Bricklayer
Don't Make Me Use The Bat
Second verse, same as the first.
It is to laugh.
Well, I know Kings fans aren't laughing, but there really isn't anything new to say here. We have been every bit as good as every team we've played for a month now, except Boston, and yet we only have a handful of victories to show for it. It's deep, its ingrained, its kind of comical looking at it from the outside, and its the thing that makes you just want to shake somebody/give them a good hard wakeup slap. None of these teams have really proven they are any more talented than the Kings, any better than us...until it comes time to win it. And then we do everything wrong. So here we go once again, and will keep on going until somebody steps up and we win a couple of these to break the spell. All a mental game now. Not being held back by anything but our heads.
Theme = So you wanna be a particle physicist?
Official Boxscore
Casspi ( B ) -- good start with a good inside move, a three, and several boards. Nice little interior pass to Reke for the game tying layup at the end of the half, and looked better all half at making that extra pass for us rather than getting selfish. Could not hit in the third though, as he and Beno being cold hurt us as we fell back. Picked it back up for the 4th, hitting our first shot of the quarter, a three a few minutes later as we pulled back within 3, and grabbed some strong defensive boards. Not really involved however, for good or ill, down the stretch or in OT.
Prologue, The Classics -- once upon a time physics was easy. The universe was obviously made up of 4 things: Air, Earth, Fire and Water. I mean look at the graph? About covers it right? Aristotle, brilliant guy that he was, came along and said, hey that's not quite right. There's actually a fifth -- Aether -- that makes up all the heavenly bodeis and stuff. Glad he cleared that up. We can track this basic system back to about 2000 B.C. in Babylon, and maybe that's the basic genesis. Certainly for the West, but in India Hinduism and Buddhism were founded on similar theories. And even as far away as China they had a similar list of 5 elements (Fire, Earth, Water, Metal &....Wood!?!). In any case easy to keep track of -- I think I could have been one hell of a physicist back in the day.
Thompson ( B ) -- active on the glass early with hustle if not polish. Yet somehow we decided Landry's one on one struggles were more valuable for most of the 2nd. His reinsertion late in the half coincided with us making a mini-run to get back into it. Provided that critical 2nd big/rebounder back ont he boards when our centers were drawn away from the hoop by the smallball tactics. Just able to constantly mop up. Slowed as the game went along and increasingly replaced in the lineup, but was back in to grab a big defensive rebound at the 31 second mark and get fouled on what could have been the game sealing play if he (or anybody else) could just hit their damn FTs. As things fell apart in OT, got stripped inside on the pick and roll try at the 1:45 mark, although the turnover may have been credited to Reke as the passer, and fouled out on the play. Still a solid frontline presence for us through most of the game.
And then along comes high school physics -- and you get introduced to the relatively simple atomic model. Molecules make up the world. Molecules are made up of atoms. Atoms are made up of a nucleus and a surrounding cloud of electrons. The nucleus is made up of the positive protons and the neutral neutrons, while the electrons are negative. In a stable atom there should be equal numbers of protons and electrons balancing each other. If there are too few, or too many electrons, then it becomes an ion prone to interacting with other ions, and this basic model really becomes the basis for much of chemistry. So, maybe not so simple, but we're still within the realm of comprehension for those who choose to comprehend rather than just deny or ignore. But now the funs starts.
Cousins ( B ) -- got off to the rocky start as he was doubled and stripped, and then got a foul on the other end. But didn't get rattled and really used his power to finish through heavy contact inside. then made one of the plays of the game -- a spectacular spin drive from the top of the circle for the finish -- from a 270lob center? Really? You will go a long time before you see that again...unless its from this guy. Added in a jumper, and had realy showed the Warriors a bit of the whole package by the time he sat down. Began to reassert himself in the second using his size on the boards for finisihes, and was doing it via the pass as well, including agreat pass to beat a double to a slashing Donte for the dunk. Got off to a good start to the third with a steal and a layup, bt then got stripped on the double in what was a game long problem for him -- kept getting distracted by banging with the bigs while the Warriors little guards snuck in to strip him. Started to get disrupted by a lot of attention inside in the late 3rd/4th befoire he went to the bench. But had an immediate impact upon his return to action for the stretch run, grabbing a strong defensive board and then making another great pass to a slashing Evans for a layup. Sooped up a ball with 3:15 to go and the shotclock running down and swooped in all the way tfrom the three point line for the finish -- something else you really do not see very often from 270+lb centers. Got smushed at the rim with a minute+ to go as we were denied, but came back to make a big defensive play on Ellis at the 40 second mark, getting the block, the board and getting fouled. But he only hit 1 of 2 as one more time shaky FT shooting down the stretch opened the door for the choke. We've had several teams ice games against us in this streak by simply not missing from the line late. We never even come close. Did nothing at all in OT until we finally substituted in...Pooh Jeter for him. I kid you not. Almost a B+ here on a night when our future stars were our current stars, and as always its a compliment when you put up 21-8-5 and get a B. Means you can be a flat out stud when you really have it going.
