[Grades] Grades v. Wizards 1/11/11

[Bricklayer]

Well that was just plain nutty, but I suppose what happens when you get an 8-26 team and a 9-26 team both absolutely determined not to win a game.

Theme is going to be How to be an 18th Century Hottie (I recently watched a period movie called The Duchess when Ralph Fiennes remarked as he was undressing/having undressed Keira Knightley (it took help) upon why women's clothing of the period had to be so complex. It seemed a fair question and while I knew the basics I took it upon myself to go look up the details. I thought I'd share, just in case any of you guys are into wearing petticoats. Note here that I am referring to the European traditions here.

Official Boxscore


Garcia ( A- ) -- for all these grades I am going to break it down under two headings: Regulation, and Final Minute and Overtime. So Cisco, Regulation: got off, with the rest of the starters to a terrible start, having no energy and missing everything. Even got a technical on his way out of the game, one of three Kings to do so tonight in a game that obviously would have been won without those free points given away. But after returning in the second was a new man, apparently finding his hustle under his seat on the bench or something, and busting his behind on defense as we completed one of the most ridiculous quarter to quarter turnarounds you will ever see. Knocked down an open three in the last minute of the half to push our new lead to 6, after we had been down 20 in the first quarter. Hit a three in the early third, but really he and the other starters again fell back into the same pattern as they had in the first, and the Wizards' lead blew back up. Late in the game bricked an open three at the 1:30 mark that looked like it might finish us. But things were just getting started again. Final Minute and Overtime: So, sitting on a completely shrugworhty 12pt night, maybe a B-, maybe a C+, out of the middle of nowhere the Wizards tried to out-choke our Golden State game and fouled Cisco as he hit a three at the 34 second mark. He hit the FT, and then its down to a 4pt lead. Then again involved in an amazing sequence with 11 secs to go when with the game just about done, Beno hustled and bumped thw ball away on the Wiz inbounds play, the ball bounced to Cisco, and Cisco laid it up for the +1. So that's 7pts in the final 35 seconds. Then we go to OT, and after knocking in a jumepr and a layup, and also throwing up one really crappy airball, he AGAIN gets fouled shooting a three pointer by the chokehappy Wiz, and knocks down all three FTs to cut the lead back to 2 with 30 seconds to go. What are the odds? And that also makes it 12 points in the first 27 1/2 minutes, and 14 points in the final 5 1/2. And after scoring that many points in the clutch, how can I avoid giving him an A of some type even if I thinnk the Wizards deserve half the credit for playing like complete Kings. Er...I mean idiots.

Chemise -- so let's get dressed shall we? First up is the chemise, or shapeless long shirt, that basically all men and women wore under whatever else they were wearing. It was the unisex underwear of the period. There were no panties or anything underneath in the period -- this WAS the undergarment, and you always wore it, alone at night, under all your otehr clothes during the day. Its garment #1.

Thompson ( C- ) -- well JT at least made this easy by not even forcing a "Regulation/Final Minute & OT" split in his grade. Made a couple fo hustle plays early, but not able to slow Blatche in the early going and fumbled a lot of balls. Did not play in the second as Landry was strong. Started the third with a turnover on a bad pass, but then hit a smooth post move along the baseline, and started to come alive and have some impact with hustle on the offensive glass. But just as soon as it looked like he was reviving, he collapsed on us, as did we as a team. While the lead spiraled back up, adn our defense got embarrassing again, Jason just lost his head about the refs in the 3rd, complained, complained, and eventually ended up getting a technical that had Westphal yank him formt eh game and bench him for the rest of the night. Still want to have a little talk with the gremlins who stole the real JT back during that finger injury. Playing like this every night you have to wonder how long Mr. Happy Clipboard over there on teh sideline is going to wait before tring out yet another lineup. Maybe with Darnell starting at PF. Or maybe Whiteside now that he's active. Maybe Pooh. Youn just don't know. Not that in only 12 minutes of action JT's +/- was an astounding -22, which tells you something avout just how effective he, and we, were during his minutes.

