Right back into the slop.
So, whacha gonna do?
Girls.
Salmons ( F ) -- I'm planning on keeping most of these short and simple, and few could be shorter and simpler than this: John Salmons, F. Got his butt kicked by Gay in the early going and was off to the bench in foul trouble. In the early third took one of those dribble dribble dribble, throw up a contested jumper selfish shots that we need so desperately to exorcise. Picked up his 4th soon therafter and never returned. Has now failed his defensive test against basically every major SF he's faced in the first 6 games, raising the question of how much does he have left in the tank?
Lyndsy Fonseca -- how about a little Lyndsy to start? See? The loss wasn't really that bad was it.
Hickson ( B ) -- basically our only starter to play a good game, and even here if you looked behind the sticker you'd see some diciness. The good was that he was very energetic right from the start on both boards. And he had a few nice offensive moments, and really only took 1 or 2 bad shots on the night. The bad: well first he missed most of those shot, while he came up with a big pogo stick block he still shows no ability at all to clog that lane, and his rebounds were big athletic swooping things in space. Very impressive and welcome. But he really wasn't impeding the Grizz from whipping us on the glass again as they just played over and around our miniature lottery team sized starting frontline. But in any case, he brought the effort, and gave us a game. One of the very few tonight who could say that.
Emma Watson -- nice legs Hermoine. Please don't turn me into a toad for saying so.
Hayes ( C ) -- not effective out there and for the first time did not give us anything on the boards matched against the comparatively gigantic Marc Gasol (who is normally not a huge rebounder). Highlights were when he twice in the first half surprised Gasol with a pair of incredibly ugly lumbering old man rec league moves, the first of which looked like my brother's signature flip shot, and drawing the +1 foul on the bemused Gasol both times. Unfortunately there wasn't much else. I thik he may actually have ended up the first half with no rebounds at all and he got boarded over by Gay for the final tip follow to give he Grizz the lead going into half (yes believe it or not with 5 seconds to go in the first half we were somehow tied in this one despite playing fugly ball). Gasol was not dominant, but rolled to a 14pt 15reb night without much trouble. As one of his last acts before taking the rest of the night off was forced to chuck up a three when the clock was running out, and actually it did not look bad given he may never have shot one before, drawing iron and looking online.
Taylor Cole
Guy Doing A Bad Impersonation Of Marcus Thornton ( F ) -- okay, this grade is as obvious as it is mysterious. Its almost an incomplete. I would have to go look at the replay to try to figure out how much fo the time Tony Allen was on Thornton instead of Reke, but even Tony Allen isn't a magician that can just make a hyper aggressive 20ppg a night guard just go poof and disappear. But that's what happened here. Thornton hit one early three, and then it wasn't judt that he was bad, it was that he was gone. He didn't do anything anywhere on the court. There were no forced drives, no futile attempts at open court steals or anything. He was just gone. And there has got to be a story there, although I don't know what it is. Maybe he was sick. Maybe Westphal got into a fight with another of our players or something. Whatever it was, Marcus Thornton never showed up for this game. Reke was out there trying and flailing ineffectually. Thornton? Not on the court.
Manuela Arcuri
So, whacha gonna do?
Girls.
Salmons ( F ) -- I'm planning on keeping most of these short and simple, and few could be shorter and simpler than this: John Salmons, F. Got his butt kicked by Gay in the early going and was off to the bench in foul trouble. In the early third took one of those dribble dribble dribble, throw up a contested jumper selfish shots that we need so desperately to exorcise. Picked up his 4th soon therafter and never returned. Has now failed his defensive test against basically every major SF he's faced in the first 6 games, raising the question of how much does he have left in the tank?
Lyndsy Fonseca -- how about a little Lyndsy to start? See? The loss wasn't really that bad was it.
Hickson ( B ) -- basically our only starter to play a good game, and even here if you looked behind the sticker you'd see some diciness. The good was that he was very energetic right from the start on both boards. And he had a few nice offensive moments, and really only took 1 or 2 bad shots on the night. The bad: well first he missed most of those shot, while he came up with a big pogo stick block he still shows no ability at all to clog that lane, and his rebounds were big athletic swooping things in space. Very impressive and welcome. But he really wasn't impeding the Grizz from whipping us on the glass again as they just played over and around our miniature lottery team sized starting frontline. But in any case, he brought the effort, and gave us a game. One of the very few tonight who could say that.
Emma Watson -- nice legs Hermoine. Please don't turn me into a toad for saying so.
Hayes ( C ) -- not effective out there and for the first time did not give us anything on the boards matched against the comparatively gigantic Marc Gasol (who is normally not a huge rebounder). Highlights were when he twice in the first half surprised Gasol with a pair of incredibly ugly lumbering old man rec league moves, the first of which looked like my brother's signature flip shot, and drawing the +1 foul on the bemused Gasol both times. Unfortunately there wasn't much else. I thik he may actually have ended up the first half with no rebounds at all and he got boarded over by Gay for the final tip follow to give he Grizz the lead going into half (yes believe it or not with 5 seconds to go in the first half we were somehow tied in this one despite playing fugly ball). Gasol was not dominant, but rolled to a 14pt 15reb night without much trouble. As one of his last acts before taking the rest of the night off was forced to chuck up a three when the clock was running out, and actually it did not look bad given he may never have shot one before, drawing iron and looking online.
Taylor Cole
Guy Doing A Bad Impersonation Of Marcus Thornton ( F ) -- okay, this grade is as obvious as it is mysterious. Its almost an incomplete. I would have to go look at the replay to try to figure out how much fo the time Tony Allen was on Thornton instead of Reke, but even Tony Allen isn't a magician that can just make a hyper aggressive 20ppg a night guard just go poof and disappear. But that's what happened here. Thornton hit one early three, and then it wasn't judt that he was bad, it was that he was gone. He didn't do anything anywhere on the court. There were no forced drives, no futile attempts at open court steals or anything. He was just gone. And there has got to be a story there, although I don't know what it is. Maybe he was sick. Maybe Westphal got into a fight with another of our players or something. Whatever it was, Marcus Thornton never showed up for this game. Reke was out there trying and flailing ineffectually. Thornton? Not on the court.
Manuela Arcuri
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