Bricklayer
Don't Make Me Use The Bat
We lost to a better team, simple as that. Sometimes it takes three paragraphs to describe a loss, sometimes one line.
Boxscore
And oddly quiet board that we have this evening, I think I will sneak in a theme: Wacky Restaraunts
Evans ( C- ) -- got off to the good start in this one stealing the ball off the opening tip and feeding DeMarcus, and then grabbing the rebound of the next possession, taking it down, and splashing a jumper, before starting the attack inside. But as the quarter wore on began to press and overdribble and have ballhandling adventures before he and the rest of the starters ended up sitting and watching the reserves go on an unlikely run for nearly the entire second quarter. Nice oop to Cousins in the early third but things really began to get scrufy as the half wore on. Repeatedly blocked on his drives in the third. Started really attacking when Cousins went out late in the quarter, but everything inside was challenged, tipped, blocke, and the jumpers just refused to fall. Still was just brute forcing his way to some level of productivity, and after one hit got really clunked back the other way on an illegal Reggie Evans screen that is sure to produce some discussion at the Thanksgiving table next year (Reggie being Tyreke's cousin). Again almost hit the quarter ending runner and is almost making those quarter enders a signature shot, but might be a good idea if he looked for something better firs before the heave. Only got a brief two minute rest in the 4th as Jimmer came in and was unable to handle the increased defensive pressure from Paul. Clanked a few more jumpers and wasn't much of a factor down the stretch.
Hajime Restaurant (Bangkok, Thailand) -- ah got to love those wacky Japanese (the restaraunt is in Thailand, but Japanese owned and operated). Dispensing with human wait staff, instead you are served your food by four dancing robots -- yes they dance -- that cost the owners $1million to have made. Should save you money on tips at least.
Thompson ( D ) -- consumed by guarding Blake of course, which is as it should have been. But there is being consumed, and there is being so consumed that your own game is knocked into utter irrelevancy. Makes this grade tough, because Blake had a definite down game, although when he did score it was all too easily on just dunk after dunk. But whether it was JT or not, not as if Blake blew up on him, and Jason was making a few saavy little plays that might have at least contributed to the quiet night by his opponent. Of course if Blake was having a quiet night, then Jason was doing a karaoke version of Silent Night. The ball wasn't exactly hopping for us this time, and Jason wasn't getting his typical roleplayer shots -- perhaps an irony or a mistake by a young team thinking Blake = monster player, so avoid going at him, when Blake's weakness is precisely defense. But roleplayer shots or not, he wasn't giving us anything on the glass either, was missing his FTs in a big way again, including several pair we desperately needed, and finished with one of his emptiest statlines of the season. No matter how I feel about this game overall I think I am really constrained to offer only one possible grade here by the anemic boxscore on one side, making it impossible to give agood grade, and then the relative down game by Griffin, making it impossible for the botom to fall entirely out of the grade.
Modern Toilet (Taipei, Taiwan) -- ok, can't blame this one on the Japanese. Here we are in Taiwan. Eating dinner seated on toilet bowls. Out of toilet bowl shaped bowls. In a restaraunt called "Modern Toilet". But hey, if something disagrees with you, you don't even have to get up.