Stays -- okay, now that we have our shapeless undergarment on, next up is our stays, which would later evolve into the more familair corset. Often stiffened with whalebone, you put these things on next, laced them up as tight as you could, and got your hourglass figure, while the low cut front helped give you a push up bra effect as your boobs got squished out the top. Now we're talking.

Cousins ( D- ) -- ouch! Regulation: started off the game out of rhythm, and mahbe pressing a bit in front of Wall. Kept on missing chippees, somethign that would become the absolute story of this evening for him. Finally got his first hoop with a reverse power dunk late in the first, and the better move came a few minutes later with a beautiful power spin move that drove Mcgee right under the hoop before Cousins laid it up. Came on really strong in the second, and his banging got under McGee's skin. Then blocked Wall, and the Wizards were having to frantically double him to stop him. Went to the bench at the end of the half with a prodcutive quarter that looked like it might be building to a dominant game. And then...did I mention ouch? Started the third like he did the first, forcing, missing layups, and really wasn't getting it done on the boards as he didn't seem to be moving for the ball and various Wizards were slipping in front of him. Turnovers and near turnovers also plagued him as we had another ridciulously bad defensive quarter. Returned in the 4th after an effective stint by Dalembert, and maybe it would have been better if he hadn't. Did not protect the hoop from McGee, and just missed mayup after mayup after layup as McGee, who he had seemed to have intimidated in the second, was clearly winning the matchup and Cousins mised everything trying to go over him. Final Minute & OT: Missed a pair of FTs in the final 25 seconds in what again appeared to be a death knell for us, but not on this night. No idea why we did not have Dalembert in there for some late rebounds, as he nearly blew the closing rebound on the Wizards missed FT at the 2.5 second mark -- very close as the ball went out of bounds off of either him or McGee, but we got the call. With a chance for redemption at the OT buzzer after we inbounded the ball to him for a potential game tying three...it wasn't even close and went off the top of the backoard. This was just unfortuyante. Maybe the truest rookie night he has had. 4-19 from the field. 2-6 from the line. I think did jsut enoguh for me not to throw an F on here...but look at those numbers. Just could not hit a layup to save his life.

Pocket -- for whatever reason they had not yet thought of actually inclduing pockets as part of women's garments, so women instead wore a little bag tied around her waist underneath her clothing called her "pocket", and then there were holes down through all the petticoats and dresses so she could reach into it.

 

[Bricklayer]

Head ( F ) -- hey guys! Guess what? Another starting lineup! Who woulda thunk? In any case I could almost divine what Westphal was thinking in this one 1) That **** Donte is still sleeping with my daughter, so screw him, and 2) lineups are like a box of chocolates, you never know what you're gonna get, and 3) we're facing John Wall, and back during Head's two weeks of fame hh shcoked everybody by laying some serious defense on some serious PGs, so let's break him out of cold storage and throw together another random group of 5 people! Um... how'd that work out for you Paul? Got slaughtered in both his stints, and his defensive impact was minimal. Missed everything in the early 3rd. Left. Running out of NBDL level starters for the inevitable lineup change for tommorow in Boston. Jackson at SG?

Stockings -- hey! That's a picture of Kirsten Dunst playing Marie Antoinette, so that is entirely period correct and academic in nature rather than me trying to slip in a pretty girl. Really. Um...anyway...of course everybody worse stockings at the time, and whiile there seems to be some question here, the above is probably what the women mostly wore (see academic and accurate picture above) -- knee highs fastened in place by ribbons. Note however that the 18th century also saw the invention of garters and garter belts, so guess that would be possible too, although I'm not sure...with no underwear beneath the chemise were they worn underneath on the bare skin? Over the chemise? Maybe the stays doubled as garter belts? Dunno. Anyway, girls wore stockings. And I'm pretty sure that is ALL Ms. Dunst is wearing in the above picture. So its all good.

