Here's how bad it is: the Bobcats, one of the worst offensive teams in the league who just traded away one of their two main weapons, score 110pts on us, and that's still considerably LESS than the average we have given up in the 10 games without Reke (116.6pts against per game).
Opp pts per game w/Reke (46gms) = 100.4
Opp pts per game w/o Reke (10gms) = 116.6
At least another 2 1/2 weeks too.
Sigh.
So, in order to short circuit the inevitable complaints from the ever demanding women of the board, tonight's theme will be: Cute Puppies!
Official Boxscore
Casspi ( D+ ) -- the contributions were in the jumpshots. Hit his first two shots, including a three as we raced out to a strong start. But then disappeared on offense for a long time (mostly because the ball was just going other directions), and worse yet was getting absolutely nothing accomplished anywhere else on the court. Got torched on defense again, this time by Stephen Jackson, but in this one didn't have any activity on the boards or in the passing game to make up for it. Scattered in couple more jumpers in the third, but with the Bobcats built perfectly to exploit our two biggest defensive sinkholes at PG/SF, we started going through spasms to avoid seeing Jackson torch Omri anymore. An ineffective Donte could have done the deed if the All Star break hadn't restolen his mojo. Late we experimented with a hopeless three guard set which at its weakest was Pooh Jeter, Marcus Thornton, and Jermaine Taylor -- when guard play is your weakness with Reke out, you put out three of them? Two scrubs and a guy in his first game? Anyway, just shows you how not well it was going with Omri that we would even screw around with that. Shot efficiently, but can't go any hihger when you get torched 30-10 and only grab 1 reb.
Baby Akita -- I'll start with one of the requested dogs. Girls, all together now, awwwww....
Thompson ( B ) -- very active and overwhelming the Bobcats miniature PFs early with energy as much as anything. Was on the glass, and bouncing balls off the glas inside on offense. When he picked up his second foul in the first half adn we had to sit him, we began to fall apart. Picked up his 4th early in the third, but we actually let him play through it -- we let Jason Thompson actually try to avoid a foul so dismal did Westphal deem his options (Jackson had sucked in his stint, and Cousins sufferend a quick and mysterious fall from favor when he refused to quit giving the ball to the other team). JT kept the rebounding up and hit a long jumper, but never had the impact he did early, and sort of faded off to asolid helpful game, but not an impact one.
Lab puppy
Cousins ( C+ ) -- this one started off so well too. Charlotte's cost cutting maneuvers apparently include their scouting department, as we started the game with the exact same Cousins to Taylor on the back door cut for the alley oop play we used last game, and again it worked. If Memphis lets us do that tonight somebody over there should get fired. Settled in and was chewing up the glass and knocking down easy jumpers over Kwame, who didn't want to guard him out there. Then a big gorilla dunk off nice ball movement. Even grabbed a d-board and led the break finishing with a pass over the top to Darnell for a dunk in stride. But started to miss as the half wore on and get frustrated, and more importantly really began to rack up turnovers. When he was going well and he had a couple of aggression, that was one thing. But when he fell off and they just became slop it became a problem. And when he started the third with another one, he got pulled immediately in an odd move, and then buried over on the bench for the entire period, and much fo the rest of the game. I don't know if something was said again or what, but if it wasn't it felt unnecessary and the sort fo thing that could cause more friction. In any case played an "A" first quarter and seemed poised to dominate against a sad 'Cats frontline, and then just kind of stopped. Maybe it was too easy and he lost focus, don't know. But Daly's playing so consistently well that when this happens, there go DeMarcus's minutes.
Beagle Mix Puppy -- my senior year at Penn we had a beagle/collie mix house puppy. Cutest little thing you ever saw, and just wanted attention. Unfortunately this was a house with 8 guys, and there was no clear responsibility for who's dog she was. She got a lot of attention because of the cuteness, and girls absolutely adored her (which justified having her alone), but there was kind of benign neglect of actually training her. So her housebreaking was never done correctly, she wasn't walked on any schedule, she would scratch and claw and whine at people's doors all night if not let in, she chewed up anything and everything she could find, including several expensive pices of furniture, and she would fairly consistently leave little gifts in the hall, or a few times in people's beds (I kept my door shut when I wasn't there). In the end, after about 5 months we gave her away to one of the guy's cousins who was, I kid you not, both gorgeous and a stripper. I'm not making that up.
Taylor ( C- ) -- started this game just like last game with the same alley opp from Cousins, and there was little burst of strong play there as everybody was going well and we jumped off to the lead. But unlike this time out, it didn't last agains the Cats. Trying to move off the ball wasn't enough to get free cositently, and when he tried to takle his man off the dribble he turned it over. Got quiet for a very long time until finally hitting a three in the mid 3rd. Got inserted as a SF for a while in the second half with a tiny guard lineup of Pooh/Thornton/Taylor. Smallest weakest group we could put out there without Head. Kept on missing hs shots, got exposed when trying to create plays, and was not effective defensively as a 3. Added he true garbage +1 with a couple of second to go when he could have just dribbled it out.
