Bricklayer
Don't Make Me Use The Bat
That was epic. We are epic.
Ok, I would go with a Great Collpases theme if I had one prepped, but I don't. I had 90s one hit wonders prepped, a history thing semi-prepped, worst movie monsters, disaster flicks, a sports version of fallen idols...but no, with apologies to the ladies of the board, who are as always welcome to submit their own lists to me, something this epic not only deserves girls, but it desrve the ultimate girls -- no more obscurities, thsi disater gets : Ultimate Girls, The Big Name List
Greene ( B- ) -- got off to a sluggish start to this one before settling into a solid roleplayer game, and then of course having to sit on the bench while the veteran got all the minutes and contributed to the loss. Got a little burst at the end of the secodn quarter to get off the schneid offensively hitting a three and knocking down the little jumper on a Reke kick to make it slice the lead to 1 at half. Played that grease man in the third, not putting up individual numbers but helping stretcha nd cover, and then the caoch brilliantly changed up what was working, went small with Cisco, and stuck with it for the entire 4th despite Cisco scoring 0pts, again, and giving up all that size. Donte was finaly back in for the final plays for defensive purposes, and played Radmanovic perfectly, chasing him off the 3pt line, and then avoiding fouling him on the drive. Was not involved on the final backbreaking game tying three as that was Darnell up top. Donte drew the foul in mega-fugly fashion to start the OT and hit both FTs to get us off to agodo start, but fouled Lee to give the Warriors the 2pt lead at the 1:25 mark. Missed a forced three with us desperation in the final seconds of OT.
Aishwara Rai
Jackson ( C- ) -- was playing the right place right time garbageman in the early going. Missed his set chances, but had several balls bounce right to him for open looks. Quiet in the third, missing shots but mostly staying out of the way until we brought back Landry, who was the much better player. Heated up the fire Westphal fires again as sitting upon a nice lead, and beating them up inside, Westphal suddenly decides its time to go small again to match Warrioors, putting in Jackson at center next to Landry, where he was ineffective, rather than going with Dalembert Jackson/Landry/Cisco = the absolute weakest reboudning frontcourt we could put out there, and we began to weaken immediately. No defensive rebounding at all for Darnell, as he was doing hsi best Landry imitation with all o-rens and no d-rebs. Then of course the capper for Darnell was that he was in there for the final play, the game tying three. Why he was in there instead of Casspi I don't know. But there he was, Radmanovic was his man, and he was a step slow coming out and...game over man. To be fair Vlad set up 28-30 feet out. But there was still no reason to leave him out there -- Donte was at the three point line, Cousins showed strong at the three point line, but meanwhile Darnell got caught up in a scrum near the top of the key and lost sight of his man just long enough for Vlad to can the game tying three.
Megan Fox
Cousins ( D ) -- this was a memorable game for DeMarcus, for all the wrong reasons. Banged heads with Jackson early and not able to take advantage of the Warriors inside like you might think in the first half, but was dominating the glass. Maybe learned a lesson about the types of players he should overpower vs. those he should go around when he was matched with far too small Louis Admundsen and repeatedly tried to get cute with him. Fionally got him on rails and powered to the hoop with quick aggressive moves in the third. Bailed out Beno when Beno got toasted by a crossover by stepping in to take the charge -- he's only trying to take one or two of those a game now, and they are far more timely and higher percentage now. Made a nice defensive stand on the final possession of the third, as he altered two Warriros shots to get us the ball for a score to put us up 14. Then the 4th quarter rolled around and it was time to panic! AAAIYYYEEEE!!!!!! Lost his coposure by the mid quarter, and any sense of thought, planning, rhythm, or unselfishnes was just out the window. For all that the idiotic decisinmaking by our vets sunk us in the final minute, and Tyreke' turnover fest just took away possession from possesion for us, I think DeMarcus's meltdown, forced shots as a goto guy, and flat out screwups might have been the single biggest factor in our loss. As with several of the other culrpits, tried to make up for the incredibly poor offense with hustle on defense, but it became a horror show on offense as he just lost allnsubtlety, started slaming it inside against 3 or even 4 defenders, and was mushed at the rim or turned it over agina and again and again, those last few agains because our coach wasn't about to stop calling that play. Could have even sunk usworse as he idioicallhy made the "choke" signal at the FT line after Beno fouled Williams for the 3 FTs -- the NBA by rule made that an automatic technical foul years ago, and that could have been a SEVEN FTs on one possession possession for the Warriors if the refs had seen it. And then embarrassingly TWICE missed critical defensive rebounds on missed free throws in the final 30 seconds of regulation, without which we would have own the game, including the one at the close of regulation which let the Warriors tie it up at the buzzer. Added a terrible forced shot again in OT that was effectively a turnover, and by the end all you could really say is you hope this one taught him some lessons he will remember going forward.
