Grades v. Wolves 03/21

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Bricklayer

Don't Make Me Use The Bat
Well now we are starting to hit our stride.

Theme tonight will be Really Stupid Laws: (Note, I have only independently confirmed a couple of these)

Artest ( C ) -- mostly quiet in the first half, but hit the outside shots he did take, and created open shots for several teammates off the double team attention he drew. Continued the roleplaying effort into the second half, which was helping on a lower level, but which was not enough. With Kevin silent, and yes even with Brad and Kenny gone, we needed an extra scorer, and Ron just never got anything really going that way this time out. Hit the glass, set some people up (at times), made a nifty open court steal from KG of all people on an outlet pass to set us up for an easy little 3-1. But never gave us the raw volume of scoring we needed, and on our last gasp (actually it was probably already over) seemed to slip and travel just to seal things.
DUMB LAW #1 (Florida): It is illegal to have sexual relation with a porcupine. -- Well damn.

Corliss ( A- ) -- good ole Corliss did his good ole Corliss thing one more time. Forced to start with both Brad and Kenny out, he gritted his teeth and did his damndest to try to lead us to a victory. Had an amusing first quarter while outplaying KG -- scored over the Big Ticket several times, even got in there for a couple of offensive boards, and finished with an impact 10pts 6rebs first quarter. Should come as no surprise he slowed therafter, but still hustled and banged better than you could have hoped for against the Wolves 7'/7' frontline. Looked legitimately upset at the end of the game that we had lost this one despite him pouring his heart into it. Silly of him, but admirable.
DUMB LAW #2 (Alaska): It is considered an offense to push a live moose out of a moving airplane. -- Worse yet, it is also considered an offense to feed alcoholic beverages to a moose. Damn fascists: Alaska = the no fun state.

Reef ( A- ) -- perhaps embarrassed by the Atlanta debacle, Reef went digging around in the back of his closet and found his dusty old naughty parts, and for three quarters gave us his most inspired play since...I don't even know when. It was not that he was dominating play, statistically or otherwise, but that he was bringing a complete effort, not only scoring from outside the paint with those line drive jumpers (even knocking down one of those corner threes), but actually doing things not related to him scoring. Passing for instance. And our soft lil tweener even came up with a series of big blocks (yes, as in blocked shots) in the third. The boardwork was indifferent at that stage, but he got a few. In any case, it was a complete game, and he was making a lot of plays to hurt the Wolves and inspire us. But disappeared down the stretch as he and Corliss suddenly remembered what year it was, and so gets the "-" as one more brick was thrown onto losing season 10 of 11 or whatever.
DUMB LAW #3 (Connecticut): In order for a pickle to officially be considered a pickle, it must bounce.

Martin ( D- ) -- another slow start -- beginning to think the worst thing that coupld have happened was Kevin winning that player of the week. Its been all downhill ever since. Showed better activity and effort on defense than he has been, but almost had no choice as the Wolves seemed to want to attack him on that end. And the activity came with a price, as Kevin got into early foul trouble. Given every chance to show something in this one. Never did. Took a hard fall in the 4th when he went up for a layup and was blocked/fouled by Jaric. Saved the F with some shaky play down the stretch. Sounds funny, but he did just enough -- hit a tough shot, got some FTs, that felt it had to warrant something. May or may not have been 100%, not sure. Been playing poorly for the last couple of weeks.
DUMB LAW #4 (Lousiana): You may not tie an alligator to a fire hydrant. -- And people think being a lawyer is no fun.
 
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Bibby ( B ) -- good first half not only scoring, but moving the ball as well. Drained a pair of threes in the 3rd to help hold our margin for a while, but was unable to come up big when we needed it in the 4th. Was unable to contain Randy Foye down the stretch as the rook repeatedly beat him inside and out, and missed a corner three with 30 seconds to go that we needed to tie it up. A good effort by Mike, but not enough with our other two main guns largely AWOL.
DUMB LAW #5 (South Dakota): If there are more than 5 Native Americans on your property you may shoot them. -- not so funny if you happen to be native american.

Salmons ( C- ) -- minutes were mirrored by those of Marko Jaric, a similar type of player, and the two largely cancelled each other out before half. John hitting the buzzer beating three heading into the locker room for the separation. But that was really his one highlight of the evening ona night when our bench was just nonexistent.
DUMB LAW #6 (Arizona): There is a possible 25 years in prison for cutting down a cactus.

Williams ( B- ) -- energy off the bench and his game was right to the rim as always, but made some sloppy mistakes as well, got his entire body rejected by KG at one point, and was only given spot minutes behind the surprisingly resurgent aging undersized tweeners up front.
DUMB LAW #7 (Washington): it's illegal to catch a fish by throwing a rock at it.

