Bricklayer
Don't Make Me Use The Bat
Boogie 35min 22pts (9-13FG 0-0 3pt) 14reb 7ast
Tyreke 35min 25pts (9-12FG 4-6 3pt) 2reb 5ast
Thomas 33min 27pts (8-13FG 4-5 3pt) 5reb 6ast
Thorntn 24min 23pts (9-13FG 4-7 3pt) 3reb 1ast
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4 players: 97pts 35-51FG
'Nuff said.
Full Grading Consortium for tonight:
Bricklayer
Capt. Factorial
bajaden
Boxscore
Stats: 23min 2pts (1-5, 0-4, 0-0) 3reb 5ast 0stl 0blk 1TO
Salmons ( F ) -- Wow, just when you thought it couldn't get any worse, John proves you wrong. How does a player go from being an impact player for three games, to almost being invisible. About the only good thing you can say about Johns night, is that he did play good defense at times, and he had 5 assists. The problem is, that John is susposed to be one of the guys that contributes offensively, and 2 points on 1 of 5 shooting, and 0 for 4 from the three is not my idea of a contribution. Let me see! I looked at my notes, and first was surprised to see that I had any, but the notes I did have all said the same thing. John misses another three! He did finally score on a beautiful bounce pass from Cuz, but John being John, he just had to follow it up by turning the ball over on the next possession. This is the type of game where John, and the fans need a short memory. Will the real John Salmons please step up. --Baja
Stats: 29min 12pts (4-8, 0-0, 4-6) 1reb 1ast 0stl 1blk 1TO
Thompson ( C+ ) -- This was a close one. If JT had grabbed a few more rebounds, he would have had a B-. I thought JT played fairly well, espcially down the stretch, along with Patterson. Although he didn't put up glaring stats, he played well defenisvely and for the most part, just took what was there offensively. So on a night when others were hot, JT stayed out of the way, and just took what was there. He started the night by missing a little flipshot in the post. He then grabbed an offensive rebound and put it back in. After missing a 15 foot jumper, he scored on a little 5 foot flipshot. He finished out the 1st half by receiving a pass from IT on a break and dunking it. He started the 3rd quarter by driving baseline and finishing with a reverse layup. He did manage to get his shot blocked a bit later, but he finished the night strong by hitting a couple of 10 foot jumpers, and by getting fouled and making both freethrows. Nothing fancy! Just effecient and very JT like when he's playing well. And though he didn't rebound that well, some of that could be attributed to Cousins sucking up every rebound that came his way.--Baja
Stats: 35min 22pts (9-13, 0-0, 4-4) 14reb 7ast 2stl 0blk 4TO
Cousins ( A- ) -- this game was broken into three distinct parts for Boogie. First, it was child's play in the first half. He was able to dominate so easily against the ruins fo the Suns' frontline that he might as well have been backing down 8th graders. its hard to even say he was haivn agreat game, because he never had to do anything great, was rarely challenged, and totally comfortable. The worst threats of the half came when he fouled Scola on the first possession of the game, raising the spectre that his dominance would be interrupted by foul trouble, and by his own team, who's little chuckers have short attention spans and got tired of watching Boogie score everytime down the court (he hit his first 6 shots) and started making sure to get their own shots up instead. He was making good decisions as well, and his very presence led to another run for us iin the 2nd quarter after another wonderful smart reserve unit had us in full collapse. The 2nd stage of the game for Boogie came out of half, when he started the thrid drawing a lot of attention, and did not respnd to it well. His wild passes woes came to the fore again as he was swarmed and turned it over, he wasn't gettign the ball back enough from his guards for his liking, and he began to pick up frustration fouls, culminating in a 4th foul that sent him to the bench with the ruings of a dominant game still smoking aournd him. Smart surprised by bringiing him back in to start the 4th, and it quickly looked like the gambel was not going to pay off when Boogie pikced up his 5th within 2 minutes. But a funny thing happened then as the game entered the final phase for Boogie: the 5th foul seemed to settle him and focus him and he began to dominate the middle again. Was doing all the boardwork for us (he grabbed 14, nobody else more than 6), and had a number of strong ones in heavy traffic. And he began to pick apart the Suns for their swarming ways, working especially well with Reke and Thronton setting them up for threes, and being set up in return. Because of the 3rd quarter meltdown and general sensation of a big guy beating up on little boys, 22pts 14reb 7ast on 9-13 shooting is only going to be an A- here. Now think about that next time you start to complain about Boogie. --Brick
Stats: 35min 25pts (9-12, 4-6, 3-4) 2reb 5ast 1stl 2blk 6TO
Evans ( A- ) -- Now that's more like it! Tyreke went out there tonight and gave us Exhibit A on his improved jump shot. I'll want Exhibit B and Exhibit C before I declare him a great jump shooter, but 4 of 6 from deep and 9 of 12 overall (25 points on 14 shots) is amazing efficiency. The distribution of his scoring was a bit weird. All five shots he hit in the first half came in the lane, and all four shots he hit in the second half were from deep. He started the game out with an assist to Cuz driving the lane and finished with 5 assists - and it was a testament to our game tonight that that was tied for third-best on the team. However, Tyreke was not quite perfect on offense, with six TOs. In particular he pulled off a neat TO Hat Trick, where he took less than a minute to make two bad passes and get picked in the lane (all on consecutive possessions) to result in 8 points on the other end (3 layups, 2 and-1s). He also made three bad plays on defense tonight, each time getting burned on the baseline - twice by Jared Dudley for two layups and once by Marcus Morris (but he missed his shot). But he also had two very nice defensive plays tonight, both on blocks. In the first, he bothered Beasley in the lane and finally blocked his shot. But the better play came in the third, when he chased down Luis Scola in transition and made a spectacular block at the rim. Overall he made about as many nice plays as iffy plays on defense (though he seemed determined to slump way too far off of Wes Johnson in the first quarter), and he allowed 18 points on 18 shots, which is tough to complain about. It was really only the turnovers tonight that kept him from the full A. --Capt.
