Um...get well soon Tyreke.
Alright, so here is a really happy guy to cheer everybody up while you wait. There will be Girls later:
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Greene ( B+ ) -- well you know what they say about always saving the best for first...probably our best player tonight. Started off aggressive, posting up, getting ourt on the break for a +1, jumping a passing lane for a steal, then knocking down a side jumper. Threw a bad pass trying to hit Cisco for an alley oop or something. Got blocked by Lopez as he tried to get aggressive on the drive again. Started the 2nd hitting the angle three. Got up high for the block on the break, but called goaltending. Was really helping on the glass all night, and with our frontline weenies losing every rebounding battle, it was needed. Missed the angle three before half. Began the third missing the fading jumper in the corner, then was able to draw several fouls inside as one fo the few Kings who got ot the line. Hit a side jumpoer. No idea where he was late atfer being our best guy through 3/4. Finally back in for the final 4 minutes as we took out Jason and went small/desperate, but did little other than miss a three. Not a spectacular outing but one of the few Kings playing a strong game tonight.
Olivia Wilde
Landry ( D ) -- followed up one of his stongest games since arriving with one of his poorest. Against a full sized and then some frontline (yes, even the Nets can say that with 7'0 Lopez, 7'0 Yi and 6'10" Boone) again struggled with the size issue, and again had a catastrophically bad rebounding night (3). And when the offense is not there, as it was not tonight, struggles to contribute. Started ok in the early going, hitting a couple of little jumpers over Jianlian, but then the size issue really began to become a factor. Tried to go inside and got his next two shots blocked. Then missed over Jianlian, got it back, missed again, but got fouled. Got chased off the block by a double a couple fo times, but mostly just not able to get it going one on one. Got to the oful line again and hit both. Blocked on the help by Lopez. Missed the long jumper. Started the 3rd with an ggressive take, and came up with a help block along the baseline. But then missed the side jumper and got beat several times by Yi and picked up fouls which sent him to the bench. Not really a factor in the 4th either, getting one jumper and one scrambling assist to Beno after he came up short/got a shot partially blocked inside, recovered an kicked it out, but otherwise continuing to miss and be completely ineffective on the glass as our frontline pairing nearly got doubled up again by theirs on the glass 19-10.
Gemma Atkinson
Hawes ( C- ) -- you know statistically you look at this and its a mixed bad -- 12pts 7rebs 6ast is interesting. 5-13 shooting and 4 TOs is not. And Spencer wanted to compete. That's the best way to phrase this -- he was making an effort. But then you get down to the basic reality of things, which is that Spencer got his butt absolutely kicked on both ends of the floor as Brook Lopez mopped the floor with him. Scored over twice and overpowered by Lopez to start, missed a couple of jumpers back the other way, but then hit a running hook going into Lopez's chest that at least showed he wasn't going to compeltely run away. Got an o-reb and finish flip -- and that was the other thign about he and Landry's rebounding again tonight -- combine they grabbed all of 10, and 7 of those 10 were on the offensive glass. It was left up to our guards and SFs to come back and protect our defensive glass. Started the 2nd with a nifty behind the back pass to a cutting Udoka, but was in the paint too long before he got it off and got a 3 second violation. Got several blocks himself, also started notching turnovers and shaky ballhandling plays. Dribbled in a single jumper, missed a tip, had a good post move that would not fall. Some more of the same right idea wrong execution stuff after half -- a strong drive, but missed the finish. Got called fpor offensive basket interference on a Beno miss. Nice move but could not finsih and fell down. Began the 4th with another bad pass turnover trying to feed from up top. Got a tip follow at the 3:45 mark. In and out 3. Running hook rolled off. Overpowered by Lopez inside. Driving hook at the 2:00 mark, but after the game was over. This is a tough grade. Slapped silly by a far superior player, a rock solid player who just went at him over him and through him all night long. But unlike his early season Flutter days, Spencer was at least trying to comepte and do the right things. He just wasn't good enoguh or tough enough to accomplish them.
Rodney Dangerfield -- Women will nag won't they? So whatcha going to do?
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