Bricklayer
Don't Make Me Use The Bat
We are the champions, my friends...
Because of the late start, I am going to leave these themeless in an effort to just get them done.
Artest ( B ) -- looked good in his first action, and dominated Ryan Gomes defensively. In the early going was not particularly gunning up shots, but was interesting that his mere presence as a guy who dominates the ball seemed to bump Keivn back into passive land. Threw a couple of conspicuously bad passes in the late second, one rocket to Mikki which even Webb could not have caught in those big oven mitts, and then a terrible fastbreak dropoff pass to Kevin that missed him by 3ft. Came out after half and tried, and failed, on two post moves to open the quarter, and it was a sign of thing to come as he definitely shot too much in the third, and was disrupting our flow. Kept us close in the 4th with a series of longballs, and also created much of our offense in the quarter by drawing attention in the post. A pretty good return to action, of course with the question being the inevitable one about whether he and Kevin can coexist. We didn't lose this one because of our offense though.
Moore ( B- ) -- Best game as a King. Which ain't saying much, but for a night he did not compeltely suck. Largely sucked, sure. But did some of the things he can do. Did try to fumble an early pass from Artest, but picked it back up and layed it up. Had no luck guarding Jefferson, which is not a surprise, but did take several charges in the third, which appears to be his only effective form of defense. In general displayed his true role in the NBA, which is to play off of superior players. He was getting badly exposed with our depleted lineups where we needed him to actually be good. Tonight he as able to just float along and score as a result of other guy's efforts, and it was to better effect. Did embarass himself with some ridiculous screaming and yowling after a gorilla dunk +1. Obnoxious if a great player does it. Comical if Mikki Moore does it while his team is losing to one of the worst teams in basketball in front of 11 fans and the peanut vendor. And Mikki of course was again nowhere on the glass while we got ruined there.
Miller ( B- ) -- played pretty well back in the better structure. Offensively that is. Was back to more of a normal looking Brad structure with jumpers and drives off of the jumpers. Did not get on the glass though, and Jefferson ate him up nearly as bad as Mikki. Rebounded better in the 4th, but also spent much of the quarter getting chewed up by little old tubby Antoine Walker. A big step up offensively, but I think all in all we would have been better off with the manimal Brad from the recent homestand who hit the glass and blocked the occasional shot.
Martin ( C ) -- very quiet first quarter, and maybe not responding well to the sudden competition for shots. In fact was 0-5 from the field by the late second quarter. Perhaps over-deferential, as he actually made some pretty good first half passes in the otherwise quiet first half, but got nothing going himself until finally hitting a jumper and getting some gift FTs in the final seconds. Even worse, he was getting scorched on the other end of the court by Rashad McCants, who went for a caareer high. Then to add the cherry on top, came out of the locker room at halftime and got into a sniping match with Theus about somewthing, and was pulled from the game at the 9 minute mark. Bad. Right after hitting a three too. Came back in with 4 minutes to go in the quarter and looked like he had a little fire in his belly. Was aggressive for a few minutes, and quickly racked up some points including an unlikelt heave after a hard bump for the foul. And despite the fiorst half brownout, amazingly finished 7-17 from the field again. I think that is literally the 4th time he's shot 7-17 in our 8 games this season. But this was one of the ones without the free throws to lift the stats. Still scored 22, but felt like less, and included a number of missed shots late, including one corner three that hti the side of the backboard. And with the defensive issues and the apparent spat with the coach I don't think the C is unwarranted given what we've come to expect from Kevin.
Because of the late start, I am going to leave these themeless in an effort to just get them done.
Artest ( B ) -- looked good in his first action, and dominated Ryan Gomes defensively. In the early going was not particularly gunning up shots, but was interesting that his mere presence as a guy who dominates the ball seemed to bump Keivn back into passive land. Threw a couple of conspicuously bad passes in the late second, one rocket to Mikki which even Webb could not have caught in those big oven mitts, and then a terrible fastbreak dropoff pass to Kevin that missed him by 3ft. Came out after half and tried, and failed, on two post moves to open the quarter, and it was a sign of thing to come as he definitely shot too much in the third, and was disrupting our flow. Kept us close in the 4th with a series of longballs, and also created much of our offense in the quarter by drawing attention in the post. A pretty good return to action, of course with the question being the inevitable one about whether he and Kevin can coexist. We didn't lose this one because of our offense though.
Moore ( B- ) -- Best game as a King. Which ain't saying much, but for a night he did not compeltely suck. Largely sucked, sure. But did some of the things he can do. Did try to fumble an early pass from Artest, but picked it back up and layed it up. Had no luck guarding Jefferson, which is not a surprise, but did take several charges in the third, which appears to be his only effective form of defense. In general displayed his true role in the NBA, which is to play off of superior players. He was getting badly exposed with our depleted lineups where we needed him to actually be good. Tonight he as able to just float along and score as a result of other guy's efforts, and it was to better effect. Did embarass himself with some ridiculous screaming and yowling after a gorilla dunk +1. Obnoxious if a great player does it. Comical if Mikki Moore does it while his team is losing to one of the worst teams in basketball in front of 11 fans and the peanut vendor. And Mikki of course was again nowhere on the glass while we got ruined there.
Miller ( B- ) -- played pretty well back in the better structure. Offensively that is. Was back to more of a normal looking Brad structure with jumpers and drives off of the jumpers. Did not get on the glass though, and Jefferson ate him up nearly as bad as Mikki. Rebounded better in the 4th, but also spent much of the quarter getting chewed up by little old tubby Antoine Walker. A big step up offensively, but I think all in all we would have been better off with the manimal Brad from the recent homestand who hit the glass and blocked the occasional shot.
Martin ( C ) -- very quiet first quarter, and maybe not responding well to the sudden competition for shots. In fact was 0-5 from the field by the late second quarter. Perhaps over-deferential, as he actually made some pretty good first half passes in the otherwise quiet first half, but got nothing going himself until finally hitting a jumper and getting some gift FTs in the final seconds. Even worse, he was getting scorched on the other end of the court by Rashad McCants, who went for a caareer high. Then to add the cherry on top, came out of the locker room at halftime and got into a sniping match with Theus about somewthing, and was pulled from the game at the 9 minute mark. Bad. Right after hitting a three too. Came back in with 4 minutes to go in the quarter and looked like he had a little fire in his belly. Was aggressive for a few minutes, and quickly racked up some points including an unlikelt heave after a hard bump for the foul. And despite the fiorst half brownout, amazingly finished 7-17 from the field again. I think that is literally the 4th time he's shot 7-17 in our 8 games this season. But this was one of the ones without the free throws to lift the stats. Still scored 22, but felt like less, and included a number of missed shots late, including one corner three that hti the side of the backboard. And with the defensive issues and the apparent spat with the coach I don't think the C is unwarranted given what we've come to expect from Kevin.
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