Bricklayer
Don't Make Me Use The Bat
Way to crush any mounting enthusiasm guys. Did a certain group of wealthy young men perhaps stay up partying late into the night I wonder? Hmm...
However thanks for your best efforts on our behalf Melo -- was very excited to learn that you and Pooh had apparently switched teams via trade before the game.
Theme will be 90s one hit wonders. Actually its going to be 90s One Hit Wonders Pt I since so many ideas came to me for the theme that I've got at least 2 grade threads worth of songs to share. Should be more fun than the debacle on court.
Official Boxscore
Melo ( A ) -- came out with a vengeance in this one for us, using the tragedy in his family (sister died) and his own festering desire to folow in LeBron's hallowed footsteps and stab his franchise in the back to get off to a powerful 1-14 start from the field, and that was only the half of it. NOt only were the shots just ridiculously off, but he looked like he had regressed to grade school level play, fumbled every ball, turned it over, committed stupid fouls, and just generaly wandering aorund out there in a haze. Lost the "+" to his A however by lurching to semi-life late in this one, and by allowing our own scrubby little piece of Pooh to outsuck him in the end. Still a better effort than we got from anybody on our own roster.
Epic -- Faith No More (1990) -- a rather significant song actually, as it was a huge hit back in 1990 and is often cited as a prototype and one of the big influences on the development of the rap-rock/rap-metal movement. As an aside, the question of what qualifies a a 1-hit wonder came up several times in this list of songs, and I have decided to keep this U.S. oriented. Faith No More went on to have some success overseas after this song, but never had another significant score in the U.S.
Garcia ( C- ) -- I know he may find it unfair, and maybe it is, but right or wrogn the general expectation placed upon players labeled as "shooters" is that they should in fact be able to shoot, and tonight Cisco failed abysmally at that. Not only was he 1-6 from downtown on a night when the whole team was just dire from outside fo 5 feet, but I would say 2/3 of them were open looks. Finally hit one in the early third to cut the lead to 6 as the NUggets just put the game on a platter for us and tried to out stink us, but followed it wiht tow more bricks, the last of which was just flat wide open, and a few little 2ptrs as the game got out of control in no way made up for it. Of course Melo was just horrid on the night, and normally you would say yay Ciso! for stopping one of the league's highest scorers. But Cisco had very little to do wiht that -- none of our guys except Donte actually made Melo miss much of anything. He did his sucking on his own.
Nothing Compares 2 U -- Sinead O'Connor (1990) -- one of the most famous 1 hit wonders of all time, and this video helped make it the hit it was. Of course as it turned out the pretty expressive young woman with the shaved head and beautiful voice turned out to be more political activist than singer, and once the venom and anger started spilling out there could never be a repeat of this success. Beautiful song though.
Thompson ( B- ) -- basically ineffective in the furst half and minutes were limited again. Did not look remotely good in the 3rd but able to get a few little hustle plays as we hung close while the Nuggets shared our struggles. Almost all of his best on the team numbers came after the game seemed to get out of control in the 4th, and I have to discount appropriately. It was like a light switch suddenly flipped on, and the uncoordinated goof runnign around in Jason's jersey suddenly started using his size to wade to the front of the rim and finish again and again. Like a completely difernt player than we saw for the first 3/4. Unfortunately since the game was lost in those first 3/4 -- and a game that looked like it was winnable during that time too -- this has to be marked down significantly.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kY84MRnxVzo
Baby Got Back -- Sir Mix-a-Lot (1992) -- its truly shocking that a song entirely dedicated to this guy's love of women with big butts would not launch a major longlasting career, but that was what happened. The famous video has to be seen to be believed, but seemed too offensive to actually post on the board, so I just left the link instead.
