{"id":825324,"date":"2013-04-06T00:06:10","date_gmt":"2013-04-06T07:06:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cowbellkingdom.com\/?p=20619"},"modified":"2013-04-06T00:06:10","modified_gmt":"2013-04-06T07:06:10","slug":"watch-sacramento-kings-offer-little-clarity-on-demarcus-cousins-benching-against-mavs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesportsdaily.com\/news\/watch-sacramento-kings-offer-little-clarity-on-demarcus-cousins-benching-against-mavs\/","title":{"rendered":"WATCH: Sacramento Kings offer little clarity on DeMarcus Cousins’ benching against Mavs"},"content":{"rendered":"

DeMarcus Cousins<\/a><\/strong> has missed games to suspension and injury this season. \u00a0But for the first time this year, the 22-year-old center played in a game where didn’t start for the Sacramento Kings.<\/p>\n

Before last night’s 117-108 defeat to the Dallas Mavericks, word spread quickly that Cousins would not be starting. \u00a0In his place, Patrick Patterson<\/a><\/strong> stepped in at power forward while Jason Thompson<\/a><\/strong> slid over to center. \u00a0Cousins went on to play a grand total of nine minutes, all of which came in the second quarter.<\/p>\n

“I wasn’t expecting anything,” said Cousins on whether he thought he would play in the second half. “If it happened, it happened. If it didn’t, it didn’t.”<\/p>\n

Why was Cousins benched? \u00a0The official word from Keith Smart<\/a><\/strong> was due to coach’s decision. \u00a0Smart also suggested to reporters after the game that Cousins’ limited playing time was because of reasons pertaining to match-ups presented by the Mavs.<\/p>\n

“They were using more of a spread four, not having a big on the floor,” said Smart, who in the fourth quarter opted to play\u00a0James Johnson<\/a>\u00a0<\/strong>for the first time in a month. \u00a0“And I thought we had to do some switching situations on the floor. \u00a0And so I kind of I went with what I had out there on the floor.”<\/p>\n

Cousins learned of his benching earlier in the day during shootaround, which he said he came to on time. \u00a0The third-year big himself had no explanation for why he didn’t start and played less than 10 minutes in yesterday’s game.<\/p>\n

“Y’all are asking the wrong person,” Cousins said with a chuckle and a grin when asked if he was benched for\u00a0disciplinary\u00a0reasons. “I just play.”<\/p>\n

Watch the video below for Cousins and Smart’s comments on the Kings center’s benching.<\/p>\n[youtube id=”aAq03P6JHDA” width=”600″ height=”350″]\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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