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Welcome to the 12-19 Bowl!
Was a good suggestion to make the theme here the bowl games in college football, but unfortunatly I have paid very little attention this year, so I am going to go elsewhere in random fashion. Accordingly: A Guide to Fine China (Bowls)
Cisco ( C ) -- well it was back on the down elevator of the Cisco express this time out. Apart from one bad turnover was more quiet than bad in the first half. Did have a nice seat to watch a lot of Nocioni's early fireworks, but as we were frequently in a zone (why against this team?) a lot of it was just being a step slow on the closeouts as opposed out Cisco actually getting beat one on one. Ended the first half getting out Cisco'd by Nocioni, who threw himself around and flopped to draw a foul on Cisco and 3 FTs to close the half. Not Cisco's fault particularly (there was minimal contact), but I suppose some sort of karmic justice for Cisco's own theatrical offenses. Gave us a little help on the glass, but never did get anything going in the second either, not even with Salmons continuing to battle foul trouble. In fact when Dahntay Jones entered the game in place of Salmons, it was left up to Jones to give us that spark, not Cisco, and it was a little questionable down the stretch when Cisco was on the floor rather than Dahntay. Not an awful outing, just didn't accomplish much and had little spark.
Kakiemon -- one of the famed Japanese styles, I think meaning "milky white background". But don't quote me -- my ignorance of this kind of stuff knows few bounds.
Moore ( D+ ) -- largely invisible in the early going apart from one slam on a quick cut to the hoop, but still badly outperformed a totally inept Joe Smith in the first half -- Joe in fact may have been our second best player in the first two quarters. Problem was that the second half rolled around and Smith got a little better but Mikki...just gave us nothing. Played 34 minutes tonight before mercifully fouling out, and in those 34 minutes gave us 6pts and 3rebs. Where's Kenny when you need him?
Imari -- the other famed Japanese export style, which I think roughly translated means "loud eyesore".
Miller ( A ) -- got off to the hot start looking good. If you didn't see this game, you should have seen how Brad was moving tonight. It was an out of body experience for him, and his speed/mobility looked to be about twice of the old Brad. Let's just hope the Balco guys don't have a file on him. While largely carrying us, made a mistake to close the first half, actually a couple of them. Fouled Nocioni during a missed FT scrum after Big Ben tried to break the backboard again, and gave the Bulls a couple of points as Nocioni was able to step up and get the two freebies that Wallace could not. And then when we should have gotten the last play of the half, Brad took his eye off the ball as it was passed to them, and gave it back to the Bulls for Nocioni to go back down the other way and draw a 3Ft shooting foul to tack 3 more points onto their lead. Came out in the second half continuing to channel CWebb in his prime and scoring inside and out. More importantly, was cleaning the glass for us again, and with a little help from our imposiing Jones/Douby bench duo, had us right there heading into the stretch run. Had adventures with the officals in the final minute, first getting the benefit of a phantom call as he drove the lane, bailing him out when it would have been Bulls ball, and then on the final play of the game getting his shot blocked back in his face by Big Ben, getting it back, and then right at the buzzer getting hacked on the arm as he tried to throw it towards the hoop. It was a close thing even on replay, so I'm not going to join the shock the officials missed it realtime. But it was still a foul. Mentioend this before though -- refs don't like to make that call to close the game, and I support that. Better that they miss the occasional foul on a game deciding play than that they make phantom or ticky tack fouls to give one team or the other victory. In any case 22pts 13rebs 6ast from Brad on a night when many/most of the rest of the starters may have been suffering from fatigue. result = A.
Joseon Dynasty -- Korean -- I know little about this stuff except that the porcelain from this era is supposed to be the peak of Korean porcelain acheivement. And since that dynaasty lasted for 600 years until the early 20th century, that is hardly surprising. Kind of minimalist I think, and I think you'd do better dispalying your Corningware.
Salmons ( C ) -- early foul trouble contributed mightily to an almost nothing first half (2pts), and an only slightly more than nothing third quarter before getting his 4th foul. The fourth quarter however was another animal as for a long stretth of it John tried to make up for lost time and carried us. Got going working the post over the smaller Duhon, and then belatedly got his to the hoop stuff going when he could avoid the parachuting Tyrus Thomas. Even during the hot streak though, and definitely throughout the rest of the night, he was plagued with turnovers. Seven of them to be precise. And that was appropriate as it was a turnover that jumped up and bit us on the play of the game. Tie game, two second differential on the game clock and the shotclock. Our ball. Should be a win for us, or at worst an OT. And Reggie calls a timeout and we go with a reasonable choice of play -- iso for John up at the top fo the circle. John can be a pain to stop in the open court, finishes well at the rim, and if he penetrates and the defense collapses, guys should be open aroudn the perimeter. Well...they were. Problme that we did not consider is that John Salmons does not actually see anybody else ont eh court when he's got his head down and looking to score. So he drove, suddenly found himself surrounded by five Bulls, didn't see all the Kings open aroudn the perimeter, tried to spin out of it and ran right into more white shirts for the killer turnover. We don't do well in these close contests, and a major reason is because we don't have a goto guy.
Ming Dynasty -- of course maybe the most famous, in that for many laypeople this might be about the only fine china they recognize (porcelain began being called "china" btw by the Europeans just because the finest examples they were importing was chinese). This version has the classic blue/white color scheme.