Cousins ( B- ) -- picked right up offensively from where he left off against Memphis, scoring inside and out in the early going, but was not able to control Nene on the other end. Took some tough shots, fadeaways, stepaways etc., but got some of them to go. Play began to deteriorate as this one went along and he possibly tired in the altitude. Racked up his customary 5 fouls, and seemed to be taking a step back as far as his composure reacting to calls. Picked up his 4th in the early 4th with his same stupid trying to draw a charge thing, and after the fast start, seemed to have checked out mentally by the end of his stints. Still racked up a solid 16 and 8 on 50%+ shooting, but was not a factor ater the first 18 minutes or so.
I'm Too Sexy -- Bricklayer (1992) -- and again here, Right Said Fred actually went on to have a little success in Europe, but this was the only time anybody in the States was blessed with their incredible sexiness.
However thanks for your best efforts on our behalf Melo -- was very excited to learn that you and Pooh had apparently switched teams via trade before the game.
Theme will be 90s one hit wonders. Actually its going to be 90s One Hit Wonders Pt I since so many ideas came to me for the theme that I've got at least 2 grade threads worth of songs to share. Should be more fun than the debacle on court.
Official Boxscore
Melo ( A ) -- came out with a vengeance in this one for us, using the tragedy in his family (sister died) and his own festering desire to folow in LeBron's hallowed footsteps and stab his franchise in the back to get off to a powerful 1-14 start from the field, and that was only the half of it. NOt only were the shots just ridiculously off, but he looked like he had regressed to grade school level play, fumbled every ball, turned it over, committed stupid fouls, and just generaly wandering aorund out there in a haze. Lost the "+" to his A however by lurching to semi-life late in this one, and by allowing our own scrubby little piece of Pooh to outsuck him in the end. Still a better effort than we got from anybody on our own roster.
Garcia ( C- ) -- I know he may find it unfair, and maybe it is, but right or wrogn the general expectation placed upon players labeled as "shooters" is that they should in fact be able to shoot, and tonight Cisco failed abysmally at that. Not only was he 1-6 from downtown on a night when the whole team was just dire from outside fo 5 feet, but I would say 2/3 of them were open looks. Finally hit one in the early third to cut the lead to 6 as the NUggets just put the game on a platter for us and tried to out stink us, but followed it wiht tow more bricks, the last of which was just flat wide open, and a few little 2ptrs as the game got out of control in no way made up for it. Of course Melo was just horrid on the night, and normally you would say yay Ciso! for stopping one of the league's highest scorers. But Cisco had very little to do wiht that -- none of our guys except Donte actually made Melo miss much of anything. He did his sucking on his own.
Thompson ( B- ) -- basically ineffective in the furst half and minutes were limited again. Did not look remotely good in the 3rd but able to get a few little hustle plays as we hung close while the Nuggets shared our struggles. Almost all of his best on the team numbers came after the game seemed to get out of control in the 4th, and I have to discount appropriately. It was like a light switch suddenly flipped on, and the uncoordinated goof runnign around in Jason's jersey suddenly started using his size to wade to the front of the rim and finish again and again. Like a completely difernt player than we saw for the first 3/4. Unfortunately since the game was lost in those first 3/4 -- and a game that looked like it was winnable during that time too -- this has to be marked down significantly.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kY84MRnxVzo
Baby Got Back -- Sir Mix-a-Lot (1992) -- its truly shocking that a song entirely dedicated to this guy's love of women with big butts would not launch a major longlasting career, but that was what happened. The famous video has to be seen to be believed, but seemed too offensive to actually post on the board, so I just left the link instead.
Cousins ( B- ) -- picked right up offensively from where he left off against Memphis, scoring inside and out in the early going, but was not able to control Nene on the other end. Took some tough shots, fadeaways, stepaways etc., but got some of them to go. Play began to deteriorate as this one went along and he possibly tired in the altitude. Racked up his customary 5 fouls, and seemed to be taking a step back as far as his composure reacting to calls. Picked up his 4th in the early 4th with his same stupid trying to draw a charge thing, and after the fast start, seemed to have checked out mentally by the end of his stints. Still racked up a solid 16 and 8 on 50%+ shooting, but was not a factor ater the first 18 minutes or so.
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