Bricklayer
Don't Make Me Use The Bat
Yikes. Nobody outtanks the Kings. NOBODY. Grrrrrrrr!
And yeah, I held off on the Pretty Girls against the Rockets. But really now. My hands are tied. No choice. No alternative.
Pretty Girls: The Girls Who Will Never Be Seen Because Everybody Checked Out on This Game Edition
Fs will come...
Nocioni ( C ) -- missed his first couple of shots, but hit a continuation, and about the only King not badly losing his individual battle in the early going (albeit to Fred Jones, who was out of the league to start the year and used to play PG, but was now at SF). But could not shoot, and it was bricks away in the second quarter on his way to a 1-6 first half. Looked noticeably grumpy about the whole humiliation and in the second half was banging around pretty well on the glass, but never had any impact on this oen. Which still put him a cut above most of his teammates who's impact was flat negative. Well..that may not be entirely true. Noc did have the positive impact this time of just not being Donte Greene.
Amy Smart -- a popular actress for a long time now, it was harder than you might think to find a good pic of her for this thread. One that was sexy, but not overglammed and that kept all her Amy Smartness intact.
Thompson ( D ) -- had a nice quick finish inside off a good Beno pass, but quickly got in foul trouble against a super-energized Brian Skinner of all people. After returning in the second briefly gave us a little push on the glass before he was back to the bench with fouls as Skinnerman pummeled him (17pts 7reb at half!!). Picked up his 4th against the unstoppable mulithued goatee in the 3rd, but we were down 26 at that point and Natt just let him play. In fact this is the first of a numebr of guys who as bad as it looks in the boxscore, as bad as the descripion sounds. It was even worse, because we padded their numbers up by playing them all the way down to the final buzzer long after the Clippers had inserted their scrubs...well their even scrubbier scrubs. Jason did a couple of things himself, he clearly wanted to play -- its not that he is not trying. But the Clippers identified him as such a weak link on defense that they were literally running clearouts for Brian bleeping Skinner (career scoring average 4.9ppg) in the post against him, and Skinner just pummeled him to a near career game (and would have had it had not the Clippers taken mercy on us -- not many teams have the Clips take mercy on them). Jason is one of our few encouraging signs this season, but defensively he might be the worst starting PF in the NBA right now.
Jenna Dewan -- you probably don't know Jenna Dewan. You really, really should. Got introduced to her recently myself in somne grade B horror flick called "Tamara" where their solution to the predictable "ugly girl cleans up and turns gorgeous" was to have Jenna not wear any makeup during the first 30 minutes. Yeah, like that's going to work on that face.
Hawes ( D- ) -- OUCH. Really a pretty inexplicable game on a lot of levels. 24 hours after putting up a more than credible 22-11 against Yao Ming, Spencer was just awful from the opening tip. In fact, much as Natt is an idiot and all that, I think you have to give him a lot of credit for his handling of Specne tonight, because he kept on encouraging him, kept on reinserting him, and while it blatantly padded the awful stats, he played him right down to the final buzzer just letting him get a feel for some sort of success. But regardless of Natt's soft touch on this one, Specner was just off, as in OFF. Outclassed by Marcus Camby and Chris Kaman from the opening tip and missed just everything. Missed his jumpers, missed tips, and that huge wart he has of playing soft and never drawing fouls meant he couldn't make any of it up at the line. Then by the time he finally got there in the...late 3rd or early 4th? Forget exactly. he was so far off that he even bricked both of those. The only thing that went in for him were a couple of follow jams. Now there is a lot of defensive length inside for the Clippers (not that until this game you would have ever known it this year), but Specner was just wildly off from the perimeter as well, so its not as if it was all the interior shotblocking intimidation of the Camby/Kaman duo. As I mentioend, we played him forever in this one. 40 minutes right down to the buzzer in a game that may not have been under 20 in the entire second half. So the numbers are inflated, but not by lack of competition -- with the Clips styarting Camby, and then bringing Kaman off the bench they had basically two starting centers going the full 48 for them. Even in 40 minutes you might look at Spencer's 13 rebs and go, well at least he was pretty good there. Until you look at his opponet's and realize that in their combined moinutes, Camby and Kaman pretty muchh doubled him up with 24 rebounds. Anyway this was bad, ugly, stinky and a bunch of other words. But I'm going to seize on the boards as reason to dodge the F here, and I do think this was so bad that its probably a one time freaky thing -- it was just way out of line with what he's been giving us of late.
Robin Tunney
Cisco ( F ) -- This was another one of those players where we playued him and we played him and we played him. He had nothing, and we played him anyway. We kept on playing him right ot the bitter end, and even after racking up 38 minutes of time, and half of it in extended garbagetime, he still couldn't reach double figures. Meanwhile the man across from him, rookie Eric Gordon, put up 20, when Cisco tried to bring the ball up Baron pounced on him like a lion pounces on a blind three legged wildebeast, and he joined the teamwide brickfest with his own 4-12, missing all his three point shots, his only FT, and other than a couple of nice passes early, getting absolutely nothing accomplished. I think its high time I get the Fs going here -- this probably should be the third in a row but I was in a better mood wiht the young bigs and am getting progressively grumpier the longer I have to stare at that obscene boxscore against the erstwhile worst team in the NBA (we got that crown now -- woohoo).
