Bricklayer
Don't Make Me Use The Bat
Well, these early games are playing hell with my planned themes. After watching that...that....thing...that happened on the court, I made an insto-decision to scrap tongiht's theme in favor of a standby that I wanted to save for a particularly bad night at the office. Welll...tongiht was a bad night at the office. Hence tonight's themes: Great Horror Flicks (not involving the Kings)
Salmons ( C ) -- came out and played a really selfish first half for us to make a significant contribution ot our humiliation. Ignored open teammates, drove intot he teeth of the defense, threw up junk etc. Maybe was thinking he was better than he was after the New Orleans game, but whatever it was, he was playing like Kobe's far less talented pet gerbil. Led to a quick hook and Cisco's insertion for much of the half. Came out after halftime much better, and if you look at the boxscore finsihed with some nice well rounded numbers. Unfortunately for him I happened to actually watch the game, not just read the box. In the second half his rebounding was appreciated, as for the second straight game outr completely pathetic frontline was outrebounded by a swingman (actually two -- Cisco was second on the team tongiht). But you aren't going to be able to get yourself much of a grade on my scale for being terrible when it matters, and then padding your stats in the world's longest garbagetime.
THE THING (1982) -- Long a personal fave of mine, and still arguably the scariest movie I have ever seen. Although it was belatedly recognized as such (the legend being that reviewers in 1982 just weren't ready for a horror movie this "hard" and were still used to Spielberg blowing ET bubbles up their butts), this was arguably John Carpenter's greatest masterpiece, from back in the days before he turned into a sad old parody of himself. Great score. Great casting. Great special effects. And a wonderfully bleak ending. But the true brilliance was in the nature of the creature, or more specifically in the utter paranoia it inspired amongst a completely isolated crew in the Antartic. Oft imitated, never really equalled. Until I saw the first half of the game tonight, I had begun to despair of ever again seeing anything so horrifying again.
Thomas ( F ) -- abysmal start, made even worse by Grant and Jerry blabbing on about how we should look for Kenny to play Duncan juat about even(!!) I mean...good lord, that's just embarrassing. Kenny rewarded their confidence too by immediately blwoing a layup, clunking a short hook, and getting quickly yanked out of the game. Got called back from the doghouse to start the 4th, and may never get out again. The Spurs surprised him with probably the first double team he has ever seen in his NBA career, and he promptly panicked and threw the ball into the stands. This was just an embarrassing "effort", and if I had to guess might very well have cost him his starting spot after all of two games. Of course given how badly all of the other pretenders at the postion suck, he may get another chance at it in a few weeks after Reggie completely throws up his hands.
ALIEN -- I have a fairly expansive definition of horror. This all time famous movie of course could be classified as scifi. But it wasn't about the science, or even the future. That was all just a backdrop to get a group of people stuck alone with something utterly terrifying. Kind of like we Kings fans were with Kenny's game tonight. You know a movie is famous when not only does it spawn careers (Sigourney Weaver), and innumerable inferior ripoffs, but that scenes and details of scenes are known by people that never in a million years would watch it. Brilliantly atmospheric, it has since nearly been washed away by the utterly terrible "sequels" of the past 15 years made by boobs with no idea why it worked in the first place. Nearly, but not quite. P.S. Note where it says "director's cut" on that poster? Do not EVER get a director's cut for one of the Alien movies (or msot movies). Directors are often egotistical idiots about those things. There are reasons those things got cut, and inevitably puttting them back in ruins the pacing and atmosphere.
Miller ( C- ) -- only Kings player to score in the first 6 minutes of the game as he awesomely poured in two jumpers. Yay. Oberto was kicking his butt down inside too. By default was part of the one effective crew we had on the night that Reggie brought out to start the third quarter, and for the most part again awesomely poured in devastating open 18 foot jumpers. As he also awesomely grabbed 4 more rebounds tonight for us, let me just say that I remain unconvinced that becoming even smaller and weaker is doing the trick to make him into a board monster. Second night in a row he can claim to be the best we had up front off a most uninspiring 13pt 4reb effort. Spurs never let him do anything with his passing either.
PSYCHO -- this is horror for women. And I don't really mean that in a demeaning way. I just mean that I think this extremely famous horror flick was designed to cater more to deep seated fears that women have then those that men have. I, for instance, do not find Anthony Perkins remotely frightening. Nor his mother. And if the skinny little twerp were to surprise me in the shower, well a) he'd be weird, but b) I think I'd probably just take his cute little knife away from him and give him a noogie before kicking him out the door. But the movie remains a huge part of pop culture all these years later, and helped birth the whole idea of a "slasher flick" taken to such heights (or depths) in the modern day.
Martin ( C ) -- invisible while the carnage got under way, had a couple of open court steals off of lazy long passes, but nothing on offense. Finally got a cheapie on the break after a Cisco steal and managed to get a few points before half, but was completely irrelevant. Shot 2-8, and kept on leaving guys wide open at the three point line. Came out as part of our lone crew tol do anything in the third quarter, and got his points in decent fashion. But the game was long over of course, and Kevin has really got to start helping us in other ways here. He got 22 irrelevant points, and then chipped in with all of 1reb and 1 ast in 39 minutes. As an aside, had the worst +/- on the team tonight too. Not all him, but an indication that his points alone weren't helping much.
THE RING -- I was not terrified by this movie, but it stands here not only for itself, but for the whole wash of Japanese horrror flicks of the last 10 years which reuse the same imagery (dead girl with her black hair in front of her face, little kid with dark eyes etc.) to such disturbing effect. And this one was quite well done. Made you uneasy, and then I am ashamed to admit hit me hard with its freaky ending -- any movie that can make me afraid of a 10-12yr old girl is doing something right. Weird how creepy that imagery is, even if it has been used so much now that it is running on fumes.
