Jaylen Brown is overrated as hell. I hope I'm wrong but that kid is average at best.
Overrated? What does that even mean? No one is talking about how good he is now so his rating doesn't apply.
Read the title again. Then read almost every post around here about Jaylen Brown.
So because people like Brown means he's overrated?
There is a fine line between "like" and "obsessed." I like Brown...meaning I'd tolerate his talent and potential insofar I don't have anything better but I won't hesitate to trade a thousand Jaylen Browns for one Cousins. To insist and stand pat on an average-at-best talent like Jaylen Brown over a Cousins is INSANITY. I would commit such person to an asylum without a doubt. It's madness.
In brief, I'd take Jaylen over Gerald Green, over Kelly Olynyk, even over Crowder, but no way in hell I'd hold on to Jaylen over a Cousins. I feel disgusted to even type out that previous sentence.
No one is "obsessed" with Brown, they just like they see.
I like what I see too. With Cousins, I like what I see better. WAY better. WAY WAY better.
Cousins has such a fundamental lack of self-control on the court and even in front of the press and in the locker room, that there is a lot of risk with Cousins. This is a guy who set the record for a 16th tech and then immediately got #17. The league has had no shortage of intense players, but that is absurd. This also not an intense guys that his team rallies around like KG or Draymond Green. This is a guy you just can't control his emotions.
He is a great talent. That is unquestionable. But when a talent that great is traded for that package, it means that there is little confidence in front offices that he won't bring his toxicity to his next stop.
Great talents shooting themselves in the foot is nothing new.