This guy's head is a puddle of mush. He'd get eaten alive by the media in Boston. Game changing talent no doubt. But he has a loser mentality that even a change of scenery won't change imo. He just doesn't have it between the ears.
Guys get it together sometimes. Zach Randolph, Rasheed Wallace. Even Starbury was a model teammate for most of his Boston run.
The key differences between Cousins and Draymond Green are teammates and their respective organizations.
Funny, I never see Draymond Green pouting. Green is a different kind of jerk, not at all similar to Cousins.
You see him whining to the media. You see him getting a ton of techs. You see him getting suspended from Finals games. You see him flashing his junk on social media. You see him confronting coaches and teammates. You see him complaining about not getting enough shots. You see him getting arrested.
I wonder how people would see Green if his best teammate was Rudy Gay.
I think the question with Cousins is different than it is with those other guys, because his upside is to be the franchise guy. The 1A superstar. Those other guys got it together but didn't end up being team leaders at a championship level.
I think a more hopeful analogy would be our own Paul Pierce, who was in many regards a knucklehead for quite a while. Though one could argue (and I would) that he was never the alpha dog when we were contending, certainly not the sole one. It's pretty hard to be a temperamental jerk when you have KG setting an example in terms of unselfishness and dedication to winning above all, and when Jesus is showing up at age 32 with 5% body fat and spending 4000 hours shooting jumpers every day.
If we got Cousins I think we would also need another guy or two to set the examples. I don't know whether Horford and IT are those guys.