Cisco ( D+ ) -- not much in the first half despite often being guarded by much bigger players who shouldn't have been able to stay with him, and just could not hit that big three we needed somebody to step up and hit. At one point the Woilves even dared him to shoot a wide open one, and he not only hesitated, knowing he was shaky, but then went ahead and bricked it.
DUMB LAW #8 (Texas): it's illegal to put graffiti on someone else's cow.
 
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Price ( INC ) -- for a guy who only played 2 minutes, had an adventure. Brought in for defense on a single possession at the end of the 3rd, then left in to start the 4th. Got a little careless with the ball and was picked clean up top to start a breakaway. But Ronnie did not quit on the play and chased it down to make a spectacular block/foul to save the sure layup. Was still it though, as the hook was quick, and the Wolves convertd the FTs anyway.
DUMB LAW #9 (Connorsville, Wisconsin): A man is legally prohibited from shooting a gun while his female partner is having an orgasm. -- and damn, that's my signature move too.

Muss ( ) -- Team Inconsistency continues its reign of terror. Our two "Fs" from Atlanta come out this time and were two of our three top players. Our former player of the week has been stinking the place up ever since. Our bench, better than the starters in Atlanta, gave us zilch out there this time. One thing that is consistent is that we lost again and did while letting the T-Wolves snap an 11 game road losing streak on the second night of a back to back. We're 10 games below .500 now, and its mathematically impossible for us to match last year's already middling 44-38. Even if we were to run off the final 14 games and go 14-0, against Phoenix (twice) Dallas, San Antonio, Utah, Houston and basically every other power team in the West, we still end up at 43 wins. We also, btw, would need to go 12-2 just to reach .500 for the season. Want to take any bets on whether that's going to happen? So Muss should be happy to know that he will now be 3-0 on the ole sub-.500 coaching seasons, and Reef can look back fondly on last year's muddled #8 seed one and done as the great high poiint of his career winningwise. We actually started this one off pretty welll. Or at least it felt pretty well. Wasn't a question of us coming out in a fog. We rode the "no! I'm not that old and sucky!" energetic efforts of Reef and Corliss to what seemed like a solid start(actually guys, sorry, but you are, and the proof is in results like this. Even when you play well, your team still is a lottery team). But the funny thing was that for all the seeming inspired play, we never got any separation over a Wolves team that was itself flat and uninspired for most of the night (uninspired to do anything other than ***** at the refs). And then the third quarter came around, and althoguh the box does not indicate it, the late third to early 4th was a period full of Atlantaesque ugliness for the Wolves. They were completely incompetent, went something like 8 minutes without a FG, shot 3-17(?) there at one stretch, and by all rights should have been finished. That team wasn't coming back from 15 tonight, and all we had to do was do something, anything, to make it 15. Well, we couldn't even make it 10. No matter how bad they played, we never at any point put any distance between us. And then like a dam finally breaking, the Wolves, perhaps sensing the near impossible for them, a road victory, suddenly pulled it together for the one push they needed to tip the scales and continue our spiral. Ricky Davis came out of hibernation and started hitting tough shots, superrook Randy Foye starting scoring inside and out at will, and KG snatched every rebound over our little suddenly remembering thier age frontcourt. And so sianara. Along the way did Muss hae any impact on any of this? No, not really that you could tell. Good or bad. Think Corliss was the inspiring factor in the good early going, think us just sucking was the factor in the bad late going. Most interesting things for Muss were his handling of Kevin and Price. Kevin clearly had nothing tonight, and yet with the bench being almost as nothing, Muss went ahead and just threw him out there as part of our best 5 (the low minutes were the result of first half foul trouble). Kind of the opposite how how he's handled Kevin's crap nights in the past, although as mentioend tonight none fo the reserves really offered much of an option. And Ronnie...feel almost sorry for Ronnie. first Muss does the random Muss substitution, where he pulls an ice cold player off the bench for a single possession at the end fo the third. Then surprisingly he just decided to leave him in. Adn then all it took was one mistake for him to get the hook. The turnover up top, despite the fact that Ronnie hustled his butt of to try to make up for it. It was a bad play, and probably was indiciative of Ronnie's continuing struggles to play a consistent PG who can get you into the offense. It was also only one play, and Ronnie looked pretty crestfallen after being yanked. Just as aside, tongiht Jason Hart = 12pts (6-9 shooting) 4ast 5stl and the game winning layup. May well be playing his way back into a guaranteed or partially guaranteed contract from somebody next year. Ronnie? He's on the bubble now. Probably have to go the summer league route again.
DUMB LAW #10 (Texas): In Texas, it is illegal to curse in front of, or indecently expose oneself to, a corpse.
 