Was a good suggestion to make the theme here the bowl games in college football, but unfortunatly I have paid very little attention this year, so I am going to go elsewhere in random fashion. Accordingly: A Guide to Fine China (Bowls)
Cisco ( C ) -- well it was back on the down elevator of the Cisco express this time out. Apart from one bad turnover was more quiet than bad in the first half. Did have a nice seat to watch a lot of Nocioni's early fireworks, but as we were frequently in a zone (why against this team?) a lot of it was just being a step slow on the closeouts as opposed out Cisco actually getting beat one on one. Ended the first half getting out Cisco'd by Nocioni, who threw himself around and flopped to draw a foul on Cisco and 3 FTs to close the half. Not Cisco's fault particularly (there was minimal contact), but I suppose some sort of karmic justice for Cisco's own theatrical offenses. Gave us a little help on the glass, but never did get anything going in the second either, not even with Salmons continuing to battle foul trouble. In fact when Dahntay Jones entered the game in place of Salmons, it was left up to Jones to give us that spark, not Cisco, and it was a little questionable down the stretch when Cisco was on the floor rather than Dahntay. Not an awful outing, just didn't accomplish much and had little spark.
Kakiemon -- one of the famed Japanese styles, I think meaning "milky white background". But don't quote me -- my ignorance of this kind of stuff knows few bounds.
Moore ( D+ ) -- largely invisible in the early going apart from one slam on a quick cut to the hoop, but still badly outperformed a totally inept Joe Smith in the first half -- Joe in fact may have been our second best player in the first two quarters. Problem was that the second half rolled around and Smith got a little better but Mikki...just gave us nothing. Played 34 minutes tonight before mercifully fouling out, and in those 34 minutes gave us 6pts and 3rebs. Where's Kenny when you need him?
Imari -- the other famed Japanese export style, which I think roughly translated means "loud eyesore".
Miller ( A ) -- got off to the hot start looking good. If you didn't see this game, you should have seen how Brad was moving tonight. It was an out of body experience for him, and his speed/mobility looked to be about twice of the old Brad. Let's just hope the Balco guys don't have a file on him. While largely carrying us, made a mistake to close the first half, actually a couple of them. Fouled Nocioni during a missed FT scrum after Big Ben tried to break the backboard again, and gave the Bulls a couple of points as Nocioni was able to step up and get the two freebies that Wallace could not. And then when we should have gotten the last play of the half, Brad took his eye off the ball as it was passed to them, and gave it back to the Bulls for Nocioni to go back down the other way and draw a 3Ft shooting foul to tack 3 more points onto their lead. Came out in the second half continuing to channel CWebb in his prime and scoring inside and out. More importantly, was cleaning the glass for us again, and with a little help from our imposiing Jones/Douby bench duo, had us right there heading into the stretch run. Had adventures with the officals in the final minute, first getting the benefit of a phantom call as he drove the lane, bailing him out when it would have been Bulls ball, and then on the final play of the game getting his shot blocked back in his face by Big Ben, getting it back, and then right at the buzzer getting hacked on the arm as he tried to throw it towards the hoop. It was a close thing even on replay, so I'm not going to join the shock the officials missed it realtime. But it was still a foul. Mentioend this before though -- refs don't like to make that call to close the game, and I support that. Better that they miss the occasional foul on a game deciding play than that they make phantom or ticky tack fouls to give one team or the other victory. In any case 22pts 13rebs 6ast from Brad on a night when many/most of the rest of the starters may have been suffering from fatigue. result = A.
Joseon Dynasty -- Korean -- I know little about this stuff except that the porcelain from this era is supposed to be the peak of Korean porcelain acheivement. And since that dynaasty lasted for 600 years until the early 20th century, that is hardly surprising. Kind of minimalist I think, and I think you'd do better dispalying your Corningware.
Salmons ( C ) -- early foul trouble contributed mightily to an almost nothing first half (2pts), and an only slightly more than nothing third quarter before getting his 4th foul. The fourth quarter however was another animal as for a long stretth of it John tried to make up for lost time and carried us. Got going working the post over the smaller Duhon, and then belatedly got his to the hoop stuff going when he could avoid the parachuting Tyrus Thomas. Even during the hot streak though, and definitely throughout the rest of the night, he was plagued with turnovers. Seven of them to be precise. And that was appropriate as it was a turnover that jumped up and bit us on the play of the game. Tie game, two second differential on the game clock and the shotclock. Our ball. Should be a win for us, or at worst an OT. And Reggie calls a timeout and we go with a reasonable choice of play -- iso for John up at the top fo the circle. John can be a pain to stop in the open court, finishes well at the rim, and if he penetrates and the defense collapses, guys should be open aroudn the perimeter. Well...they were. Problme that we did not consider is that John Salmons does not actually see anybody else ont eh court when he's got his head down and looking to score. So he drove, suddenly found himself surrounded by five Bulls, didn't see all the Kings open aroudn the perimeter, tried to spin out of it and ran right into more white shirts for the killer turnover. We don't do well in these close contests, and a major reason is because we don't have a goto guy.
Ming Dynasty -- of course maybe the most famous, in that for many laypeople this might be about the only fine china they recognize (porcelain began being called "china" btw by the Europeans just because the finest examples they were importing was chinese). This version has the classic blue/white color scheme.
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