Bricklayer
Don't Make Me Use The Bat
Well...it beats being beat by 45 right?
10-37, which for those of you keeping track is a 17 win pace nearly 60% of the way through the season. 35 games remaining, to reach 30 wins we would need to go 20-15. Highly unlikely. So any team you see reach 30 wins has escaped us. 15-20 to reach 25 wins. Unlikely, but remotely possible I suppose. Kind of a cutoff point -- if somebody gets above 25 I'm feeling pretty confident we finish beneath them.
Tonight's theme, as promised an amalgaration brought to you by the posters who correctly guessed the spread in the Cavs game, will be, um...let's see...carry the 2...dot the i...divide by 17....ok, got it: Top Old School Long Haired Sci Fi Wrestling Chicks "Owned" By Chris Webber During His Career.
Um...
Ok, so I'll work on it.
P.S. As an aside, on a positive note we did this week finally acheive our long pursued #30 in a power rankings (and note tonight it was #30 vs. #1):
http://sports.espn.go.com/nba/powerranking
Salmons ( B ) -- and yet more of the same here. Did a good job of moving the ball in the early going, and joined the rest of the team in the hot shooting. Canned a three, but did not stand out with everybody knocking down their shots. Was taken even further out of it as the Celtcis defense surged toward that swarming crescendo it sometimes reaches, and John was facing doubles and traps and having to give the ball up. But came alive offensively at the end of the 3rd, and nudge me if you have heard this before, carried over the hot shooting into the 4th quarter where he got the bulk of his numbers. Of course we were down by double figures the entire second half, so it did not matter, but I suppose you can say that we at least stubboirnly refused to be beaten by 30. Ironic thing is that if John were on a title contender and scoring like this in the 4th quarter he would be like some crunchtime Michael Jordan supergod. But on maybe the worst team in the league he is a garbagetime statpadder. On the other end Pierce, and really none of the Big Three, did much of anything, although major foul trouble played a factor, and he was racking up assists.
George "the Animal" Steele -- hey, one of the suggestions was 1980's wrestlers, and so here ya go. I also am still feeling guilty about not doing a Pretty Guys thread yet for the ladies, so the sexiness that was The Animal will have to hold them over.
Thompson ( A- ) -- was part of our hot smooth start working against Perkins for the most part. But began to have turnover problems as the Cs defense picked up and then sat out almost the whole 2nd quarter as we experimeted with such impact players as Sheldon Willimas and Mikki Moore. But returned in the third for some nice in control offensive work, inside and out. It was already kind of semi-garbagetime, but Thompson was undoubtedly the guy keeping us within...er...less embarrasing losing distance. Finsished inside with solid non panicked niftiness. Put the final 20-10 sheen on this deep into the garbagetime against the likes of Bill Walker and Patrick O'Bryant, and combined with the slower start, enough for the "-" here. But a very good game and obviously our bright point.
Nelson - More sexiness for the ladies! Another request was for 80's hair metal bands. And these brothers had it. Hair that is. Calling what they played metal would make many a purist choke on his mini-wheats. After the rain...
Miller ( C ) -- in the early going actually seemed to be making an uncommon effort inside on defense, but on offense responded to the Celtics pressure by just running away out beyond the three point arc and chucking away like Antoine Walker had returned to Boston. Then once the jumpers stopped falling...was not helping. Never did much on the glass, but other than a couple of plays where the athletic difference was thrown into stark relief, did not have any real problems with Garnett on defense. the Celtics were content to just whip us with their PGs and didn't need to break any of the Big Three out to do it.
Macho Man Randy Savage -- and so what do you get when you combine lots of hair with 80's wrestling? Why Macho Man Randy Savage of course!
Martin ( C ) -- played a pretty strong first half carrying over from the Cavs game. Wasn't about to guard Allen in the early going, but scored back the other way himself before the Celtics tightened things. Second quarter was more of a struggle, as he got to the line, but didn't hit his FTs, and the defense around the perimeter forced him into a number of bricks. Still got his points though and was sitting on 14 at halftime. But that was pretty much that as he largely disappeared after half. Still got his minutes, but was doing nothing out there with them and what had started out looking like it might be a poretty good game, actually ended up below average. May have run out of steam in the second half after the Cavs effort a night before. If so more troubling questions about his endurance, as something similar happened in the Toronto game. After the inital burst by Allen, Ray didn't do much the rest of the way, but Kevin was one of the defenders torched by House in the second. Soemwhat curiosuly tonight I saw him making a better than usual effort to actually recover and challenge shots, but he just looked confused on where he was supposed to be, and where his man had went, while the play was developing.
Princess Leia -- another request was for scifi chicks, and so I took an obvious one. Actually did a "girls of Star Trek" theme sometime last year, or maybe even the spring before that, and have also noted Morena Baccarin of Firefly/Serenity, as well as Colonel Deering of Buck Rogers. Think I will just add the Star Wars babes here and pocket the remaining non-Star trek, non-Star Wars "Girls of Sci Fi" as the next Pretty Girls theme. As an aside, have you ever noticed how all alien species, no matter how different their biology and repulsive looking they may be to us, think human girls are hot? Here we had a 20 foot long giant slug, and he(?) too was in slug heat over our cute little princess. Of course how could he resist with the whole harem girl in bondage thing going on.