Rise of the Leptons -- the what you say? The Leptons! The electrons, electron neutrinos, muons, muon neurtrinos, and the taus and tau neutrinos. Basically all the negative particles and their associated neutinos. The muon is a much bigger electron, and the tau is a much MUCH bigger electron. The muons we detect are mostly caused by cosmic rays slamming into our atmosphere, and since they are much larger than electrons, and traveling at relativistic speeds (stemming from the cosmic rays) they can actually penetrate as far as half a mile into the earth and are in fact the primary form of background radiation in the deep sea. The taus would penetrate even further, but they don't last long before decaying into other particles. The various neutrinos are basically tiny neutral companions of the electrons/muons and taus. Because they are neutral, they don't interact with anything, and can pass through vast amounts of "solid" matter. In fact they are passing through you right now in vast numbers. And I do mean vast. The sun (with a little help from distant stars) is bombarding you with 65 billion neutrinos a second for every square centimeter of you facing the sun. Don't worry too much about it -- as we now know you are 99.9999999% empty space anyway.
Udrih ( D+ ) -- 3 out of the 4 starting guards in this one had huge games. Unfortunately for us Beno was the 4th, and never looked truly comfortable at any point in this one. What is even more strange is that last month this is the same team that Beno set his career high against. But tonight it wa just a game long struggle. Actually got off to a start by pikcing off a soft little pass on a Golden State inbounds and going in for the score. But got picked clean up top himself by Wright who went the other way for a dunk. And that was a repeated storyling, as time and time again he got swarmed and tunred it over with a very shaky looking handle. Sloppy and ineffective in his early stint -- seemed like guys were always around him, and always poking at that ball. Came up with a nice drive and dish to Reke to get us tied again in the final minute of the half, but was just agina a non-entity in the third. Finally got something going out of a timeout at the 8:40 mark of the 4th, driving and finisihing for a +1 to tie us back up. And out of our next timeout we again designed a play for him and he drew another foul. Clear we were really trying to get him going. Unfortunately it did not work. In the critical meltdown that sank us between the 3:00-2:00 marks got burned twice in a row by Curry for 3pt plays, not guarding Curry at the 3pt line as our 9pt lead was cut to 6 (on that one had the excuse that Westphal had snapped the team into a zone) and then on the next Warriors possession getting beat by Curry off the dribble for a +1. OT did not go any better as in the mid-OT he got trapped and had the ball stolen by Curry as the Warriors raced the other way to put them up 4. Then forced up a panicky feeling too quick three that did not go. And even when he got something right it went wrong -- got a steal with 1:45 to go in OT, raced the other way..and just stumbled and bumbled and fell down and turned it over. Just never ever looked good or confident in this one, and I have no idea why. Most guards love to play these guys. He did himself just a month ago. This time he was the obvious weak link in the starting lineup, and just struggled throughout.
And for Every Lepton a Hadron... -- and so now we get to the Hadrons. What's a Hadron? Well they are all those protons and neutrons you learned in school. And a whole bunch of other particlkes too. A Hadron is defined as any particle made up of multiple quarks, which is an even smaller particle type we have discovered. There are two branches of Hadrons, as the picture above shows. The Baryons, which include both protons and neutrons, are made up of 3 quarks each. The Mesons are made up of a very particular pairing of 2 quarks -- a quark and an antiquark (point of interest that Muons were originally considered a type of Meson until they discovered they only released a quark or an antiquark), not both. Those giant particle accelerators we build? Mostly designed to smash these Hadrons and look at all the particles they are made out of when they explode.
