Paul Westphal Fired by the Kings, DeMarcus Cousins Chuckles With Glee
Paul Westphal was fired today by the Sacramento Kings. It comes less than a week after the strange DeMarcus Cousins “trade me” demand, which he claims he never made. The Maloofs’ decision is clear: They’re going to let the inmates run the asylum. DeMarcus Cousins was last year’s lottery pick and they aren’t giving up on him yet.
Paul Westphal? He’s had nearly a decade coaching in the NBA – Suns, Sonics, Kings – but his team doesn’t even seem to be trying this year, and the 2nd most talented player on the team hates him, so he’s gone.
The Kings’ last four losses are by 27, 17, 22, 10 and 22. They’re a poorly constructed joke, a team full of guards who like to shoot and nobody who likes to defend. They’ll be in the lottery (again).
Poor Jimmer.
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January 5th, 2012 at 2:50 PM
Jimmer?
/Cousin Ron’d
January 5th, 2012 at 2:51 PM
Getting-paid-to-coach-that-ass-clown vs. Getting paid NOT to coach….I think just did Westphal a huge favor.
January 5th, 2012 at 2:51 PM
I haven’t checked, but I am positive this isn’t right.
January 5th, 2012 at 2:52 PM
Let’s not forget, Westphal is a terrible coach, and Keith Smart will likely do a better job.
January 5th, 2012 at 2:52 PM
Or they’ll do what Utah did last year and get rid of the player and the coach.
January 5th, 2012 at 2:54 PM
I’d ship out Tyreke Evans and maybe use him as trade bait to get rid of Cousins in a package deal. This team needs to start completely from scratch.
January 5th, 2012 at 2:55 PM
DeMarcus Cousins, and those of his ilk, is what makes me dislike the NBA. I still watch my team, but it’s guys like him that drive me away from pro basketball. It’s a team game, son.
January 5th, 2012 at 2:57 PM
haven’t checked, but I am positive this isn’t right.
I was with you on this — looked and it is correct. They won one game during that stretch.
January 5th, 2012 at 2:58 PM
I just meant you can’t lose your last 4 games 5 different times.
January 5th, 2012 at 2:59 PM
Will this lead to higher TV ratings for the Giants and A’s when baseball resumes?
January 5th, 2012 at 2:59 PM
There are bad guys all throughout the NFL and in baseball, too. You simply like those sports more.
January 5th, 2012 at 3:00 PM
caption:
i wanna kiss you all over…and over and again.
January 5th, 2012 at 3:00 PM
I just meant you can’t lose your last 4 games 5 different times.
Duh — my b
Will this lead to higher TV ratings for the Giants and A’s when baseball resumes?
Lower attendance, but that doesn’t matter.
January 5th, 2012 at 3:02 PM
there’s something bothering me grammatically here, i just can’t put my finger on it.
January 5th, 2012 at 3:02 PM
Cousins to the Pistons please.
January 5th, 2012 at 3:03 PM
I bet this won’t go over well with some folks.
January 5th, 2012 at 3:03 PM
Now that we are talking about basketball…any Spurs fans here?
Last night, in the SA/GSW game, while the Spurs were in the midst of an 11-0 run, Tony Parker hit a floater (GS called a TO)…and Pop looked like he was going to rape Parker on the court. Anyone have any idea what he could have been upset with? It was odd.
January 5th, 2012 at 3:04 PM
it’s a lot easier to be “selfish” in the nba and be noticed than it is in the NFL or MLB though.
January 5th, 2012 at 3:04 PM
the floater is the waving white flag of basketball shots.
January 5th, 2012 at 3:05 PM
I bet this won’t go over well with some folks.
I cant say that I can intelligently comment on whether this is good strategy militarity — but I’m sure Obizzle will get CRUSHED politically for this.
January 5th, 2012 at 3:06 PM
I love it, personally. We spend way too much on defense.
January 5th, 2012 at 3:07 PM
i can’t remember where i read it, but i also read a well respected military analyst’s article about how a two-coast navy is unnecessary and somehow strategically weaker than a one-coast navy that can be deployed en masse.
kinda the same idea here, seems like.
January 5th, 2012 at 3:07 PM
there’s something bothering me grammatically here, i just can’t put my finger on it.
The Maloofs’ decision is clear; they’re going to let the inmates run the asylum.
Is that better?
January 5th, 2012 at 3:07 PM
Can’t wait for the civilian task forces!
January 5th, 2012 at 3:07 PM
I bet this won’t go over well with some folks.
In my opinion, they are not rolling it out very well. Things like this are cat nip for blood spitting, defense earmark adding members of Congress.
