Bricklayer
Don't Make Me Use The Bat
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Let's see, theme...somebody in the game thread was begging for kittens in blenders, but that seems a little extreme, so how about Places You Do Not Want To Be, in pictures (stumbled across a grest stash of them the other day).
Cisco ( D+ ) -- started off this one very sloppy and had a whole slate of early turnovers. Then, just when he had maybe started to settle a little with a couple of second quarter hoops, he had to go to the sideline with what was intially reported as a dislocated finger, but later said to be a non-displaced fracture? Thought I saw them pull it back out though? Reminds me of a personal story which I will stick under a spoiler tag so as not to break up the narrative here:
In any case, he sat out until half, and then returned for the third with his fingers taped together with reports it was a non-displaced fracture. Ok, you can play through that as long as it is braced well. But why oh why would he in our situation? What was the point? Why risk it? But actually I guess if his intention was to help us with our draft position, he made the right decision. He had several more turnovers that looked like they might have been finger related (fumbled balls etc.), he was missing everything, and just in general did not look right. Of course a bad finger does not explain at all why he kept on letting guys get so free around the perimeter, but that's another story. Now why Natt played him anyway is the bigger question. Especially since his position is the natural one for almost everybody Natt plays on our bench...except oh, I forgot, Nocioni is now a center, and Greene a power forward. Anyway, bottomline is Cisco was having a sloppy night, then he got hurt, and when he came back it certainly was not any better. Bet Cisco wishes he had just stayed at home.
Leave. Now.
Thompson ( C- ) -- the rawest of raw numbers will say 13 and 7 here, but this was fugly. First of all, I know Jason is a rookie and all and still learning the league, but there are such things as scouting reports, not to mention this curious invention called television, that might have allowed him to get the idea that he might want to guard Troy Murphy at the three point line. Responsible for a number of sloppy turnovers in the first half, and in the mid 2nd had two on back to back possessions to help the Pacers open it up. Just finding new ways to struggle sometimes. Gave us a little push in the early third even as we faded otherwise. Was working hard on the glass in the 4th, but the turnovers, blocks against him, strips, and just general inefficiency killed him, and us. At least he seems to be doing a little better about the fouls. Still is picking up cheapies, but the last few games they haven't completely taken him out of the game.
Turn around. Run.
Hawes ( B+ ) -- played an indifferent first quarter, but began to take advantage of a curious edge he had in this one -- a footspeed edge over all of the Pacers/ centers, Hibbert, Foster and Nesterovic. Got a couple of slams in the open court in the mid 2nd, taking advantage of the slow footedness of Hibbert, and spent much of the rest of the game really running out and collecting dunks. In fact, and this surprised me a little, his 19 points tonight tied a career high -- seems like with his offensive talent he would have had more at some point, but nope. He's never really put together a dominant full game. In any case, this wasn't either, as the offense aside from the dunks on the break was no better than normal and he resorted to chucking and missing a couple more threes, one of which was a panicky chuck in the final minutes of the game and helped finish any chance we might have had. He provided a little help around the rim on defense at times, but only a little as we got scorched once again, and the boardwork was at best middling. It was still a good game for Spence, and he showed good hustle on the break, including getting back defensively on one play to save a sure hoops after Bobby slowed the Pacers down. But take away the open court dunks and there wasn't all that much going on here.
Hard to starboard captain! That is the leading edge of a hurricane in case you did not know.
Let's see, theme...somebody in the game thread was begging for kittens in blenders, but that seems a little extreme, so how about Places You Do Not Want To Be, in pictures (stumbled across a grest stash of them the other day).
Cisco ( D+ ) -- started off this one very sloppy and had a whole slate of early turnovers. Then, just when he had maybe started to settle a little with a couple of second quarter hoops, he had to go to the sideline with what was intially reported as a dislocated finger, but later said to be a non-displaced fracture? Thought I saw them pull it back out though? Reminds me of a personal story which I will stick under a spoiler tag so as not to break up the narrative here:
near disaster I had back in law school during my 3rd year -- a group of us were playing a mostly friendly coed soccer game out in one of the fields below the school when one of the girls -- a good athlete and friend of mine from law review, took a fall and came up yelping. She was a tough girl too -- Texas tough. Grew up shooting things on her dad's ranch and was a long way from a delicate flower. Well, we all gather round, and her finger is obviously and grotesquely dislocated..or so it appeared. And I, having experience with such things, tell her that if she has somebody give it a quick yank to pop it back into joint, it will actually feel a helluva lot better. Which would have been true. If it had actually been dislocated. Fortunately she ignored the advice and went right over to the hospital (Penn has the region's premiere hospital right on campus), at which point they reset her broken finger. We were laughing about it later, but I can only imagine what a very very VERY ugly scene it would have been if I had hopped up there and given her "dislocated" finger a good hard tug to fix it. 
She would have kicked my *** all the way back to California, and I would have deserved it.
She would have kicked my *** all the way back to California, and I would have deserved it.
Leave. Now.
Thompson ( C- ) -- the rawest of raw numbers will say 13 and 7 here, but this was fugly. First of all, I know Jason is a rookie and all and still learning the league, but there are such things as scouting reports, not to mention this curious invention called television, that might have allowed him to get the idea that he might want to guard Troy Murphy at the three point line. Responsible for a number of sloppy turnovers in the first half, and in the mid 2nd had two on back to back possessions to help the Pacers open it up. Just finding new ways to struggle sometimes. Gave us a little push in the early third even as we faded otherwise. Was working hard on the glass in the 4th, but the turnovers, blocks against him, strips, and just general inefficiency killed him, and us. At least he seems to be doing a little better about the fouls. Still is picking up cheapies, but the last few games they haven't completely taken him out of the game.
Turn around. Run.
Hawes ( B+ ) -- played an indifferent first quarter, but began to take advantage of a curious edge he had in this one -- a footspeed edge over all of the Pacers/ centers, Hibbert, Foster and Nesterovic. Got a couple of slams in the open court in the mid 2nd, taking advantage of the slow footedness of Hibbert, and spent much of the rest of the game really running out and collecting dunks. In fact, and this surprised me a little, his 19 points tonight tied a career high -- seems like with his offensive talent he would have had more at some point, but nope. He's never really put together a dominant full game. In any case, this wasn't either, as the offense aside from the dunks on the break was no better than normal and he resorted to chucking and missing a couple more threes, one of which was a panicky chuck in the final minutes of the game and helped finish any chance we might have had. He provided a little help around the rim on defense at times, but only a little as we got scorched once again, and the boardwork was at best middling. It was still a good game for Spence, and he showed good hustle on the break, including getting back defensively on one play to save a sure hoops after Bobby slowed the Pacers down. But take away the open court dunks and there wasn't all that much going on here.
Hard to starboard captain! That is the leading edge of a hurricane in case you did not know.
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At least if you are a crappy team who can't find itself a real PF to play inside.