10-37, which for those of you keeping track is a 17 win pace nearly 60% of the way through the season. 35 games remaining, to reach 30 wins we would need to go 20-15. Highly unlikely. So any team you see reach 30 wins has escaped us. 15-20 to reach 25 wins. Unlikely, but remotely possible I suppose. Kind of a cutoff point -- if somebody gets above 25 I'm feeling pretty confident we finish beneath them.
Tonight's theme, as promised an amalgaration brought to you by the posters who correctly guessed the spread in the Cavs game, will be, um...let's see...carry the 2...dot the i...divide by 17....ok, got it: Top Old School Long Haired Sci Fi Wrestling Chicks "Owned" By Chris Webber During His Career.
Um...
Ok, so I'll work on it.
P.S. As an aside, on a positive note we did this week finally acheive our long pursued #30 in a power rankings (and note tonight it was #30 vs. #1):
http://sports.espn.go.com/nba/powerranking
Salmons ( B ) -- and yet more of the same here. Did a good job of moving the ball in the early going, and joined the rest of the team in the hot shooting. Canned a three, but did not stand out with everybody knocking down their shots. Was taken even further out of it as the Celtcis defense surged toward that swarming crescendo it sometimes reaches, and John was facing doubles and traps and having to give the ball up. But came alive offensively at the end of the 3rd, and nudge me if you have heard this before, carried over the hot shooting into the 4th quarter where he got the bulk of his numbers. Of course we were down by double figures the entire second half, so it did not matter, but I suppose you can say that we at least stubboirnly refused to be beaten by 30. Ironic thing is that if John were on a title contender and scoring like this in the 4th quarter he would be like some crunchtime Michael Jordan supergod. But on maybe the worst team in the league he is a garbagetime statpadder. On the other end Pierce, and really none of the Big Three, did much of anything, although major foul trouble played a factor, and he was racking up assists.
George "the Animal" Steele -- hey, one of the suggestions was 1980's wrestlers, and so here ya go. I also am still feeling guilty about not doing a Pretty Guys thread yet for the ladies, so the sexiness that was The Animal will have to hold them over.
Thompson ( A- ) -- was part of our hot smooth start working against Perkins for the most part. But began to have turnover problems as the Cs defense picked up and then sat out almost the whole 2nd quarter as we experimeted with such impact players as Sheldon Willimas and Mikki Moore. But returned in the third for some nice in control offensive work, inside and out. It was already kind of semi-garbagetime, but Thompson was undoubtedly the guy keeping us within...er...less embarrasing losing distance. Finsished inside with solid non panicked niftiness. Put the final 20-10 sheen on this deep into the garbagetime against the likes of Bill Walker and Patrick O'Bryant, and combined with the slower start, enough for the "-" here. But a very good game and obviously our bright point.
Nelson - More sexiness for the ladies! Another request was for 80's hair metal bands. And these brothers had it. Hair that is. Calling what they played metal would make many a purist choke on his mini-wheats. After the rain...
Miller ( C ) -- in the early going actually seemed to be making an uncommon effort inside on defense, but on offense responded to the Celtics pressure by just running away out beyond the three point arc and chucking away like Antoine Walker had returned to Boston. Then once the jumpers stopped falling...was not helping. Never did much on the glass, but other than a couple of plays where the athletic difference was thrown into stark relief, did not have any real problems with Garnett on defense. the Celtics were content to just whip us with their PGs and didn't need to break any of the Big Three out to do it.
Macho Man Randy Savage -- and so what do you get when you combine lots of hair with 80's wrestling? Why Macho Man Randy Savage of course!
Martin ( C ) -- played a pretty strong first half carrying over from the Cavs game. Wasn't about to guard Allen in the early going, but scored back the other way himself before the Celtics tightened things. Second quarter was more of a struggle, as he got to the line, but didn't hit his FTs, and the defense around the perimeter forced him into a number of bricks. Still got his points though and was sitting on 14 at halftime. But that was pretty much that as he largely disappeared after half. Still got his minutes, but was doing nothing out there with them and what had started out looking like it might be a poretty good game, actually ended up below average. May have run out of steam in the second half after the Cavs effort a night before. If so more troubling questions about his endurance, as something similar happened in the Toronto game. After the inital burst by Allen, Ray didn't do much the rest of the way, but Kevin was one of the defenders torched by House in the second. Soemwhat curiosuly tonight I saw him making a better than usual effort to actually recover and challenge shots, but he just looked confused on where he was supposed to be, and where his man had went, while the play was developing.
Princess Leia -- another request was for scifi chicks, and so I took an obvious one. Actually did a "girls of Star Trek" theme sometime last year, or maybe even the spring before that, and have also noted Morena Baccarin of Firefly/Serenity, as well as Colonel Deering of Buck Rogers. Think I will just add the Star Wars babes here and pocket the remaining non-Star trek, non-Star Wars "Girls of Sci Fi" as the next Pretty Girls theme. As an aside, have you ever noticed how all alien species, no matter how different their biology and repulsive looking they may be to us, think human girls are hot? Here we had a 20 foot long giant slug, and he(?) too was in slug heat over our cute little princess. Of course how could he resist with the whole harem girl in bondage thing going on.
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