But there have been debates since the end of the Cold War over the necessity of maintaining a military doctrine that requires us to be able to fight two full blown wars in two different parts of the world at the same time. The doctrine originated in the 1950s when it was thought that a Soviet invasion through the Fulda Gap in Germany could be matched by a North Korean thrust across the DMZ at any time.
January 5th, 2012 at 3:08 PM
That asshole Cousins gave so little effort he was only like 4th in the NBA in rebounds at the time of the benching.
Westphal is a shitty, shitty coach.
January 5th, 2012 at 3:08 PM
Cousins woulda’ made a helluva’ wide-out. He simply chose the wrong sport… Coach Cal continues his legacy of turning out solid young men doesn’t he?
January 5th, 2012 at 3:08 PM
i can’t remember where i read it, but i also read a well respected military analyst’s article about how a two-coast navy is unnecessary and somehow strategically weaker than a one-coast navy that can be deployed en masse.
Please try to remember and then send that to me. Would love to read that.
January 5th, 2012 at 3:09 PM
What a novel fucking concept.
January 5th, 2012 at 3:09 PM
SO the Kings are moving to Orange County next year right?
January 5th, 2012 at 3:10 PM
I’ll be impressed when they start closing the bases overseas and stop closing em here.
January 5th, 2012 at 3:10 PM
ms621…found it.
January 5th, 2012 at 3:10 PM
Thank you. I get into this argument every week since I’m the only person in Pittsburgh that watches the NBA. My buddies always say it’s full of convicts, and they only play because of the money. Yet baseball players are getting paid way more than any other sport, and the NFL seems to be producing way more criminals. No one wants to just say “I don’t enjoying watching the sport” instead of the cliché excuses.
January 5th, 2012 at 3:10 PM
Look at those assclowns at the HS All-America football game arguing over what number they got assigned and threatening not to play.
January 5th, 2012 at 3:11 PM
Yeah…that’s never going to happen. When we invade, we never really leave.
January 5th, 2012 at 3:11 PM
I’m the only person in Pittsburgh that watches the NBA
/raises hand
January 5th, 2012 at 3:12 PM
It’s so hard to follow recruiting now. I stopped paying for Rivals about 4 or 5 years ago and it’s gotten even worse. These kids know they have all of the power until they sign (which, on a side note, I would never let my child do).
January 5th, 2012 at 3:12 PM
ms621…found it.
Much obliged.
January 5th, 2012 at 3:12 PM
we need those bases. i know people hate the logistics argument, but we’re not exactly close to other countries aside from canada and mexico, remember? armies don’t exactly just pop up out of nowhere with camps and equipment and personnel.
January 5th, 2012 at 3:13 PM
Yeah…that’s never going to happen. When we invade, we never really leave.
There’s not a single U.S. Military Base left in Iraq.
/because Kuwait is next door
January 5th, 2012 at 3:13 PM
It’s necessary. The army has become irrelevant, Robert Gates admitted as much in his speech to Westpoint grads a year ago (I think). War isn’t fought by putting a bunch of boots on the ground any more, and that’s the Army’s main selling point: the whole “soldier first” attitude. But the Air Force and Navy can work from range and the Marines are a more effective on the ground anyway, so this makes complete sense.
Then again, as someone in the Air Force who had to live on an Army post for about a year, I’m not exactly what you’d call pro-army. Because those guys are fuckig stupid.
January 5th, 2012 at 3:14 PM
Entitled divas. Except for Noah Spence.
January 5th, 2012 at 3:15 PM
I do watch the NBA. I actually like basketball. The lack of self-awareness and the self-absorption with NBA players drives me nuts. It’s much easier for one NBA player to sink his team/coach than it is for a hockey, baseball or football player to do so. In the NFL, they just cut your ass. In the NHL, you’re a healthy scratch. In MLB, you get shipped off the minors or dropped in the order.
January 5th, 2012 at 3:15 PM
we need those bases. i know people hate the logistics argument, but we’re not exactly close to other countries aside from canada and mexico, remember? armies don’t exactly just pop up out of nowhere with camps and equipment and personnel.
Also, a lot of those countries actually like having American bases, even if they decry our military actions at the UN and in the press. When a major Army barracks was about to close in Germany a couple of years ago, the local government begged the Pentagon to leave it open and offered to pay for part of the upkeep. The reason being, the region had become highly dependent upon the base to fuel the local economy.
January 5th, 2012 at 3:16 PM
i think we can all agree, whether we want sustained military strength or a smaller military, that things need to become streamlined and run far more efficiently. these days of political squabbling between branches needs to stop.
one goal, one team…all working towards the same thing. no bitching between army and marines or navy and airforce…streamline the whole fucking thing.
January 5th, 2012 at 3:17 PM
I found this to be the most interesting.
January 5th, 2012 at 3:18 PM
Easy way to solve this: whichever branch holds the Commander In Chief Trophy gets to be in charge.