Cousins ( B+ ) -- continued his I am better than you and I'm going go make you like it tour with another 23 and 10 performance as he kicked off March the same way he ended February (a month in which he averaged 19pts 12.3rebs). Solid start on the glass and with the jumper, and maybe maturing a bit against the sorts of long athletes that sometimes give him problems inside -- instead just stepped out and peppered Jordan with jumpers. Got his hands on a lot of balls on defense. Got set up, apparently intentionally, by IT for another three? This one from the corner ala Brad Miller? Please tell me we aren't going to **** up one of this generation's great big men by encouraging him to stand in the corner chcuking threes? Unfortunately while this ws 23 and 10, it was also yet another game where it should have been even more. For about the 100th time in his 115 game NBA career DeMarcus was limited by foul trouble. Totally unnecessary 2nd foul in the early 2nd just as he was going out hurt his, and our future cause. Came back in in the final minutes of the first half carrying 2 fouls, and gave us a boost with acpair of scores, one on a jumper, then very professionally using the attention that drew for an upfake and drive and one handed slam. Broke a Clippers run to start the third with a post move for a foul, and then an oop from Reke. But could not avoid the whistles. Picked up his third, and amid constant calld from the Clippers announcers for their big guys to flop and draw his 4th, he did exactly that. Actually the Clippers announcers did a great job on that opne, predicting exactly when he was going to get it, and urgin Smart to get him outof the game. He'd gone 6+ min after picking up his 3rd, was tiring, the announcers said it was a perfect time when a guy makes a mistake and gets a loose foul,, and sure enough voila! Also unfortunately picked up his 9th technical in the third for no good reason -- this time yapping at Foye. As I have been mentioning, he's got to shut up now, because those are piling up and at this rate he's going to start bumping against the limit and the mandatory suspensions that come with it. Started really banging bodies and getting to the line late in the game, but nobody else was really playing well and his efforts were for nought. BTW, how's this for blowing up the individual game +/- stat: in the game DeMarcus had a +/- of -22, by FAR the worst on the team. Second worst was Marcus Thornton, our second best player on the night, with a -14. If you think those +/- numbers had anything to do with anything this game please go ask your mom to slap you with a wet fish.
Laino Snow Village Ice Restaurant (Ylläsjärvi, Finland) -- caught somewhere betwenen cool and wacky, bring your parka if you want to dine on reindeer bits north of the Artic Circle in a giant natural ice igloo, complete with solid ice tables and chairs.
Thornton ( B ) -- was an afterthought early, but scoring whenver he did get it, going right to the rim and efficient. Never really got the longball game going, and missed a couple of critical ones from Reke that we really needed. Shots began to dry up entirely as the game went along. Got 15 shots, so was haardly starved, but this was one where it felt like his 18pt night could have been something more if we could hav just found him regularly.
Dinner In The Sky (worldwide) -- so if for strange reason you have a hankering to eat dinner after being lifted hundreds of feet in the air by a giant crane, Dinner in the Sky is for you. Give them a call, fork over a large sum of dough, and they will show up at your door with a huge crane and table which seats 22. And hey, thrill your scared of heights financee too by ordering a Marriage in the Sky from the same people.
Boxscore
And oddly quiet board that we have this evening, I think I will sneak in a theme: Wacky Restaraunts
Evans ( C- ) -- got off to the good start in this one stealing the ball off the opening tip and feeding DeMarcus, and then grabbing the rebound of the next possession, taking it down, and splashing a jumper, before starting the attack inside. But as the quarter wore on began to press and overdribble and have ballhandling adventures before he and the rest of the starters ended up sitting and watching the reserves go on an unlikely run for nearly the entire second quarter. Nice oop to Cousins in the early third but things really began to get scrufy as the half wore on. Repeatedly blocked on his drives in the third. Started really attacking when Cousins went out late in the quarter, but everything inside was challenged, tipped, blocke, and the jumpers just refused to fall. Still was just brute forcing his way to some level of productivity, and after one hit got really clunked back the other way on an illegal Reggie Evans screen that is sure to produce some discussion at the Thanksgiving table next year (Reggie being Tyreke's cousin). Again almost hit the quarter ending runner and is almost making those quarter enders a signature shot, but might be a good idea if he looked for something better firs before the heave. Only got a brief two minute rest in the 4th as Jimmer came in and was unable to handle the increased defensive pressure from Paul. Clanked a few more jumpers and wasn't much of a factor down the stretch.
Hajime Restaurant (Bangkok, Thailand) -- ah got to love those wacky Japanese (the restaraunt is in Thailand, but Japanese owned and operated). Dispensing with human wait staff, instead you are served your food by four dancing robots -- yes they dance -- that cost the owners $1million to have made. Should save you money on tips at least.
