Bricklayer
Don't Make Me Use The Bat
Ok...quit slamming your heads into the walls --this was better. We started our traditional 4th quarter rout, but the reinsertion of Dalembert and Reke down the stretch stabilized us and it was right there. Still found a way to lose, but we were the ones on the rush down the stretch rather than the other way around. So in this season, I'm calling that better.
Official Boxscore
So hey, at 5-23 let's go with Disaster Movies for a theme...
Garcia ( B- ) -- so allow me to summarize Cisco's game upon being moved into the starting lineup: He hit 4 three pointers. He did next to nothing else, but he hit 4 three pointers. 4-8 from the field. 4-8 from 3pt land. 2rebs, 2ast. And while its kind of a sad end to a player that used to make pretty good all around contributions, if you're goign to justify starting Cisco at SF over two much larger/more versatile kids, the role as a three point specialist for the second worst three point shooting team in the league has to be the key. Hit back to back threes early in the game to justify his presnce, and outperformed fellow veteran medocrity Ryan Gomes, but then disappeared and did nothing for the rest of the first half. Was timely on his remaining two contributions of the game, canning a three to put us back up in the late 3rd (although he airballed one in transition a minute later to let the Clippers break out and tie it back up the other way), and hitting a huge one after winning a jump ball in the late fourth to get us back to down 6 with a shot to pull it off in the final minutes. In between the scattered threes you might as well of had me out there, we got pounded on the glass, our defense collapsed as it always does when we poison it with too may of our oh so high quality vets etc.. But on offense the three point shooting was timely and may have greased the wheels by providing spacing, so while I'm hardly blown away, we called for a three point shooting specialist, and we had one for the night.
Earthquake (1974) -- ah! ah! Its an Earthquake! Starring Chalrton Heston and a cornucopia of other former stars, this schmaltz was sandwiched inbetween The Poseidon Adventure and The Towering Inferno in the 1970s run on disaster flicks, and required the destruction of the entire Universal Studios backlot to simulate.
Landry ( C ) -- was sent trooping into a very exciting matchup with Blake Griffin in the first half leading to a predicatable shellacking. Had a single good o-board, that was about it in a 2pt 1reb half. After the break was freed int he third from Griffin duty as we finally put Dalembert on him, and was able to pick it up on his preferred side of the floor as a result, coming up with a big drive and flush in the early third and gettign to the line. Unforunately our coach forgot these lessons in the early 4th, when after a few minutes uinterrupted bliss getting to play goto guy as we started to collapse, the Clippers reinserted Griffin, and we were woefully slow to counter with Dalembert and it was back to the untenable Landry/Griffin matchup again. Landry came up with a little power move in the early 4th to get us back within 2, but missed a second one, then mssed a key rebound in the mid 4th, letting little Eric Bledsoe steal it from him.
The Towering Inferno (1974) -- I have not seen this Newman/McQueen towering piece of cheese since I was a kid, but it probably went over better before 9/11 took place.
Dalembert ( B ) -- not his best, but another dependable effort from the veteran, and played an important role after half slowing Griffin. Grabbed some early boards, but also involved to some degree offensively with a jumper and a turnover trying to use him as a high post passer again -- maybe teams are starting to become aware fo that now. Took Griffin afer half and was doing a nice job impeding him in the third. Forgotten about until the mid-point of the 4th as Griffin and Diogu were pummeling Landry and Cousins. Nice block down the stretch to save a hoop from Diogu, and an even biggig block of a Griffin attempt in the last minute helped stabilize us defensively and give us a shot to pull i tout on the other end.
Airport (1970) -- kind of the disaster movie to kick off the whole trend in 1970, and the movie famously parodied by the ZAZ team in Airplane, this melodrama starred Burt Lancaster, Dean Martin etc. and went on to garner a ridiculous 10 Oscar nominations, making it much like another one of these coming up later in the list.
Udrih ( B- ) -- a tale of two halves here. Before half looked good offensively, came up with several early scores, and it helps a lot when he is hitting catch and shoot threes. But on the other end was not stopping Baron with the ball at all as he pushed it down our throat. After half it looked like he was on Gordon a lot more while Reke was on Baron, but not surprisingly he was not able to stay with Gordon any better than Reke. And meanwhile his own offense dried up. Almost threw the game away with a terrible jump in the air turnover at the 2:00 mark, but got bailed out by the refs calling a late foul.