Udrih ( B+ ) -- for the second game in a row here Beno put up very strong offensive numbers, was our most consistent offensive weapon...and ends up with a B+. The explanation lies in the "other" side of the floor. We've entirely abandoned defense here, and all of a sudden we are in these wild high scoring shootouts. And frankly, it inflates your numbers. In a normal game, what is this, 18pts maybe? And Beno's defense has been a significant, although by no means the sole, part of the sudden issue. And he stil would maybe have gotten an A- until the end of the game. In any case, let's get to the game. Regulation: This game started out so so ugly. Our entire startign crew sucked, adn Beno in particular, tasked with guarding Nick Young, just might as welln have been taking the ball from young and turning aroound and laying it in the hoop himself so poor was his defense. Even when he wasn't poor, Young just went right over him or right around him. Before we could scrap our entire lineup and hide behind a zone, Young had already torched him for somethign liek 14 points in the first 6 minutes of the game. But bad as that was, it must be said that most of Young's remaining torrid game was not on Beno -- we learned our lesson there. Lesson #1: don't ask Beno to guard anybody. And freed of that, as we hid in the 2nd quarter zone that messed the Wizards up, Beno began to chip, and chip, and then pour and pour in little jumpers, a three to cut the lead to 7, and just generally spent the bulk of this game getting to his spots at will and knocking down just about everything. For several quarters it was death by very efficient pinprick for the Wizards. Beno kept on peppering in the early 3rd and was aggressive in victimizing Heinich in the early 4th before just almsot completely disappearing down the stretch. Final Minute & OT: well, disappearing except for one play, as with 11 seconds to go Beno managed to bump away a ball from behind on a Wizards inbounds, and the ball went right to Cisco for a +1 play to amazingly slice it to 1. And at that point it was A-! But then after a very quiet OT, made an absolutely terrible turnover on the pass trying to force it to Cousins with 5 secs to go in OT, that finished us. It was a 2pt game -- all we needed to do was get a good shot, all we could not do was turn it over. And Beno did just that, and there was just no reason for it other than he screwed up on the game deciding play. We had plenty of time, lots of options, no horrible pressure. He just made a very bad decision at a very bad time, forced a pass that did not need to be made, and we lost. So looked at the whole thing, the incredibly poor defense to start, the long run of extremely efficient offense, the late disappearance and game ending foulup, and back to the B+ this one went.

Hoop Petticoat -- okay, so we've got al the preliminaries out of the way, we've got our chemise on as always, we've got our old school coset, we've got our my-tailor-is-too-big-of-an-idiot-to-sew-in-a-pocket independent pocket strapped on, we've got a naked Kirsten Dunst...er....I mean stockings! Stockings I say! So, with all that out of the way, its finally time for the petticoats. And boy do we get to have petticoats. And petticoat #1 is the most ridiculous of them -- its the giant shape defining metal cage, the hoop petticoat. Designed to substitue a metal cage (sometimes wood) for your hips, I have no idea at all how women could sit in these things.

Bench

Greene ( INC ) -- I'll tell you just how bad we were getting torched, lit up, and embarrassed in that first quarter -- Westphal looked down his bench and in the space of a minute basically substituted in a whole new 5, which included none other than that Donte guy off the practice squad. Came in and immediately made a nice pass to JT for a hoop, but then missed a three, and despite several good contests was not able to stop Rashard Lewis from hitting 3 of 4 shots down the stretch of the quarter. 5+ minutes, and that again was it. Never returned.

Underpetticoat -- petticoat madness continues, as over our hoop petticoat and chemise, and hose, we now add an "underpetticoat", which is actually over quite a bit of stuff, but under still more stuff I guess. Anyway, its relatively plain, not meant to be seen, and functions both as a slip for the petticoat above it, and to soften the lines of the iron cage you are wearing around your hips.