Stats: 33min 28pts (8-13, 4-5, 7-7) 5reb 6ast 5stl 0blk 2TO
Thomas ( A- ) -- IT was one of four Kings who had a great shooting night tonight. He led the team in scoring while going 8-13 from the floor and 4-5 from three. He did go 2-3 on pull-up threes in transition (the two hits on consecutive possessions), which is just good enough to justify taking that shot so early in the shot clock with nobody underneath to rebound but almost a worrying trend. IT also did a pretty good job distributing tonight, with 6 assists. Defensively, he was the same old IT we've come to know and love, particularly in the first quarter when Dragic made it a point to drive around him or lose him on a screen basically every time down the floor. Dragic carved us up then, though he spent most of his time dishing which allowed IT's results (10 point on 11 shots allowed) to look decent. He really wasn't that good. The most frustrating thing was probably watching the final play of the second quarter, when IT got down in a defensive stance and played basically a full shot clock of tough D on Dragic to deny him anything. Obviously he has the ability to put out that kind of effort, so why doesn't he do that every play? Or shoot, even twice a game? Throw me a defensive bone, here! Still it's next-to-impossible to ignore the scoring (27 points on 16 shots) so his grade is good enough. --Capt.
Tyreke 35min 25pts (9-12FG 4-6 3pt) 2reb 5ast
Thomas 33min 27pts (8-13FG 4-5 3pt) 5reb 6ast
Thorntn 24min 23pts (9-13FG 4-7 3pt) 3reb 1ast
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4 players: 97pts 35-51FG
'Nuff said.
Full Grading Consortium for tonight:
Bricklayer
Capt. Factorial
bajaden
Boxscore
Stats: 23min 2pts (1-5, 0-4, 0-0) 3reb 5ast 0stl 0blk 1TO
Salmons ( F ) -- Wow, just when you thought it couldn't get any worse, John proves you wrong. How does a player go from being an impact player for three games, to almost being invisible. About the only good thing you can say about Johns night, is that he did play good defense at times, and he had 5 assists. The problem is, that John is susposed to be one of the guys that contributes offensively, and 2 points on 1 of 5 shooting, and 0 for 4 from the three is not my idea of a contribution. Let me see! I looked at my notes, and first was surprised to see that I had any, but the notes I did have all said the same thing. John misses another three! He did finally score on a beautiful bounce pass from Cuz, but John being John, he just had to follow it up by turning the ball over on the next possession. This is the type of game where John, and the fans need a short memory. Will the real John Salmons please step up. --Baja
Stats: 29min 12pts (4-8, 0-0, 4-6) 1reb 1ast 0stl 1blk 1TO
Thompson ( C+ ) -- This was a close one. If JT had grabbed a few more rebounds, he would have had a B-. I thought JT played fairly well, espcially down the stretch, along with Patterson. Although he didn't put up glaring stats, he played well defenisvely and for the most part, just took what was there offensively. So on a night when others were hot, JT stayed out of the way, and just took what was there. He started the night by missing a little flipshot in the post. He then grabbed an offensive rebound and put it back in. After missing a 15 foot jumper, he scored on a little 5 foot flipshot. He finished out the 1st half by receiving a pass from IT on a break and dunking it. He started the 3rd quarter by driving baseline and finishing with a reverse layup. He did manage to get his shot blocked a bit later, but he finished the night strong by hitting a couple of 10 foot jumpers, and by getting fouled and making both freethrows. Nothing fancy! Just effecient and very JT like when he's playing well. And though he didn't rebound that well, some of that could be attributed to Cousins sucking up every rebound that came his way.--Baja
Stats: 35min 22pts (9-13, 0-0, 4-4) 14reb 7ast 2stl 0blk 4TO
Cousins ( A- ) -- this game was broken into three distinct parts for Boogie. First, it was child's play in the first half. He was able to dominate so easily against the ruins fo the Suns' frontline that he might as well have been backing down 8th graders. its hard to even say he was haivn agreat game, because he never had to do anything great, was rarely challenged, and totally comfortable. The worst threats of the half came when he fouled Scola on the first possession of the game, raising the spectre that his dominance would be interrupted by foul trouble, and by his own team, who's little chuckers have short attention spans and got tired of watching Boogie score everytime down the court (he hit his first 6 shots) and started making sure to get their