I’d believe Kenny Payne would get the best version of Boogie

martin wrote:

EwingsGlass wrote:I’d certainly take a flyer on him. His Per 36 numbers are a bit more telling. He is shooting a bit too much from 3. I think you compare him to Taj Gibson and I think he makes the 10 man rotation. Available basically for free. I rejected that call to give him 15mm, but at 2.3mm I’m a buyer all day. We have use it or lose it money, so, I might even give him the 5m Noel got to incentivize him.

I’d believe Kenny Payne would get the best version of Boogie

Turning back the clock 5 years is the only way to get the best version of Boogie. He lacks any type of lateral movement (ie defense) and he is a black hole on Offense.

Do we need to be reminded who is the coach and who much he loves defense and players like Nerlens and Taj?

I hear you. I hate his face. Literally. I can’t stand the face he makes when he gets a foul. But for 2.3mm I think he is an upgrade over Taj in terms of per minute production. For 20 minutes a game, his production isn’t bad. His defensive WS are good. His Defensive Plus/Minus is good. He is a no risk upgrade over the bottom of the bench at a time when our starting C is injured.

All of this may be moot, cause unless he is dying to reunite with Kenny Payne, we are looking at a guy that will be signing with LA or Brooklyn to get a ring.

I’d be inclined to offer him the starting job until Robinson returns and see if that is enough for him to want to rehab his career. He is 30 years old, quite a bit banged up, but still can make another decent contract if he can put it together.

EwingsGlass wrote:

martin wrote:

EwingsGlass wrote:I’d certainly take a flyer on him. His Per 36 numbers are a bit more telling. He is shooting a bit too much from 3. I think you compare him to Taj Gibson and I think he makes the 10 man rotation. Available basically for free. I rejected that call to give him 15mm, but at 2.3mm I’m a buyer all day. We have use it or lose it money, so, I might even give him the 5m Noel got to incentivize him.

I’d believe Kenny Payne would get the best version of Boogie

Turning back the clock 5 years is the only way to get the best version of Boogie. He lacks any type of lateral movement (ie defense) and he is a black hole on Offense.

Do we need to be reminded who is the coach and who much he loves defense and players like Nerlens and Taj?

I hear you. I hate his face. Literally. I can’t stand the face he makes when he gets a foul. But for 2.3mm I think he is an upgrade over Taj in terms of per minute production. For 20 minutes a game, his production isn’t bad. His defensive WS are good. His Defensive Plus/Minus is good. He is a no risk upgrade over the bottom of the bench at a time when our starting C is injured.

All of this may be moot, cause unless he is dying to reunite with Kenny Payne, we are looking at a guy that will be signing with LA or Brooklyn to get a ring.

I’d be inclined to offer him the starting job until Robinson returns and see if that is enough for him to want to rehab his career. He is 30 years old, quite a bit banged up, but still can make another decent contract if he can put it together.

BigDaddyG wrote:

Welpee wrote:

EwingsGlass wrote:

martin wrote:

EwingsGlass wrote:I’d certainly take a flyer on him. His Per 36 numbers are a bit more telling. He is shooting a bit too much from 3. I think you compare him to Taj Gibson and I think he makes the 10 man rotation. Available basically for free. I rejected that call to give him 15mm, but at 2.3mm I’m a buyer all day. We have use it or lose it money, so, I might even give him the 5m Noel got to incentivize him.

I’d believe Kenny Payne would get the best version of Boogie

Turning back the clock 5 years is the only way to get the best version of Boogie. He lacks any type of lateral movement (ie defense) and he is a black hole on Offense.

Do we need to be reminded who is the coach and who much he loves defense and players like Nerlens and Taj?

I hear you. I hate his face. Literally. I can’t stand the face he makes when he gets a foul. But for 2.3mm I think he is an upgrade over Taj in terms of per minute production. For 20 minutes a game, his production isn’t bad. His defensive WS are good. His Defensive Plus/Minus is good. He is a no risk upgrade over the bottom of the bench at a time when our starting C is injured.

All of this may be moot, cause unless he is dying to reunite with Kenny Payne, we are looking at a guy that will be signing with LA or Brooklyn to get a ring.

I’d be inclined to offer him the starting job until Robinson returns and see if that is enough for him to want to rehab his career. He is 30 years old, quite a bit banged up, but still can make another decent contract if he can put it together.

Taj's value is more in the locker room than on the court. And people need to come to grips with the fact that the old Cousins is done. Three teams took a chance on him and got nothing out of him. He's more of a three point shooter than a low post threat now. Cousins wouldn't help us.

He's a 33% three point shooter. The Knicks are o e if the few teams where that would be considered good

EwingsGlass wrote:

martin wrote:

EwingsGlass wrote:

martin wrote:

EwingsGlass wrote:I’d certainly take a flyer on him. His Per 36 numbers are a bit more telling. He is shooting a bit too much from 3. I think you compare him to Taj Gibson and I think he makes the 10 man rotation. Available basically for free. I rejected that call to give him 15mm, but at 2.3mm I’m a buyer all day. We have use it or lose it money, so, I might even give him the 5m Noel got to incentivize him.

I’d believe Kenny Payne would get the best version of Boogie

Turning back the clock 5 years is the only way to get the best version of Boogie. He lacks any type of lateral movement (ie defense) and he is a black hole on Offense.

Do we need to be reminded who is the coach and who much he loves defense and players like Nerlens and Taj?

I hear you. I hate his face. Literally. I can’t stand the face he makes when he gets a foul. But for 2.3mm I think he is an upgrade over Taj in terms of per minute production. For 20 minutes a game, his production isn’t bad. His defensive WS are good. His Defensive Plus/Minus is good. He is a no risk upgrade over the bottom of the bench at a time when our starting C is injured.

All of this may be moot, cause unless he is dying to reunite with Kenny Payne, we are looking at a guy that will be signing with LA or Brooklyn to get a ring.

I’d be inclined to offer him the starting job until Robinson returns and see if that is enough for him to want to rehab his career. He is 30 years old, quite a bit banged up, but still can make another decent contract if he can put it together.

All of it moot because Thibs ****ing LOVES Taj and the fact that despite the small sample sized stats that may look good, in reality Cousins is a bad personality twice injured guy who is a black hole on offense and a worse defender cause he can't move. Houston, who has exactly 1 non-injured guy 6'9" tall (and this is a SF) just let go their only true C cause he was that piss poor.

Unfair assessment. They guaranteed his contract and then the next day let the world know he was going to be let go? Why guarantee the contract then?

Houston fans think it was just a public display to garner goodwill. Tillman's rep has reached Dolan levels and the front office is trying to combat that. Plus, in the grand scheme of things, it wasn't that much money. Sounds like Cousins was a good locker room guy, it's just that he's washed.

GustavBahler wrote:Read on ESPN that the Rockets are getting ready to waive Cousins. No takers?

Both LA teams, Brooklyn.