Bricklayer
Don't Make Me Use The Bat
Partyin', partyin' (Yeah)
Partyin', partyin' (Yeah)
Fun, fun, fun, fun
Lookin' forward to the weekend
-- Rebecca Black, philosopher
Well on the positive side...um...well, this one gave me an excuse to start vetting pretty girls hours ago.
Just was no game here. Demarcus did not even play at all. Totally uninterested in competing, and just looked to pass every single time. He's never dealt with being tired well, but this looked like he'd just run a marathon and it was practice or something. John played for about 4 minutes. IT played for about 6 min when he could gun shots. he and Brooks were in mini gunner heaven. Reke played a quarter. Most everybody else quit. Likely the worst loss of the season. No real way to make it worse at least.
There's actually a good chance I would have just resorted to posting girls rather than grades here again were it not for this Grading Consortium thing we started up. But since those gluttons no doubt wasted their time putting together grades for their guys, I guess I'll have to as well. Slave drivers.
Grading Consortium
Bricklayer
Capt. Factorial
Bajaden
+
Girls
= what more could you ask for, right? Right??
Boxscore
Stats: 23min 8pts (3-5, 2-3, 0-0) 1reb 3ast 0stl 0blk 3TO
Salmons ( D+ ) -- for about 7 minutes of this one John was The Man, as he snapped off 8 points spotting up in the corners. Uunfortunately even mighty John Salmons cannot carry you when you are playing no defense, and we were already down 35-18 by the time he subbed out. And for all intents he never subbed back in as he did nothing right for the remainder of the game. When he returned he turned it over up, the shots quit falling. In the 3rd he just left the ball exposed in front and had Gallinari just reach out and take it from him and go the other way as John fouled him for the clear path foul. His game started matching his demeanor as he zoned out. --Brick
Inna -- Per rainmaker. And see, here I didn't even know there was such a thing as a Romanian pop princess. Girls threads is edumucational.
P.S. Investigating Romanian hotties is a hazardous occupation -- in this case resulting in the dumping of a very interesitng virus onto my computer with the ability to read keystrokes and divert you from repair procedures, and a several hour delay in the grades while i cleaned it up. Bad Romanian hottie! Bad bad Romanian hottie!
Stats: 20min 8pts (3-6, 0-0, 2-2) 5reb 0ast 1stl 0blk 2TO
Thompson ( C- ) -- the numbers say sorta solid. The eye test said somewhat less. Was ineffective in the early going -- the only time ou noticed him inthe first quarter wa on one of our classic groundbound bigs extended tip sequences resulting in no points -- and while Fareid did not destroy us, Jaosn largely looked a step slow against him. When he returned for the first time he immediatelty got a +1 and added a solid baseline jumper as he played himself into a little something at least. But was having problem with Faried's energy, and all ngiht long seemed to be involved in our turnover game, either thowing it away himself, or being missed (out of position perhaps?) by others. --Brick
Lena Meyer -- Per panda. And while we are pop princessing, this is the German version.
Stats: 22min 2pts (1-6, 0-0, 1-2) 2reb 4ast 4stl 1blk 2TO
Cousins ( F ) -- After what I described as a lackluster night against the Thunder, Boogie followed it up with just plain lack. Two rebounds? Three points? Seriously? Cousins didn't even enter the post for his first 5 trips down the floor and spent the entire night generally looking for the quick pass rather than looking for his own offense. Still, that passing was one of two things that he did well tonight - he had the four assists, but that was on 12 shot setups. The other thing that Boogie did well was his help defense. Tonight not only did he force 4 misses on 5 shots when helping out, he also turned away at least 5 shots on help, including forcing a Lawson TO. But one of the biggest stories with Cousins tonight was something he didn't have any control over - his minutes. I know that Chuck and TRob were playing decent games, but to have Cousins sit the final 16 minutes of the first half as the game got out of hand seemed to be a bad decision. Then, for some reason Cousins actually played the first six minutes of the fourth when we were already down 32. Why? Any way you look at it, Cuz needs to be more aggressive on the boards and in the offense (especially in the post) if we're to start winning games again. I loved the help D tonight, but there's really no excuse for Cousins to NOT take over every game. --Capt.
Emilia Clarke -- Per xrzn. Don't know why you are depending on me for pics of her. You can see a lot more, a LOT more, on Game of Thrones.
