Bricklayer
Don't Make Me Use The Bat
Girls. Easily.
And I don't want to hear any more nonsense about how much Reke is holding us back.
Casspi ( C- ) -- helped stabilize us in the first as basically the only guy getting going offensively, and had 10pts by the end of the first. And then...well, there isn't much and then. After the hot start knocking down jumpers, just never really hit anything the rest of the way as he finsihed the game with 14pts on 4-12 shooting, and was actually getting a little fugly in the third forcing stuff, walking after a nice pass from Donte on the break etc. Never hit the boards this time either. Defensively...well when he was on Durant, which was not always...here's the thing. Durant only shot 5-18 on the night (and they still blew us out by 30). But I don't think Omri's defense on him was really much different than it was in Sacto. And what I mentioned in Sacto was that he was not playing bad defense so much as just inefective defense -- could not effect Durant's shot at all. The same was mostly true tonight. But tongiht, Durant misses them. Should be noted that Omri was also on Green quite a bit, and on that one he did get lit up. In any case for about 12 minutes this was a positive performance for us -- one of the few. And then it fell back off into just another Omri Standard game. 14 points is about his peak scoring, the shooting was sub .400 again, it was a little unusual in that he is normally pretty good on the glass and wasn't here. With Durant not doing much it wasn't a disaster, but it certainly wasn't terribly good.
Anna Falchi -- Italian/Finnish actress
Thompson ( D+ ) -- the numbers don't say awful, and at the very least you could say there was a lot of hustle and scrap to this effort. But the numbers also don't express that Jaosn looked as clumsy as he ever has in this one, couldn't finish anything, fumbled half a dozen rebounds, and was just strugling and throwing up all kinds of junk. Had a few sequences with Daly in particualr where they would pound the offensive glass for a bit...and then normally come up empty. And he complicated matters by not staying close to Green on defense (and was actually spotted on Durant a few times). Was back in for the garbagetime and made some phustle type plays to put the lipstick on this pig, but not a good performance.
Ashley Judd -- the distance in looks between her and the rest of her family is still just eye popping
Dalembert ( C- ) -- disappointingly ineffective in the ealry going here as we got crushed on all fronts and Sammy was not able to slow the racehorses charging the rim nearly every play. His few attempts at offense back the other way were ugly, and after Cousins took over and showed that he, at least, was ready to play, Daly was not needed until the second half and notched something like 0pts and 1reb before the break as our starting center. Cousins started over him after half, but when Daly did get in in the late third he came up with his most effective stretch of play, finally getting the offense going and running off three hoops and a block. Seemed to get a little chippee in the late 3rd too, and sent Ibaka down with a pretty hard foul by today's wussy standards. Finsihed with numbers which were low level ok, but the ineffective start helped set the tone for this one for us, and nothing he did afterward was anywhere near as significant to the outcome.
Jakki Degg -- Brit voted greatest page 3 girl of all time at one point
Head ( F ) -- this was spectacular. Well worth the cost of admission in and of itself. Got destroyed on the very first play by Westbrook who swooped in for the huge dunk, and responded by turning in maybe the most incompetent 5 minutes of basketball we have seen in these parts since Mateen left town. Somewhere somebody is doctoring up a LOLCat poster with Luther's head pasted into the pic. He responded to getting dunked on by running down and missing the three the other way, then flubbing back to back layups, and then added a turnover for good measure. Tried to get into Westbrook defensively a little more, but looked amateurish. Closed with a crescendo, as he knew how bad he was sucking, and knew the giant cane was stretching out toward him from behind the curtain, and knew that the only possible way to ever play in another game for the Kings was to start doing somethign spectacular (had a similar reaction last time we saw him for major minutes actually, only that time it worked as he hit a three to save himself). So knowing all of that, he promptly ran down court, without passing to anybody, and airballed a three. Added a similar bricked jumper just as Westphal was calling for the tranquilizer gun to put him down, with us already down somehing like 17-4. And you know what? Good on Luther. If you're going to be bad, at least have the guts to be BAD. As in F bad. Congrats Luther.