Jeter ( B+ ) -- after the near straight-to-scrubhood debacle in Denver on New Year's Day, Pooh's rejuvenation continued tonight. Regulation: was in quickly for the ineffective Beno/HEad backcourt, and from the beginning showed more ability to contend with Wall than you would have expected. And this is where Wall is still a very young player -- he has nearly 5 inches on Pooh, but while one day he may just overwhelm him with a post game the way a Reke or Kidd would, or just rise up and shoot over him once the jumper is wet, at this stage in his career everything is pretty much based on his quickness, which is quite possibly best in the world for a player of his size, but that plays right into the hands of a zippy gnat like Pooh. And so not every play, but enough of them, Pooh was able to hop in his path, and once he even stole it from him. In the early second ran pretty well with Beno as we began to turn things. Helped again in the early 4th and had some real mustard on some of his passes as he racked up dounle figure assists for the first time in his career. But began to miss his jumpers the other way and stalled out and was replaced for the stretch run. Final Minute & Overtime: Was back in the mix though by the very end, and trailing by 2 in the final seconds, it was Pooh who was called upon to jsut easily breeze by Wall for the game tying layup. So easy in fact it wasn't even that special of a play. Wall was playing the three point line, barely moved, and I can only assume that he thought McGee was behind him as Pooh darted in for the uncontested layup. Pooh also again impeded Wall on the following game winning attempt by the Wiz, and it was on to overtime. In OT, Wall hurt himself and had to ask out of the game, and Pooh actually had considerably more trouble with Heinrich who uses his body more and can shoot. But in the press with 15 seconds to go in OT he an Cisco trapped Heinrich and knocked the ball off of Heinrich's knee to amazingly give us yet another chance to tie down 2 in OT. This had to rank as a strong effort, the question is how strong gradewise. And the question is alson of course how much grade inflation did playing this silly video game version of an NBA game have? Not sure, but the little man heped us whenever he was on the floor tonight (well, except for maybe that little streak int eh mid 4th) and made several big plays late.

Petticoat -- as in just a petticoat -- and finally, 7 garments in, the first one that is actually intended to be seen. Usually meant to compliment or match the gown worn over it, this layer, worn over the underpetticoat of course, could be seen through slits in the gown and down around the feet, and so was much fancier.

 

[Bricklayer]

Dalembert ( B- ) -- a tale of two halves, as in the first quarter he was inserted mid quarter in an effort to slow the ridiculous momentum the Wizards had early in the game, and just was unable to do it. But had a tangible impact in his second stint running from the late 3rd through the mid 4th. Was hitting his shots for once, and it may have been the only stretch of effective defensive play by any King. Got credited for one bloack, but there were several others that could have been, and did a much much beter job against McGee than DeMarcus would upon returning. One thing he surprisingly never did do was get on the glass, as despite a size advantage up front JT melted, Cousins was terrible, and Daly grabbed all of 1. You could easily make the choice Westphal did to go with DeMarcus down the stretch and just continue on working on the kid becoming a major player for us, but Dalembert was playing much better, and we might not have even needed the mad scramble in the last minute had we stuck with him.

Gown -- so now 8 pieces of clothing in we finally get to the gown. Notice that triangular piece on the front of it? We'll get to that next as its not actually part of the gown itself.

Landry ( B+ ) -- the difficulty in this grade is that Landry was SO effective for so long offensively, and where he failed tonight, I am not sure whether to blame him or blame the coaching. Regulation: Was missing inside in the first as we were getting embsarrassed, but went the entire way in the second and was the recipient of pass after pass that he took right to the rim with authority. And then after half really opened things up, both on called plays and just on scraps around the offensive board. Sprinkled in afew jumpers, but the core of what he was doing was down inside where he was using his body, slapping at ballss, and ignoring McGee as a shotblocker as he finsihed time and again. So the negatives? Well, he simply refuses to rebound, even against a lousy rebounding team like the Wizards, and we got killed on the glass. And then the thing that I don't know whether to blame him for or not -- Nick Young burned Beno badly, but he may have even burned Landry worse. ro at least Landry's spot in our zone. Time and time again Young spotted up in the corner. Time and time again Landry was the the bottom man on that side of our 2-3, got caught inside doing something, was late rotating out, and got great seats to wathcing Young bury three after three in his face. I am very tempted to blame Landry for just being **** at playing that position in the zone, not to mention being oblivious to the guy having a career night against us. But it could also have been the scheem or coaching. Either way it was terribly played. Final Minute & OT: this is easy. Nothing. And again, the question is whether this was Landry's fault or the coach's. After being maybe our most effective offensive player of the half, suddenly, and at the time it seemed bizarrely, he was subbed out by Westphal with a minute left in a still reachable game and replaced by...Jermaine Taylor?!? And then amzingly that actually kind of worked. And in the OT whiel he was there, he never did anything, although one more time he delivered that late rotation on Young, an Young delivered a three in his face for his trouble. And so I went B+ here in respect for the stuff that I knew he brought as oppsoed to the things (bad zone rotations, MIA late) that may or may not have been sideline influenced. But if that stuff was entirely on him, then it would have come down a half tick at least. Boith sides of the ball, clutch play, trump inflated numbers in a run n gun game.

