Bricklayer
Don't Make Me Use The Bat
And so yes, in honor of the wonderful effort tonight, the theme will be: Despair...and other fun concepts
Artest ( C+ ) -- provided little in the first half besides a couple of nice passes. Not much of a factor defensively either. But in the third as the Grizzlies threatened to actually run us out of the building (believe it or not), Ron came up with back to back three point plays (one a post move and ticky tack foul) the other a three pointer, to keep us close. Note, however, with us going small that it was Ron covering Warrick the other way, and just as Gay was lighting us up with Ron on him in the first half, Warrick was caryring them in the third against Ron as well. After his little third quarter push, forced up the occasional one on one attempt, but pretty much just quietly disappeared along with everybody else. In fact much of the game tonight had a quiet lack of effort feel to it from Ron. Caught him standing around a lot.
Moore ( C ) -- had himself an indifferent first half in another one of those run n gun games that always threatens his minutes with Ron at PF stealing time. And Warrick really began lighting us up in the third, kicking not only Mikki's butt, but Ron's as well. Did come up with a nice block out near the three point line on Warrick in the mid 4th that looked like it might briefly stem the Grizzlies momentum, but it obviously did not as they went right back to putting us away.
Miller ( B- ) -- quiet first half, but still much more solid than the woeful Darko. Kind of duplicated the effort after half -- but this time Darko weebled and wobbled his way to a better half than Brad. Fumbled a lot of catches and balls down inside. One of those games where the stats really don't tell the story. Stats are rock solid, game was just a shrug with no impact.
Martin ( A- ) -- ands so the yoyo swang back up...or down...or whatever. Or it did for a half, and then swung back violently the other way in the 3rd and 4th, meaning perhaps the yoyo swings are getting even quicker? I dunno. Anyway, Kevin once again bounced back from an ugly showing last game with a big big first half that had him sitting on a possible A+ at one point. 26 points before the break. In fact actually I think 26 points in about the first 20-21 minutes. And both the good and the bad of it was that it was really all about aggression for him. He never at any point was really all that hot. He hit some nice shots, but even while pouring in points he was missing quite a few too. And maybe that good thing was actually also a bad thing, because it meant that he was expending a tremendous amount of energy to get those points and sustaining was going to be difficult, and while who knows, it also, in a turnaround, might have helped keep his teammates from getting in arhythm -- because they certianly all (except Mike) pretty much sucked before the break. In any case, Kevin's F,A,F,A pattern continued, and you will take frozen teammates when you have a superstar scorer on your team. Problem is, that we did only for a half, and then the wheels fell off. Maybe he tired, maybe it was that yoyo thing, maybe he chocked or felt that he had proved his point. Whatever it was, he played an A+ first half and yet by the end of the game I was deciding whether he even managed to hang onto the A- or whether he was going to drop into the Bs. Missed shot after shot, many of them open, after the break, and almost entirely disappeared for 15 minutes of the game before briefly staggering back to life in the mid 4th for a little six point mini-burst. But that was it. 33pts 7rebs still warranted the A- I thought, but with almost all of it in the first half, only 9-23 shooting, and a loss to a terrible team, that B+ was tempting me.
Artest ( C+ ) -- provided little in the first half besides a couple of nice passes. Not much of a factor defensively either. But in the third as the Grizzlies threatened to actually run us out of the building (believe it or not), Ron came up with back to back three point plays (one a post move and ticky tack foul) the other a three pointer, to keep us close. Note, however, with us going small that it was Ron covering Warrick the other way, and just as Gay was lighting us up with Ron on him in the first half, Warrick was caryring them in the third against Ron as well. After his little third quarter push, forced up the occasional one on one attempt, but pretty much just quietly disappeared along with everybody else. In fact much of the game tonight had a quiet lack of effort feel to it from Ron. Caught him standing around a lot.
Moore ( C ) -- had himself an indifferent first half in another one of those run n gun games that always threatens his minutes with Ron at PF stealing time. And Warrick really began lighting us up in the third, kicking not only Mikki's butt, but Ron's as well. Did come up with a nice block out near the three point line on Warrick in the mid 4th that looked like it might briefly stem the Grizzlies momentum, but it obviously did not as they went right back to putting us away.
Miller ( B- ) -- quiet first half, but still much more solid than the woeful Darko. Kind of duplicated the effort after half -- but this time Darko weebled and wobbled his way to a better half than Brad. Fumbled a lot of catches and balls down inside. One of those games where the stats really don't tell the story. Stats are rock solid, game was just a shrug with no impact.
Martin ( A- ) -- ands so the yoyo swang back up...or down...or whatever. Or it did for a half, and then swung back violently the other way in the 3rd and 4th, meaning perhaps the yoyo swings are getting even quicker? I dunno. Anyway, Kevin once again bounced back from an ugly showing last game with a big big first half that had him sitting on a possible A+ at one point. 26 points before the break. In fact actually I think 26 points in about the first 20-21 minutes. And both the good and the bad of it was that it was really all about aggression for him. He never at any point was really all that hot. He hit some nice shots, but even while pouring in points he was missing quite a few too. And maybe that good thing was actually also a bad thing, because it meant that he was expending a tremendous amount of energy to get those points and sustaining was going to be difficult, and while who knows, it also, in a turnaround, might have helped keep his teammates from getting in arhythm -- because they certianly all (except Mike) pretty much sucked before the break. In any case, Kevin's F,A,F,A pattern continued, and you will take frozen teammates when you have a superstar scorer on your team. Problem is, that we did only for a half, and then the wheels fell off. Maybe he tired, maybe it was that yoyo thing, maybe he chocked or felt that he had proved his point. Whatever it was, he played an A+ first half and yet by the end of the game I was deciding whether he even managed to hang onto the A- or whether he was going to drop into the Bs. Missed shot after shot, many of them open, after the break, and almost entirely disappeared for 15 minutes of the game before briefly staggering back to life in the mid 4th for a little six point mini-burst. But that was it. 33pts 7rebs still warranted the A- I thought, but with almost all of it in the first half, only 9-23 shooting, and a loss to a terrible team, that B+ was tempting me.
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