Bricklayer
Don't Make Me Use The Bat
Man, if we could just play the Nets every night we'd be talking NBA Champs '08 around here. They are a bad team, but not nearly as bad as we have made them look this year. So onto the party.
Theme equals: NBA Players Only A Man Could Love
Artest ( A ) -- perhaps not surprisingly, brought his A game to celebrate his return to the starting lineup, and had a huge first quarter, not only with 10pts, but also several assists and then completely smothering Richard Jefferson at the other end. In fact caused so much havoc on the defensive end that he was credited with 5 first half steals. Played deep into the 4th quarter just to rub it in on the Nets I guess, with both Justin and Douby waiting to enter. There were times he did not exactly play team ball, but he was going so well, and everything that we were doing was working so well, that it hardly mattered and does not seriously detract here from what was just an easy dominant performance.
Jason Richardson -- threw the mother of his child into a wall and got probation and a slap on the wrist. Hey, boys will be boys. Moved this up so I could move Ron down and not lead off with a King.
Moore ( B- ) -- well, game 2 against his old team, and it was pretty much a rinse repeat of his first game against them. Just unnecessary against a team without an NBA frontline, and largely forgotten about. And as you recall after game 1 against the Nets such a result caused Mikki to throw a snit fit because we didn't let him be a star against his old mates. Would assume this time he just accepts it and moves on. Picked it up in the third a bit, as the Nets got desperate and threw out the deadest of their dead bodies up front (Malik Allen, and Collins) and Mikki came up with a little burst of energy. With seemingly every single King on the floor able to get wherever they wanted whenever they wanted, setting up Mikki was easy as pie. But also unnneccesary as...er...pie since everybody was getting the shots they wanted themselves and hardly needed the outlet.
Wilt Chamberlain -- now obviously, by his account, Wilt was real popular with the ladies. But I am thinking somewhat less so after he told the world that they were just one of 20,000 or so that he had bedded, and there had probably been one before and one after them on the particular day they shared their moment. I'm thinking there might have been a lot of middle aged women taking long hot showers involving mucho scrubbing on the day after that revelation.
Miller ( B+ ) -- sort of quietly played played his game this time out, and was a major factor in the offense perking along so smoothly without it ever really being obvious. Part of it was the complete and utter lack of interior play from the Nets which made it all seem too easy. Part of it that Brad's passes were as often finding the take-your-pick wide open perimeter guys this time out as the more spectacular back cutters. But either way, Brad racked up 8 assists, and you only noticed one or two. And his points came in relatively atypical fashion as well -- while he certainly could have had an open jumper almost every time down the floor, most of the game saw him crashing down inside for layups against minimal resistance. Just another King easily doing whatever he wanted, going wherever he wanted to go on this blowout evening.
Ruben Patterson -- despite a number of miscreants around the league, I think Ruben remains the only one who has to check in everyplace he goes with the local authorities as a convicted sex offender. Women love that -- makes for great first date conversation.
Martin ( C+ ) -- our leading scorer tonight until Ron got to pad his stats in garbagetime, but for Kevin it was again just through persistence rather than brilliance. About the only King who found the going anything but easy. Somewhat of a forgotten man in the early going as the old familiar Bibby/Artest show was trotted out again, and struggled badly from everywhere except the three point stripe where he joined the early party and bombed a pair of open feet set threes in our stupid hot first quarter. Early on maybe seemd too focused on flopping for fouls, but it was also true that about the only effective defense the Nets did play was on Kevin, where they were snapping quick doubles at him to make him pick up his dribble and chase him off the ball. After half they quit even bothering with that pretense, and Kevin again was able to struggle up towards 20 pts. May have been about our only struggling guy (other than possibly Mikki), but earns some bonus points here for putting up a more filled out stat sheet thna he is sometiems wont. Whereas last time out it was 20pts 2reb 1ast. This time it was 19 on only 5-13 shooting, but he added 7 rebs (as we crushed the spiritless Nets on the glass) and 3 assists to join the teamwide party in that area.
Ron Artest -- Ron himself of course. Moved this one lower in the list as leading off with a King on this sort of list isn't ideal and Ron surprised a bit by choosing tonight to resume starting. Lot of women in the world live with the fear of violence hanging over their heads, and accept those conditions, which always amazes me. Ron may or may not be the worst, but with multiple domestic violence charges (and other violence charges), counseling, court ordered public service, that tick tick ticking has to be unneverving. While it may or may not have been Ron's choice, and I doubt he'd like to hear it, having his family stay across the country this season may have given him his best chance at stability.