Stomacher -- so that triangle in the gown there -- the gowns themselves did not close across the middle. Kind of the ultimate plunging neckline I suppose, and if you just wore your gown, your stays would show, and we can't have that, so to fill in the gap you wear a tongue/triangle shaped "stomacher" that can either match the dress or set it off as an accessory, and pin it into place in the gap in the gown.

Casspi ( B ) -- hit a three late in the first quarter to stop, or at least slow, the slaughter. Hit a second one in the early 2nd as we started to close a little, and later in the quarter added a 2 to get the lead down to 3. Better yet was part of the hustle crew, along wth Cisco adn the scrap of Landry inside, that helped us roar back in embarrassing boo-bird inspiring fashion for the Wizards. Was moving well in the third and taking passes from our bigs, but not scoring very often from them as his misses begant o outstrip his makes. Hit a third three to open the 4th and get us started, but i think it may have been his last score. Until the crazy final minute was the more effective SF than Garcia, and played many minutes next to him again as ironically Reke's accident seems to have finally opened upon Westphal the idea of using a full sized Cisco at SG/whoever at SF lineup (so I don't want to hear why that wouldn't work with Donte too BTW). With 4 guys to play at 3 spots in the final minute + overtime -- Beno, Pooh, Cisco and Omri, Omri was the guy who lose out and not a factor in all the miracle stuff late. This game continued a log strech of effective play for Omri however. there have been fewer selfish moments, less trying to be a star, and fewer disappearances too. Looks like he has figured out how to be solidly productive in his role, maybe nto explosive, but is giving us good solid work almsot every night right now.

Accessories #1 -- straw hats were very popular at the time, appropriately dolled up of course. In England at least the bonnet would become the thing late in the century. And that lace wrap around her neck was a neck kerchief, sometimes modestly covering all the skin, that is of course like everything else half for warmth so you don't catch a chest cold, and half a fashion thing. And hey, not pictured, but you know the little lace dolies they sometimes wore on ther head? That too, half decoration, and half keeping dirt out of their hair so they wouldn't have to wash it as often.

Taylor ( B ) -- in to start the 4th as we got desperate to guard Young, and immediaely did a better job of challenging him. Picked up a ball on defense and got out on the break for a nice athletic up and under. Completely randomly inserted at the 1:00 mark of the game with us down 8 for Landry, who had been our best offensive player. But then justified the move as he came up with several hoops in the last minute as his athelticsm worked with the late scramble, and his scores were actually what kept us close enough for all the wacky fireworks thast got us to OT.

Accessories #2 -- the above is apicture of an 18th century apron -- they could be functional thigns like today's aprons, but amongst a proper gentile girl like yourself, they could also be fancy accessories to layer on top of all your other layers if you did not think they were already fancy enough. Also helpful as a cheaper beauty alternative if your family wasn't rich enough for the top end gowns. So anyway, those, oh, and if you are going out don't forget your elbow length gloves, and your parasol, because this is the 18th century, and we haven't figured out the skin cancer = health and beauty look yet, and think that the paler the better, as it shows that you are a gentlewoman not a farmer's wife, and never have to work outside or cach any sun. Oh, and if you do go walking, you may want a spencer -- a coat of rougher material to throw over the other 15 layers fo your clothing. Oh, and then there's the shoes....because we like shoes....

