Eh... I don't know about that, at least not as a declarative statement. There are too many mitigating factors, that's why I said I'd need to know what the rest of the team looks like. I mean, a lot of people will tell you that Stephen Curry is, objectively, empirically better than Cousins, and maybe they're right, but it's actually not that cut and dried. Like, if you traded Stephen Curry for, say... Kemba Walker, straight up, is he still elite? Does he get the Bobcats Hornets to the NBA Finals?
I think that there are only two guys in the NBA right now, whom you could plug into any roster in the league, and that team would become contenders overnight. And one of them is LeBron James, and the other one is not Stephen Curry. Do I think that the other one is DeMarcus Cousins? Please; let's not kid ourselves. My point is that, if we had drafted Curry in 2009, instead of Evans, nobody in the world would be talking about how "elite" Stephen Curry is; in fact, there's probably a 50/50 chance that he would have been labeled a bust by now.