Bricklayer
Don't Make Me Use The Bat
Theme tonight: Historical Figures You Really Wanted on Your Side in A Fight
Garcia ( A ) -- had a pretty good first half, but statistically a modest 7pts 2reb type effort. Came on strong after the break though, and while Justin was really the player of the game, Cisco was frequently running the show out there. Did not have the impact defensively, but 22pts 6reb 3ast has to put this right up there as one of the best games of his career. Did it pretty smoothly too -- only had a couple of his Cisco brain fart moments, and was as dependable as any King tonight. There were a lot of open shots for the Spurs around the perimeter, and Cisco had a hand in that. But as it was mostly because he was crashing down trying to help out around the paint (at times effectively as a "PF"), not going to let it chase me off the A for his career scoring game.
THE ROMANS (Carthage) -- as the Romans emerged as a power in the 3rd century B.C., they were confronted by an equally powerful rival in Carthage on the North African coast (in modern day Tunisia). They fought war after war against the Carthagians, including of course the famous one in which Hannibal rampaged across Italy with his elephants while the Romans had to hide in their cities waiting for a new generatiuon fo children to grow old enough to be able to take up arms as soldiers. Well, by the time that the Romans finally waxed supreme and overwhelmed their African rivals after over 100 years of bloodshed, they were more than a little pissed. Sacking the city was not enough. Finally conquering the Carthaginians only the beginning. Instead they pulled all of the Carthaginian ships out into the harbor and burned them in a massive conflagration, entered the city to go house to house and slaughter or enslave the entire populace, razed the city to the ground, and legend has it, sowed the fields and ground with salt so that nothing would grow and rebuilding would be impossible. Then they went home with big ole grins on their faces.
Reef ( C+ ) -- early on was was trying to force the action offensively against the Spurs frontline, and uh..no. Got a few to go, got smushed on more. In the second half had some stretches of solid defense against Duncan until Tim got serious and took over when it mattered in the 4th. During it all played 34 min as the last of our old guard bigs, and the only one available after the first period here. And in those 34 min, managed to pull down one (1) measely rebound. One. Six foot tall Tony Parker had 6. Heck, Eva could have probably gotten at least 2 or 3.
VLAD THE IMPALER -- the inspiration for the Dracula myth, Vlad Dracul, was a 15th century Romania prince famous for his bloodlust and cruelty. His first act upon taking the throne (out of exile -- his father had been assassinated) was to invite all of the nobles of his lands to a great feast along with their families and retainers. Vlad knew that some of these men had participated in his father's assassination, and decided to rectify the problem -- by systematically having every one of them impaled on a large pointy stick (not too pointy though, as part of Vlad's schtick was to ty to let his victims twitch and suffer for hours before expiring). Then he sat down on the hill below the grisley forest of impaled nobles, and had his dinner brought to him. Legends that part of his dinner consisted of the blood of his victims may have been what inspired the vampire legends. But Vlad was just getting started, and over the course of his several reigns, impaled tens of thousands of victims, often outside the walls of cities he wanted to intimidate into submission. On one occasion his atrocities may have even staved off an Ottoman invasion, as legend has it that the Ottoman general was so sickened and disturbed at the seas of impaled bodies on stakes he encountered upon entering Vlad's lands that he turned back to Istanbul rather than chase after this nutter.
Miller ( INC ) -- brief start, then down with the foot again. Did little while he was out there. SHUT HIM DOWN DUFUSES. Thx.
ALEXANDER THE GREAT (Thebes) -- there were actually two Thebes in ancient times -- both of them mighty cities. One of them was one of the great cities of Egypt. The other one of the most powerful city states of Greece, which battled with Athens and Sparta for supremacy (and actually briefly acheived it after beating the overstrteched Spartans in 371 B.C.). In any case, it was a major power. Until Alexander. Alexander's father, Phillip had defeated the Thebans a few years before, but allowed them to maintain some sembalnce of independence. When he died and Alexander took over, they made the mistake of assuming the son was weaker than the father and decided to revolt. Oopsie. In one of his first great victories, Alexander came back and simply erased one of the greatest cities of its age. Sacked the city, razed it to the ground, except, legend says, for the temples to the gods, and the house of Pindar the poet (who must have woke up the next morning, looked around, and wondered what the hell happened). In any case, in sheer audaciousness it would be a little bit like someone coming along and just deciding to wipe out London except for Big Ben and Buckingham Palace. But Alexander turned out to be a tad exceptional in the audacity department.