I have no idea of the breed, just came up when I typed in "cute puppy"
Opp pts per game w/Reke (46gms) = 100.4
Opp pts per game w/o Reke (10gms) = 116.6
At least another 2 1/2 weeks too.
Sigh.
So, in order to short circuit the inevitable complaints from the ever demanding women of the board, tonight's theme will be: Cute Puppies!
Official Boxscore
Casspi ( D+ ) -- the contributions were in the jumpshots. Hit his first two shots, including a three as we raced out to a strong start. But then disappeared on offense for a long time (mostly because the ball was just going other directions), and worse yet was getting absolutely nothing accomplished anywhere else on the court. Got torched on defense again, this time by Stephen Jackson, but in this one didn't have any activity on the boards or in the passing game to make up for it. Scattered in couple more jumpers in the third, but with the Bobcats built perfectly to exploit our two biggest defensive sinkholes at PG/SF, we started going through spasms to avoid seeing Jackson torch Omri anymore. An ineffective Donte could have done the deed if the All Star break hadn't restolen his mojo. Late we experimented with a hopeless three guard set which at its weakest was Pooh Jeter, Marcus Thornton, and Jermaine Taylor -- when guard play is your weakness with Reke out, you put out three of them? Two scrubs and a guy in his first game? Anyway, just shows you how not well it was going with Omri that we would even screw around with that. Shot efficiently, but can't go any hihger when you get torched 30-10 and only grab 1 reb.
Baby Akita -- I'll start with one of the requested dogs. Girls, all together now, awwwww....
Thompson ( B ) -- very active and overwhelming the Bobcats miniature PFs early with energy as much as anything. Was on the glass, and bouncing balls off the glas inside on offense. When he picked up his second foul in the first half adn we had to sit him, we began to fall apart. Picked up his 4th early in the third, but we actually let him play through it -- we let Jason Thompson actually try to avoid a foul so dismal did Westphal deem his options (Jackson had sucked in his stint, and Cousins sufferend a quick and mysterious fall from favor when he refused to quit giving the ball to the other team). JT kept the rebounding up and hit a long jumper, but never had the impact he did early, and sort of faded off to asolid helpful game, but not an impact one.
Lab puppy
Cousins ( C+ ) -- this one started off so well too. Charlotte's cost cutting maneuvers apparently include their scouting department, as we started the game with the exact same Cousins to Taylor on the back door cut for the alley oop play we used last game, and again it worked. If Memphis lets us do that tonight somebody over there should get fired. Settled in and was chewing up the glass and knocking down easy jumpers over Kwame, who didn't want to guard him out there. Then a big gorilla dunk off nice ball movement. Even grabbed a d-board and led the break finishing with a pass over the top to Darnell for a dunk in stride. But started to miss as the half wore on and get frustrated, and more importantly really began to rack up turnovers. When he was going well and he had a couple of aggression, that was one thing. But when he fell off and they just became slop it became a problem. And when he started the third with another one, he got pulled immediately in an odd move, and then buried over on the bench for the entire period, and much fo the rest of the game. I don't know if something was said again or what, but if it wasn't it felt unnecessary and the sort fo thing that could cause more friction. In any case played an "A" first quarter and seemed poised to dominate against a sad 'Cats frontline, and then just kind of stopped. Maybe it was too easy and he lost focus, don't know. But Daly's playing so consistently well that when this happens, there go DeMarcus's minutes.
Beagle Mix Puppy -- my senior year at Penn we had a beagle/collie mix house puppy. Cutest little thing you ever saw, and just wanted attention. Unfortunately this was a house with 8 guys, and there was no clear responsibility for who's dog she was. She got a lot of attention because of the cuteness, and girls absolutely adored her (which justified having her alone), but there was kind of benign neglect of actually training her. So her housebreaking was never done correctly, she wasn't walked on any schedule, she would scratch and claw and whine at people's doors all night if not let in, she chewed up anything and everything she could find, including several expensive pices of furniture, and she would fairly consistently leave little gifts in the hall, or a few times in people's beds (I kept my door shut when I wasn't there). In the end, after about 5 months we gave her away to one of the guy's cousins who was, I kid you not, both gorgeous and a stripper. I'm not making that up.
Taylor ( C- ) -- started this game just like last game with the same alley opp from Cousins, and there was little burst of strong play there as everybody was going well and we jumped off to the lead. But unlike this time out, it didn't last agains the Cats. Trying to move off the ball wasn't enough to get free cositently, and when he tried to takle his man off the dribble he turned it over. Got quiet for a very long time until finally hitting a three in the mid 3rd. Got inserted as a SF for a while in the second half with a tiny guard lineup of Pooh/Thornton/Taylor. Smallest weakest group we could put out there without Head. Kept on missing hs shots, got exposed when trying to create plays, and was not effective defensively as a 3. Added he true garbage +1 with a couple of second to go when he could have just dribbled it out.
I have no idea of the breed, just came up when I typed in "cute puppy"
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