Amy Lee -- lead singer of the band Evanescence, and classically trained pianist
And I don't want to hear any more nonsense about how much Reke is holding us back.
Casspi ( C- ) -- helped stabilize us in the first as basically the only guy getting going offensively, and had 10pts by the end of the first. And then...well, there isn't much and then. After the hot start knocking down jumpers, just never really hit anything the rest of the way as he finsihed the game with 14pts on 4-12 shooting, and was actually getting a little fugly in the third forcing stuff, walking after a nice pass from Donte on the break etc. Never hit the boards this time either. Defensively...well when he was on Durant, which was not always...here's the thing. Durant only shot 5-18 on the night (and they still blew us out by 30). But I don't think Omri's defense on him was really much different than it was in Sacto. And what I mentioned in Sacto was that he was not playing bad defense so much as just inefective defense -- could not effect Durant's shot at all. The same was mostly true tonight. But tongiht, Durant misses them. Should be noted that Omri was also on Green quite a bit, and on that one he did get lit up. In any case for about 12 minutes this was a positive performance for us -- one of the few. And then it fell back off into just another Omri Standard game. 14 points is about his peak scoring, the shooting was sub .400 again, it was a little unusual in that he is normally pretty good on the glass and wasn't here. With Durant not doing much it wasn't a disaster, but it certainly wasn't terribly good.
Anna Falchi -- Italian/Finnish actress
Thompson ( D+ ) -- the numbers don't say awful, and at the very least you could say there was a lot of hustle and scrap to this effort. But the numbers also don't express that Jaosn looked as clumsy as he ever has in this one, couldn't finish anything, fumbled half a dozen rebounds, and was just strugling and throwing up all kinds of junk. Had a few sequences with Daly in particualr where they would pound the offensive glass for a bit...and then normally come up empty. And he complicated matters by not staying close to Green on defense (and was actually spotted on Durant a few times). Was back in for the garbagetime and made some phustle type plays to put the lipstick on this pig, but not a good performance.
Ashley Judd -- the distance in looks between her and the rest of her family is still just eye popping
Dalembert ( C- ) -- disappointingly ineffective in the ealry going here as we got crushed on all fronts and Sammy was not able to slow the racehorses charging the rim nearly every play. His few attempts at offense back the other way were ugly, and after Cousins took over and showed that he, at least, was ready to play, Daly was not needed until the second half and notched something like 0pts and 1reb before the break as our starting center. Cousins started over him after half, but when Daly did get in in the late third he came up with his most effective stretch of play, finally getting the offense going and running off three hoops and a block. Seemed to get a little chippee in the late 3rd too, and sent Ibaka down with a pretty hard foul by today's wussy standards. Finsihed with numbers which were low level ok, but the ineffective start helped set the tone for this one for us, and nothing he did afterward was anywhere near as significant to the outcome.
Jakki Degg -- Brit voted greatest page 3 girl of all time at one point
Head ( F ) -- this was spectacular. Well worth the cost of admission in and of itself. Got destroyed on the very first play by Westbrook who swooped in for the huge dunk, and responded by turning in maybe the most incompetent 5 minutes of basketball we have seen in these parts since Mateen left town. Somewhere somebody is doctoring up a LOLCat poster with Luther's head pasted into the pic. He responded to getting dunked on by running down and missing the three the other way, then flubbing back to back layups, and then added a turnover for good measure. Tried to get into Westbrook defensively a little more, but looked amateurish. Closed with a crescendo, as he knew how bad he was sucking, and knew the giant cane was stretching out toward him from behind the curtain, and knew that the only possible way to ever play in another game for the Kings was to start doing somethign spectacular (had a similar reaction last time we saw him for major minutes actually, only that time it worked as he hit a three to save himself). So knowing all of that, he promptly ran down court, without passing to anybody, and airballed a three. Added a similar bricked jumper just as Westphal was calling for the tranquilizer gun to put him down, with us already down somehing like 17-4. And you know what? Good on Luther. If you're going to be bad, at least have the guts to be BAD. As in F bad. Congrats Luther.
Amy Lee -- lead singer of the band Evanescence, and classically trained pianist
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