 

[Lockehead]

You should add WESTPHAL to the poll. I dont think any of the players listed caused us the loss, and were the ones who kept us alive especially in that last minute of the 4th. I blame Westphal. It was obvious he wanted us to run play after play for DMC. Look at Landry, he was in there for the entire overtime and got 0 touches, and he was hot the entire game. And that last shot? CASSPI inbounding? Obviously a play drawn up by WP to give DMC the last shot.

edit: Wait i mustve misinterpreted the poll. "Player of the loss" as in the best player or the player who caused the loss?

ed: Thanks for clearing that up Brick. Then id have to give it to Cisco for his huge 4 and 3 point conversions in the last minute

 

[Bricklayer]

Best player in the loss.

 

[sacgirl88]

You should add WESTPHAL to the poll. I dont think any of the players listed caused us the loss, and were the ones who kept us alive especially in that last minute of the 4th. I blame Westphal. It was obvious he wanted us to run play after play for DMC. Look at Landry, he was in there for the entire overtime and got 0 touches, and he was hot the entire game. And that last shot? CASSPI inbounding? Obviously a play drawn up by WP to give DMC the last shot.

edit: Wait i mustve misinterpreted the poll. "Player of the loss" as in the best player or the player who caused the loss?

ed: Thanks for clearing that up Brick. Then id have to give it to Cisco for his huge 4 and 3 point conversions in the last minute

yeah i have to switch my vote to Francisco he had a couple big plays in the end of the game.

 

[Nighthawk1]

I voted Beno for all around consistancy throughout the game. Very solid by him. DMC had a pretty rookie esque night, struggled against a strong defender in McGee and forced some stuff but that's part of the learning curve. Landry played the offensive machine role pretty well, and Garcia made a clutch 4 point play but was off on his shot most the night. Lot's of lame to non-existant defense that PW needs to grind into their brains if they rotate to help someone needs to rotate again to pick up the wide open 3 point shooter.

 

[kingsboi]

Laugh out loud at going to Cousins for the last possession for a three with McGee right in his face. Horrible play call if indeed that was it. Also, you have got to be kidding me Beno with that stupid attempted pass to Cuz when you had a jumper after Nick Young went up in the air. Sigh.

 

[Capt. Factorial]

I don't even care about the loss. I got to watch my team score 17 (!!) points in the final minute of regulation to erase an 8-point deficit. I'm pretty sure that all 9 of the Wizards' points in that span were scored from the line. That is why you play the fouling game. And it was fun to watch, loss or no.

 

[gunks]

I don't even care about the loss. I got to watch my team score 17 (!!) points in the final minute of regulation to erase an 8-point deficit. I'm pretty sure that all 9 of the Wizards' points in that span were scored from the line. That is why you play the fouling game. And it was fun to watch, loss or no.

Wow really?

I'm sad I missed this one now.

Our team has heart, got to give em that.

 

[Demarcus Cousins]

My rankings go like this
Beno c+
head d- too much crazy, quick shots that messed up the flow
Garcia a- for good clutch d and hustle at the end
Jt- c didnt do too much in the game
Casspi c
Dally d- didnt really do nothing
Cousins- c good post moves on display
Jeter gets a b for good d on wall and good shots

 

[Boogie-havoc]

Duh I thought the player we lost cause of

Voted Casspi for his airball/leaving NY wide open for the three thing... Cisco has to my new pick though.

 

[Tetsujin]

I swear to god, if we continue making random borderline rotation players look like the second coming of Jerry West, I am going to punch a hole in my wall.

 

[Boogie-havoc]

Nick Young has been 'the man' for the Wizards for most of the season quite honestly though... he's playing amazing this season, not only against us.

 

[Amaranth]

Since we seem to be on a +/- kick lately...
Cisco -8
JT -22
Cousins -11
Luther -18
Beno +1
Dalembert -2
Omri +17
Jermaine +9
Carl +12
Pooh +13
Donte -6

The difference between our bench and our starters is interesting.