Theme equals: NBA Players Only A Man Could Love
Artest ( A ) -- perhaps not surprisingly, brought his A game to celebrate his return to the starting lineup, and had a huge first quarter, not only with 10pts, but also several assists and then completely smothering Richard Jefferson at the other end. In fact caused so much havoc on the defensive end that he was credited with 5 first half steals. Played deep into the 4th quarter just to rub it in on the Nets I guess, with both Justin and Douby waiting to enter. There were times he did not exactly play team ball, but he was going so well, and everything that we were doing was working so well, that it hardly mattered and does not seriously detract here from what was just an easy dominant performance.
Jason Richardson -- threw the mother of his child into a wall and got probation and a slap on the wrist. Hey, boys will be boys. Moved this up so I could move Ron down and not lead off with a King.
Moore ( B- ) -- well, game 2 against his old team, and it was pretty much a rinse repeat of his first game against them. Just unnecessary against a team without an NBA frontline, and largely forgotten about. And as you recall after game 1 against the Nets such a result caused Mikki to throw a snit fit because we didn't let him be a star against his old mates. Would assume this time he just accepts it and moves on. Picked it up in the third a bit, as the Nets got desperate and threw out the deadest of their dead bodies up front (Malik Allen, and Collins) and Mikki came up with a little burst of energy. With seemingly every single King on the floor able to get wherever they wanted whenever they wanted, setting up Mikki was easy as pie. But also unnneccesary as...er...pie since everybody was getting the shots they wanted themselves and hardly needed the outlet.
Wilt Chamberlain -- now obviously, by his account, Wilt was real popular with the ladies. But I am thinking somewhat less so after he told the world that they were just one of 20,000 or so that he had bedded, and there had probably been one before and one after them on the particular day they shared their moment. I'm thinking there might have been a lot of middle aged women taking long hot showers involving mucho scrubbing on the day after that revelation.
Miller ( B+ ) -- sort of quietly played played his game this time out, and was a major factor in the offense perking along so smoothly without it ever really being obvious. Part of it was the complete and utter lack of interior play from the Nets which made it all seem too easy. Part of it that Brad's passes were as often finding the take-your-pick wide open perimeter guys this time out as the more spectacular back cutters. But either way, Brad racked up 8 assists, and you only noticed one or two. And his points came in relatively atypical fashion as well -- while he certainly could have had an open jumper almost every time down the floor, most of the game saw him crashing down inside for layups against minimal resistance. Just another King easily doing whatever he wanted, going wherever he wanted to go on this blowout evening.
Ruben Patterson -- despite a number of miscreants around the league, I think Ruben remains the only one who has to check in everyplace he goes with the local authorities as a convicted sex offender. Women love that -- makes for great first date conversation.
Martin ( C+ ) -- our leading scorer tonight until Ron got to pad his stats in garbagetime, but for Kevin it was again just through persistence rather than brilliance. About the only King who found the going anything but easy. Somewhat of a forgotten man in the early going as the old familiar Bibby/Artest show was trotted out again, and struggled badly from everywhere except the three point stripe where he joined the early party and bombed a pair of open feet set threes in our stupid hot first quarter. Early on maybe seemd too focused on flopping for fouls, but it was also true that about the only effective defense the Nets did play was on Kevin, where they were snapping quick doubles at him to make him pick up his dribble and chase him off the ball. After half they quit even bothering with that pretense, and Kevin again was able to struggle up towards 20 pts. May have been about our only struggling guy (other than possibly Mikki), but earns some bonus points here for putting up a more filled out stat sheet thna he is sometiems wont. Whereas last time out it was 20pts 2reb 1ast. This time it was 19 on only 5-13 shooting, but he added 7 rebs (as we crushed the spiritless Nets on the glass) and 3 assists to join the teamwide party in that area.
Ron Artest -- Ron himself of course. Moved this one lower in the list as leading off with a King on this sort of list isn't ideal and Ron surprised a bit by choosing tonight to resume starting. Lot of women in the world live with the fear of violence hanging over their heads, and accept those conditions, which always amazes me. Ron may or may not be the worst, but with multiple domestic violence charges (and other violence charges), counseling, court ordered public service, that tick tick ticking has to be unneverving. While it may or may not have been Ron's choice, and I doubt he'd like to hear it, having his family stay across the country this season may have given him his best chance at stability.
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