Bricklayer
Don't Make Me Use The Bat
Have some bleepin' pride edition.
And now I am sincerely upset this one ate up one of our "home" games.
Nope, didn't happen. For anybody who missed this one and were hoping to catch it later...just know there was no game. It was cancelled due to...El Nino, or the cartels, or possibly pirates. Whatever it was, it did not happen so under no circumstances whatsoever should you waste a moment of your precious time trying to look up when it will be showing again. It won't. Ever. Have a good night.
Don't look for it.
Seriously.
And now, introducing a new tradition, meant both to be fair to the few remaining ladies on the board, as well as to conserve and extend my supply of pretty girls should everything turn to crap again. Hence, Pretty Girls themes will indeed continue every other blowout. But they will henceforth be alternated with Cute Fuzzy Possibly Baby Animals themes so as to give everybody something they want (hey, I can't help it that men are normal while women are deviants with plushy/furry fetishes).
Boxscore
Stats: 31min 18pts (7-13, 2-3, 2-3) 7reb 0ast 1stl 0blk 4TO
Gay ( C ) -- was really the first of our starters to begin to play his way into this one in minor ways. In fact his most notable early contributions were a couple of unusually strong snatched defensive boards. Finally got a pullup from his preferred midrange in the mid 2nd and slowly worked his way into a solid scoring night. But this game stood out for Rudy more for not being awful than for actually being good. He wasn't moving fast, but at least he was moving. On one end of the court at least -- defensively he was one of a number of Kings wandering around totally lost in space. --Brick
Stats: 18min 8pts (2-2, 0-0, 4-6) 5reb 1ast 0stl 1blk 1TO
Cauley-Stein ( HARD TO SAY ) -- was quickly out of the game with two quick fouls again, the second one when Rudy got beat and Willie had to slide over to try to stop the easy layup. When he returned tot he game, immediately displayed those questionable hands, fumbling a catch that him directly on the hands. Got the bulk of his numbers in a productive 4th quarter for him that was unfortunately capped by a significant injury -- an open (as in through the skin) finger dislocation that promises to keep him out until the New Year. Its hard for me to factor in garbagetime grades with the real stuff, and by that time I had rediscovered the interesting philosophical works of Democritus online and was paying far more attention to his extracts online than I was the sincerely sad display on the tube. --Brick
Stats: 25min 16pts (4-17, 2-5, 6-8) 7reb 4ast 0stl 1blk 4TO
Cousins ( D- ) -- should probably go ahead and get the F here given what we need from him, but barely avoided it with a little burst of angry play after Rondo got tossed for literally looking too hard at a ref. Not that it mattered since the Celtics were going to score every single time down the floor anyway. This was a weird weird game for Boogie. Wasn't about him just being frustrated, he came out and looked just flat exhausted, not after a few trips up the floor, but just from the beginning. I have absolutely no explanation for that except the altitude. And if that's how Boogie responds to altitude, if (when) I go climb Everest he's not going to be my sherpa. Was glued flat to the ground, had no lift at all from the opening tip, and fell back into old fugly habits, lumbering around forcing up flat footed off balance stuff into hordes of swarming Celtics, and laboring to get up and down the court. This was a long long way from the 30pt scorer we've been seeing out there every night. Now you just have to hope he's recovered by the time we tipoff in Houston. --Brick
Stats: 25min 11pts (3-6, 0-2, 5-6) 4reb 1ast 0stl 0blk 0TO
McLemore ( C- ) -- was distinguished from many teammates by I guess being a young elite athlete and not looking sluggish. He hit an early jumper, got to the line a few times against the Celtics' aggressive defense. Unfortunately he may have looked better physically, but he looked in no less of a fog defensively, and I would have to go rewatch this thing -- which I am NOT going to do -- to figure out how he was getting so badly out of position to challenge the Celtic three point shooters on defense. You kept seeing him come running over at the last moment, by which point it was already too late, covering 15-20 feet of space. The court isn't that big, and our backcourt got lit up by IT and Bradley on open jumper after open jumper. Ben got a layup from Rondo out of the halftime break, continued to chip in little bits, but he badly lost his positional battle, and we lost the war.. --Brick
Stats: 24min 5pts (2-6, 1-1, 0-0) 3reb 8ast 2stl 0blk 4TO
Rondo ( ) -- --Hadlowe
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And now I am sincerely upset this one ate up one of our "home" games.