The Poseidon Adventure (1972) -- its been a long time since I saw the original upside down boat adventure (there have been various remakes/variations since), but I think Shelly Winters might have been in it, and I think she may have died, so that was all good.
Official Boxscore
So hey, at 5-23 let's go with Disaster Movies for a theme...
Garcia ( B- ) -- so allow me to summarize Cisco's game upon being moved into the starting lineup: He hit 4 three pointers. He did next to nothing else, but he hit 4 three pointers. 4-8 from the field. 4-8 from 3pt land. 2rebs, 2ast. And while its kind of a sad end to a player that used to make pretty good all around contributions, if you're goign to justify starting Cisco at SF over two much larger/more versatile kids, the role as a three point specialist for the second worst three point shooting team in the league has to be the key. Hit back to back threes early in the game to justify his presnce, and outperformed fellow veteran medocrity Ryan Gomes, but then disappeared and did nothing for the rest of the first half. Was timely on his remaining two contributions of the game, canning a three to put us back up in the late 3rd (although he airballed one in transition a minute later to let the Clippers break out and tie it back up the other way), and hitting a huge one after winning a jump ball in the late fourth to get us back to down 6 with a shot to pull it off in the final minutes. In between the scattered threes you might as well of had me out there, we got pounded on the glass, our defense collapsed as it always does when we poison it with too may of our oh so high quality vets etc.. But on offense the three point shooting was timely and may have greased the wheels by providing spacing, so while I'm hardly blown away, we called for a three point shooting specialist, and we had one for the night.
Earthquake (1974) -- ah! ah! Its an Earthquake! Starring Chalrton Heston and a cornucopia of other former stars, this schmaltz was sandwiched inbetween The Poseidon Adventure and The Towering Inferno in the 1970s run on disaster flicks, and required the destruction of the entire Universal Studios backlot to simulate.
Landry ( C ) -- was sent trooping into a very exciting matchup with Blake Griffin in the first half leading to a predicatable shellacking. Had a single good o-board, that was about it in a 2pt 1reb half. After the break was freed int he third from Griffin duty as we finally put Dalembert on him, and was able to pick it up on his preferred side of the floor as a result, coming up with a big drive and flush in the early third and gettign to the line. Unforunately our coach forgot these lessons in the early 4th, when after a few minutes uinterrupted bliss getting to play goto guy as we started to collapse, the Clippers reinserted Griffin, and we were woefully slow to counter with Dalembert and it was back to the untenable Landry/Griffin matchup again. Landry came up with a little power move in the early 4th to get us back within 2, but missed a second one, then mssed a key rebound in the mid 4th, letting little Eric Bledsoe steal it from him.
The Towering Inferno (1974) -- I have not seen this Newman/McQueen towering piece of cheese since I was a kid, but it probably went over better before 9/11 took place.
Dalembert ( B ) -- not his best, but another dependable effort from the veteran, and played an important role after half slowing Griffin. Grabbed some early boards, but also involved to some degree offensively with a jumper and a turnover trying to use him as a high post passer again -- maybe teams are starting to become aware fo that now. Took Griffin afer half and was doing a nice job impeding him in the third. Forgotten about until the mid-point of the 4th as Griffin and Diogu were pummeling Landry and Cousins. Nice block down the stretch to save a hoop from Diogu, and an even biggig block of a Griffin attempt in the last minute helped stabilize us defensively and give us a shot to pull i tout on the other end.
Airport (1970) -- kind of the disaster movie to kick off the whole trend in 1970, and the movie famously parodied by the ZAZ team in Airplane, this melodrama starred Burt Lancaster, Dean Martin etc. and went on to garner a ridiculous 10 Oscar nominations, making it much like another one of these coming up later in the list.
Udrih ( B- ) -- a tale of two halves here. Before half looked good offensively, came up with several early scores, and it helps a lot when he is hitting catch and shoot threes. But on the other end was not stopping Baron with the ball at all as he pushed it down our throat. After half it looked like he was on Gordon a lot more while Reke was on Baron, but not surprisingly he was not able to stay with Gordon any better than Reke. And meanwhile his own offense dried up. Almost threw the game away with a terrible jump in the air turnover at the 2:00 mark, but got bailed out by the refs calling a late foul.
The Poseidon Adventure (1972) -- its been a long time since I saw the original upside down boat adventure (there have been various remakes/variations since), but I think Shelly Winters might have been in it, and I think she may have died, so that was all good.
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(especially surprising since I am usually unimpressed by Will Ferrell)