Amanda Righetti
And yeah, I held off on the Pretty Girls against the Rockets. But really now. My hands are tied. No choice. No alternative.
Pretty Girls: The Girls Who Will Never Be Seen Because Everybody Checked Out on This Game Edition
Fs will come...
Nocioni ( C ) -- missed his first couple of shots, but hit a continuation, and about the only King not badly losing his individual battle in the early going (albeit to Fred Jones, who was out of the league to start the year and used to play PG, but was now at SF). But could not shoot, and it was bricks away in the second quarter on his way to a 1-6 first half. Looked noticeably grumpy about the whole humiliation and in the second half was banging around pretty well on the glass, but never had any impact on this oen. Which still put him a cut above most of his teammates who's impact was flat negative. Well..that may not be entirely true. Noc did have the positive impact this time of just not being Donte Greene.
Amy Smart -- a popular actress for a long time now, it was harder than you might think to find a good pic of her for this thread. One that was sexy, but not overglammed and that kept all her Amy Smartness intact.
Thompson ( D ) -- had a nice quick finish inside off a good Beno pass, but quickly got in foul trouble against a super-energized Brian Skinner of all people. After returning in the second briefly gave us a little push on the glass before he was back to the bench with fouls as Skinnerman pummeled him (17pts 7reb at half!!). Picked up his 4th against the unstoppable mulithued goatee in the 3rd, but we were down 26 at that point and Natt just let him play. In fact this is the first of a numebr of guys who as bad as it looks in the boxscore, as bad as the descripion sounds. It was even worse, because we padded their numbers up by playing them all the way down to the final buzzer long after the Clippers had inserted their scrubs...well their even scrubbier scrubs. Jason did a couple of things himself, he clearly wanted to play -- its not that he is not trying. But the Clippers identified him as such a weak link on defense that they were literally running clearouts for Brian bleeping Skinner (career scoring average 4.9ppg) in the post against him, and Skinner just pummeled him to a near career game (and would have had it had not the Clippers taken mercy on us -- not many teams have the Clips take mercy on them). Jason is one of our few encouraging signs this season, but defensively he might be the worst starting PF in the NBA right now.
Jenna Dewan -- you probably don't know Jenna Dewan. You really, really should. Got introduced to her recently myself in somne grade B horror flick called "Tamara" where their solution to the predictable "ugly girl cleans up and turns gorgeous" was to have Jenna not wear any makeup during the first 30 minutes. Yeah, like that's going to work on that face.
Hawes ( D- ) -- OUCH. Really a pretty inexplicable game on a lot of levels. 24 hours after putting up a more than credible 22-11 against Yao Ming, Spencer was just awful from the opening tip. In fact, much as Natt is an idiot and all that, I think you have to give him a lot of credit for his handling of Specne tonight, because he kept on encouraging him, kept on reinserting him, and while it blatantly padded the awful stats, he played him right down to the final buzzer just letting him get a feel for some sort of success. But regardless of Natt's soft touch on this one, Specner was just off, as in OFF. Outclassed by Marcus Camby and Chris Kaman from the opening tip and missed just everything. Missed his jumpers, missed tips, and that huge wart he has of playing soft and never drawing fouls meant he couldn't make any of it up at the line. Then by the time he finally got there in the...late 3rd or early 4th? Forget exactly. he was so far off that he even bricked both of those. The only thing that went in for him were a couple of follow jams. Now there is a lot of defensive length inside for the Clippers (not that until this game you would have ever known it this year), but Specner was just wildly off from the perimeter as well, so its not as if it was all the interior shotblocking intimidation of the Camby/Kaman duo. As I mentioend, we played him forever in this one. 40 minutes right down to the buzzer in a game that may not have been under 20 in the entire second half. So the numbers are inflated, but not by lack of competition -- with the Clips styarting Camby, and then bringing Kaman off the bench they had basically two starting centers going the full 48 for them. Even in 40 minutes you might look at Spencer's 13 rebs and go, well at least he was pretty good there. Until you look at his opponet's and realize that in their combined moinutes, Camby and Kaman pretty muchh doubled him up with 24 rebounds. Anyway this was bad, ugly, stinky and a bunch of other words. But I'm going to seize on the boards as reason to dodge the F here, and I do think this was so bad that its probably a one time freaky thing -- it was just way out of line with what he's been giving us of late.
Robin Tunney
Cisco ( F ) -- This was another one of those players where we playued him and we played him and we played him. He had nothing, and we played him anyway. We kept on playing him right ot the bitter end, and even after racking up 38 minutes of time, and half of it in extended garbagetime, he still couldn't reach double figures. Meanwhile the man across from him, rookie Eric Gordon, put up 20, when Cisco tried to bring the ball up Baron pounced on him like a lion pounces on a blind three legged wildebeast, and he joined the teamwide brickfest with his own 4-12, missing all his three point shots, his only FT, and other than a couple of nice passes early, getting absolutely nothing accomplished. I think its high time I get the Fs going here -- this probably should be the third in a row but I was in a better mood wiht the young bigs and am getting progressively grumpier the longer I have to stare at that obscene boxscore against the erstwhile worst team in the NBA (we got that crown now -- woohoo).
Amanda Righetti
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