DeMarcus Cousins Forgets How to Play Defense on Inbounds Play, Gives Up Wide Open Dunk

DeMarcus Cousins didn't put forth his best defensive effort last night.

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Even though the Kings got shellacked by the Warriors at home 121-96 last night, DeMarcus Cousins had a pretty solid game for Sacramento. He had 26 points, 11 rebounds, and 4 assists against Golden State. But WTF was he thinking during the play shown in the video above?

We understand that Cousins logged more than 41 minutes during the game and that, even if he had stopped Marreese Speights from dunking on this particular play, there was no way the Kings were going to come back against the Warriors. But how about a little effort? How about a little hustle? How about, um, at least pretending like you're interested in playing defense?

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Or not. Watch Cousins watching Speights—the man he was supposed to be defending on the play—throw down an alley-oop in the clip above. And then let us know what you think Cousins was doing here. Because we just can't seem to figure it out.

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