Bricklayer
Don't Make Me Use The Bat
In light of this latest humilation I have decided to call an emergency Theme session.
Theme = Its Good To Bounce A Ball (Famous NBA Wives/Girlfriends)
Greene ( D+ ) -- got the start, and even looked ot be a part of the offense in the early going, but alas he is under 30, so there was no question of minutes tonight and he was soon gone. Maybe he heard my admonition about actually shooting while he was out there...and maybe now I wish I had not made it, as he missed, and missed, and missed. The ones he hit looked great, but its no good when you miss 3 for every one of those hits. For the second night in a row gave us a little something on the glass.
Adriana Lima (Marko Jaric's Fiancee) -- yes, that Marko Jaric. The caveman looking dude with the eyes that nearly touch. Don't ask. Its amusing how many on this list are the significant others of Euro players -- someplace where theoretically the sport is less popular than in the U.S. and you would think the players would be distant second tier celebrities behind soccer players. In any case, whatever pain Marko might be feeling about bombing out in Minny and being stuck as a minor roleplayer on a terrible team in Memphis has to have been entiely washed away by this score. My goodness, I knew I should have forgotten about all that learning important stuff and worked on my crossover instead.
Moore ( B ) -- Moore starter+26min. Thompson 18min (including garbagetime). Woohoo. But in a rare reversal, this time Mikki actually outplayed JT. In the first half in fact Mikki Moore actually rebounded the ball as we dominated the glass for the first time in weeks. Think he had 6 before the break. Was doing fine in there against Dirk/Dampier too. Of course could not leave well enough alone and had to pick up a trechnical for whining to the refs before half to help the Mavs open up a little lead that would soon become a big lead. Did nothing after the break as we did a slow collpase (as opposed to the fast collapse of a game like Utah).
Yeliz Okur (Mehmet Okur's wife) -- remember the tall doofy looking guy that bombed us into oblivion with his slow motion 3pt game in Utah a few ngihts back? Well that's him, and that's his wife. Former Ms. Turkey Yeliz Caliskan. Sometimes life is just not fair.
Miller ( D+ ) -- will likely find his face on the side of a milk bottle after this one. Grabbed a few boards for us int he early going, but watching Dampier out there swooping them up from out of his area you could see the difference in soembody who had a real passion for it. Brad could not get his shot going early, and then just quit -- went right back into that hesitant passing up open shots thing he does, one time even choosing to turn the ball over rather than risk lowering his FG%. Could not even muster the energy to bomb half a dozen threes this time out, so you knew things were bad.
Vanessa Williams (Rick Fox's ex-wife) -- well, the wife of a former Laker antagonist, yes. But he hardly could have chosen better than this former Miss America. And the best part was? She eventually left him.
Salmons ( D ) -- one of those nights where the spigot was just turned off. Had a couple of finishes inside, largely courtesy of Brad, but almost nothing else fell and he often seemed to be playing in slow motion. Exhibit #1 was int eh third quarter as we were startign to slip, and a ball was slapped back over halfcourt and headed toward oour hoop, John has the angle to the ball and a 2-3 step lead over Dirk BNowtzki, not a noted speedster, and yet it was Dirk who beat him to the spot, beat him to the ground on the diving save, and who gave his team a bucket. John was running in sand. Guess you could say he dominated Gerald Green defensively in Green's few minutes out there, but Green is largely an idiot and I'm not convinced any member of this board couldn't have stopped him tonight just by yelling "shoot it superstar!" at him every time he got the ball. Bad game
Masha Lopatova (Andrei Kirilenko's wife) -- although she has long been touted as a famous russian pop star, when I went out looking for pictures of her, there was basically this one wiht Ak47, and then one other. No wikipedia entry...methinks she might not be quite so famous has been claimed. In any case, another Jazz player's wife, and famous for more than just her pop stardom. This is the lady who famously announced a couple of years back that it was ok with her if Andrei had an occasional affair, as long as he told her about it (which had her shooting right off the attractiveness charts for American men, but is not as bizarre a stance as you might think in Europe).
