Okay...well this has been a hell of a weekend of Kings fans. The team may move, Reke is out three weeks, and now they were crushed again with Reke out of the linuep (remember that stat I posted about our defense wihout Reke -- it was another 117pts against tonight) . So I am going to respond to that as best I can with another Mega-girls theme -- the first one of these was after an embarrassment right beore Christmas. This is obviously the low point since then, so all the famous lovely ladies I did not get to then will go up now.
What we'll do if we continue to get pummeled without Reke every night for the next three weeks, or heaven forbid if they actually declare they are moving...figure that out as we go. Pretty girls are great, but we can't do them every night, and even pretty girls can't heal that sort of pain.
Official Boxscore
Casspi ( D+ ) -- no effect at all on Lebron, but began to score as the first half went along on a series of little fliops and baseline jumpers. Unfortunately scoring was all he was doing, as LeBron chewed him up not only with scoring, but won every rebounding battle (the extra 40lbs of muscle helped), and was basically just toying with us out there as he and Wade passed the ball back and forth and screwed around. After the early scoring, no productivity at all after half as the Heat zoomed away. If Omri can survive the next 24 hours he'll have the final 28 games to continue auditioning for the starting job next season, but he seems stuck in 2nd gear, and has been ever since he returned to the starting lineup. Gives just a little productivity, his opponent always gives more (although obviously THIS opponent gives more against basically everbody).
Rachel McAdams -- a complete chameleon with her hair/looks, Rachel is actually a natural blond -- and a gorgeous one -- but like Winona Ryder before her frequently goes brunette, where I think she looks even hotter.
Thompson ( B- ) -- in the early going was about the best thing we had available to us, which was saying almost nothing, but still true. Actually avoided a foul on the second possessioon biting on an upfake but pulled pack his arms and avoided the contact. Only took 2 1/2 years for him to learn to avoid that one. A couple of little finsihes in the early going, and while not pretty, he used his power to go through Bosh. Remained efficient throughout his minutes, from the field anyway -- shot 1-4 from the line. But as the game went along Bosh heated up and at no point did you get the feeling that Jason, or really any of our guys, was in the same class with the Heat guys. It was like watching the varsity team scrimmage against junior high kids. Every once in a while Jason would make a hustle play to grab a board, or with difficulty get something to roll in inside, but it never made any difference and the Heat would race back and score far more easily the othr way withing 8 seconds.
Emmanuelle Chriqui -- you know, having to do all this research/sort through all the potential pictures of these lovely ladies could almost make one wish for more blowouts.
Cousins ( D- ) -- well so much for game 1, or really game 3, of his I-don't-need-me-no-Reke debut. Its absolutely clear we need DeMarcus to be a stud to compete every night with Reke out, and its absolutely clear on nights like tonight that he is still just a rookie facing a lineup full of HOFs and veterans with hundreds of playoff games under his belt, and he was jsut not up to it. Realy hasn't been very special since Reke went down actually, and may be getting a feel for what its like without all the attention Reke draws. Missed several jumpers to start, and maybe if those had fallen it would have opened things up for him. As it was instead he went down inside and got mushed on back to back shots by Dampier (as an aside his lost year last year and early unemployment this season leave me nonplussed as he can still play and still clog the middle, and that's still a vlauable piece). Looked overmatched on his way to an 0-6 start, and it was 0-8 before he got his first hit midway through the second. Brilliant pass to start the second half, but that was really about it as he couldn't score, and the Heat were just running layup drils past him as a paint defendeer. For one of the few times this year he found his minutes limited not by foul trouble, but by incompetence and others (JT/Daly) clearly outplaying him. Added some numbers deep in the garbaetime, including a full court dribble and shovel pass to Greene for a dunk near the end of the game.
Rihanna -- can't seem to decide whether to be smart and funky or go down the tabloid slut route with Lindsay and Paris, but sincerely beautiful.
Taylor ( C ) -- put up a decent statline, but it was how he got there that mattered. His first shot again was amusingly a 3ptr -- remember that's the shot he's not supposed to be abel to hit. But that was all he did while the game was still on, and Wade totally and completely pantsed him -- Jermaine could nto stay in front of him at all, adn made a series of bad decisions and fores as tried to counter. Which of course is hardly suirprising in a Jermaine Taylor/Dwayne Wade matchup, but it was not nearly as close as the stats don't make it seem. Similar to Omri's performance in that eventually used his ahtleticism to get a few buckets alter in the game and get into double figure scoring, but never competiive in any other way as the two HOFs were running wild and doing their triple double thing and our wings just dribbled in the occasional shot on the way to a combined 23 combined 3ast and 2reb. Because its Jermaine Taylor, and he managed to do something out there against those guys other than just poop his pants, gets a little grade, but not much.