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It is to laugh.
Well, I know Kings fans aren't laughing, but there really isn't anything new to say here. We have been every bit as good as every team we've played for a month now, except Boston, and yet we only have a handful of victories to show for it. It's deep, its ingrained, its kind of comical looking at it from the outside, and its the thing that makes you just want to shake somebody/give them a good hard wakeup slap. None of these teams have really proven they are any more talented than the Kings, any better than us...until it comes time to win it. And then we do everything wrong. So here we go once again, and will keep on going until somebody steps up and we win a couple of these to break the spell. All a mental game now. Not being held back by anything but our heads.
Theme = So you wanna be a particle physicist?
Official Boxscore
Casspi ( B ) -- good start with a good inside move, a three, and several boards. Nice little interior pass to Reke for the game tying layup at the end of the half, and looked better all half at making that extra pass for us rather than getting selfish. Could not hit in the third though, as he and Beno being cold hurt us as we fell back. Picked it back up for the 4th, hitting our first shot of the quarter, a three a few minutes later as we pulled back within 3, and grabbed some strong defensive boards. Not really involved however, for good or ill, down the stretch or in OT.
Prologue, The Classics -- once upon a time physics was easy. The universe was obviously made up of 4 things: Air, Earth, Fire and Water. I mean look at the graph? About covers it right? Aristotle, brilliant guy that he was, came along and said, hey that's not quite right. There's actually a fifth -- Aether -- that makes up all the heavenly bodeis and stuff. Glad he cleared that up. We can track this basic system back to about 2000 B.C. in Babylon, and maybe that's the basic genesis. Certainly for the West, but in India Hinduism and Buddhism were founded on similar theories. And even as far away as China they had a similar list of 5 elements (Fire, Earth, Water, Metal &....Wood!?!). In any case easy to keep track of -- I think I could have been one hell of a physicist back in the day.
Thompson ( B ) -- active on the glass early with hustle if not polish. Yet somehow we decided Landry's one on one struggles were more valuable for most of the 2nd. His reinsertion late in the half coincided with us making a mini-run to get back into it. Provided that critical 2nd big/rebounder back ont he boards when our centers were drawn away from the hoop by the smallball tactics. Just able to constantly mop up. Slowed as the game went along and increasingly replaced in the lineup, but was back in to grab a big defensive rebound at the 31 second mark and get fouled on what could have been the game sealing play if he (or anybody else) could just hit their damn FTs. As things fell apart in OT, got stripped inside on the pick and roll try at the 1:45 mark, although the turnover may have been credited to Reke as the passer, and fouled out on the play. Still a solid frontline presence for us through most of the game.
And then along comes high school physics -- and you get introduced to the relatively simple atomic model. Molecules make up the world. Molecules are made up of atoms. Atoms are made up of a nucleus and a surrounding cloud of electrons. The nucleus is made up of the positive protons and the neutral neutrons, while the electrons are negative. In a stable atom there should be equal numbers of protons and electrons balancing each other. If there are too few, or too many electrons, then it becomes an ion prone to interacting with other ions, and this basic model really becomes the basis for much of chemistry. So, maybe not so simple, but we're still within the realm of comprehension for those who choose to comprehend rather than just deny or ignore. But now the funs starts.
Cousins ( B ) -- got off to the rocky start as he was doubled and stripped, and then got a foul on the other end. But didn't get rattled and really used his power to finish through heavy contact inside. then made one of the plays of the game -- a spectacular spin drive from the top of the circle for the finish -- from a 270lob center? Really? You will go a long time before you see that again...unless its from this guy. Added in a jumper, and had realy showed the Warriors a bit of the whole package by the time he sat down. Began to reassert himself in the second using his size on the boards for finisihes, and was doing it via the pass as well, including agreat pass to beat a double to a slashing Donte for the dunk. Got off to a good start to the third with a steal and a layup, bt then got stripped on the double in what was a game long problem for him -- kept getting distracted by banging with the bigs while the Warriors little guards snuck in to strip him. Started to get disrupted by a lot of attention inside in the late 3rd/4th befoire he went to the bench. But had an immediate impact upon his return to action for the stretch run, grabbing a strong defensive board and then making another great pass to a slashing Evans for a layup. Sooped up a ball with 3:15 to go and the shotclock running down and swooped in all the way tfrom the three point line for the finish -- something else you really do not see very often from 270+lb centers. Got smushed at the rim with a minute+ to go as we were denied, but came back to make a big defensive play on Ellis at the 40 second mark, getting the block, the board and getting fouled. But he only hit 1 of 2 as one more time shaky FT shooting down the stretch opened the door for the choke. We've had several teams ice games against us in this streak by simply not missing from the line late. We never even come close. Did nothing at all in OT until we finally substituted in...Pooh Jeter for him. I kid you not. Almost a B+ here on a night when our future stars were our current stars, and as always its a compliment when you put up 21-8-5 and get a B. Means you can be a flat out stud when you really have it going.
