Damarcus Cousins

[Kenhov]

Whilst the if it aint broke dont fix it rule seems to persist, it will not take much for the fragility of Boston to rear its head.

What is the fragility ? Well te bigs are all old, except for BBD. And they are all prone to injury. Shaq succumbed to injury last seasons playoff, JO is a walking injury bug and Semih is already part of the walking wounded and still not NBA ready as Cousins is.

I would give up Von Wafer, Harangody and BBD plus a couple picks for Damarcus Cousins if that could be done.

Now heres the difficulty. BBD is playing his best basketball and his mid range jumper has become money. He knows the Celtics system and it would be a substantial loss.

But Cousins would be better length and the kind of upside that bynum had when picked by the Lakers.

thoughts ?

[Roy H.]

Cousins has star potential.  Why would a rebuilding team give him up for two minimum-salary vets and a bench player who they could sign in the off-season?

Cousins has a long ways to go -- he's too foul-prone and takes bad shots -- but if he works hard, he's going to be an above-average starting center in the league.  That's worth more than we can give up.

[Fan from VT]

Let's try it from Sac's point of view.

-You have a rookie that you drafted #5.
-You are still rebuilding.
-You're rookie is 20 years old. Tons of room for development.
-He's 6-11, 270.
-As a raw rookie, he's already stepping right in and giving you 11.7/7.2 in 24 minutes.

So now Boston calls you and wants to trade you:
-A guy on a one year contract that everyone in the league had a chance to grab, a guy who had to spend time overseas because no one wanted him.
-A rookie everyone passed on.
-A role player who is about to be an unrestricted free agent who is still averaging the same points and worse rebounds in 4 more minutes a game and who is 4 years, 8 months older.

If you were Sacramento, would you even consider this deal for a single second? Absolutely not.

If you were boston, and the Sac guys got ridiculously drunk and somehow offered you this deal, you would get their signatures before you could sober up. I don't care about the "intangible" immediate dropoff, you'd instantly be getting better scoring (look at the touches Davis and Erden get around the rim on this team and imagine Cousins working with those touches) and much better rebounding. And you'd have a probable 20-10 guy in a couple years, a chance at a true franchise big.