Charlize Theron -- who I am actually not sure I have ever added to one of these themes before, which is very odd indeed for obvious reasons.
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What we'll do if we continue to get pummeled without Reke every night for the next three weeks, or heaven forbid if they actually declare they are moving...figure that out as we go. Pretty girls are great, but we can't do them every night, and even pretty girls can't heal that sort of pain.
Official Boxscore
Casspi ( D+ ) -- no effect at all on Lebron, but began to score as the first half went along on a series of little fliops and baseline jumpers. Unfortunately scoring was all he was doing, as LeBron chewed him up not only with scoring, but won every rebounding battle (the extra 40lbs of muscle helped), and was basically just toying with us out there as he and Wade passed the ball back and forth and screwed around. After the early scoring, no productivity at all after half as the Heat zoomed away. If Omri can survive the next 24 hours he'll have the final 28 games to continue auditioning for the starting job next season, but he seems stuck in 2nd gear, and has been ever since he returned to the starting lineup. Gives just a little productivity, his opponent always gives more (although obviously THIS opponent gives more against basically everbody).
Rachel McAdams -- a complete chameleon with her hair/looks, Rachel is actually a natural blond -- and a gorgeous one -- but like Winona Ryder before her frequently goes brunette, where I think she looks even hotter.
Thompson ( B- ) -- in the early going was about the best thing we had available to us, which was saying almost nothing, but still true. Actually avoided a foul on the second possessioon biting on an upfake but pulled pack his arms and avoided the contact. Only took 2 1/2 years for him to learn to avoid that one. A couple of little finsihes in the early going, and while not pretty, he used his power to go through Bosh. Remained efficient throughout his minutes, from the field anyway -- shot 1-4 from the line. But as the game went along Bosh heated up and at no point did you get the feeling that Jason, or really any of our guys, was in the same class with the Heat guys. It was like watching the varsity team scrimmage against junior high kids. Every once in a while Jason would make a hustle play to grab a board, or with difficulty get something to roll in inside, but it never made any difference and the Heat would race back and score far more easily the othr way withing 8 seconds.
Emmanuelle Chriqui -- you know, having to do all this research/sort through all the potential pictures of these lovely ladies could almost make one wish for more blowouts.
Cousins ( D- ) -- well so much for game 1, or really game 3, of his I-don't-need-me-no-Reke debut. Its absolutely clear we need DeMarcus to be a stud to compete every night with Reke out, and its absolutely clear on nights like tonight that he is still just a rookie facing a lineup full of HOFs and veterans with hundreds of playoff games under his belt, and he was jsut not up to it. Realy hasn't been very special since Reke went down actually, and may be getting a feel for what its like without all the attention Reke draws. Missed several jumpers to start, and maybe if those had fallen it would have opened things up for him. As it was instead he went down inside and got mushed on back to back shots by Dampier (as an aside his lost year last year and early unemployment this season leave me nonplussed as he can still play and still clog the middle, and that's still a vlauable piece). Looked overmatched on his way to an 0-6 start, and it was 0-8 before he got his first hit midway through the second. Brilliant pass to start the second half, but that was really about it as he couldn't score, and the Heat were just running layup drils past him as a paint defendeer. For one of the few times this year he found his minutes limited not by foul trouble, but by incompetence and others (JT/Daly) clearly outplaying him. Added some numbers deep in the garbaetime, including a full court dribble and shovel pass to Greene for a dunk near the end of the game.
Rihanna -- can't seem to decide whether to be smart and funky or go down the tabloid slut route with Lindsay and Paris, but sincerely beautiful.
Taylor ( C ) -- put up a decent statline, but it was how he got there that mattered. His first shot again was amusingly a 3ptr -- remember that's the shot he's not supposed to be abel to hit. But that was all he did while the game was still on, and Wade totally and completely pantsed him -- Jermaine could nto stay in front of him at all, adn made a series of bad decisions and fores as tried to counter. Which of course is hardly suirprising in a Jermaine Taylor/Dwayne Wade matchup, but it was not nearly as close as the stats don't make it seem. Similar to Omri's performance in that eventually used his ahtleticism to get a few buckets alter in the game and get into double figure scoring, but never competiive in any other way as the two HOFs were running wild and doing their triple double thing and our wings just dribbled in the occasional shot on the way to a combined 23 combined 3ast and 2reb. Because its Jermaine Taylor, and he managed to do something out there against those guys other than just poop his pants, gets a little grade, but not much.
Charlize Theron -- who I am actually not sure I have ever added to one of these themes before, which is very odd indeed for obvious reasons.
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