/suck it, Army and Navy
January 5th, 2012 at 3:18 PM
While this is a completely reasonable and rational idea, it sadly naive as well. The pissing matches the branches get into (from Army to Air Force and the FBI to the CIA) is embarrassing at times. I don’t get why, because as you said, we’re on the same team.
January 5th, 2012 at 3:18 PM
It’s necessary. The army has become irrelevant, Robert Gates admitted as much in his speech to Westpoint grads a year ago (I think). War isn’t fought by putting a bunch of boots on the ground any more, and that’s the Army’s main selling point: the whole “soldier first” attitude. But the Air Force and Navy can work from range and the Marines are a more effective on the ground anyway, so this makes complete sense.
Then again, as someone in the Air Force who had to live on an Army post for about a year, I’m not exactly what you’d call pro-army. Because those guys are fuckig stupid.
This was filled with all kinds of wrong, until I saw that you admitted your bias. I can fully understand it then.
Those not familiar should read about the Revolt of the Admirals in 1949. The Air Force, which had only been formed two years earlier, was lobbying Congress to decommission most of the Navy and cancel all future aircraft carriers because, clearly, all future wars were only going to be fought and won with atomic bombs. The Navy’s top brass raised a huge PR and political campaign against the Air Force and not only won, but succeeded in getting Congress to commit to the concept of Super Carriers (the first of which was the Forrestal Class), the successors of which now give the U.S. first strike capability in hours or days virtually anywhere in the world that can be reached by sea.
January 5th, 2012 at 3:22 PM
i don’t think it’s necessarily naive, just a tad optimistic.
either that, or we got towards my personal hypothetical extreme…where congressional excess becomes too much to bear and we have a military led revolt.
/that’d be awesome
January 5th, 2012 at 3:23 PM
That’s when Oz was at its best.
January 5th, 2012 at 3:28 PM
either that, or we got towards my personal hypothetical extreme…where congressional excess becomes too much to bear and we have a military led revolt.
/that’d be awesome
It’s already in the works. Ssshhh.
/when I’m King, baseball haters will be the first against the wall
January 5th, 2012 at 3:28 PM
The Maloofs are doing everything they can to leave Sacramento.
January 5th, 2012 at 3:29 PM
This comes eerily 30 years after Magic Johnson had Paul Westhead fired as coach of the Lakers. Does this mean that Cousins is morphing into the new Magic?
January 5th, 2012 at 3:32 PM
/prepares travel arrangements to Europe
//screams, “baseball is for queers” as I enter the jetway
January 5th, 2012 at 3:32 PM
Spencer, I’m most of the way through that Navy article. My problem with him citing Mahan’s theories is that 1) they were proven to already be out of date in World War I, let alone World War II and 2) he was writing when the U.S. was constructing the Panama Canal which would allow it to transfer it’s fleet from one coast to the next. He never lived to see the Navy construct warships that don’t fit in the Canal (namely Nimitz Class Carriers).
January 5th, 2012 at 3:32 PM
/hides in attic
//gets found when gestapo hears putts rolling across ceiling
January 5th, 2012 at 3:35 PM
shit…just send the carl vinson over to home depot and we’ll get that canal big enough for the USSerena Williams to drive?…float?…boat thru sideways by the end of the week.
January 5th, 2012 at 3:38 PM
Another thing about that article is that the U.S. Navy is already transitioning more ships from the Atlantic to the Pacific. U.S. Second Fleet, the primary formation of the U.S. Atlantic Fleet for decades is in the process of being disbanded. Most ships that are stationed on the East Coast are there because that’s still where the best ship yards, builders, etc are located there as well. Most of their deployments take them either to the Caribbean for narcotics interdiction, to the Mediterranean in the 6th Fleet Area of Responsibility (AOR) or to the Red Sea/Persian Gulf (5th Fleet AOR).
January 5th, 2012 at 3:39 PM
Au Revoir Shospenceanna!
January 5th, 2012 at 3:39 PM
shit…just send the carl vinson over to home depot and we’ll get that canal big enough for the USSerena Williams to drive?…float?…boat thru sideways by the end of the week.
Panama is expanding the size of the canal currently. It’s a project that’s been underway for a couple of years and is likely to take several more, but I don’t know that it’s going to be big enough to fit aircraft carriers.
January 5th, 2012 at 3:39 PM
yea, that’s the big thing i got out of it.
then again, nobody expects the spanish armada!
January 5th, 2012 at 3:39 PM
This is part of the Robert Gates speech I referenced
January 5th, 2012 at 3:40 PM
yea…didn’t they just have a huge ass accident there too?
lol.
/no 3′s to whatever actress played her
January 5th, 2012 at 3:41 PM
i wanna kiss you all over…and over and again.