Thompson ( D ) -- consumed by guarding Blake of course, which is as it should have been. But there is being consumed, and there is being so consumed that your own game is knocked into utter irrelevancy. Makes this grade tough, because Blake had a definite down game, although when he did score it was all too easily on just dunk after dunk. But whether it was JT or not, not as if Blake blew up on him, and Jason was making a few saavy little plays that might have at least contributed to the quiet night by his opponent. Of course if Blake was having a quiet night, then Jason was doing a karaoke version of Silent Night. The ball wasn't exactly hopping for us this time, and Jason wasn't getting his typical roleplayer shots -- perhaps an irony or a mistake by a young team thinking Blake = monster player, so avoid going at him, when Blake's weakness is precisely defense. But roleplayer shots or not, he wasn't giving us anything on the glass either, was missing his FTs in a big way again, including several pair we desperately needed, and finished with one of his emptiest statlines of the season. No matter how I feel about this game overall I think I am really constrained to offer only one possible grade here by the anemic boxscore on one side, making it impossible to give agood grade, and then the relative down game by Griffin, making it impossible for the botom to fall entirely out of the grade.
Modern Toilet (Taipei, Taiwan) -- ok, can't blame this one on the Japanese. Here we are in Taiwan. Eating dinner seated on toilet bowls. Out of toilet bowl shaped bowls. In a restaraunt called "Modern Toilet". But hey, if something disagrees with you, you don't even have to get up.
Cousins ( B+ ) -- continued his I am better than you and I'm going go make you like it tour with another 23 and 10 performance as he kicked off March the same way he ended February (a month in which he averaged 19pts 12.3rebs). Solid start on the glass and with the jumper, and maybe maturing a bit against the sorts of long athletes that sometimes give him problems inside -- instead just stepped out and peppered Jordan with jumpers. Got his hands on a lot of balls on defense. Got set up, apparently intentionally, by IT for another three? This one from the corner ala Brad Miller? Please tell me we aren't going to **** up one of this generation's great big men by encouraging him to stand in the corner chcuking threes? Unfortunately while this ws 23 and 10, it was also yet another game where it should have been even more. For about the 100th time in his 115 game NBA career DeMarcus was limited by foul trouble. Totally unnecessary 2nd foul in the early 2nd just as he was going out hurt his, and our future cause. Came back in in the final minutes of the first half carrying 2 fouls, and gave us a boost with acpair of scores, one on a jumper, then very professionally using the attention that drew for an upfake and drive and one handed slam. Broke a Clippers run to start the third with a post move for a foul, and then an oop from Reke. But could not avoid the whistles. Picked up his third, and amid constant calld from the Clippers announcers for their big guys to flop and draw his 4th, he did exactly that. Actually the Clippers announcers did a great job on that opne, predicting exactly when he was going to get it, and urgin Smart to get him outof the game. He'd gone 6+ min after picking up his 3rd, was tiring, the announcers said it was a perfect time when a guy makes a mistake and gets a loose foul,, and sure enough voila! Also unfortunately picked up his 9th technical in the third for no good reason -- this time yapping at Foye. As I have been mentioning, he's got to shut up now, because those are piling up and at this rate he's going to start bumping against the limit and the mandatory suspensions that come with it. Started really banging bodies and getting to the line late in the game, but nobody else was really playing well and his efforts were for nought. BTW, how's this for blowing up the individual game +/- stat: in the game DeMarcus had a +/- of -22, by FAR the worst on the team. Second worst was Marcus Thornton, our second best player on the night, with a -14. If you think those +/- numbers had anything to do with anything this game please go ask your mom to slap you with a wet fish.
Laino Snow Village Ice Restaurant (Ylläsjärvi, Finland) -- caught somewhere betwenen cool and wacky, bring your parka if you want to dine on reindeer bits north of the Artic Circle in a giant natural ice igloo, complete with solid ice tables and chairs.
Thornton ( B ) -- was an afterthought early, but scoring whenver he did get it, going right to the rim and efficient. Never really got the longball game going, and missed a couple of critical ones from Reke that we really needed. Shots began to dry up entirely as the game went along. Got 15 shots, so was haardly starved, but this was one where it felt like his 18pt night could have been something more if we could hav just found him regularly.
Dinner In The Sky (worldwide) -- so if for strange reason you have a hankering to eat dinner after being lifted hundreds of feet in the air by a giant crane, Dinner in the Sky is for you. Give them a call, fork over a large sum of dough, and they will show up at your door with a huge crane and table which seats 22. And hey, thrill your scared of heights financee too by ordering a Marriage in the Sky from the same people.
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