own shots up instead. He was making good decisions as well, and his very presence led to another run for us iin the 2nd quarter after another wonderful smart reserve unit had us in full collapse. The 2nd stage of the game for Boogie came out of half, when he started the thrid drawing a lot of attention, and did not respnd to it well. His wild passes woes came to the fore again as he was swarmed and turned it over, he wasn't gettign the ball back enough from his guards for his liking, and he began to pick up frustration fouls, culminating in a 4th foul that sent him to the bench with the ruings of a dominant game still smoking aournd him. Smart surprised by bringiing him back in to start the 4th, and it quickly looked like the gambel was not going to pay off when Boogie pikced up his 5th within 2 minutes. But a funny thing happened then as the game entered the final phase for Boogie: the 5th foul seemed to settle him and focus him and he began to dominate the middle again. Was doing all the boardwork for us (he grabbed 14, nobody else more than 6), and had a number of strong ones in heavy traffic. And he began to pick apart the Suns for their swarming ways, working especially well with Reke and Thronton setting them up for threes, and being set up in return. Because of the 3rd quarter meltdown and general sensation of a big guy beating up on little boys, 22pts 14reb 7ast on 9-13 shooting is only going to be an A- here. Now think about that next time you start to complain about Boogie. --Brick
Stats: 35min 25pts (9-12, 4-6, 3-4) 2reb 5ast 1stl 2blk 6TO
Evans ( A- ) -- Now that's more like it! Tyreke went out there tonight and gave us Exhibit A on his improved jump shot. I'll want Exhibit B and Exhibit C before I declare him a great jump shooter, but 4 of 6 from deep and 9 of 12 overall (25 points on 14 shots) is amazing efficiency. The distribution of his scoring was a bit weird. All five shots he hit in the first half came in the lane, and all four shots he hit in the second half were from deep. He started the game out with an assist to Cuz driving the lane and finished with 5 assists - and it was a testament to our game tonight that that was tied for third-best on the team. However, Tyreke was not quite perfect on offense, with six TOs. In particular he pulled off a neat TO Hat Trick, where he took less than a minute to make two bad passes and get picked in the lane (all on consecutive possessions) to result in 8 points on the other end (3 layups, 2 and-1s). He also made three bad plays on defense tonight, each time getting burned on the baseline - twice by Jared Dudley for two layups and once by Marcus Morris (but he missed his shot). But he also had two very nice defensive plays tonight, both on blocks. In the first, he bothered Beasley in the lane and finally blocked his shot. But the better play came in the third, when he chased down Luis Scola in transition and made a spectacular block at the rim. Overall he made about as many nice plays as iffy plays on defense (though he seemed determined to slump way too far off of Wes Johnson in the first quarter), and he allowed 18 points on 18 shots, which is tough to complain about. It was really only the turnovers tonight that kept him from the full A. --Capt.
Stats: 33min 28pts (8-13, 4-5, 7-7) 5reb 6ast 5stl 0blk 2TO
Thomas ( A- ) -- IT was one of four Kings who had a great shooting night tonight. He led the team in scoring while going 8-13 from the floor and 4-5 from three. He did go 2-3 on pull-up threes in transition (the two hits on consecutive possessions), which is just good enough to justify taking that shot so early in the shot clock with nobody underneath to rebound but almost a worrying trend. IT also did a pretty good job distributing tonight, with 6 assists. Defensively, he was the same old IT we've come to know and love, particularly in the first quarter when Dragic made it a point to drive around him or lose him on a screen basically every time down the floor. Dragic carved us up then, though he spent most of his time dishing which allowed IT's results (10 point on 11 shots allowed) to look decent. He really wasn't that good. The most frustrating thing was probably watching the final play of the second quarter, when IT got down in a defensive stance and played basically a full shot clock of tough D on Dragic to deny him anything. Obviously he has the ability to put out that kind of effort, so why doesn't he do that every play? Or shoot, even twice a game? Throw me a defensive bone, here! Still it's next-to-impossible to ignore the scoring (27 points on 16 shots) so his grade is good enough. --Capt.
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