Tetsujin
The Game Thread Dude
You have a handful of adequate to pretty good big men on your team. You:
a) forget they exist and decide to take several hundred stupid jump shots
b) ignore their calls for the ball
c) decide to play Francisco Farcia at PF
d) forget how to play defense
e) all of the above.
It looks like everybody not named DeMarcus Cousins or Jason Thompson had a little too much fun on New Years Eve. That's the explanation I can give for the complete lack of effort on the part of the team last night.
Beno decided to roll back the clock to the 17 win season with an astounding performance in which he failed to really do anything positive on the night.
Tyreke and Carmelo went head to head in quest to figure out ways to outsuck each other, culminating in Melo accidentally hitting some shots and making himself look competent.
Noted superstar Francisco Garcia, now reduced to little more than a three point specialist, even failed in that respect tonight, achieving truly astonishing numbers from behind the arc.
Jermaine Taylor showed everybody exactly why Houston was willing to discard him by taking six ill-advised shots and generally figuring out ways to make JR Smith look like Larry Bird.
Carl Landry played 23 minutes and scored 13 points while also making such luminaries s Nene and Sheldon "The Seven Head" Williams look like the second coming of Patrick Ewing. This was the only line-up in the league against which Landry could actually look tall but he still managed to only snag 3 rebounds, all of which he seemed to come into having by accidental means. His shoe also seemed to have a magnet that attracted the ball as in the third quarter alone, he managed to dribble the ball off of his foot a good five or so times, often resulting in disaster as a Nugget player wound up with the ball and tossed it over to the waiting dude under our basket for the dunk.
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Award Time
TDM: I have never heard of Gary Forbes in my life and doubt that I ever will again.
JHA: Pooh Jeter who honestly played like his namesake tonight.
RA&1: Carmelo Anthony.
MM: Jermaine Taylor
SAR: Sammy D, who played like Dikembe Mutumbo... when he was playing with Houston a few years ago.
Andres Nocioni Award for Distinguished Shot Selection: Francisco "Broadside of a Barn" Garcia
Golden Powerpoint of the Day sponsored by Kenny Natt: Paul Westphal.
Don Nelson Award for Excellence in Smallball proficiency: Cousins/Garcia/Tyreke/Beno/Jeter. Who needs five big men when you could pull a Nellie?
WTF Moment of the Game: That I watched the whole damn thing.
a) forget they exist and decide to take several hundred stupid jump shots
b) ignore their calls for the ball
c) decide to play Francisco Farcia at PF
d) forget how to play defense
e) all of the above.
It looks like everybody not named DeMarcus Cousins or Jason Thompson had a little too much fun on New Years Eve. That's the explanation I can give for the complete lack of effort on the part of the team last night.
Beno decided to roll back the clock to the 17 win season with an astounding performance in which he failed to really do anything positive on the night.
Tyreke and Carmelo went head to head in quest to figure out ways to outsuck each other, culminating in Melo accidentally hitting some shots and making himself look competent.
Noted superstar Francisco Garcia, now reduced to little more than a three point specialist, even failed in that respect tonight, achieving truly astonishing numbers from behind the arc.
Jermaine Taylor showed everybody exactly why Houston was willing to discard him by taking six ill-advised shots and generally figuring out ways to make JR Smith look like Larry Bird.
Carl Landry played 23 minutes and scored 13 points while also making such luminaries s Nene and Sheldon "The Seven Head" Williams look like the second coming of Patrick Ewing. This was the only line-up in the league against which Landry could actually look tall but he still managed to only snag 3 rebounds, all of which he seemed to come into having by accidental means. His shoe also seemed to have a magnet that attracted the ball as in the third quarter alone, he managed to dribble the ball off of his foot a good five or so times, often resulting in disaster as a Nugget player wound up with the ball and tossed it over to the waiting dude under our basket for the dunk.
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Award Time
TDM: I have never heard of Gary Forbes in my life and doubt that I ever will again.
JHA: Pooh Jeter who honestly played like his namesake tonight.
RA&1: Carmelo Anthony.
MM: Jermaine Taylor
SAR: Sammy D, who played like Dikembe Mutumbo... when he was playing with Houston a few years ago.
Andres Nocioni Award for Distinguished Shot Selection: Francisco "Broadside of a Barn" Garcia
Golden Powerpoint of the Day sponsored by Kenny Natt: Paul Westphal.
Don Nelson Award for Excellence in Smallball proficiency: Cousins/Garcia/Tyreke/Beno/Jeter. Who needs five big men when you could pull a Nellie?
WTF Moment of the Game: That I watched the whole damn thing.