“‘Til the night closes innnnnnnn…”
Reading the comments regarding Army “right-sizing”, I would love to dive into a full post just on that issue.
Short answer – money is tight, and we can only afford so many beans and bullets. I don’t necessarily like it (I have friends in the Army and USAF). We just couldn’t justify Cold War levels of spending any more.
For the vets out there, do you foresee a larger cyber/unmanned system-centric DoD in our lifetimes?
January 5th, 2012 at 3:43 PM
USSerena Williams
Now, that’s funny.
January 5th, 2012 at 3:49 PM
not a vet, but obviously. what was the stat…1 out of 5 american forces in deployment right now is a machine or robot? something along those lines.
January 5th, 2012 at 3:54 PM
Cousins verbalized the displeasure with Westphal felt by the entire team. Sometimes the inmates know best.
January 5th, 2012 at 4:03 PM
This is an interesting firing seeing how the guys they have been bringing in were suited to Westphal’s type of offense.
January 5th, 2012 at 4:03 PM
so when you watch an NBA game, instead of seeing jumpshots, backdoor cuts, pick and rolls, and dunks, you see a lack of self-awareness and self absorption? OK.
January 5th, 2012 at 4:05 PM
remember, darrell…defense was so much better in the bird/magic era too.
January 5th, 2012 at 4:13 PM
This is part of the Robert Gates speech I referenced
Looking ahead, though, in the competition for tight defense dollars within and between the services, the Army also must confront the reality that the most plausible, high-end scenarios for the U.S. military are primarily naval and air engagements – whether in Asia, the Persian Gulf, or elsewhere. The strategic rationale for swift-moving expeditionary forces, be they Army or Marines, airborne infantry or special operations, is self-evident given the likelihood of counterterrorism, rapid reaction, disaster response, or stability or security force assistance missions. But in my opinion, any future defense secretary who advises the president to again send a big American land army into Asia or into the Middle East or Africa should “have his head examined,” as General MacArthur so delicately put it.
After WWI, the U.S. Tank Corps was disbanded because the lessons of armored warfare in northern Europe were not taken to heart and the Cavalry had a strong lobby in Congress. After WW II, all U.S. special forces (OSS, Rangers, UDTs) were disbanded because it was asserted that wars would be fought at long range with atom bombs and with large bodies of infantry and tanks clashing with one another. After guided missiles were introduced into the U.S. Air Force and the Navy, new fighters, namely the F-4 Phantom, were not given guns because it was assumed that all future air combat would be fought at a distance….apparently no one considered what happens when you run out of missiles.
There are other examples, but the point is that the history of warfare has a funny way of turning on its head any assumption we make about future wars and warfare based on past experience and current knowledge.
January 5th, 2012 at 4:14 PM
Also, MacArthur was a dumbass. Most overrated general in U.S. history.
January 5th, 2012 at 4:16 PM
Any non-military applicant looking to enter Federal service for the first time in the next few years can basically forget about it. Its all Vet Pass over all the time.
January 5th, 2012 at 4:16 PM
i like how he got more of his soldier’s killed than he needed to.
/he looks like a badass tho…right avatar?
January 5th, 2012 at 4:17 PM
/hogan avatar says “shut up, hippie.”
January 5th, 2012 at 4:19 PM
Tyus Thomas > Blake Griffith
January 5th, 2012 at 4:19 PM
Also, MacArthur was a dumbass. Most overrated general in U.S. history.
try this. When you go somewhere, but are returning, just telling whoever you need to tell that you’re Douglas Macarthur, and then go on. They’ll figure it out probably.
Eventually, you can reduce it further. When I’m dashing somewhere, I just say, I’m Doug Macarthur.
January 5th, 2012 at 4:21 PM
when im cleaning the kitchen, i like to dab a few places and then spill the bucket all over the living room carpet. i call it island mopping. then i smoke my corncob pipe and get my pants wet for the cameras.
January 5th, 2012 at 4:24 PM
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try this. When you go somewhere, but are returning, just telling whoever you need to tell that you’re Douglas Macarthur, and then go on. They’ll figure it out probably.
Eventually, you can reduce it further. When I’m dashing somewhere, I just say, I’m Doug Macarthur.
when im cleaning the kitchen, i like to dab a few places and then spill the bucket all over the living room carpet. i call it island mopping. then i smoke my corncob pipe and get my pants wet for the cameras.
+1 to each of you.
January 5th, 2012 at 4:26 PM
/he looks like a badass tho…right avatar?
No doubt that MacArthur looked the part of a soldier and he was unquestionably brave, but he was also extremely image conscious and was unwilling to accept other people’s viewpoints. He had a gigantic ego and mommy issues.