Jessica Alba
Udrih ( A ) -- had one of the best games of his career, and yet so virulent is our late game meltdown poison that even a guy having a career game found ways to contribute to our implosion and loss. Was about the only guy scoring in the early going with a couple of jumpers and a pair of threes. Nothing for a long time after the first, going theough the second and most of the third wihtout scoring any more points. But stepped in and tried on defense, whihc has been a very welcome trait of his for the last few weeks. Came back up offensively in the late third, knocking down shots from all over, including finally hitting his threes, and pushing us out to what should have been an insurmountable lead. But late in the game you could see the shakey poison even effecting Beno, as it has before, as he, panicked and foreced a shot into traffic that threatened to sink us. Hit a big pullup jumper at the 2:40 mark, but then flat out airballed a three at the 2:00 mark. And then of course the biggee -- folowed Cisco's idiotic 3pt chuck wiht 13 seconds to go on the shotclock by coming down the other way and fouling a 3pt shooter, with us up 5 and only 20 seconds to go. It was a terrible play that would start an incredible sequence of incompetence for us. Hit 4 clutch FTs in final the 15 seconds as the Warriros went to intentionally fouling us at 14 seconds to go to save things, but it went for naught as Ramovic canned the three. In the OT came up with a criutical layup and foul at the 1:41 mark to put us back up 1 as we were wobbling and tryign to collapse again, but then on back to back plays got beat on defense to set up a Lee 3pt play (Cousins had to step up to stop Beno's man, Lee (Cousins man then had a free run to the hoop and Donte fouled him), and then slipped and turned it over to help sink us at the 1:10 mark. I still have to go A here because this was Beno's career hihg in points, he made a umber of clutch plays, and in general he as the man here. But there can't be a + in a collapse of this kind, and for all the good Beno did he was right there screwing up along wiht everybody else wiht half a dozen bad plays himself.
Angelina Jolie
Ok, I would go with a Great Collpases theme if I had one prepped, but I don't. I had 90s one hit wonders prepped, a history thing semi-prepped, worst movie monsters, disaster flicks, a sports version of fallen idols...but no, with apologies to the ladies of the board, who are as always welcome to submit their own lists to me, something this epic not only deserves girls, but it desrve the ultimate girls -- no more obscurities, thsi disater gets : Ultimate Girls, The Big Name List
Greene ( B- ) -- got off to a sluggish start to this one before settling into a solid roleplayer game, and then of course having to sit on the bench while the veteran got all the minutes and contributed to the loss. Got a little burst at the end of the secodn quarter to get off the schneid offensively hitting a three and knocking down the little jumper on a Reke kick to make it slice the lead to 1 at half. Played that grease man in the third, not putting up individual numbers but helping stretcha nd cover, and then the caoch brilliantly changed up what was working, went small with Cisco, and stuck with it for the entire 4th despite Cisco scoring 0pts, again, and giving up all that size. Donte was finaly back in for the final plays for defensive purposes, and played Radmanovic perfectly, chasing him off the 3pt line, and then avoiding fouling him on the drive. Was not involved on the final backbreaking game tying three as that was Darnell up top. Donte drew the foul in mega-fugly fashion to start the OT and hit both FTs to get us off to agodo start, but fouled Lee to give the Warriors the 2pt lead at the 1:25 mark. Missed a forced three with us desperation in the final seconds of OT.
Aishwara Rai
Jackson ( C- ) -- was playing the right place right time garbageman in the early going. Missed his set chances, but had several balls bounce right to him for open looks. Quiet in the third, missing shots but mostly staying out of the way until we brought back Landry, who was the much better player. Heated up the fire Westphal fires again as sitting upon a nice lead, and beating them up inside, Westphal suddenly decides its time to go small again to match Warrioors, putting in Jackson at center next to Landry, where he was ineffective, rather than going with Dalembert Jackson/Landry/Cisco = the absolute weakest reboudning frontcourt we could put out there, and we began to weaken immediately. No defensive rebounding at all for Darnell, as he was doing hsi best Landry imitation with all o-rens and no d-rebs. Then of course the capper for Darnell was that he was in there for the final play, the game tying three. Why he was in there instead of Casspi I don't know. But there he was, Radmanovic was his man, and he was a step slow coming out and...game over man. To be fair Vlad set up 28-30 feet out. But there was still no reason to leave him out there -- Donte was at the three point line, Cousins showed strong at the three point line, but meanwhile Darnell got caught up in a scrum near the top of the key and lost sight of his man just long enough for Vlad to can the game tying three.
