Bricklayer
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Girls.
'Nuff said.
Otay, since our last debacle I have rapidly reloaded my own pretty girls queue, including a real cutie I jsut stumbled across yesterday, but when people send me their own lists, I like to put them up in good time, especially when they go to the apparent trouble of not only securing pictures of the ladies, but of photoshopping them and linking them too. So without further ado, tonight's theme is MonkeyMike's Pretty Girls.
Official Boxscore
Garcia ( F ) -- an F-bomb you say? Yes, an F-bomb. This just made me mad. But let's make sure the credit gets spread around to all appropriate parties and pass some of this Westphal's way as well. Basically the offense was not there. He hit a single three late in the first quarter, and that was basically the extent of his damge. Missed all his other threes, had 4 other points. But of course that absolutely was not the problem here. We've witnessed some godawful defensive beatdowns of various Kings this season, and right here on this roadtrip for that matter. But what we found out tongiht was that Francisco Garcia absolutely can NOT, in any way, shape, or manner, guard Paul Pierce. And we all figured that out a hell of a lot quicker than Paul Westphal did apparently. This was just awful -- right from the opening bell Pierce started working Cisco over, used his outside, used his inside, but most of all used his power, and he just ran right through our scrawny blown up offguard time and time again. Midway through the first I was already calling for Donte or Casspi. Nobody listened. By the end of the first Pierce had 15 points, and I think all but 2 of them were directly through Cisco who incredibly played the entire first quarter despite getting exterminated on defense. Amazingly after a full quarter of the beatdown, Westphal went right back to the matchup at the close of the first half, and in a major surprise Pierce just immediately, the very first possesion he got his chew toy back, ran right through our scrawny little...well, you've heard it before. Power drive, knocked Cisco right out of the way, 2 more Boston points. After Cisco did some more of his fake injury B.S. just before halftime, maybe by way of excuse I don't know, we come back out of the halftime break and do you know who we have starting and guarding Paul Pierce? I'll give you one guess! Just simply amazing. Hey, and do you want to guess what Pierce did with that matchup? Come on! It'll be fun! Somewhere in the midst of this my brother texted me that Westphal said they'd tried everything and that Pierce was just a great player. I nearly spit up my hot chocolate (we are having a blizzard you know). Because the fact of the matter is that we did the exact opposite of trying everything. We tried nothing. We trotted Cisco out there quarter after quarter to just get squished like a bug on the windshield, and much as we were badly outclassed in this one and lost it before we even stepped ont he floor, Cisco being made to look liek a helpless child out there was the constant fuel powering the Celtics. The rest of them barely had to exert themselves before stepping out for an early dinner while the scrubs cleaned up, because anytime and everytimne they wanted they just gave the ball to Pierce and it was over. This is not exaggeration. What this is is an F level beatdown and yet another ? dangling over Westphal's head -- he had to see it didn't he? Didn't he?
Louise Cliffe - British Model/Actress/Singer. Was in Wrong Turn 3 and some show on the Sci-Fi channel.
Thompson ( B ) -- as effective as any King tonight, and that's not a great statement for the team when a guy scores only 7pts. Made a couple of strong interior defensive plays in thr early going and was energetic on the glass on both ends. Strong play bumped him up over Daly as backup center in the early second, as he was playing well, and Westphal was determined to do his absolute best to keep pursuing a francise record for most points given up on a roadtrip. By the time he left midway through he third we were already down 20, so its not as if he was changing the game. But it was solid, workman like, and he was one of the few guys on our team that didn't look intimdated (may have helpe that everybody else was facing All Stars and HOFers while JT was facing a guy with the very intimidating nickname of Big Baby.
Amber Lancaster - Former Seattle Seahawks cheerleader, now a Price is Right girl and plays Jenny Swanson on MTV's hit show The Hard Times of RJ Berger. Looks good for someone in her 30's (Editor's Note: Yes, he actually said that, which establishes that a) Mike is a braver man than I and b) that Mike is going to die a born again virgin)
Cousins ( D ) -- you know what, for the first time in this game I got the feeling that DeMarcus was actually intimidated, or at least in awe, of Shaq. And that's certianly not because of SHaq's talent at this late date, but just that it was well, you know Shaq he was playing against, and that Shaq has gotten HUGE. DeMarcus is a big boy, and he was just utterly dwarfed by the (Very) Big Leprechaun, who just has to be pressing 400lbs once again. And the practical effects of all that mass was that DeMarcus's power game was entirely impossible -- there is no bullying a man mountain -- and he didn't look sure about what he wanted to do about that. Did better after the Celtics went to their bench and showed you how much they miss Perkins when they inserted Erden, but it was just minor stuff, and three games into this roadtrip you have to wonder who was making it easier for who during that recent streak of 20pt games -- Cousins for Tyreke, or Tyreke for Cousins, as he's hit the road and looked very much the rookie again. After returning in the 2nd, was matched with the return of Shaq, who pulled him out of the air while they went for a rebound. Fianlly just turned into a jumpshooter by Shaq after half, and clearly incomfortable out there agains tthe Celtics defense and made several really ill conceived crosscourt passes that the C's are always going to pick off. Not quite the bounceback game you were hoping for after the mess in Washington.
