Bricklayer
Don't Make Me Use The Bat
I've got nothing to serve as an adequate balm for this guys. I can't post porn. Sorry.
Forgot the poll, my apologies.
And becuase this team needs one desperately, the off the cuff theme will be: Leaders of Men
Official Boxscore
Greene ( C- ) -- hit a three to start this one as we were ever so briefly competitive. Was able to use his size against Artest going at him at one end and looming ovber him at the other. Kept going baseline on the right side, but the Lakers figured that out pretty quickly and took it away. And that was pretty much it for the offense. Seemed to be playng pretty good defense on Kobe when he was on him as things got away from us, but playing pretty good defense on Kobe is not the same thing as stopping him, and after the first 6 minutes really had no impact anywhere on the floor and disappeared along with everybody else.
Vince Lombardi (legendary coach of the Green Bay Packers) -- I thought I would start this one off with a coach (bearing an uncanny resemblance to my grandfather in that picture), because fact is that is the second possibility for us. We need a leader, but if our potential leaders ON court are either too young or have the wrong personality, then the next place you find a leader is on the sidelines, and it appears if Westphal is leading, nobody is following at this point. He also provided these words of leadership wisdom: "The leader can never close the gap between himself and the group. If he does, he is no longer what he must be. He must walk a tightrope between the consent he must win and the control he must exert." —Vince Lombardi
Thompson ( B ) -- impossible to grade fairly. Some low level productivity while the game was still on, but looked as clumsy and out of control as ever, and racked up the fouls, as always. Then garbagetime starts, we are down 30pts for the entire 4th quarter and all of a sudden he has manic energy and hustle and racks up the big statline. Which BTW = thx, any effort by anybody at any point of the game is notable and appreciated with us. But you can't really go off and give a guy a good grade when he was largely ineffective until the game was decided and scrubs were on the floor, and then he started dominating.
Gets no leader behind his grade, as I instead include this old video -- just substitute the word "garbagetime" for "ghetto" (okay maybe "garbage" would keep the cadence better, but that's insulting. Maybe "g-time"):
Dalembert ( D ) -- this might be the first truly bad game Dalembert has had. Maybe the 2nd. Adn while I think there is some real question if his knee is ok, so many of the problems here were associated with his other limbs -- namely his hands. Just turnover after turnover early, not able to catch, not able to finish even pretty good setups. And on the other end not able to really close the middle. That's the side where maybe a lack of lift could have made the difference. Bad enough that DeMarcus got the start to begin the third, but when Daly finally came in in the third finally able to have a little effect on defense/the glass. Oh, and BTW sounds like off this game Westphal is going to make ANOTHER set of lineup changes, so the bad game may be the last of Dalembert starting for at least another 2-3 games until Coach changes his mind again.
Winston Churchill -- the stubborn old man who provided the backbone for an empire during its darkest days. By sheer force of will, not to mention the invention of radio (the same tool which helped Franklin Delano Roosevelt lift a nation's spirits in the Great Depression), he simply refused to let the Brtiish give up in WWII. Oh to have a leader with such backbone on this team.
Forgot the poll, my apologies.
And becuase this team needs one desperately, the off the cuff theme will be: Leaders of Men
Official Boxscore
Greene ( C- ) -- hit a three to start this one as we were ever so briefly competitive. Was able to use his size against Artest going at him at one end and looming ovber him at the other. Kept going baseline on the right side, but the Lakers figured that out pretty quickly and took it away. And that was pretty much it for the offense. Seemed to be playng pretty good defense on Kobe when he was on him as things got away from us, but playing pretty good defense on Kobe is not the same thing as stopping him, and after the first 6 minutes really had no impact anywhere on the floor and disappeared along with everybody else.
Vince Lombardi (legendary coach of the Green Bay Packers) -- I thought I would start this one off with a coach (bearing an uncanny resemblance to my grandfather in that picture), because fact is that is the second possibility for us. We need a leader, but if our potential leaders ON court are either too young or have the wrong personality, then the next place you find a leader is on the sidelines, and it appears if Westphal is leading, nobody is following at this point. He also provided these words of leadership wisdom: "The leader can never close the gap between himself and the group. If he does, he is no longer what he must be. He must walk a tightrope between the consent he must win and the control he must exert." —Vince Lombardi
Thompson ( B ) -- impossible to grade fairly. Some low level productivity while the game was still on, but looked as clumsy and out of control as ever, and racked up the fouls, as always. Then garbagetime starts, we are down 30pts for the entire 4th quarter and all of a sudden he has manic energy and hustle and racks up the big statline. Which BTW = thx, any effort by anybody at any point of the game is notable and appreciated with us. But you can't really go off and give a guy a good grade when he was largely ineffective until the game was decided and scrubs were on the floor, and then he started dominating.
Gets no leader behind his grade, as I instead include this old video -- just substitute the word "garbagetime" for "ghetto" (okay maybe "garbage" would keep the cadence better, but that's insulting. Maybe "g-time"):
Dalembert ( D ) -- this might be the first truly bad game Dalembert has had. Maybe the 2nd. Adn while I think there is some real question if his knee is ok, so many of the problems here were associated with his other limbs -- namely his hands. Just turnover after turnover early, not able to catch, not able to finish even pretty good setups. And on the other end not able to really close the middle. That's the side where maybe a lack of lift could have made the difference. Bad enough that DeMarcus got the start to begin the third, but when Daly finally came in in the third finally able to have a little effect on defense/the glass. Oh, and BTW sounds like off this game Westphal is going to make ANOTHER set of lineup changes, so the bad game may be the last of Dalembert starting for at least another 2-3 games until Coach changes his mind again.
Winston Churchill -- the stubborn old man who provided the backbone for an empire during its darkest days. By sheer force of will, not to mention the invention of radio (the same tool which helped Franklin Delano Roosevelt lift a nation's spirits in the Great Depression), he simply refused to let the Brtiish give up in WWII. Oh to have a leader with such backbone on this team.
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