Stats: 22min 15pts (5-8, 2-2, 3-6) 3reb 1ast 0stl 0blk 1TO
Evans ( C ) -- First off, I'm going to be honest and admit that the game reached a point, where I stopped taking notes. With that said, Evans was one of the better players on the floor tonight. Now that may not be saying much, and what he did accomplish certainly got lost in the mess that I witnessed tonight. He started the night with Iggy hitting a shot over him, but he contested the shot. On the next posession he was almost wearing Iggy's jersey and came close to stealing the ball. He missed a tough shot at the basket in traffic, but overall, he shot the ball well. He scored 15 pts in 22 minutes going 5 fo 8 overall, and 2 for 2 from the three. I thought Tyreke was one of the few tonight that put out any effort at all. He did get careless with the ball and made a couple of lazy passes, and in the second half, he fell asleep at the wheel a few times. But the game was hardly competitive at that point, and to be honest, I would have had a hard time staying focused if I was down by 30. It wasn't one of Tyreke's best efforts by a long shot, but when compared to everyone else, he looks like an A. --Baja
Deborah Ann Woll -- Per jalfa. See my comments on Emilia Clarke, except this time its the other show of the moment, True Blood.
Stats: 21min 10pts (5-10, 0-1, 0-0) 3reb 3ast 0stl 0blk 2TO
Thomas ( D+ ) -- played a quiet first quarter, took a few forced shots, but also set a few guys up for good looks, and spotted up. Now on the other end he once again got roasted on defense, this time by Lawson, but offensively he wasn't causing our early issues. Things changed dramtically when he returned ot the game midway thorugh the second, and whether it was for the better or the worse I would normally let you decided, except I'm the one giving the grade here. Now what had happened, was that in the interim since IT had left, Aaron Brooks had taken over at "PG", and in somewhat comical fashion was gunning like Kobe, taking shots from anywhree and everywhere, off balance, doubled teamed, he was in mini chucker heaven. And I think IT saw that, thought hey, that looks like fun, and so when he came back in he took right over for Brooks and started doing it himself. And since the other thing that had happened was that Coach "Smart" (many quotes involved in this one) had benched all three of our best players by that point, IT took a look around and said, "green light!!" and started running up and down the court in a midget backcourt with Jimmer picking up transition buckets. He scored some, but such a garbage game. Whiel there may have been some talking to at halftime, further evidence that the burst of selfihness was lineup/coch driven came in the third, when with both Reke and Cuz back, and Reke in particular laboring to life, IT dispapeared again. Had one early turnover on a drive, missed another three, of course, but wasn't gunnign anymore. Unfortunately what he was continuing to do was get LIT UP by Ty Lawson, who went apoint a minue against IT's defense. That is what drives this grade down so far despite an ok statlinie. You don't lose games by 30 if your ok statlines are telling the whole story. --Brick
Paula Fernandez -- Per Dime Dropper. Ok, and its a night for pop princesses apparently. Meet Brazil's entry in the field.
Partyin', partyin' (Yeah)
Fun, fun, fun, fun
Lookin' forward to the weekend
-- Rebecca Black, philosopher
Well on the positive side...um...well, this one gave me an excuse to start vetting pretty girls hours ago.
Just was no game here. Demarcus did not even play at all. Totally uninterested in competing, and just looked to pass every single time. He's never dealt with being tired well, but this looked like he'd just run a marathon and it was practice or something. John played for about 4 minutes. IT played for about 6 min when he could gun shots. he and Brooks were in mini gunner heaven. Reke played a quarter. Most everybody else quit. Likely the worst loss of the season. No real way to make it worse at least.
There's actually a good chance I would have just resorted to posting girls rather than grades here again were it not for this Grading Consortium thing we started up. But since those gluttons no doubt wasted their time putting together grades for their guys, I guess I'll have to as well. Slave drivers.
Grading Consortium
Bricklayer
Capt. Factorial
Bajaden
+
Girls
= what more could you ask for, right? Right??
Boxscore
Stats: 23min 8pts (3-5, 2-3, 0-0) 1reb 3ast 0stl 0blk 3TO
Salmons ( D+ ) -- for about 7 minutes of this one John was The Man, as he snapped off 8 points spotting up in the corners. Uunfortunately even mighty John Salmons cannot carry you when you are playing no defense, and we were already down 35-18 by the time he subbed out. And for all intents he never subbed back in as he did nothing right for the remainder of the game. When he returned he turned it over up, the shots quit falling. In the 3rd he just left the ball exposed in front and had Gallinari just reach out and take it from him and go the other way as John fouled him for the clear path foul. His game started matching his demeanor as he zoned out. --Brick
Inna -- Per rainmaker. And see, here I didn't even know there was such a thing as a Romanian pop princess. Girls threads is edumucational.
P.S. Investigating Romanian hotties is a hazardous occupation -- in this case resulting in the dumping of a very interesitng virus onto my computer with the ability to read keystrokes and divert you from repair procedures, and a several hour delay in the grades while i cleaned it up. Bad Romanian hottie! Bad bad Romanian hottie!