Martin ( C- ) -- some good takes in the early going, but largely disappeared in the second quarter, and was rarely heard from after half. Seemed to be sweating profusely, so its possible he was not entirely over whatever kept him out of the last one (assuming it was not simply endofseasonitis). There ios also of course always the Bowen factor, although you rarely noticed Bruce this time out. In fact it looked more like Duncan's looming presence was throwing Kevin off than anything -- he pulled it back out and altered shots on at least 3 or 4 occasions when Timmy slid on over. By the end, Finley had gotten the better of the matchup, and was a major player down the stretch for them.
JOSEPH STALIN (Ukraine) -- I generally try to avoid more modern figures because they might hit too close to home, and this guy...well, apologies in advance. For all of the atrocitries and brutality of variosu dictators throughout the 20th century, Stalin has to be up near the top of the list. And a prime example lies in his treatment of the Ukraine. You see, the Ukrainians had the audacity to not terribly want to be part of the Soviet Union in the late 20's/early 30's. Stalin, who excelled above all else at eliminating any and all potential threats, did not appreciate their attitude. So he starved them to death. The entire country. Of course this was not unitl he had exceuted or shipped off to Siberia almost all of the county's elites. But when resistance continued he ordered in 100,000 troops, stole the entire grain harvest of the whole country for sale to the West in exchange for industrial material, closed the borders to all shipments of foods, went house to house to steal every ounce of food that the peasants had stored in their pantries, and sat back and waited while 10 million people (1/4 of the population) starved to death. Never fails to amaze me how human beings will allow a nut of that magnitude to gain so much power.
Garcia ( A ) -- had a pretty good first half, but statistically a modest 7pts 2reb type effort. Came on strong after the break though, and while Justin was really the player of the game, Cisco was frequently running the show out there. Did not have the impact defensively, but 22pts 6reb 3ast has to put this right up there as one of the best games of his career. Did it pretty smoothly too -- only had a couple of his Cisco brain fart moments, and was as dependable as any King tonight. There were a lot of open shots for the Spurs around the perimeter, and Cisco had a hand in that. But as it was mostly because he was crashing down trying to help out around the paint (at times effectively as a "PF"), not going to let it chase me off the A for his career scoring game.
THE ROMANS (Carthage) -- as the Romans emerged as a power in the 3rd century B.C., they were confronted by an equally powerful rival in Carthage on the North African coast (in modern day Tunisia). They fought war after war against the Carthagians, including of course the famous one in which Hannibal rampaged across Italy with his elephants while the Romans had to hide in their cities waiting for a new generatiuon fo children to grow old enough to be able to take up arms as soldiers. Well, by the time that the Romans finally waxed supreme and overwhelmed their African rivals after over 100 years of bloodshed, they were more than a little pissed. Sacking the city was not enough. Finally conquering the Carthaginians only the beginning. Instead they pulled all of the Carthaginian ships out into the harbor and burned them in a massive conflagration, entered the city to go house to house and slaughter or enslave the entire populace, razed the city to the ground, and legend has it, sowed the fields and ground with salt so that nothing would grow and rebuilding would be impossible. Then they went home with big ole grins on their faces.
Reef ( C+ ) -- early on was was trying to force the action offensively against the Spurs frontline, and uh..no. Got a few to go, got smushed on more. In the second half had some stretches of solid defense against Duncan until Tim got serious and took over when it mattered in the 4th. During it all played 34 min as the last of our old guard bigs, and the only one available after the first period here. And in those 34 min, managed to pull down one (1) measely rebound. One. Six foot tall Tony Parker had 6. Heck, Eva could have probably gotten at least 2 or 3.