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Shareef: A+ for pushing the camera away from his face in shame at the end of the game

He should have cursed and gone ron artest on coach muss, that would have been the best thing that happened this season lol.
 
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Another dumb law: It's illegal to pump your own gas in Oregon.

i agree i freaking HATE that law!

it pisses me off that i have to pay a freaking gas tax so some jerkwad can make minimum wage instead of getting a REAL job. GDM i miss pumping my own gas!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
 
DUMB LAW #2 (Alaska): It is considered an offense to push a live moose out of a moving airplane. -- Worse yet, it is also considered an offense to feed alcoholic beverages to a moose. Damn fascists: Alaska = the no fun state.

That's terrible. If you're going to push a moose out of an airplane, I think you should get a reduced sentence if you fed it alcoholic beverages first. Pushing them out sober is just plain mean.
 
If that is true atleast it creates jobs for others.

yah thats a job to brag about, i pump gas.... it's embarassing. i'm sure those people can find other jobs. gas prices are rising to begin with, why should i have to pay more per gallon so someone can do something for me that i can do myself?

i complain about this all the time at work hahaha the girls get so sick of it :D i just hate it!
 
i agree i freaking HATE that law!

it pisses me off that i have to pay a freaking gas tax so some jerkwad can make minimum wage instead of getting a REAL job. GDM i miss pumping my own gas!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Every time I drive through Oregon, I kind of appreciate that law. It creates a number of jobs for people who might otherwise turn to crime, become dependent on welfare, or become our next coach.
 
i agree i freaking HATE that law!

it pisses me off that i have to pay a freaking gas tax so some jerkwad can make minimum wage instead of getting a REAL job. GDM i miss pumping my own gas!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

But some how we don't miss Janitors cleaning our mess in the public bathrooms.
 
i agree i freaking HATE that law!

it pisses me off that i have to pay a freaking gas tax so some jerkwad can make minimum wage instead of getting a REAL job. GDM i miss pumping my own gas!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Hey, I feel your pain, the last time I was there, I did some traveling with my grandparents in their RV and almost forgot THAT law, and had my hand on the pump, when I looked to my right and saw 2 guys walking towards me with weird looks on their faces, like 'Dont you know if you do that you're going to jail?':D It's a felony, if I'm not mistaken, right??
 
yah thats a job to brag about, i pump gas.... it's embarassing. i'm sure those people can find other jobs. gas prices are rising to begin with, why should i have to pay more per gallon so someone can do something for me that i can do myself?

i complain about this all the time at work hahaha the girls get so sick of it :D i just hate it!

Alot of people have jobs that we could for our self. Two examples i could think of are janitors and homes for the old folks. If we have parents we should be capable of taking care of them like we did for us. Instead we put them in homes for other people to take care of them. But some bright spots is that it does create jobs and like fnordius said creates job for others that might do nothing expect turn to crime.
 
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Another dumb law: It's illegal to pump your own gas in Oregon.

New Jersey, too, right? Had never heard that and when I went to pump my gas the guy told me I couldn't do that. I had never heard of such a thing before. Crazy talk. :eek:
 
DUMB LAW #9 (Connorsville, Wisconsin): A man is legally prohibited from shooting a gun while his female partner is having an orgasm. -- and damn, that's my signature move too.

Muss ( ) -- coming...


:eek: :o

Self, I beg of you... don't go there. I know you want to, and it would be HILARIOUS, but, please... hold back... just this once.
 
New Jersey, too, right? Had never heard that and when I went to pump my gas the guy told me I couldn't do that. I had never heard of such a thing before. Crazy talk. :eek:


Eh, its not that bad...it creates job market but more importantly, once you get used to having other people pump your gas, it just seems retarted to have to step out and do it yourself. I can't imagine how much it would suck to have to pump ur own gas in the winter especially.
 
Alot of people have jobs that we could for our self. Two examples i could think of are janitors and homes for the old folks. If we have parents we should be capable of taking care of them like we did for us. Instead we put them in homes for other people to take care of them. But some bright spots is that it does create jobs and like fnordius said creates job for others that might do nothing expect turn to crime.

Seems like the main topic has migrated to stupid laws, instead of grades:)

Regarding the law, I think the problem is that it's a law. Having janitors clean the bathrooms, having homes for seniors, employing help to clean the house/garden etc. are conveniences that individuals decide for themselves. They are welcome to perform these activities themselves, if they wish too, or they can choose to pay someone to do it on their behalf. Per the instances here, seems this choice is not available in Oregon. If gas stations had a mix of self service, and full service options, with differential pricing, we wouldn't be complaining (or even discussing). People who prefer convenience (and job generation), can go for the full service option.
 
