DeMarcus Cousins has fought the mind games all year from opponents. Louisville tried to play the mind games and they lost. Wake Forest tried to emulate the dirty style the Cards played by sending hitman Chas McFarland to get inside Boogie’s head.[PRBREAK][/PRBREAK] Here is what Boogie said in an interview on Yahoo.com:
[QUOTE] “He was coming out in articles saying how he was going to try to get in my head,” Cousins said. “I was reading it and I was just trying to prepare myself for a battle today because I knew what his intentions were coming into the game.” McFarland played the role of instigator the whole night, catching Cousins with a couple elbows to the neck and chest and even declining to shake the Kentucky freshman’s hand before tip-off. The big blow, of course, came with the game well out of hand in the second half when McFarland [URL=”http://sec.wbir.com/photo/049z2mW4tW9Hr?q=Kentucky”][COLOR=#0069aa]clubbed Cousins across the face[/COLOR][/URL] when he went up for a shot in the paint, drawing an intentional foul from the officials. Cousins showed his maturity by resisting the temptation to retaliate, picking himself off the ground, jogging away clapping his hands and motioning for the crowd to get on its feet and cheer. “That was a middle-school move,” Cousins said later. “He was doing a lot of cheating. I caught an elbow to the jaw early in the game. He’s a dirty player and the whole world knows it, especially after tonight.” [/QUOTE]
I don’t think DeMarcus is going to let anyone change his focus. He has grown so much this season as a person and player that no one is going to get him out of his game.
