Bricklayer
Don't Make Me Use The Bat
Well that was...attractive. I suppose now in the manic depressive spirit of the board I should run off and start a "Kings are the worst team in the NBA!!" thread, but will refrain -- the truth, as it has always been, is somewhere in between. Not a playoff team. Not the T-Wolves. Good nights. Terrible nights. Although rarely will you see them back to back so starkly.
I am going to try to make use of the
button for the theme tonight.
Theme will be: When They Were Hot (Old Age Sucks)
Artest ( D- ) -- No single player was as emblematic of our night and day 24hr turnaround in this one than Ron, who played so well and dominated so easily in Tuesday's home game against the Nets, adn came out and laid an egg tonight against the Clippers. Ron was quiet early but started some dumb forcing late in the first, and it was a sign of bad things to come. I don't know whether it was a coaching decision, or Ron's, but tonight we seemed absolutely bound and determined to take advanatage of the alleged mismatches Ron would theoretically create in the post, and so time and time again he would get the ball and grind, and bang, and waddle, and bang some more, and then throw up some junk. And it was all ugly, and just horrendously ineffective/inefficient. Even when he clearly had the mismatch working, we were getting minimal production out of that play. And Ron even got frustrated enough to come up with a technical -- quick note: since coming to the Kings Ron has been remarkably calm on the court. Very few outbursts or Ts, but last week he was uncommonly chippy, and I attributed it to the Blackhat factor (in DET and IND), but here it was again tonight. Something to watch. And the topper for this grade was that after initially slowing Maggette as expected, Ron ended up matched at both ends by rookie Al Thornton for most of the night, and it was a slaughter. And Thornton did the slaughtering! While Ron was grinding and forcing one on one to dubious effect Thornton showed no fear, and not only competed but took it right at Ron and beat him more often than not. Very impressive by Thornton, and while his rookie season has been erratic, this sort of performance makes me start to recant my doubts about him.
Don't mess with this dame... I had a better shot than this -- a very nice glam headshot from this era, but seem to have lost track of it. Name that chica:
Dame Judi Dench
Moore ( C- ) -- another forgotten game from Mikki. Did little out there, and was a bit misplaced against a Clippers team which has one giant center and then has little choice but to smallball with Tim Thomas, Thornton, etc. Came out in the third more active, as he did last night, but was all fumblethumbs again, repeatedly mishandling passes and losing balls in traffic. Some of that actually is on Mike who was making nice feeds....if you happen to be passing to Chris Webber. Mikki can't catch those, and I think the guys who have played with him all season might have a better feel for the sort of softballs you have to lob into him. In any case, unhappy with his own game, his lack of involvement, the whole team's mess, Mikki started to grimace and complain, and finally picked up a technical barking at the ref for a foul. Then they do finally call a foul for him, and Mikki, who is a 75% shooter, bricks them both, and was 0-3 on the ngiht. A pretty forgettable performance on a team full of them.
With great beauty...
Peter Parker's been holding out, his aunt's a hottie.
I am going to try to make use of the
spoiler
Theme will be: When They Were Hot (Old Age Sucks)
Artest ( D- ) -- No single player was as emblematic of our night and day 24hr turnaround in this one than Ron, who played so well and dominated so easily in Tuesday's home game against the Nets, adn came out and laid an egg tonight against the Clippers. Ron was quiet early but started some dumb forcing late in the first, and it was a sign of bad things to come. I don't know whether it was a coaching decision, or Ron's, but tonight we seemed absolutely bound and determined to take advanatage of the alleged mismatches Ron would theoretically create in the post, and so time and time again he would get the ball and grind, and bang, and waddle, and bang some more, and then throw up some junk. And it was all ugly, and just horrendously ineffective/inefficient. Even when he clearly had the mismatch working, we were getting minimal production out of that play. And Ron even got frustrated enough to come up with a technical -- quick note: since coming to the Kings Ron has been remarkably calm on the court. Very few outbursts or Ts, but last week he was uncommonly chippy, and I attributed it to the Blackhat factor (in DET and IND), but here it was again tonight. Something to watch. And the topper for this grade was that after initially slowing Maggette as expected, Ron ended up matched at both ends by rookie Al Thornton for most of the night, and it was a slaughter. And Thornton did the slaughtering! While Ron was grinding and forcing one on one to dubious effect Thornton showed no fear, and not only competed but took it right at Ron and beat him more often than not. Very impressive by Thornton, and while his rookie season has been erratic, this sort of performance makes me start to recant my doubts about him.
Don't mess with this dame... I had a better shot than this -- a very nice glam headshot from this era, but seem to have lost track of it. Name that chica:
Dame Judi Dench
Moore ( C- ) -- another forgotten game from Mikki. Did little out there, and was a bit misplaced against a Clippers team which has one giant center and then has little choice but to smallball with Tim Thomas, Thornton, etc. Came out in the third more active, as he did last night, but was all fumblethumbs again, repeatedly mishandling passes and losing balls in traffic. Some of that actually is on Mike who was making nice feeds....if you happen to be passing to Chris Webber. Mikki can't catch those, and I think the guys who have played with him all season might have a better feel for the sort of softballs you have to lob into him. In any case, unhappy with his own game, his lack of involvement, the whole team's mess, Mikki started to grimace and complain, and finally picked up a technical barking at the ref for a foul. Then they do finally call a foul for him, and Mikki, who is a 75% shooter, bricks them both, and was 0-3 on the ngiht. A pretty forgettable performance on a team full of them.
With great beauty...
Peter Parker's been holding out, his aunt's a hottie.
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