Bricklayer
Don't Make Me Use The Bat
So...143 points followed by 139 points -- whadya think? Most ever given up in a 2 game stretch by the Kings?
Oh, and ladies, this was a blowout, you know what that should mean...
so this time, let's make it what is becoming an annual tradition to coincide with the dance team playoffs over at nba.com: Pretty Girls, The NBA's Dancers
Nocioni ( C ) -- canned an early three, but then did not get much accomplished until he had a chance to take advanatge of the Suns "bench", just going right at and thorough Louis Admundsen. Started to have some effect as a shotblocker of all things in the third quarter, but his own shots never were falling, and on a night when your team is playing such horrendous defense that they would have needed to have 7 different guys score 20 points if they wanted to win it, 11pts on 3-11 shooting makes you something approaching an active liability.
Natasha (Bobcats) -- the girl that decided me on this particular variation of the Pretty Girl thread.
Thompson ( B+ ) -- notched his career high (23pts) in this one, but actually started it off pretty slowly, having little of his luck against the Suns in the early going after dominating their small frontline last time out. Actually had zero rebounds heading into the final minutes of the first half before coming on strong in the late 2nd quarter, getting Shaq in foul trouble with a series of aggressive drives. Defense was another question, where of course the Suns have nobody for him to guard, and he was repeatedly beat on switches with him seeming to spend half the ngith trying to guard Nash, and failing. Picked up the offense again after Shaq left in the third, and dominated little Louis Admundsen in there (an assist to brilliant coaching by Alvin Gentry who had both Robin Lopex and Stromile Swift on the bench but decided to throw his 6'8" tweener forward scrub at our young bigs instead). Stats here are padded up a bit late as we played our starters well into the 4th while the Suns ran it exclusively with their scrubs, but still a strong game before then, and he only played 30 minutes total, so its not as if he racked up huge minutes because of the garbagetime. The nightly defensive owes as well as nearly getting doubled up on the boards by Matt Barnes offset the career scoring night a bit in choosing a grade here.
Rachel (Celtics)
Hawes ( A- ) -- adventuresome first quarter, grabbed some boards hit a couple of shots, also got them blocked, turned the ball over, and saw Shaq beat him down the floor in the open court. Settled in though, and had 7 boards by the mid 2nd quarter. Lost control of Shaq in the early 3rd, although it might be more accurate to say that the Big Lardbutt woke up and decided he had to play a little in order to get the victory. Spencer was scoring back the other way however, and Shaq's little burst of activity only lasted half a quarter before he went to the bench for good with the game secured. Spencer carried on though, and a couple of ill advised threes aside as things fell apart, went on to have an efficient 11-18 shooting night. Padded the 20-10 game working late into the game against Admundsen and Robin Lopez, but still a 3rd 20-10 in the last month. Like Jason, eventually ticked the career high in scoring up a notch, and while most of the rebounding was early, he was still our only guy on the glass as we got whooped again.
Erika (Knicks)
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