing simply because you used an Icytwat beat in the background
you're missing a lot of context with the pre-2014 Sacramento Kings literally unable to pay players and actively tanking the team to force relocation
Do Timofey Mozgov, my favorite player. I don't care what anyone else says
Cousins is the Jamis Winston of the NBA.
I forgot about that team, How did that Kentucky team not win a championship 🏆
Because they lost.
if sacremento was smart, they'd bring boogey in for some capacity, that would coax some old fans back....he is part of the history......
Him and John Wall with injuries ruining their careers. What if they never had those injuries? What if they remained healthy? It’s sad for both of those guys great talents ruined by injuries.
If boogie dont get injured him and AD were a deadly duo
I recon, Cousins was a great player but also I never liked his attitude. I blame the Kings management for wasting his best years with mediocre teams, who knows what his ceiling would've looked like if it wasn't for the injuries? 🤷
Also kings dodged a bullet by trading cousins. If we would had kept cousins, Kings would had to give him 50mil for 5 years contract. Glad we traded him and was able to draft Fox.
How is DJ still in the league and not Boogie?
It's a crime that this man isn't in the league right now. Same with Dwight, Rondo, and Melo. I would take Rondo over CP0 rings any day. The league is so trash right now
Youth is king right now
I remember Damian working out with the Kings and they not drafting him due to having Thomas AND THEN TRADE IT. Absolute worse franchise of the 2010s.
The bad thing about the kings trading IT was that they let him go and did a sign and trade with phoenix in return they got some dude named Alex Oriakhi who only appeared in the summer league but went overseas.
Boogie was like a poor man’s Jokic , he had the positives of Jokic just on a smaller less efficient scale with more athleticism and power
a less rich man's Jokic I'd say. All in all Jokic put it together better but Boogie's still kinda a what if sadly
"This is ridikilis, things are getting ridikilis".
At 5:31...what is Tyreek Hill doing in the NBA? I believe that's Tyreke Evans who you wanted to mention.
Good video but this was a notable mistake
Never mixed them up in my life until I recorded this lol no idea why I was thinking that
@@swishcountyproductions You seemed to notice but powered through. Overall I enjoyed the video and I will be looking for more content from your channel.
Preciate that Kyle, thank you!!
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You can call the kings front office bad at drafting but, imo, there's only a few teams that have been good. Those old spurs teams that drafted manu and Tony Parker, and kawhi The warriors who drafted Steph, Klay, Draymond and Poole. There a reason we see the same guys year after year in the all-star game. The average NBA career is only 5 years.