Megan Fox
Cousins ( D ) -- this was a memorable game for DeMarcus, for all the wrong reasons. Banged heads with Jackson early and not able to take advantage of the Warriors inside like you might think in the first half, but was dominating the glass. Maybe learned a lesson about the types of players he should overpower vs. those he should go around when he was matched with far too small Louis Admundsen and repeatedly tried to get cute with him. Fionally got him on rails and powered to the hoop with quick aggressive moves in the third. Bailed out Beno when Beno got toasted by a crossover by stepping in to take the charge -- he's only trying to take one or two of those a game now, and they are far more timely and higher percentage now. Made a nice defensive stand on the final possession of the third, as he altered two Warriros shots to get us the ball for a score to put us up 14. Then the 4th quarter rolled around and it was time to panic! AAAIYYYEEEE!!!!!! Lost his coposure by the mid quarter, and any sense of thought, planning, rhythm, or unselfishnes was just out the window. For all that the idiotic decisinmaking by our vets sunk us in the final minute, and Tyreke' turnover fest just took away possession from possesion for us, I think DeMarcus's meltdown, forced shots as a goto guy, and flat out screwups might have been the single biggest factor in our loss. As with several of the other culrpits, tried to make up for the incredibly poor offense with hustle on defense, but it became a horror show on offense as he just lost allnsubtlety, started slaming it inside against 3 or even 4 defenders, and was mushed at the rim or turned it over agina and again and again, those last few agains because our coach wasn't about to stop calling that play. Could have even sunk usworse as he idioicallhy made the "choke" signal at the FT line after Beno fouled Williams for the 3 FTs -- the NBA by rule made that an automatic technical foul years ago, and that could have been a SEVEN FTs on one possession possession for the Warriors if the refs had seen it. And then embarrassingly TWICE missed critical defensive rebounds on missed free throws in the final 30 seconds of regulation, without which we would have own the game, including the one at the close of regulation which let the Warriors tie it up at the buzzer. Added a terrible forced shot again in OT that was effectively a turnover, and by the end all you could really say is you hope this one taught him some lessons he will remember going forward.
Jessica Alba
Udrih ( A ) -- had one of the best games of his career, and yet so virulent is our late game meltdown poison that even a guy having a career game found ways to contribute to our implosion and loss. Was about the only guy scoring in the early going with a couple of jumpers and a pair of threes. Nothing for a long time after the first, going theough the second and most of the third wihtout scoring any more points. But stepped in and tried on defense, whihc has been a very welcome trait of his for the last few weeks. Came back up offensively in the late third, knocking down shots from all over, including finally hitting his threes, and pushing us out to what should have been an insurmountable lead. But late in the game you could see the shakey poison even effecting Beno, as it has before, as he, panicked and foreced a shot into traffic that threatened to sink us. Hit a big pullup jumper at the 2:40 mark, but then flat out airballed a three at the 2:00 mark. And then of course the biggee -- folowed Cisco's idiotic 3pt chuck wiht 13 seconds to go on the shotclock by coming down the other way and fouling a 3pt shooter, with us up 5 and only 20 seconds to go. It was a terrible play that would start an incredible sequence of incompetence for us. Hit 4 clutch FTs in final the 15 seconds as the Warriros went to intentionally fouling us at 14 seconds to go to save things, but it went for naught as Ramovic canned the three. In the OT came up with a criutical layup and foul at the 1:41 mark to put us back up 1 as we were wobbling and tryign to collapse again, but then on back to back plays got beat on defense to set up a Lee 3pt play (Cousins had to step up to stop Beno's man, Lee (Cousins man then had a free run to the hoop and Donte fouled him), and then slipped and turned it over to help sink us at the 1:10 mark. I still have to go A here because this was Beno's career hihg in points, he made a umber of clutch plays, and in general he as the man here. But there can't be a + in a collapse of this kind, and for all the good Beno did he was right there screwing up along wiht everybody else wiht half a dozen bad plays himself.
Angelina Jolie
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