I was always hoping the Clips would find someone like that in the draft. You see these “unskilled” bigs go in the late 1st/early 2nd round, like DJ, Capela, Gobert, Jarrett Allen, and Mitchell Robinson, who far outperform their draft position. Unfortunately the bigs the Clips have been set on drafting have not quite panned out. I guess there’s still some hope for Oturu, but he definitely didn’t show much. I wouldn’t mind buying into the 2nd round and take another shot for a mobile athletic big man.

Regarding free agents, not a bad list. Definitely some guys that might go for the minimum and would PROBABLY be better than anyone they could draft and Oturu. Cousins wouldn’t be a bad 3rd string center again either. I didn’t really like when he came into the game, even when he looked okay in the playoffs, but you could ask a lot worse from your 3rd stringer. If he was a decent locker room guy, he’d be a pretty safe option.

They posted a negative net rating with him on the court in the regular season, -2.8. The only guys worse were Fi and Fitts. They posted a -17.4 net rating with him on the floor in the playoffs, by far the worst of anyone who actually played–next worst was Rondo at -6.4

The truth is, Cousins does bully guys, and he has games where he scores 10 points in 10 minutes, and he can hit a three. And all of those things are legitimately helpful when they’re working. But he gives back everything he gets on defense and is wildly inconsistent and inefficient on offense.