Well, well, a close game through three, but throw on a 27-11 4th quarter complete collapse, and all of a sudden we have that rarity post-trades: Pretty Girls Theme! Woohoo! 
Its St. Patty's Day of course, and that suggests redheads, but between the various pretty girl threads and the Redheads theme I did for St. Patty's Day last year...or was it the year before? In any case, may have to do some digging here, but we'll go Pretty Girls: the Reds anyway.
Otay -- as the girl gathering has gone well, might as well get this going:
Nocioni ( B ) -- nice hustle play on one early possession, saving the ball twice and throwing it up off the glass from a sitting position just to give Jason a chance to go get it (Jason failed to convert). Dropped a nice post move in there against Smth as well. Was having a major impact, and moving the ball, until he rather foolishly got himself into quick foul trouble in the 2nd quarter with chippy play, and had to sit out until half. For the longest time made Joe Jhnson look like trash again -- in fact if you had nothing to go on other than Kings games these last few years you would say that Johnson is a scrab. Ron probably still carries his reproductive organs around in a jar, and he sucked for most of the first matchup between these teams as well. Tonight it was Noc doing most of the work against him (for obvious reasons there was no way we were putting Kevin on him) and he was horrid...right up until the time it came to win the game. But that was against Cisco, not Noc, and there is a reason Noc had the best +/- on the team tonight. never did much going on the offensive side after half, as Kevin did all the scoring for a quarter, and nobody at all scored in the 4th.
Emma Stone -- after major A movie comedy scores in Superbad (as the round guy's quest object) and The House Bunny (as the nerdy girl transformed into beauty) you'd have to say Emma's career is in full swing.
Thompson ( C+ ) -- started off the game active and looking like he wanted to use his size adbantage at PF over Smith (the good and the bad of it was all of his first half rebounds were offenseive in nature), but began to get fooled on defense, got in a little foul trouble, and then sat for a long time. Upon returning late in the second period he was schooled repeatedly on defense and did not get much done on the other end. Got a few rebounds in the thrid, which was a relief givne that nobody else was, adn was moderately effective with the hustle game in the 4th. the probelm was ont he other end, where Smith was too mobile and Horford too powerful for him. One went around him and fooled him repeatedly for back doors and alley oops, the other just put his head down and went through him.
Alison Carroll -- meet the newest Lara Croft, Allison Carroll. Oh, and guys, she got the role because she's a gymnast.
Hawes ( C ) -- impact early with a lot of hands on defense, blocked a shot, tipped another, deflected a pass, and all of it led to the break, once went behind the back with an escape dribble to key the break too. Better than the early numbers even. Was soft and finessy on man defense though, and it was those traits that would eventually come to define this outing. What I wouldn't give to see a legitimate chest first body bump from Spencer against his man rather than constantly looking like he's afraid he'll bruise something. Was able to chip in a few more hoops after half when he was one fo the few guys other than Kevin scoring at all, but he never did compete on the glass, and he was run over and overpowered by every member of the Hawks frontline, including Georgian (the little country, not the state) League All Star Zaza Pachulia. The finessy stuff bled over onto offense as well, where there were more missed 3pt chucks, and everything was falling away by the edn of the game. Did do a solid job again on siwtched onto Joe Johnson (indeed his defense against guards often looks better than his defense against bigs), and he did put a good hard takedown on Horford, but only to get out of the game after he suffered an elbow owie. All the talent and all the soft were on display at the same time out there today.
Isla Fisher -- and believe it or not I have held off on using her before because she has not always looked that amazing to me in other shots, but hey, we hold no grudges in the pretty girl threads.
Its St. Patty's Day of course, and that suggests redheads, but between the various pretty girl threads and the Redheads theme I did for St. Patty's Day last year...or was it the year before? In any case, may have to do some digging here, but we'll go Pretty Girls: the Reds anyway.
Otay -- as the girl gathering has gone well, might as well get this going:
Nocioni ( B ) -- nice hustle play on one early possession, saving the ball twice and throwing it up off the glass from a sitting position just to give Jason a chance to go get it (Jason failed to convert). Dropped a nice post move in there against Smth as well. Was having a major impact, and moving the ball, until he rather foolishly got himself into quick foul trouble in the 2nd quarter with chippy play, and had to sit out until half. For the longest time made Joe Jhnson look like trash again -- in fact if you had nothing to go on other than Kings games these last few years you would say that Johnson is a scrab. Ron probably still carries his reproductive organs around in a jar, and he sucked for most of the first matchup between these teams as well. Tonight it was Noc doing most of the work against him (for obvious reasons there was no way we were putting Kevin on him) and he was horrid...right up until the time it came to win the game. But that was against Cisco, not Noc, and there is a reason Noc had the best +/- on the team tonight. never did much going on the offensive side after half, as Kevin did all the scoring for a quarter, and nobody at all scored in the 4th.
Emma Stone -- after major A movie comedy scores in Superbad (as the round guy's quest object) and The House Bunny (as the nerdy girl transformed into beauty) you'd have to say Emma's career is in full swing.
Thompson ( C+ ) -- started off the game active and looking like he wanted to use his size adbantage at PF over Smith (the good and the bad of it was all of his first half rebounds were offenseive in nature), but began to get fooled on defense, got in a little foul trouble, and then sat for a long time. Upon returning late in the second period he was schooled repeatedly on defense and did not get much done on the other end. Got a few rebounds in the thrid, which was a relief givne that nobody else was, adn was moderately effective with the hustle game in the 4th. the probelm was ont he other end, where Smith was too mobile and Horford too powerful for him. One went around him and fooled him repeatedly for back doors and alley oops, the other just put his head down and went through him.
Alison Carroll -- meet the newest Lara Croft, Allison Carroll. Oh, and guys, she got the role because she's a gymnast.
Hawes ( C ) -- impact early with a lot of hands on defense, blocked a shot, tipped another, deflected a pass, and all of it led to the break, once went behind the back with an escape dribble to key the break too. Better than the early numbers even. Was soft and finessy on man defense though, and it was those traits that would eventually come to define this outing. What I wouldn't give to see a legitimate chest first body bump from Spencer against his man rather than constantly looking like he's afraid he'll bruise something. Was able to chip in a few more hoops after half when he was one fo the few guys other than Kevin scoring at all, but he never did compete on the glass, and he was run over and overpowered by every member of the Hawks frontline, including Georgian (the little country, not the state) League All Star Zaza Pachulia. The finessy stuff bled over onto offense as well, where there were more missed 3pt chucks, and everything was falling away by the edn of the game. Did do a solid job again on siwtched onto Joe Johnson (indeed his defense against guards often looks better than his defense against bigs), and he did put a good hard takedown on Horford, but only to get out of the game after he suffered an elbow owie. All the talent and all the soft were on display at the same time out there today.
Isla Fisher -- and believe it or not I have held off on using her before because she has not always looked that amazing to me in other shots, but hey, we hold no grudges in the pretty girl threads.