Nope, didn't happen. For anybody who missed this one and were hoping to catch it later...just know there was no game. It was cancelled due to...El Nino, or the cartels, or possibly pirates. Whatever it was, it did not happen so under no circumstances whatsoever should you waste a moment of your precious time trying to look up when it will be showing again. It won't. Ever. Have a good night.
Don't look for it.
Seriously.
And now, introducing a new tradition, meant both to be fair to the few remaining ladies on the board, as well as to conserve and extend my supply of pretty girls should everything turn to crap again. Hence, Pretty Girls themes will indeed continue every other blowout. But they will henceforth be alternated with Cute Fuzzy Possibly Baby Animals themes so as to give everybody something they want (hey, I can't help it that men are normal while women are deviants with plushy/furry fetishes).
Boxscore
Stats: 31min 18pts (7-13, 2-3, 2-3) 7reb 0ast 1stl 0blk 4TO
Gay ( C ) -- was really the first of our starters to begin to play his way into this one in minor ways. In fact his most notable early contributions were a couple of unusually strong snatched defensive boards. Finally got a pullup from his preferred midrange in the mid 2nd and slowly worked his way into a solid scoring night. But this game stood out for Rudy more for not being awful than for actually being good. He wasn't moving fast, but at least he was moving. On one end of the court at least -- defensively he was one of a number of Kings wandering around totally lost in space. --Brick
Stats: 18min 8pts (2-2, 0-0, 4-6) 5reb 1ast 0stl 1blk 1TO
Cauley-Stein ( HARD TO SAY ) -- was quickly out of the game with two quick fouls again, the second one when Rudy got beat and Willie had to slide over to try to stop the easy layup. When he returned tot he game, immediately displayed those questionable hands, fumbling a catch that him directly on the hands. Got the bulk of his numbers in a productive 4th quarter for him that was unfortunately capped by a significant injury -- an open (as in through the skin) finger dislocation that promises to keep him out until the New Year. Its hard for me to factor in garbagetime grades with the real stuff, and by that time I had rediscovered the interesting philosophical works of Democritus online and was paying far more attention to his extracts online than I was the sincerely sad display on the tube. --Brick
Stats: 25min 16pts (4-17, 2-5, 6-8) 7reb 4ast 0stl 1blk 4TO
Cousins ( D- ) -- should probably go ahead and get the F here given what we need from him, but barely avoided it with a little burst of angry play after Rondo got tossed for literally looking too hard at a ref. Not that it mattered since the Celtics were going to score every single time down the floor anyway. This was a weird weird game for Boogie. Wasn't about him just being frustrated, he came out and looked just flat exhausted, not after a few trips up the floor, but just from the beginning. I have absolutely no explanation for that except the altitude. And if that's how Boogie responds to altitude, if (when) I go climb Everest he's not going to be my sherpa. Was glued flat to the ground, had no lift at all from the opening tip, and fell back into old fugly habits, lumbering around forcing up flat footed off balance stuff into hordes of swarming Celtics, and laboring to get up and down the court. This was a long long way from the 30pt scorer we've been seeing out there every night. Now you just have to hope he's recovered by the time we tipoff in Houston. --Brick
Stats: 25min 11pts (3-6, 0-2, 5-6) 4reb 1ast 0stl 0blk 0TO
McLemore ( C- ) -- was distinguished from many teammates by I guess being a young elite athlete and not looking sluggish. He hit an early jumper, got to the line a few times against the Celtics' aggressive defense. Unfortunately he may have looked better physically, but he looked in no less of a fog defensively, and I would have to go rewatch this thing -- which I am NOT going to do -- to figure out how he was getting so badly out of position to challenge the Celtic three point shooters on defense. You kept seeing him come running over at the last moment, by which point it was already too late, covering 15-20 feet of space. The court isn't that big, and our backcourt got lit up by IT and Bradley on open jumper after open jumper. Ben got a layup from Rondo out of the halftime break, continued to chip in little bits, but he badly lost his positional battle, and we lost the war.. --Brick
Stats: 24min 5pts (2-6, 1-1, 0-0) 3reb 8ast 2stl 0blk 4TO
Rondo ( ) -- --Hadlowe
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Which is worthy of being mocked, but making light of it is probably just going to give the referees even more reason to hate us. That's the dark side of the "us against the world" mentality. Sometimes you turn it into a reality just by believing in it.
