Bricklayer
Don't Make Me Use The Bat
This team never fails to amaze me. Looking ahead at our schedule last week, there is no way that I would have guessed we would lose to a Warriors team missing 4 of their top 5 players not once, but both times. The result is we actually have a pretty good shot of earnig that worst record now. Of course we'll probably do somethig ridiculous like go knock off the Lakers or Houston or somebody to pee it away. But we're in good position. 6 games to go. 4 against Western playoffs teams. Two against fellow terrible teams, but both of those are on the road.
Think I have enough themes to cover it with an expected pretty girl blowout or two thrown in. So let's go with Great Construction Projects in honor of the rebuild (was suggested to me).
Nocioni ( B ) -- got whipped by Azubuike early -- he could not shoot any better than the other Warriors but he was relentlessly attaking, dominating the glass, drawing fouls. Noc himself spun the tables and dominated the boards in the second half, racking up a ridiculous 15 with his o-boards accounting for many of his points (he could not hit anything from anywhere else, including the charity stripe). And continued his recent bizarre streak of Andres Nocioni, weakside shotblocker (on his career he averages 0.5blks a game), racking up 4 of them this time out in a game when we, the Sacramento Kings, got credited with 12 believe it or not. Shot like crap, like most of the team, and lost the positional battle, if Azubuike was indeed the matchup, but made his contributions. Tough grade to figure though. Lots of up ticks and down ticks.
Palm Island Resort (Dubai) -- you see the palm tree out in the water? That, as you may have guessed, is not a naturally occurring phenomenon. Basically you get an oil rich little nation with nothing better to do and so they built their own titanic (25 sq km) palm tree shaped artificial island, complete with mile long "leaves" lined with beach houses on each side, and a stem, with huge hotels and resorts. Ultra exclusive. Ultra rich. And since it has just been coming on line I am thinking perhaps ultra bankrupt in the new world economy. To build it took a cool 94 million cubic metres of sand and 7 million tons of rock. And here is the best part -- they are currently building two others, and this one is the smallest of the three.
Thompson ( C+ ) -- a little ragged to start, but settled in and began to take advantage of the terrible matchups for the Warriors, going inside, stepping out for the jumper, evern setting Donte up with a kickout pass -- a welcome sight. But faded off, and by the third lost his cool with the very limited Rony turiaf increasingly getting the better of it. And after getting hsi shot blocked, again, knocked Turiaf down in frustration + sat the rest of the quarter. revived late hwoever, and became a primary mover and shaker in our usual fake hustle charge. Missed a pair of FTs at the 2:00 mark that really hurt, but doiminated the Warriors inside in the last couple of minutes, scooping up loose balls and finsihing over the top with little hooks before fouling out. Great majority of his production came in two bursts, one at the end of the first quarter, one at the end of the game. Got the double double but it was inefficient (shot 5-14) and spotty.
Atlantic Array -- the world's largest proposed offshore windfarm, the Atlantic Array (off the coast of England) is supposed to have 350 300+foot tall mega-wind turbines cranking out 1.5 gigawatts (that's 1.5 billion watts) of power. England is mad for wind turbines right now -- they have seized upon them as their answer for renewable energy, and recent plans have emerged for as many as 7,000 offshore turbines to be constructed.
Hawes ( INC ) -- was aggressive using his size in the post for once to score over the minature Warriors early, but missed more than he made and got several of his attempts sent back out. Of course the bigger concern was that he got hit in the eye in the mid 2nd and had to leave the game and go to the lockerroom. Did not return. IN his few minutes easily got the better of Anthony Randoph, who was doing all the little things, rebounding, stealing, blocking shots, but who could not hit a shot to save his life in the first half.
The Great Wall -- I debated back and forth whether to use this one, because of course it is so famous as to be almost trite. But when you build a 4000 mile long, 30 foot deep, 20 foot high wall that costs millions of lives to build (life was always very cheap in ancient Chinia -- the one thing they always had were plenty of people, so they placed almost no value in them), and took a million soldiers to man, well, that is kind of impressive. As an aside, its no great secret but not routinely known that "the Great Wall" was only the last "Great Wall". The Chinese had been building "Great Walls" thousands of miles of miles long for 1500 years before the Ming dynasty put up the version that is famous today.
