Bricklayer
Don't Make Me Use The Bat
And our theme: Bald Sex Symbols
Artest ( C+ ) -- not a very focused first half, and not much impact. Melo's shooting percentage was chilly again, but while Ron definitely had a part in it, it wasn't the lockdown effort on Melo we've seen in the past so much as Melo just continuing his crap play of late and forcing dumb shots, dribbling into double teams etc. Ron did hop out to harass various other dribblers of course. In the mid third Ron began to really wake up and press the attack, and was the major factor in holding us within any sort of striking range. But he hurt rather than helped by trying to play the hero in the 4th, took almost every shot for a long stretch, and hit very few of them.
TELLY SALVALAS -- never sure why actually (looked a lot like my grandfather)
Thomas ( B- ) -- was off to the fast start, and then just went away. Gave us a little more in the third. And really other than Ron in the third, was about the only guy who gave a reasonable level of hustle and boardwork in his minutes. No interior defense of course. Shocker.
HAWK (Avery Brooks) -- Hawk was cool
Miller ( C ) -- made his best play of the first half...standing flatfooted and operating as a jumping platform for Camby to push off of for a dunk attempt. Gave us more after half, and I was wavering on where to settle this grade. Peppered in a few jumpers and a pretty decent all around numbers 11pts 7reb 5ast 1stl and 2blks (legit ones actually this time). But also had some really ugly plays -- getting blocked and stripped multiple times in true flatfooted can't jump over a phonebook white boy fashion, and threw in some awful TOs to really round out the ole effort. Given the dunkfest inside and another whooping on the glass, hard to excuse our 7-footer from all responisbility.
JASON STATHAM -- ok, so he's not entirely bald and normally leaves a stubble. Close enough.
Martin ( D ) -- this...was poor. Began the game at least with a little life, and got the better of another sad double flopfest, this time with A.I.. Was Iverson's 3rd foul of the first quarter, and looked to maybe be a turning moment early in the game. Well...it turned things all right. All the wrong way. Kevin just disappeared and turned in a very drab lifeless effort where he might as well have not been out there. The Nuggets had a good defensive scheme against him, and not only was he knocked into passivity, but he ended up getting badly outplayed by....get this, Linas Kleiza. Did nothing at all in the third quarter, and his numbers in this one are highly deceptive -- Muss basically padded his stats by running him all the way through garbagetime, and Kevin had at least half his points in the last 4-5 minutes after the game was already over and Quincy Douby should have been on the floor. Maybe a 7-9pt effort while the game was going on, and aside from one or two nice attempts to match A.I.'s quickness, minimally effective on the other side of the floor too.
PATRICK STEWART -- Engage.
Artest ( C+ ) -- not a very focused first half, and not much impact. Melo's shooting percentage was chilly again, but while Ron definitely had a part in it, it wasn't the lockdown effort on Melo we've seen in the past so much as Melo just continuing his crap play of late and forcing dumb shots, dribbling into double teams etc. Ron did hop out to harass various other dribblers of course. In the mid third Ron began to really wake up and press the attack, and was the major factor in holding us within any sort of striking range. But he hurt rather than helped by trying to play the hero in the 4th, took almost every shot for a long stretch, and hit very few of them.
TELLY SALVALAS -- never sure why actually (looked a lot like my grandfather)
Thomas ( B- ) -- was off to the fast start, and then just went away. Gave us a little more in the third. And really other than Ron in the third, was about the only guy who gave a reasonable level of hustle and boardwork in his minutes. No interior defense of course. Shocker.
HAWK (Avery Brooks) -- Hawk was cool
Miller ( C ) -- made his best play of the first half...standing flatfooted and operating as a jumping platform for Camby to push off of for a dunk attempt. Gave us more after half, and I was wavering on where to settle this grade. Peppered in a few jumpers and a pretty decent all around numbers 11pts 7reb 5ast 1stl and 2blks (legit ones actually this time). But also had some really ugly plays -- getting blocked and stripped multiple times in true flatfooted can't jump over a phonebook white boy fashion, and threw in some awful TOs to really round out the ole effort. Given the dunkfest inside and another whooping on the glass, hard to excuse our 7-footer from all responisbility.
JASON STATHAM -- ok, so he's not entirely bald and normally leaves a stubble. Close enough.
Martin ( D ) -- this...was poor. Began the game at least with a little life, and got the better of another sad double flopfest, this time with A.I.. Was Iverson's 3rd foul of the first quarter, and looked to maybe be a turning moment early in the game. Well...it turned things all right. All the wrong way. Kevin just disappeared and turned in a very drab lifeless effort where he might as well have not been out there. The Nuggets had a good defensive scheme against him, and not only was he knocked into passivity, but he ended up getting badly outplayed by....get this, Linas Kleiza. Did nothing at all in the third quarter, and his numbers in this one are highly deceptive -- Muss basically padded his stats by running him all the way through garbagetime, and Kevin had at least half his points in the last 4-5 minutes after the game was already over and Quincy Douby should have been on the floor. Maybe a 7-9pt effort while the game was going on, and aside from one or two nice attempts to match A.I.'s quickness, minimally effective on the other side of the floor too.
PATRICK STEWART -- Engage.
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