Salmons ( C ) -- came out and played a really selfish first half for us to make a significant contribution ot our humiliation. Ignored open teammates, drove intot he teeth of the defense, threw up junk etc. Maybe was thinking he was better than he was after the New Orleans game, but whatever it was, he was playing like Kobe's far less talented pet gerbil. Led to a quick hook and Cisco's insertion for much of the half. Came out after halftime much better, and if you look at the boxscore finsihed with some nice well rounded numbers. Unfortunately for him I happened to actually watch the game, not just read the box. In the second half his rebounding was appreciated, as for the second straight game outr completely pathetic frontline was outrebounded by a swingman (actually two -- Cisco was second on the team tongiht). But you aren't going to be able to get yourself much of a grade on my scale for being terrible when it matters, and then padding your stats in the world's longest garbagetime.
THE THING (1982) -- Long a personal fave of mine, and still arguably the scariest movie I have ever seen. Although it was belatedly recognized as such (the legend being that reviewers in 1982 just weren't ready for a horror movie this "hard" and were still used to Spielberg blowing ET bubbles up their butts), this was arguably John Carpenter's greatest masterpiece, from back in the days before he turned into a sad old parody of himself. Great score. Great casting. Great special effects. And a wonderfully bleak ending. But the true brilliance was in the nature of the creature, or more specifically in the utter paranoia it inspired amongst a completely isolated crew in the Antartic. Oft imitated, never really equalled. Until I saw the first half of the game tonight, I had begun to despair of ever again seeing anything so horrifying again.
Thomas ( F ) -- abysmal start, made even worse by Grant and Jerry blabbing on about how we should look for Kenny to play Duncan juat about even(!!) I mean...good lord, that's just embarrassing. Kenny rewarded their confidence too by immediately blwoing a layup, clunking a short hook, and getting quickly yanked out of the game. Got called back from the doghouse to start the 4th, and may never get out again. The Spurs surprised him with probably the first double team he has ever seen in his NBA career, and he promptly panicked and threw the ball into the stands. This was just an embarrassing "effort", and if I had to guess might very well have cost him his starting spot after all of two games. Of course given how badly all of the other pretenders at the postion suck, he may get another chance at it in a few weeks after Reggie completely throws up his hands.
ALIEN -- I have a fairly expansive definition of horror. This all time famous movie of course could be classified as scifi. But it wasn't about the science, or even the future. That was all just a backdrop to get a group of people stuck alone with something utterly terrifying. Kind of like we Kings fans were with Kenny's game tonight. You know a movie is famous when not only does it spawn careers (Sigourney Weaver), and innumerable inferior ripoffs, but that scenes and details of scenes are known by people that never in a million years would watch it. Brilliantly atmospheric, it has since nearly been washed away by the utterly terrible "sequels" of the past 15 years made by boobs with no idea why it worked in the first place. Nearly, but not quite. P.S. Note where it says "director's cut" on that poster? Do not EVER get a director's cut for one of the Alien movies (or msot movies). Directors are often egotistical idiots about those things. There are reasons those things got cut, and inevitably puttting them back in ruins the pacing and atmosphere.
Miller ( C- ) -- only Kings player to score in the first 6 minutes of the game as he awesomely poured in two jumpers. Yay. Oberto was kicking his butt down inside too. By default was part of the one effective crew we had on the night that Reggie brought out to start the third quarter, and for the most part again awesomely poured in devastating open 18 foot jumpers. As he also awesomely grabbed 4 more rebounds tonight for us, let me just say that I remain unconvinced that becoming even smaller and weaker is doing the trick to make him into a board monster. Second night in a row he can claim to be the best we had up front off a most uninspiring 13pt 4reb effort. Spurs never let him do anything with his passing either.
PSYCHO -- this is horror for women. And I don't really mean that in a demeaning way. I just mean that I think this extremely famous horror flick was designed to cater more to deep seated fears that women have then those that men have. I, for instance, do not find Anthony Perkins remotely frightening. Nor his mother. And if the skinny little twerp were to surprise me in the shower, well a) he'd be weird, but b) I think I'd probably just take his cute little knife away from him and give him a noogie before kicking him out the door. But the movie remains a huge part of pop culture all these years later, and helped birth the whole idea of a "slasher flick" taken to such heights (or depths) in the modern day.
Martin ( C ) -- invisible while the carnage got under way, had a couple of open court steals off of lazy long passes, but nothing on offense. Finally got a cheapie on the break after a Cisco steal and managed to get a few points before half, but was completely irrelevant. Shot 2-8, and kept on leaving guys wide open at the three point line. Came out as part of our lone crew tol do anything in the third quarter, and got his points in decent fashion. But the game was long over of course, and Kevin has really got to start helping us in other ways here. He got 22 irrelevant points, and then chipped in with all of 1reb and 1 ast in 39 minutes. As an aside, had the worst +/- on the team tonight too. Not all him, but an indication that his points alone weren't helping much.
THE RING -- I was not terrified by this movie, but it stands here not only for itself, but for the whole wash of Japanese horrror flicks of the last 10 years which reuse the same imagery (dead girl with her black hair in front of her face, little kid with dark eyes etc.) to such disturbing effect. And this one was quite well done. Made you uneasy, and then I am ashamed to admit hit me hard with its freaky ending -- any movie that can make me afraid of a 10-12yr old girl is doing something right. Weird how creepy that imagery is, even if it has been used so much now that it is running on fumes.
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