Bricklayer
Don't Make Me Use The Bat
Hey whaddya know! A nailbiting buzzerbeating tight loss to an elite team. Who would ever have expected that??
Well not really much else to say. People who don't watch these games will just see the record and assume we suck. This team does not suck right now. In fact I am going to make an outrageous statement and say the Kings, who haven't won in 5 games, are playing beter right now than half the teams in the league. We just can't close the deal. Makes us really prime candidates to break out however. Wihtout the talent you are jsut screwed. But when you prove night in and night out you have the talent to compete with the best, and jsut fail at the end, sooner or later you expect a breakthrough. Not tonight though.
Theme tonight: Bizarre/Disturbing "Body Art" . I put the term in quotes on purpose of course since I consider messing yourself to be sign of stupidity or being disturbed rather than a sign of artistic sensibilities. Change of plan: with all the Cousins stuff getting a late start, and the game is on in 8 hours or so, so going to skip the theme here and push it off until after tonight's game...unless of course we win it.
Official Boxscore
Casspi ( C- ) -- getting torched by Durant early, but got out on the break and was hit by JT in stride for the big finish. Working well with Reke out on the break again in a give and go. Began to get some little interior flips to go late in the game and has been real solid on the glass for weeks now. But he missed his own threes, and the overwhelming impression left by this one was on OMri getting absolutely punked by Kevin Durant shot after shot, quarter after quarter. Jsut showed no ability to slow him at all. Wasn't defensive mistakes per se, was in the area, but in the area isn't enoguh and Durant got whatever shot he wanted whenever he wanted it and knocked them down all night and not only was there nothing Omri could do about it, you could tell by his body language he knew there was nothing to do about. There is no way to avoid that being a huge markdown whatever other modest contributions he made during the game.
Thompson ( C- ) -- high high off the glass for his first and as it turns out only hit of the night, his 2nd attempt was wild and completely out of control and ugly, and that would be the story the rest of the way. Was getting all the shots he wanted from Reke early, but as usual not converting. Gave us a good honest day's battle on the boards though. Things did not improve much after half -- helped some on the glass and with his size on defense, but did not look comfortable at all on offense, had his shots blocked repeatedly, and when the specter of foul trouble loomed for him, it was pretty easy just to forget about him the rest of the way. Not an awful game because the thigs we need most from him -- defense and rebounding -- he provided to some degree. But all of his limitations on the other end were on full display.
Cousins ( C- ) -- even before the postgame nuttiness, was not having one of his better games. Of course that probably contributed to the frustration and the postgame nuttiness. Grabbed a good number of boards in the game, but was not doing agood job blocking out early. Wasn't seeing the doubles either as he got swarmed around the post. Had a couple of near great plays, and a couple of scruffy ones. One crazy possessioon where he got his dribble striopped twice, got it back, kept going and goign and finally got a cross the lane scoop for the finish. Tried the behind the back true Vlade pass to a slashing reke, but it was defelcted. So next time did the nice shovel pass to Landry. Came up with the good o-board and finish +1 with 30 seconds to go in the half and cut the lead back to 5. Just barreled right over Krstic to start the third, but unfortunately the quarter quickly disintegrated into fugliness, with him playing out of control on offense and picking up fouls on defense. Missed a pair of FTs we needed at the 9:45 mark of the 4th with us still trailing 9. Struggled down the stretch on his own moves, but some effectiveness on the offensive glass and dumpoffs to him right beneath the rim. Made a great play in the final seconds to help set up the game winning attemto which saw him go loco, grabbing the d-board at the 15 second mark, started to dribble up court and making the great halfocurt pass off the bounce to a streaking Reke for the layup to cut the lead to 2. Then of course came the nutty. This was a sloppy and ineficeint game from Boogie, but mixed in were some flashes of brilliance and enough boardwork to keep the grade up at least a bit.
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Well not really much else to say. People who don't watch these games will just see the record and assume we suck. This team does not suck right now. In fact I am going to make an outrageous statement and say the Kings, who haven't won in 5 games, are playing beter right now than half the teams in the league. We just can't close the deal. Makes us really prime candidates to break out however. Wihtout the talent you are jsut screwed. But when you prove night in and night out you have the talent to compete with the best, and jsut fail at the end, sooner or later you expect a breakthrough. Not tonight though.
Theme tonight: Bizarre/Disturbing "Body Art" . I put the term in quotes on purpose of course since I consider messing yourself to be sign of stupidity or being disturbed rather than a sign of artistic sensibilities. Change of plan: with all the Cousins stuff getting a late start, and the game is on in 8 hours or so, so going to skip the theme here and push it off until after tonight's game...unless of course we win it.
Official Boxscore
Casspi ( C- ) -- getting torched by Durant early, but got out on the break and was hit by JT in stride for the big finish. Working well with Reke out on the break again in a give and go. Began to get some little interior flips to go late in the game and has been real solid on the glass for weeks now. But he missed his own threes, and the overwhelming impression left by this one was on OMri getting absolutely punked by Kevin Durant shot after shot, quarter after quarter. Jsut showed no ability to slow him at all. Wasn't defensive mistakes per se, was in the area, but in the area isn't enoguh and Durant got whatever shot he wanted whenever he wanted it and knocked them down all night and not only was there nothing Omri could do about it, you could tell by his body language he knew there was nothing to do about. There is no way to avoid that being a huge markdown whatever other modest contributions he made during the game.
Thompson ( C- ) -- high high off the glass for his first and as it turns out only hit of the night, his 2nd attempt was wild and completely out of control and ugly, and that would be the story the rest of the way. Was getting all the shots he wanted from Reke early, but as usual not converting. Gave us a good honest day's battle on the boards though. Things did not improve much after half -- helped some on the glass and with his size on defense, but did not look comfortable at all on offense, had his shots blocked repeatedly, and when the specter of foul trouble loomed for him, it was pretty easy just to forget about him the rest of the way. Not an awful game because the thigs we need most from him -- defense and rebounding -- he provided to some degree. But all of his limitations on the other end were on full display.
Cousins ( C- ) -- even before the postgame nuttiness, was not having one of his better games. Of course that probably contributed to the frustration and the postgame nuttiness. Grabbed a good number of boards in the game, but was not doing agood job blocking out early. Wasn't seeing the doubles either as he got swarmed around the post. Had a couple of near great plays, and a couple of scruffy ones. One crazy possessioon where he got his dribble striopped twice, got it back, kept going and goign and finally got a cross the lane scoop for the finish. Tried the behind the back true Vlade pass to a slashing reke, but it was defelcted. So next time did the nice shovel pass to Landry. Came up with the good o-board and finish +1 with 30 seconds to go in the half and cut the lead back to 5. Just barreled right over Krstic to start the third, but unfortunately the quarter quickly disintegrated into fugliness, with him playing out of control on offense and picking up fouls on defense. Missed a pair of FTs we needed at the 9:45 mark of the 4th with us still trailing 9. Struggled down the stretch on his own moves, but some effectiveness on the offensive glass and dumpoffs to him right beneath the rim. Made a great play in the final seconds to help set up the game winning attemto which saw him go loco, grabbing the d-board at the 15 second mark, started to dribble up court and making the great halfocurt pass off the bounce to a streaking Reke for the layup to cut the lead to 2. Then of course came the nutty. This was a sloppy and ineficeint game from Boogie, but mixed in were some flashes of brilliance and enough boardwork to keep the grade up at least a bit.
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