It is a good thing I do not care anymore, or nights like tonight would actually upset me. As it is, since the team itself provides no inspiration I have decided that the only way to justify the continuation of the grades thread tradition is to start having theme nights to justify their existence.
Tonight's theme: Grades Thread, Pretty Girls Edition:
(and yes, anticipating the standard complaint, if I stay at this long enough I am secure enough in my manhood to run a Pretty Men Edition as well, though I will have to take some suggestions lest you want to get Earl the plumber crack guy).
Artest ( A- ) -- huge first half dueling with Arenas, but knew it could not last. Missed a lot of FTs, including some painful ones late. Made spectacular defenisve plays, but had limited luck checking either Butler or Arenas. Wanted to play hero late and there was some selfishness. Threw in a bad foul with 1.4 seconds left in the game to let the Wiz get the FT and the ball back.
Bite me babe! Seriously was there ANY other reason to watch that movie?
Thomas ( D ) -- have I mentioned how much I just loooovee KT recently? Seriously, I resent that I am not biologically capable of having his love child. Almost nothing from Kenny again -- trade deadlines make no difference for him. Did favor us with a hot streak of 3 second violations in the third quarter. Then went away until being called upon to try to stand alongside the key and try to grab potentially missed FTs in the dying seconds. Very valuable player when he doesn't even rebound let me tell you.
I was never even really a fan. But damn.
Miller ( B ) -- tough one to grade with Brad doing nothing, then stepping up and playing a major part in our almost loss. Was helped along considerably by Eddie "Sugar Pop" Jordan putting on full display why coaching the East All Star team means exactly jack and squat -- seems Eddie decided midway through a game that he was dominating that the best way to proceed was to to bench all his players taller than 6'8" and just throw out Michael Ruffin and Darius Songaila as a "frontline". Anyway, no factor at all with his own offense, as its been all season -- at this point if you held a gun to Brad's mom and told Brad shoot the ball or the old bat gets it, ma would be in big trouble. But nonetheless there came Brad down the stretch making an impact, get this, by playing like a big man. Of course did not hurt that as mentioned he WAS the only big man on the court. But rebounding picked up, and he came up with a couple of those little surprise blocks of his where an opponent driving by the big traffic cone with the ball on his hip is shocked to learn that the cone does actually have arms. And his control of the glass late made a big difference as we tried to lin this one. Also made a great 3/4 court pass to Salmons on the play that could have sent us to OT -- which is pointless because we lose all those games anyway, but still a nice pass.
Speaking of which...like a living doll. A living sophisticated doll. Remarkable.
Martin ( C+ ) -- ho hum and a bottle of rum. Much better rounded effort than last time out (indeed how could it not be), and gets the grade he does for that. But he was very quiet almost all game, and certainly down the stretch. Most of his shots were created by others as well. And on the night he was pretty clearly outplayed by DeShawn Stevenson. On the more positive side he moved the ball well and led the team in assists, and while our "defense" allowed another 109pts, and the guys Kevin were guarding certainly weren't bothered much, he was at least active on that end and scooped up a number of balls in this sloppy affair. More of a roleplaying afterthought in this one though.
Hi.
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Tonight's theme: Grades Thread, Pretty Girls Edition:
(and yes, anticipating the standard complaint, if I stay at this long enough I am secure enough in my manhood to run a Pretty Men Edition as well, though I will have to take some suggestions lest you want to get Earl the plumber crack guy).
Artest ( A- ) -- huge first half dueling with Arenas, but knew it could not last. Missed a lot of FTs, including some painful ones late. Made spectacular defenisve plays, but had limited luck checking either Butler or Arenas. Wanted to play hero late and there was some selfishness. Threw in a bad foul with 1.4 seconds left in the game to let the Wiz get the FT and the ball back.
Bite me babe! Seriously was there ANY other reason to watch that movie?
Thomas ( D ) -- have I mentioned how much I just loooovee KT recently? Seriously, I resent that I am not biologically capable of having his love child. Almost nothing from Kenny again -- trade deadlines make no difference for him. Did favor us with a hot streak of 3 second violations in the third quarter. Then went away until being called upon to try to stand alongside the key and try to grab potentially missed FTs in the dying seconds. Very valuable player when he doesn't even rebound let me tell you.
I was never even really a fan. But damn.
Miller ( B ) -- tough one to grade with Brad doing nothing, then stepping up and playing a major part in our almost loss. Was helped along considerably by Eddie "Sugar Pop" Jordan putting on full display why coaching the East All Star team means exactly jack and squat -- seems Eddie decided midway through a game that he was dominating that the best way to proceed was to to bench all his players taller than 6'8" and just throw out Michael Ruffin and Darius Songaila as a "frontline". Anyway, no factor at all with his own offense, as its been all season -- at this point if you held a gun to Brad's mom and told Brad shoot the ball or the old bat gets it, ma would be in big trouble. But nonetheless there came Brad down the stretch making an impact, get this, by playing like a big man. Of course did not hurt that as mentioned he WAS the only big man on the court. But rebounding picked up, and he came up with a couple of those little surprise blocks of his where an opponent driving by the big traffic cone with the ball on his hip is shocked to learn that the cone does actually have arms. And his control of the glass late made a big difference as we tried to lin this one. Also made a great 3/4 court pass to Salmons on the play that could have sent us to OT -- which is pointless because we lose all those games anyway, but still a nice pass.
Speaking of which...like a living doll. A living sophisticated doll. Remarkable.
Martin ( C+ ) -- ho hum and a bottle of rum. Much better rounded effort than last time out (indeed how could it not be), and gets the grade he does for that. But he was very quiet almost all game, and certainly down the stretch. Most of his shots were created by others as well. And on the night he was pretty clearly outplayed by DeShawn Stevenson. On the more positive side he moved the ball well and led the team in assists, and while our "defense" allowed another 109pts, and the guys Kevin were guarding certainly weren't bothered much, he was at least active on that end and scooped up a number of balls in this sloppy affair. More of a roleplaying afterthought in this one though.
Hi.
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