Theme = Its Good To Bounce A Ball (Famous NBA Wives/Girlfriends)
Greene ( D+ ) -- got the start, and even looked ot be a part of the offense in the early going, but alas he is under 30, so there was no question of minutes tonight and he was soon gone. Maybe he heard my admonition about actually shooting while he was out there...and maybe now I wish I had not made it, as he missed, and missed, and missed. The ones he hit looked great, but its no good when you miss 3 for every one of those hits. For the second night in a row gave us a little something on the glass.
Adriana Lima (Marko Jaric's Fiancee) -- yes, that Marko Jaric. The caveman looking dude with the eyes that nearly touch. Don't ask. Its amusing how many on this list are the significant others of Euro players -- someplace where theoretically the sport is less popular than in the U.S. and you would think the players would be distant second tier celebrities behind soccer players. In any case, whatever pain Marko might be feeling about bombing out in Minny and being stuck as a minor roleplayer on a terrible team in Memphis has to have been entiely washed away by this score. My goodness, I knew I should have forgotten about all that learning important stuff and worked on my crossover instead.
Moore ( B ) -- Moore starter+26min. Thompson 18min (including garbagetime). Woohoo. But in a rare reversal, this time Mikki actually outplayed JT. In the first half in fact Mikki Moore actually rebounded the ball as we dominated the glass for the first time in weeks. Think he had 6 before the break. Was doing fine in there against Dirk/Dampier too. Of course could not leave well enough alone and had to pick up a trechnical for whining to the refs before half to help the Mavs open up a little lead that would soon become a big lead. Did nothing after the break as we did a slow collpase (as opposed to the fast collapse of a game like Utah).
Yeliz Okur (Mehmet Okur's wife) -- remember the tall doofy looking guy that bombed us into oblivion with his slow motion 3pt game in Utah a few ngihts back? Well that's him, and that's his wife. Former Ms. Turkey Yeliz Caliskan. Sometimes life is just not fair.
Miller ( D+ ) -- will likely find his face on the side of a milk bottle after this one. Grabbed a few boards for us int he early going, but watching Dampier out there swooping them up from out of his area you could see the difference in soembody who had a real passion for it. Brad could not get his shot going early, and then just quit -- went right back into that hesitant passing up open shots thing he does, one time even choosing to turn the ball over rather than risk lowering his FG%. Could not even muster the energy to bomb half a dozen threes this time out, so you knew things were bad.
Vanessa Williams (Rick Fox's ex-wife) -- well, the wife of a former Laker antagonist, yes. But he hardly could have chosen better than this former Miss America. And the best part was? She eventually left him.
Salmons ( D ) -- one of those nights where the spigot was just turned off. Had a couple of finishes inside, largely courtesy of Brad, but almost nothing else fell and he often seemed to be playing in slow motion. Exhibit #1 was int eh third quarter as we were startign to slip, and a ball was slapped back over halfcourt and headed toward oour hoop, John has the angle to the ball and a 2-3 step lead over Dirk BNowtzki, not a noted speedster, and yet it was Dirk who beat him to the spot, beat him to the ground on the diving save, and who gave his team a bucket. John was running in sand. Guess you could say he dominated Gerald Green defensively in Green's few minutes out there, but Green is largely an idiot and I'm not convinced any member of this board couldn't have stopped him tonight just by yelling "shoot it superstar!" at him every time he got the ball. Bad game
Masha Lopatova (Andrei Kirilenko's wife) -- although she has long been touted as a famous russian pop star, when I went out looking for pictures of her, there was basically this one wiht Ak47, and then one other. No wikipedia entry...methinks she might not be quite so famous has been claimed. In any case, another Jazz player's wife, and famous for more than just her pop stardom. This is the lady who famously announced a couple of years back that it was ok with her if Andrei had an occasional affair, as long as he told her about it (which had her shooting right off the attractiveness charts for American men, but is not as bizarre a stance as you might think in Europe).
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However, Masha Lopatova's father is a very rich man - he is a former basketball star and successful businessman now.