Melanie Iglesias - Recently named Maxim's 2010 Hometown Hotties winner.
Udrih ( B ) -- I don't think you can ratchet this grade up too high in a game like this, but really this was a third straight strong game on this roadtrip, and in some ways this one was stronger than the other two because it wasn't accompanied by a defensive beatdown on the other end of the floor. And it was accomplished at a more reasonable pace too -- in our first couple of games ont his trip it was obvious that our crap defenders had taken over leadership of the team and were more than happy to stuff their stats on one end if it meant they didn't have to break a nail on defense on the othere. This time we got smoked, but it was the smoked of being badly outexecuted, and the pace of the game was reasonable. And so Beno beign able to be this efficient against this team at a normal pace was in many ways more impressive. Should be noted that one advantage of startign Pooh in this one was that it did take Rondo off of Beno -- I remember that macthup not going well, at all, for us in years past. And against Allen and friends, Beno was just able to be very efficient. Never prolific enough to really matter, but he hit almost everything -- 5-6 from the field, 5-6 from the line -- and was just very solid. His three point play in the final minute of the half to cut the lead to 6 was kind of our last bid for relevancy in this one. Dind't have much of an answer when the Celtics stepped on us after the break, but that was kind of in keeping with the feel of this game. Not forceful, just very efficient whenever a good opportuunity presented itself. If we say had a couple of young stars leading the way ahead of him, this would have been a very nice 3rd fiddle game. Alas we are the Kings and this as the best we had.
Arianny Celeste - The best known UFC ring girl.
'Nuff said.
Otay, since our last debacle I have rapidly reloaded my own pretty girls queue, including a real cutie I jsut stumbled across yesterday, but when people send me their own lists, I like to put them up in good time, especially when they go to the apparent trouble of not only securing pictures of the ladies, but of photoshopping them and linking them too. So without further ado, tonight's theme is MonkeyMike's Pretty Girls.
Official Boxscore
Garcia ( F ) -- an F-bomb you say? Yes, an F-bomb. This just made me mad. But let's make sure the credit gets spread around to all appropriate parties and pass some of this Westphal's way as well. Basically the offense was not there. He hit a single three late in the first quarter, and that was basically the extent of his damge. Missed all his other threes, had 4 other points. But of course that absolutely was not the problem here. We've witnessed some godawful defensive beatdowns of various Kings this season, and right here on this roadtrip for that matter. But what we found out tongiht was that Francisco Garcia absolutely can NOT, in any way, shape, or manner, guard Paul Pierce. And we all figured that out a hell of a lot quicker than Paul Westphal did apparently. This was just awful -- right from the opening bell Pierce started working Cisco over, used his outside, used his inside, but most of all used his power, and he just ran right through our scrawny blown up offguard time and time again. Midway through the first I was already calling for Donte or Casspi. Nobody listened. By the end of the first Pierce had 15 points, and I think all but 2 of them were directly through Cisco who incredibly played the entire first quarter despite getting exterminated on defense. Amazingly after a full quarter of the beatdown, Westphal went right back to the matchup at the close of the first half, and in a major surprise Pierce just immediately, the very first possesion he got his chew toy back, ran right through our scrawny little...well, you've heard it before. Power drive, knocked Cisco right out of the way, 2 more Boston points. After Cisco did some more of his fake injury B.S. just before halftime, maybe by way of excuse I don't know, we come back out of the halftime break and do you know who we have starting and guarding Paul Pierce? I'll give you one guess! Just simply amazing. Hey, and do you want to guess what Pierce did with that matchup? Come on! It'll be fun! Somewhere in the midst of this my brother texted me that Westphal said they'd tried everything and that Pierce was just a great player. I nearly spit up my hot chocolate (we are having a blizzard you know). Because the fact of the matter is that we did the exact opposite of trying everything. We tried nothing. We trotted Cisco out there quarter after quarter to just get squished like a bug on the windshield, and much as we were badly outclassed in this one and lost it before we even stepped ont he floor, Cisco being made to look liek a helpless child out there was the constant fuel powering the Celtics. The rest of them barely had to exert themselves before stepping out for an early dinner while the scrubs cleaned up, because anytime and everytimne they wanted they just gave the ball to Pierce and it was over. This is not exaggeration. What this is is an F level beatdown and yet another ? dangling over Westphal's head -- he had to see it didn't he? Didn't he?
