1. You're right other teams can offer more than us. But, if you were one of those teams who can offer more, then would you take the risk of trading for just a one year rental in Wall? Other teams also had more assets than us to trade for Boogie too, btw, and we still ended up acquiring him.
2. Just being friends with Cousins alone isn't probably enough to lure Wall here, yes...But Cousins and Wall are BEST FRIENDS. College teammates. Kentucky blood/family/brotherhood is very strong. A point guard's dream is to play with two great big men...and we have the best front court in the WORLD. That's enough to entice Wall to sign an extension here if we traded for him. Also, there are reports that Wall and Boogie wants to play with together on the same team.
source: One of many:
http://www.cbssports.com/nba/news/de...play-together/
Like I said, all we need to do is make the playoffs and Booge re-signs, then we'll be set. With AD on the team, then it's just the cherry on top for John Wall to come and play here because AD is a top 5 player in the world. Could you imagine the pick and roll game?
...and this is why I was so in favor of trading for Bledsoe this summer, too.