DUMB LAW #6 (Arizona): There is a possible 25 years in prison for cutting down a cactus.

This may be referring to the Saguaro cactus, many of which are over 200 years old (slow to grow, slow to propagate). They are on the endangered species list, hence the law.
 
Well now we are starting to hit our stride.

Theme tonight will be Really Stupid Laws: (Note, I have only independently confirmed a couple of these)

Artest ( C ) -- mostly quiet in the first half, but hit the outside shots he did take, and created open shots for several teammates off the double team attention he drew. Continued the roleplaying effort into the second half, which was helping on a lower level, but which was not enough. With Kevin silent, and yes even with Brad and Kenny gone, we needed an extra scorer, and Ron just never got anything really going that way this time out. Hit the glass, set some people up (at times), made a nifty open court steal from KG of all people on an outlet pass to set us up for an easy little 3-1. But never gave us the raw volume of scoring we needed, and on our last gasp (actually it was probably already over) seemed to slip and travel just to seal things.
DUMB LAW #1 (Florida): It is illegal to have sexual relation with a porcupine. -- Well damn.

Corliss ( A- ) -- good ole Corliss did his good ole Corliss thing one more time. Forced to start with both Brad and Kenny out, he gritted his teeth and did his damndest to try to lead us to a victory. Had an amusing first quarter while outplaying KG -- scored over the Big Ticket several times, even got in there for a couple of offensive boards, and finished with an impact 10pts 6rebs first quarter. Should come as no surprise he slowed therafter, but still hustled and banged better than you could have hoped for against the Wolves 7'/7' frontline. Looked legitimately upset at the end of the game that we had lost this one despite him pouring his heart into it. Silly of him, but admirable.
DUMB LAW #2 (Alaska): It is considered an offense to push a live moose out of a moving airplane. -- Worse yet, it is also considered an offense to feed alcoholic beverages to a moose. Damn fascists: Alaska = the no fun state.

Reef ( A- ) -- perhaps embarrassed by the Atlanta debacle, Reef went digging around in the back of his closet and found his dusty old naughty parts, and for three quarters gave us his most inspired play since...I don't even know when. It was not that he was dominating play, statistically or otherwise, but that he was bringing a complete effort, not only scoring from outside the paint with those line drive jumpers (even knocking down one of those corner threes), but actually doing things not related to him scoring. Passing for instance. And our soft lil tweener even came up with a series of big blocks (yes, as in blocked shots) in the third. The boardwork was indifferent at that stage, but he got a few. In any case, it was a complete game, and he was making a lot of plays to hurt the Wolves and inspire us. But disappeared down the stretch as he and Corliss suddenly remembered what year it was, and so gets the "-" as one more brick was thrown onto losing season 10 of 11 or whatever.
DUMB LAW #3 (Connecticut): In order for a pickle to officially be considered a pickle, it must bounce.

Martin ( D- ) -- another slow start -- beginning to think the worst thing that coupld have happened was Kevin winning that player of the week. Its been all downhill ever since. Showed better activity and effort on defense than he has been, but almost had no choice as the Wolves seemed to want to attack him on that end. And the activity came with a price, as Kevin got into early foul trouble. Given every chance to show something in this one. Never did. Took a hard fall in the 4th when he went up for a layup and was blocked/fouled by Jaric. Saved the F with some shaky play down the stretch. Sounds funny, but he did just enough -- hit a tough shot, got some FTs, that felt it had to warrant something. May or may not have been 100%, not sure. Been playing poorly for the last couple of weeks.
DUMB LAW #4 (Lousiana): You may not tie an alligator to a fire hydrant. -- And people think being a lawyer is no fun.

HAHA! Quite a vision! :D
 
I used to know a ton of these swell laws...

a couple of Virginia laws that pop back to my mind (and I also cannot confirm any of them)...


You may only have sex in the missionary posiotion.... unless the man has heart problems, in which case the woman may be on top.

it is illegal to hang woman's underwear outside to dry (but men's underwear is fine)


and in case you have the urge to laugh at the archane, but never enforced legacy laws of the 400 year old "old dominion"... consider this, a couple of years ago a man was denied primary custody of his children based on the repeating breaking of the "no oral sex" law, after his ex-wife testified (in her bid to deny him primary custody) that he had performed the act on her on numerous occasions. THis case was in the news in the last 5-or-so years. Apparently it is NOT better to give than to receive in Virginia.
 
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