VLAD THE IMPALER -- the inspiration for the Dracula myth, Vlad Dracul, was a 15th century Romania prince famous for his bloodlust and cruelty. His first act upon taking the throne (out of exile -- his father had been assassinated) was to invite all of the nobles of his lands to a great feast along with their families and retainers. Vlad knew that some of these men had participated in his father's assassination, and decided to rectify the problem -- by systematically having every one of them impaled on a large pointy stick (not too pointy though, as part of Vlad's schtick was to ty to let his victims twitch and suffer for hours before expiring). Then he sat down on the hill below the grisley forest of impaled nobles, and had his dinner brought to him. Legends that part of his dinner consisted of the blood of his victims may have been what inspired the vampire legends. But Vlad was just getting started, and over the course of his several reigns, impaled tens of thousands of victims, often outside the walls of cities he wanted to intimidate into submission. On one occasion his atrocities may have even staved off an Ottoman invasion, as legend has it that the Ottoman general was so sickened and disturbed at the seas of impaled bodies on stakes he encountered upon entering Vlad's lands that he turned back to Istanbul rather than chase after this nutter.
Miller ( INC ) -- brief start, then down with the foot again. Did little while he was out there. SHUT HIM DOWN DUFUSES. Thx.
ALEXANDER THE GREAT (Thebes) -- there were actually two Thebes in ancient times -- both of them mighty cities. One of them was one of the great cities of Egypt. The other one of the most powerful city states of Greece, which battled with Athens and Sparta for supremacy (and actually briefly acheived it after beating the overstrteched Spartans in 371 B.C.). In any case, it was a major power. Until Alexander. Alexander's father, Phillip had defeated the Thebans a few years before, but allowed them to maintain some sembalnce of independence. When he died and Alexander took over, they made the mistake of assuming the son was weaker than the father and decided to revolt. Oopsie. In one of his first great victories, Alexander came back and simply erased one of the greatest cities of its age. Sacked the city, razed it to the ground, except, legend says, for the temples to the gods, and the house of Pindar the poet (who must have woke up the next morning, looked around, and wondered what the hell happened). In any case, in sheer audaciousness it would be a little bit like someone coming along and just deciding to wipe out London except for Big Ben and Buckingham Palace. But Alexander turned out to be a tad exceptional in the audacity department.
Martin ( C- ) -- some good takes in the early going, but largely disappeared in the second quarter, and was rarely heard from after half. Seemed to be sweating profusely, so its possible he was not entirely over whatever kept him out of the last one (assuming it was not simply endofseasonitis). There ios also of course always the Bowen factor, although you rarely noticed Bruce this time out. In fact it looked more like Duncan's looming presence was throwing Kevin off than anything -- he pulled it back out and altered shots on at least 3 or 4 occasions when Timmy slid on over. By the end, Finley had gotten the better of the matchup, and was a major player down the stretch for them.
JOSEPH STALIN (Ukraine) -- I generally try to avoid more modern figures because they might hit too close to home, and this guy...well, apologies in advance. For all of the atrocitries and brutality of variosu dictators throughout the 20th century, Stalin has to be up near the top of the list. And a prime example lies in his treatment of the Ukraine. You see, the Ukrainians had the audacity to not terribly want to be part of the Soviet Union in the late 20's/early 30's. Stalin, who excelled above all else at eliminating any and all potential threats, did not appreciate their attitude. So he starved them to death. The entire country. Of course this was not unitl he had exceuted or shipped off to Siberia almost all of the county's elites. But when resistance continued he ordered in 100,000 troops, stole the entire grain harvest of the whole country for sale to the West in exchange for industrial material, closed the borders to all shipments of foods, went house to house to steal every ounce of food that the peasants had stored in their pantries, and sat back and waited while 10 million people (1/4 of the population) starved to death. Never fails to amaze me how human beings will allow a nut of that magnitude to gain so much power.
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