 

[mac]

I think Cousins puts more effort into trying to get steals in the backcourt than he does trying to get a friggin rebound. Seriously, he's supposed to be one of the best rebounders coming out of college and this is what he gives us? Also, why the hell do we keep going to Cousins in the high post and have him try to cross over and dribble past his man, instead of I don't know, getting it to him down low and making him play like Shaq instead of Kobe ****ing Bryant

 

[mr. moustache]

Really didn't like Cousin's body language in this one. He wasn't running, shoulders were slumped. The other players were intentionally avoiding passing him the ball. When he got it, he'd force something.

 

[Capt. Factorial]

Wow really?

I'm sad I missed this one now.

Our team has heart, got to give em that.

Yeah, I moved the DVR back after the game to see, because I knew we were down about 8 at the one-minute mark (turned out that it was exactly 8 at that point) and I knew that the Wizards went to the line several times after that. But I didn't realize that we scored 17 in that last minute until I checked back.

Had all the makings of a Chicago-style comeback due to the frantic scoring on our part. It was fun. Sorry you missed it.

 

[Kingster]

Taylor was key in the Kings putting the game into overtime. I think this guy could help this team as he gets more comfortable in the offensive and defensive schemes. He has athleticism and strength and it looks like he can score. I'd like to see him move without the ball more and have the Kings players start looking for him a little more.

 

[ArcoKings]

Laugh out loud at going to Cousins for the last possession for a three with McGee right in his face. Horrible play call if indeed that was it. Also, you have got to be kidding me Beno with that stupid attempted pass to Cuz when you had a jumper after Nick Young went up in the air. Sigh.

Yeah. I didn't get that at all. Was that the play PW drew up or did someone miss their assignment? Very disappointing. I was foolish to think the Kings would go 2-4 on this road trip. 0-6 is starting to look pretty good. (Shaking head.)

 

[Bricklayer]

Yeah. I didn't get that at all. Was that the play PW drew up or did someone miss their assignment? Very disappointing. I was foolish to think the Kings would go 2-4 on this road trip. 0-6 is starting to look pretty good. (Shaking head.)

Tyreke's injury really was incredibly ill timed. Just getting rolling, and we lose him and poof, for the dozenth time this year the whole feel of the team has changed.

 

[UK_King]

I refuse to believe Westphal would draw up a play that had Cousins take a 3 for the tie.

The play must have been designed for Cisco but he took a seriously hard screen and got blocked.

 

[Kingsguy881]

Omri did a very pee poor job on Young in the second quarter. I think he scored like 16 straight points to close out the half.

 

[Bricklayer]

Omri did a very pee poor job on Young in the second quarter. I think he scored like 16 straight points to close out the half.

Watch the rotations -- that was mostly Landry's spot in the zone we were in. Time and time again from that left corner (or right corner from the offense's perspective). But no, Omri couldn't guard me and Young got him too. Just I don't think his biggest victim tonight.

 

[Kingsguy881]

Watch the rotations -- that was mostly Landry's spot in the zone we were in. Time and time again from that left corner (or right corner from the offense's perspective). But no, Omri couldn't guard me and Young got him too. Just I don't think his biggest victim tonight.

Landry also does a pee poor job in rotating especially when the offensive player is 16 feet + out. Which being someone who can play all the way out to the extended wing seems very surprising.

 

[kennadog]

OT: Brick, as someone who sews clothing, pockets are actually a bit complicated to sew into clothes. Eventually, of course, someone figured it out and it caught on. Men wore those pockets, too. The Scotsman's pocket was called a sporran. Well still is, if you wear a kilt or tartan.

Other things that took time to develop, because of complexity compared to just tying things: sleeves, buttons, hooks and of course, the 20th (maybe 19th?) century zipper.

Hoop skirts, corsets, stays and bustle fall under the "what were they thinking" column for me. Ugh.

Capt. Factorial: I enjoyed that last minute of the game, too. It was fun.