Kevin Garnett is one of the greatest power forwards of all time. He arguably has one the most infectious positive/winning attitudes in the history of sports, and single handedly changed the culture of this Celtics franchise with his hard work and attitude.
Kevin Garnett successfully fuels his emotions into playing hard and trying his hardest to win every night. Kevin Garnett doesn't/didn't take plays off and cherished every second he was out on the floor.
DeMarcus Cousins is an embarrassment to guys like KG who appreciate every moment they have the chance to play in the NBA.
DMC is Kevin Garnett's ball boy.
Lets see if KG would have been so well behaved if he had to deal with the Kings organisation in it's current state...
KG went through a miserable stretch at Minny.
The two men are completely different because KG still played his heart out, even when they sucked. Cousins has never been any different from the moment he walked out onto the college parquet.
He was a whiney, emotional, pouting, scolding brat at Kentucky, and he's the same brat at Sacto.
To compare the attitudes of the two is just insulting to Kevin Garnett.
It's fine to wanna back up Cousins and say he's in the wrong situation/needs a change of scenery but you can never compare Cousins to KG.
Cousins is a mental midget. KG is one of the mentally strongest players to ever play the game.
KG made the playoffs every single year from 1996/97 to 2003/04 with a great coach in Flip Saunders.
It wasn't until the 2004/05 season (when Flip was replaced by Kevin McHale) that they missed the playoffs, and they finished that season with a .537 win record.
KG suffered only three seasons with a losing record, and in two of those seasons they were still reasonably competitive (0.402, 0.390) so only one true stinker of a season (0.268).
It's not so hard to swallow three bad seasons when you have just spent your first 9 years in the league playing on a competitive and well coached teams.
Cousins hasn't had a single winning season since he's been in the league, nor has he played for really a single good coach. That's on top of the organisation being an absolute farce.
Comparing what the two players went through is a joke.
KG was happy to sacrifice his game when he came to Boston because he had had so much success already in Minnesota, and was ready to sacrifice for a title.
The guys had even been on record saying that they never would have worked together if they tried to join earlier in their careers, when their egos were still huge.
Again, it's very different going through 8-9 years of winning and then having to live through 3 years of losing, then going to a new team and going through anther 4-5 years of winning...versus having nothing but losing from the day you enter the league, and playing for nothing but bad coaches on poorly managed teams.
Absolutely no comparison.
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