Cisco ( D ) -- quite the turnaround game here with Cisco crashing back to Earth, and hard to explain as well as was matched up against the same team, and same "defender" (Crawford) that Kevin lit up 50 last week, and against whom Cisco shot at will as well. Nonetheless, struggled through the first half getting nothing accomplished for whatever reason. Had 2pts on 1-5 shooting by the break. May or may not have been having an effect on defense, with Crawford terrible most of the night on offense (he often can be without help), but Azubuike practically screaming "you too skinny!" as he punished Cisco when that was the macthup. Began to wake up in the third, repeatedly taking the ball to the hoop while Crawford chucked jumpers and whined to the refs, and did get some of those help blocks late as the Warriors desperately tried to choke it. But was plagued by inefficiency -- turnovers of various kinds were a problem all night, his three point shooting was off and he never did hit one, and even his FTs were off, including a missed pair of FTs in the mid 4th that would come back to bite us as we fake husted our way to yet another loss.
Northern River Reversal -- this is a fun little one that is little known and never actually got undertaken, well, except for one fun little part to which I'll get. Basically one of the great advantages of a totalitarian system is that you can think big, grand, ridiculously stupid thoughts without having to worry about selling it to bunch of small minded peasants constantly whining about taxes and whatnot. The Soviets took full advnatage of that with this one: basically they took a look at a map of Russia and saw all these rivers dumping water northward into the Artic Ocean, and decided that water was being "wasted". They had all these lands to the south, their central asian provinces primarily, that were constantly parched, and here mother nature was wasting water dumping it all into the ocean. The nerve of that woman. So the Soviets started planning on how to reverse them. Not one of them, or two of them. All of them. They were going to build a grand canal down the center of the country, somehow reverse all the rivers, and send all of that water flowing down into central asia for irrigation. Well, turns out that the reversing the rivers in the face of gravity part proved to be somewhat of a problem, but they did get started on the project with typical Soviet innovativeness. They thought they'd come up with a nifty new way to quickly dig a big ole canal. So they tested their new method...went out to the beginning of the canal, told the local villagers to scram, buried three 15 kiloton nuclear warheads (each about the same power as the Hiroshima bomb), and set them off. Big ole boom resulted in an 2000 foot long crater that is now a lovely radioactive lake. Fortunately they gave up the project before they created an entire radioactive canal to wash their northern rivers through as the water headed south to the crops.
Think I have enough themes to cover it with an expected pretty girl blowout or two thrown in. So let's go with Great Construction Projects in honor of the rebuild (was suggested to me).
Nocioni ( B ) -- got whipped by Azubuike early -- he could not shoot any better than the other Warriors but he was relentlessly attaking, dominating the glass, drawing fouls. Noc himself spun the tables and dominated the boards in the second half, racking up a ridiculous 15 with his o-boards accounting for many of his points (he could not hit anything from anywhere else, including the charity stripe). And continued his recent bizarre streak of Andres Nocioni, weakside shotblocker (on his career he averages 0.5blks a game), racking up 4 of them this time out in a game when we, the Sacramento Kings, got credited with 12 believe it or not. Shot like crap, like most of the team, and lost the positional battle, if Azubuike was indeed the matchup, but made his contributions. Tough grade to figure though. Lots of up ticks and down ticks.
Palm Island Resort (Dubai) -- you see the palm tree out in the water? That, as you may have guessed, is not a naturally occurring phenomenon. Basically you get an oil rich little nation with nothing better to do and so they built their own titanic (25 sq km) palm tree shaped artificial island, complete with mile long "leaves" lined with beach houses on each side, and a stem, with huge hotels and resorts. Ultra exclusive. Ultra rich. And since it has just been coming on line I am thinking perhaps ultra bankrupt in the new world economy. To build it took a cool 94 million cubic metres of sand and 7 million tons of rock. And here is the best part -- they are currently building two others, and this one is the smallest of the three.
