Bricklayer
Don't Make Me Use The Bat
Alright, I didn't want to have to do it, but...Fluffy Kittens Thread!! I see no alternative.
um, Cuz tried, nobody else could shoot. This wasn't Sessions fault actually, as he did one of the best jobs of any Kings PG this year at setting people up, but nobody was going to hit a shot. Just refused. Rudy looks dead out there. Got a burst of energy from our old 2.0 bench of Reggie and Omri thrashing around out there, otherwise this would have been uglier. Eventually Boogie tired, then fouled out. Game over man.
come in here, check out the kittens. Then go back over and haunt the Who's Gonna Coach thread.
Boxscore
Stats: 29min 4pts (1-8, 0-2, 2-2) 1reb 1ast 0stl 1blk 2TO
Gay ( F- ) -- This is going to be short and sweet. Well, not so sweet. Gay without a doubt had his worse game of the year, if you can call it a game. He stunk the place out, and I hate to say it, but he was just going through the motions out there tonight. He went 1 for 8 from the floor, and somehow managed to pull down one, count them, one rebound. Two of his misses were wide open threes from the corner. On the other end of the floor, he pulled out his smart phone, and took pictures of Hayward on his way to the basket, or stepped back and admired the form on his jump shot. His defense was non-existent. There's just not much else to say. He mailed it in. --Baja
Stats: 28min 7pts (3-5, 0-0, 1-2) 5reb 0ast 0stl 1blk 0TO
Thompson ( D ) -- JT was miserable out there until the fourth quarter, when it was far too late. He was having trouble boxing out and his defense was basically poor. He allowed Favors to plow right through him in the post, he got beat by Kanter down the floor on a fast break, and he did nothing to stop Hayward in the lane at the end of the third quarter, not that we had any chance to win the game at that point. He came into the fourth quarter with one point and two rebounds. In the fourth, he managed to pick up 3 rebounds, all offensive, and all leading to a putback. Still, other than that he was butterfingering around out there and getting his unacceptable defense bailed out by a couple of travels. He allowed 18 points on 12 shots. 'Nuff said. --Capt.
Stats: 37min 27pts (10-24, 0-0, 7-11) 10reb 2ast 0stl 2blk 4TO
Cousins ( B- ) -- having more problems thsn you might think getting around Kanter in the early going. Jumper was finally back online though, and that made a huge difference as he peppered the Jazz's big frontline from the perimeter, and was basically doing all of our scoring. There was literally a point when Cuz had 15 points, Reggie Evans had 4, and nobody else on the team had more than 2. IN the first quarter I think all but 2 of our hoops were directly attributable to either Cuz scoring himself, or Cuz passes. He added several nice blocks on Hayward -- particularly important since nobody else on the team was wiling to guard him. there was a problem on the boards though. I couldn't entirely figure whether it was our coach, their coach, or Boogie himself. But the Jazz were having their bigs take jumpers against Boogie. even ones who don't normally. And that was pulling Boogie away from the d-glass. And combined with the utter lack of fight in Jason and Rudy and Ben that meant the other Jazz were pounding the hell out of us on the boards. Thing was though that Cuz wasn't running back to get in the scrum. Instead he was lingering outside and even leaking out like he was a guard rather than the team's biggest player and best hope on the glass. Did Corbin tell him to do that? Did he decide to do it on his own? Dunno. But whatever it was, at the point that he had 15pts? he had 2 rebs. And we were getting killed on the glass as a team. After half he was greeted with the now familiar double team schtick. And the way the other guys were shooting, why not. Got scrappier as the half rolled along, and really began to get to the line int eh late 3rd, and get bigger on the boards. When he came back in the 4th though we were a complete mess, and so was Cuz. he quickly racked up fouls, missed forces in traffic, and while he got a couple of impressive drives in the mix, it was fugly. Fouled out with 5min to go on a semi-flop by booker, and was probably glad not to have to participate anymore. Still, this was the guy, along with his scrappy mentor Reggie, who was giving us something in this one. Just something won't do it at this point. Until something happens to bring his teammates back online, its clear Cuz will have to put up 40-15 nights in order for us to win every night. --Brick
Stats: 32min 15pts (6-15, 3-7, 0-0) 2reb 0ast 1stl 1blk 1TO
McLemore ( C- ) -- worse than his padded numbers, but at least he did SOMETHING. Or at least had a few little bursts of doing something. Now what he did not do, at an ever higher rater than the boxscore shows, is hit shots. At one point Boogie had scored 15 on 50% shooting. Our second leading scorer was Reggie Evans with 4. And Ben was a major part of that again as he and Rudy were being set up for open shot after open shot by a surprisingly effective Sessions, and just could not throw the ball into the ocean. Clang clang clang went the trolley. Unlike Rudy, late in the half Ben began to finally get hold of himself and while the shooting was barely better (he did finally hit a three), he picked up his defensive activity, blocked a Burke jumper, got a steal and breakaway dunk (his 3rd hit of the half was also a dunk) and at least made a contribution. Any hope though that that meant Ben was back were quickly squelched in the third though. Because of what's behind him our first pair of subs that quarter were Reggie and Omri for our dead eyed and dead legged starting forwards. But Ben barely did anything either, and his entire output for the quarter until we reinserted Rudy for him was a single little pullup jumper in the mid quarter. He would tag on a couple of garbagetime threes to make things look respectable, but this was only passing in relation to the disastrous play of the rest of the team. --Brick
Stats: 31min 11pts (3-6, 0-1, 5-6) 4reb 5ast 0stl 0blk 2TO
Sessions ( C+ ) -- of course the easy thing to do if you didn't watch this one would be to blame our offensive ineptitude on having Sessions starting rather than DC, but that really wasn't the case as Sessions started this game off putting on a bit of a passing clinic. He created at least 6 wide open shots in the first quarter, and by wide open I mean threes with nobody within 10 feet, layups etc., but fell victim to the same poor shooting displays that have doomed almost every attempt to rack up assists since the Tyreke era (just had a career high 16 assists the other night) at least. Just wide open shot after wide open shot bricked by Rudy and Ben in particular, and instead of half a dozen early assists, I think he ended up getting credited with 2. There needs to be a "created really good shot" stat divorced of whether your guys are competent enough to hit it. When he returned to the game the first thing he did was immediately set Ben up for ANOTHER wide open corner three, and this one Ben actually consented to hit. Now his own offense...well, at least he didn't try too much of it. Same sporadic, almost random drives to the hoop, heedless of traffic or situation. Some worked, some did not. first drive blocked out of bounds by Favors. Impact, or at least potential impact if guys would have hit shots, waned after half, but still, he wasn't the worst guy out there nor our biggest problem. For stretches he in fact was our second best player on the floor. Which tells you everything you need to know about how you get blown out by the Jazz. An entirely respectable backup PG making a fill in start. Unfortunately we are such a mess now that's not nearly enough. --Brick
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