Cousins: 'I don't really understand' Kings' draft strategy
DeMarcus Cousins is entering his seventh season with the Sacramento Kings, and he still doesn't seem to know what the franchise's plan is.
After the Kings' latest head-scratcher - trading down in the draft, then selecting another center (Georgios Papagiannis) to add to a depth chart that already includes Cousins, Willie Cauley-Stein, and Kostas Koufos - Cousins tweeted this:
Lord give me the strength 🙏🏿
— DeMarcus Cousins (@boogiecousins) June 24, 2016
He later explained that the tweet was in reference to his "hot sculpting class," not the draft. But while he was similarly diplomatic in talking to reporters in Las Vegas on Monday, Cousins admitted he can't quite grasp what it is the Kings are trying to do.
"I can't control that. I control what I can control," Cousins said of the team's draft. "I don't really understand it, but I do my job."
Cousins was asked his thoughts on the Kings getting younger and bigger, and gave virtually the exact same answer.
"Like I said I don't really understand what's going on," he said. "I just control what I can control."
Cousins has been an All-Star and All-NBA second teamer the past two seasons, but it still hasn't been enough to lift the Kings into the playoffs, where they haven't been in a decade. If they're to end that skid this season, he may have to find a way to control more things.