Thompson ( C+ ) -- a little ragged to start, but settled in and began to take advantage of the terrible matchups for the Warriors, going inside, stepping out for the jumper, evern setting Donte up with a kickout pass -- a welcome sight. But faded off, and by the third lost his cool with the very limited Rony turiaf increasingly getting the better of it. And after getting hsi shot blocked, again, knocked Turiaf down in frustration + sat the rest of the quarter. revived late hwoever, and became a primary mover and shaker in our usual fake hustle charge. Missed a pair of FTs at the 2:00 mark that really hurt, but doiminated the Warriors inside in the last couple of minutes, scooping up loose balls and finsihing over the top with little hooks before fouling out. Great majority of his production came in two bursts, one at the end of the first quarter, one at the end of the game. Got the double double but it was inefficient (shot 5-14) and spotty.
Atlantic Array -- the world's largest proposed offshore windfarm, the Atlantic Array (off the coast of England) is supposed to have 350 300+foot tall mega-wind turbines cranking out 1.5 gigawatts (that's 1.5 billion watts) of power. England is mad for wind turbines right now -- they have seized upon them as their answer for renewable energy, and recent plans have emerged for as many as 7,000 offshore turbines to be constructed.
Hawes ( INC ) -- was aggressive using his size in the post for once to score over the minature Warriors early, but missed more than he made and got several of his attempts sent back out. Of course the bigger concern was that he got hit in the eye in the mid 2nd and had to leave the game and go to the lockerroom. Did not return. IN his few minutes easily got the better of Anthony Randoph, who was doing all the little things, rebounding, stealing, blocking shots, but who could not hit a shot to save his life in the first half.
The Great Wall -- I debated back and forth whether to use this one, because of course it is so famous as to be almost trite. But when you build a 4000 mile long, 30 foot deep, 20 foot high wall that costs millions of lives to build (life was always very cheap in ancient Chinia -- the one thing they always had were plenty of people, so they placed almost no value in them), and took a million soldiers to man, well, that is kind of impressive. As an aside, its no great secret but not routinely known that "the Great Wall" was only the last "Great Wall". The Chinese had been building "Great Walls" thousands of miles of miles long for 1500 years before the Ming dynasty put up the version that is famous today.
Cisco ( D ) -- quite the turnaround game here with Cisco crashing back to Earth, and hard to explain as well as was matched up against the same team, and same "defender" (Crawford) that Kevin lit up 50 last week, and against whom Cisco shot at will as well. Nonetheless, struggled through the first half getting nothing accomplished for whatever reason. Had 2pts on 1-5 shooting by the break. May or may not have been having an effect on defense, with Crawford terrible most of the night on offense (he often can be without help), but Azubuike practically screaming "you too skinny!" as he punished Cisco when that was the macthup. Began to wake up in the third, repeatedly taking the ball to the hoop while Crawford chucked jumpers and whined to the refs, and did get some of those help blocks late as the Warriors desperately tried to choke it. But was plagued by inefficiency -- turnovers of various kinds were a problem all night, his three point shooting was off and he never did hit one, and even his FTs were off, including a missed pair of FTs in the mid 4th that would come back to bite us as we fake husted our way to yet another loss.
Northern River Reversal -- this is a fun little one that is little known and never actually got undertaken, well, except for one fun little part to which I'll get. Basically one of the great advantages of a totalitarian system is that you can think big, grand, ridiculously stupid thoughts without having to worry about selling it to bunch of small minded peasants constantly whining about taxes and whatnot. The Soviets took full advnatage of that with this one: basically they took a look at a map of Russia and saw all these rivers dumping water northward into the Artic Ocean, and decided that water was being "wasted". They had all these lands to the south, their central asian provinces primarily, that were constantly parched, and here mother nature was wasting water dumping it all into the ocean. The nerve of that woman. So the Soviets started planning on how to reverse them. Not one of them, or two of them. All of them. They were going to build a grand canal down the center of the country, somehow reverse all the rivers, and send all of that water flowing down into central asia for irrigation. Well, turns out that the reversing the rivers in the face of gravity part proved to be somewhat of a problem, but they did get started on the project with typical Soviet innovativeness. They thought they'd come up with a nifty new way to quickly dig a big ole canal. So they tested their new method...went out to the beginning of the canal, told the local villagers to scram, buried three 15 kiloton nuclear warheads (each about the same power as the Hiroshima bomb), and set them off. Big ole boom resulted in an 2000 foot long crater that is now a lovely radioactive lake. Fortunately they gave up the project before they created an entire radioactive canal to wash their northern rivers through as the water headed south to the crops.
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