There still isn’t an official timetable for the debut of center DeMarcus Cousins. About a month ago, the team announced that Cousins would return sometime after Christmas, but after Christmas could mean a week, it could mean a month.

Boogie has no issues with the repaired torn Achilles that he suffered last January, but his body still isn’t ready for game action at the NBA level, according to The Athletic (subscription).

Cousins, without an official timetable, is still weeks away from his Warriors debut. The Achilles is stable, but the 270-pound body connected to it is crawling toward the finish line, slower, in these later rehab stages, than had been hoped.

Cousins is largely worried about playing at the kind of pace that the Warriors play when they’re at their best. With Curry on the floor, the Warriors are extremely fast, playing at 105 possessions per 48 minutes — the league average is just under 100 and Cousins’ teams have typically played in the mid-90s with him on the floor, speeding up when he sat.

Cousins could probably get on the floor and play if his life depended on it, but playing at the kind of intensity required and at the speed demanded of these Warriors, he’d run the risk of compensation injuries, and truth be told, his conditioning just isn’t there yet.

“It’s a lot of sore days,” Cousins told The Athletic. “There are days I really ache. I do a lot of lower-body training. So there are days where my legs just feel like cement blocks and I can barely move. Then there are days where I feel like a feather on the floor.”

The G League stints have helped, but he still has a ways to go. The Warriors are just hoping that he’s able to see the court sooner rather than later so the team can figure out the best ways to integrate him into their system before the postseason begins. There were growing pains when the team added Durant, and there are sure to be more when Boogie adds yet another All-Star to the fold.

Last season, he averaged 25 and 12 playing alongside Anthony Davis, and there is a lot to figure out if the Warriors want to keep another high-usage guy happy during a long, grueling playoff push with so many guys in contract years. Cousins, Durant and Klay Thompson are all unrestricted free agents this summer and all have the incentive to play well to receive max deals with the Warriors or elsewhere (Cousins is definitely going elsewhere, Durant and Thompson are still in play for the Warriors).

No one has any answers on when Cousins will see the floor for the first time, but the patients is sure to pay off.