Louise Cliffe - British Model/Actress/Singer. Was in Wrong Turn 3 and some show on the Sci-Fi channel.
Thompson ( B ) -- as effective as any King tonight, and that's not a great statement for the team when a guy scores only 7pts. Made a couple of strong interior defensive plays in thr early going and was energetic on the glass on both ends. Strong play bumped him up over Daly as backup center in the early second, as he was playing well, and Westphal was determined to do his absolute best to keep pursuing a francise record for most points given up on a roadtrip. By the time he left midway through he third we were already down 20, so its not as if he was changing the game. But it was solid, workman like, and he was one of the few guys on our team that didn't look intimdated (may have helpe that everybody else was facing All Stars and HOFers while JT was facing a guy with the very intimidating nickname of Big Baby.
Amber Lancaster - Former Seattle Seahawks cheerleader, now a Price is Right girl and plays Jenny Swanson on MTV's hit show The Hard Times of RJ Berger. Looks good for someone in her 30's (Editor's Note: Yes, he actually said that, which establishes that a) Mike is a braver man than I and b) that Mike is going to die a born again virgin)
Cousins ( D ) -- you know what, for the first time in this game I got the feeling that DeMarcus was actually intimidated, or at least in awe, of Shaq. And that's certianly not because of SHaq's talent at this late date, but just that it was well, you know Shaq he was playing against, and that Shaq has gotten HUGE. DeMarcus is a big boy, and he was just utterly dwarfed by the (Very) Big Leprechaun, who just has to be pressing 400lbs once again. And the practical effects of all that mass was that DeMarcus's power game was entirely impossible -- there is no bullying a man mountain -- and he didn't look sure about what he wanted to do about that. Did better after the Celtics went to their bench and showed you how much they miss Perkins when they inserted Erden, but it was just minor stuff, and three games into this roadtrip you have to wonder who was making it easier for who during that recent streak of 20pt games -- Cousins for Tyreke, or Tyreke for Cousins, as he's hit the road and looked very much the rookie again. After returning in the 2nd, was matched with the return of Shaq, who pulled him out of the air while they went for a rebound. Fianlly just turned into a jumpshooter by Shaq after half, and clearly incomfortable out there agains tthe Celtics defense and made several really ill conceived crosscourt passes that the C's are always going to pick off. Not quite the bounceback game you were hoping for after the mess in Washington.
Melanie Iglesias - Recently named Maxim's 2010 Hometown Hotties winner.
Udrih ( B ) -- I don't think you can ratchet this grade up too high in a game like this, but really this was a third straight strong game on this roadtrip, and in some ways this one was stronger than the other two because it wasn't accompanied by a defensive beatdown on the other end of the floor. And it was accomplished at a more reasonable pace too -- in our first couple of games ont his trip it was obvious that our crap defenders had taken over leadership of the team and were more than happy to stuff their stats on one end if it meant they didn't have to break a nail on defense on the othere. This time we got smoked, but it was the smoked of being badly outexecuted, and the pace of the game was reasonable. And so Beno beign able to be this efficient against this team at a normal pace was in many ways more impressive. Should be noted that one advantage of startign Pooh in this one was that it did take Rondo off of Beno -- I remember that macthup not going well, at all, for us in years past. And against Allen and friends, Beno was just able to be very efficient. Never prolific enough to really matter, but he hit almost everything -- 5-6 from the field, 5-6 from the line -- and was just very solid. His three point play in the final minute of the half to cut the lead to 6 was kind of our last bid for relevancy in this one. Dind't have much of an answer when the Celtics stepped on us after the break, but that was kind of in keeping with the feel of this game. Not forceful, just very efficient whenever a good opportuunity presented itself. If we say had a couple of young stars leading the way ahead of him, this would have been a very nice 3rd fiddle game. Alas we are the Kings and this as the best we had.
Arianny Celeste - The best known UFC ring girl.
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