Rise of the Leptons -- the what you say? The Leptons! The electrons, electron neutrinos, muons, muon neurtrinos, and the taus and tau neutrinos. Basically all the negative particles and their associated neutinos. The muon is a much bigger electron, and the tau is a much MUCH bigger electron. The muons we detect are mostly caused by cosmic rays slamming into our atmosphere, and since they are much larger than electrons, and traveling at relativistic speeds (stemming from the cosmic rays) they can actually penetrate as far as half a mile into the earth and are in fact the primary form of background radiation in the deep sea. The taus would penetrate even further, but they don't last long before decaying into other particles. The various neutrinos are basically tiny neutral companions of the electrons/muons and taus. Because they are neutral, they don't interact with anything, and can pass through vast amounts of "solid" matter. In fact they are passing through you right now in vast numbers. And I do mean vast. The sun (with a little help from distant stars) is bombarding you with 65 billion neutrinos a second for every square centimeter of you facing the sun. Don't worry too much about it -- as we now know you are 99.9999999% empty space anyway.
Udrih ( D+ ) -- 3 out of the 4 starting guards in this one had huge games. Unfortunately for us Beno was the 4th, and never looked truly comfortable at any point in this one. What is even more strange is that last month this is the same team that Beno set his career high against. But tonight it wa just a game long struggle. Actually got off to a start by pikcing off a soft little pass on a Golden State inbounds and going in for the score. But got picked clean up top himself by Wright who went the other way for a dunk. And that was a repeated storyling, as time and time again he got swarmed and tunred it over with a very shaky looking handle. Sloppy and ineffective in his early stint -- seemed like guys were always around him, and always poking at that ball. Came up with a nice drive and dish to Reke to get us tied again in the final minute of the half, but was just agina a non-entity in the third. Finally got something going out of a timeout at the 8:40 mark of the 4th, driving and finisihing for a +1 to tie us back up. And out of our next timeout we again designed a play for him and he drew another foul. Clear we were really trying to get him going. Unfortunately it did not work. In the critical meltdown that sank us between the 3:00-2:00 marks got burned twice in a row by Curry for 3pt plays, not guarding Curry at the 3pt line as our 9pt lead was cut to 6 (on that one had the excuse that Westphal had snapped the team into a zone) and then on the next Warriors possession getting beat by Curry off the dribble for a +1. OT did not go any better as in the mid-OT he got trapped and had the ball stolen by Curry as the Warriors raced the other way to put them up 4. Then forced up a panicky feeling too quick three that did not go. And even when he got something right it went wrong -- got a steal with 1:45 to go in OT, raced the other way..and just stumbled and bumbled and fell down and turned it over. Just never ever looked good or confident in this one, and I have no idea why. Most guards love to play these guys. He did himself just a month ago. This time he was the obvious weak link in the starting lineup, and just struggled throughout.
And for Every Lepton a Hadron... -- and so now we get to the Hadrons. What's a Hadron? Well they are all those protons and neutrons you learned in school. And a whole bunch of other particlkes too. A Hadron is defined as any particle made up of multiple quarks, which is an even smaller particle type we have discovered. There are two branches of Hadrons, as the picture above shows. The Baryons, which include both protons and neutrons, are made up of 3 quarks each. The Mesons are made up of a very particular pairing of 2 quarks -- a quark and an antiquark (point of interest that Muons were originally considered a type of Meson until they discovered they only released a quark or an antiquark), not both. Those giant particle accelerators we build? Mostly designed to smash these Hadrons and look at all the particles they are made out of when they explode.
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