Stats: 20min 8pts (3-6, 0-0, 2-2) 5reb 0ast 1stl 0blk 2TO
Thompson ( C- ) -- the numbers say sorta solid. The eye test said somewhat less. Was ineffective in the early going -- the only time ou noticed him inthe first quarter wa on one of our classic groundbound bigs extended tip sequences resulting in no points -- and while Fareid did not destroy us, Jaosn largely looked a step slow against him. When he returned for the first time he immediatelty got a +1 and added a solid baseline jumper as he played himself into a little something at least. But was having problem with Faried's energy, and all ngiht long seemed to be involved in our turnover game, either thowing it away himself, or being missed (out of position perhaps?) by others. --Brick
Lena Meyer -- Per panda. And while we are pop princessing, this is the German version.
Stats: 22min 2pts (1-6, 0-0, 1-2) 2reb 4ast 4stl 1blk 2TO
Cousins ( F ) -- After what I described as a lackluster night against the Thunder, Boogie followed it up with just plain lack. Two rebounds? Three points? Seriously? Cousins didn't even enter the post for his first 5 trips down the floor and spent the entire night generally looking for the quick pass rather than looking for his own offense. Still, that passing was one of two things that he did well tonight - he had the four assists, but that was on 12 shot setups. The other thing that Boogie did well was his help defense. Tonight not only did he force 4 misses on 5 shots when helping out, he also turned away at least 5 shots on help, including forcing a Lawson TO. But one of the biggest stories with Cousins tonight was something he didn't have any control over - his minutes. I know that Chuck and TRob were playing decent games, but to have Cousins sit the final 16 minutes of the first half as the game got out of hand seemed to be a bad decision. Then, for some reason Cousins actually played the first six minutes of the fourth when we were already down 32. Why? Any way you look at it, Cuz needs to be more aggressive on the boards and in the offense (especially in the post) if we're to start winning games again. I loved the help D tonight, but there's really no excuse for Cousins to NOT take over every game. --Capt.
Emilia Clarke -- Per xrzn. Don't know why you are depending on me for pics of her. You can see a lot more, a LOT more, on Game of Thrones.
Stats: 22min 15pts (5-8, 2-2, 3-6) 3reb 1ast 0stl 0blk 1TO
Evans ( C ) -- First off, I'm going to be honest and admit that the game reached a point, where I stopped taking notes. With that said, Evans was one of the better players on the floor tonight. Now that may not be saying much, and what he did accomplish certainly got lost in the mess that I witnessed tonight. He started the night with Iggy hitting a shot over him, but he contested the shot. On the next posession he was almost wearing Iggy's jersey and came close to stealing the ball. He missed a tough shot at the basket in traffic, but overall, he shot the ball well. He scored 15 pts in 22 minutes going 5 fo 8 overall, and 2 for 2 from the three. I thought Tyreke was one of the few tonight that put out any effort at all. He did get careless with the ball and made a couple of lazy passes, and in the second half, he fell asleep at the wheel a few times. But the game was hardly competitive at that point, and to be honest, I would have had a hard time staying focused if I was down by 30. It wasn't one of Tyreke's best efforts by a long shot, but when compared to everyone else, he looks like an A. --Baja
Deborah Ann Woll -- Per jalfa. See my comments on Emilia Clarke, except this time its the other show of the moment, True Blood.
Stats: 21min 10pts (5-10, 0-1, 0-0) 3reb 3ast 0stl 0blk 2TO
Thomas ( D+ ) -- played a quiet first quarter, took a few forced shots, but also set a few guys up for good looks, and spotted up. Now on the other end he once again got roasted on defense, this time by Lawson, but offensively he wasn't causing our early issues. Things changed dramtically when he returned ot the game midway thorugh the second, and whether it was for the better or the worse I would normally let you decided, except I'm the one giving the grade here. Now what had happened, was that in the interim since IT had left, Aaron Brooks had taken over at "PG", and in somewhat comical fashion was gunning like Kobe, taking shots from anywhree and everywhere, off balance, doubled teamed, he was in mini chucker heaven. And I think IT saw that, thought hey, that looks like fun, and so when he came back in he took right over for Brooks and started doing it himself. And since the other thing that had happened was that Coach "Smart" (many quotes involved in this one) had benched all three of our best players by that point, IT took a look around and said, "green light!!" and started running up and down the court in a midget backcourt with Jimmer picking up transition buckets. He scored some, but such a garbage game. Whiel there may have been some talking to at halftime, further evidence that the burst of selfihness was lineup/coch driven came in the third, when with both Reke and Cuz back, and Reke in particular laboring to life, IT dispapeared again. Had one early turnover on a drive, missed another three, of course, but wasn't gunnign anymore. Unfortunately what he was continuing to do was get LIT UP by Ty Lawson, who went apoint a minue against IT's defense. That is what drives this grade down so far despite an ok statlinie. You don't lose games by 30 if your ok statlines are telling the whole story. --Brick
Paula Fernandez -- Per Dime Dropper. Ok, and its a night for pop princesses apparently. Meet Brazil's entry in the field.
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