@Second-Prize said:
I just think regardless of Bragg and Diallo’s talent and ceiling, we will need Landen and Hunter at times when we face Centers.
Agreed. And they've got to cut down the TOs and fouling, which should happen by January or February.
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High-Low was run both games, so that's not the difference.
43% from trey vs. Harvard.
60% from trey vs. Holy Cross.
Hmmm.
47% FG vs. Harvard
63% FG vs Holy Cross
Hmmm.
52% FT vs. Harvard
100% FT vs. Holy Cross
Hmmm.
Come again. :-)
C3 vs. Rico Gathers...a pound of feathers vs. 100 pounds of muscle.
Composite 3, a composite player we have not seen before, came to the rescue of Composite 5, whom Bill Self decided was to injured to go again this game. Composite 5 made the trip and was suited up, so we infer he could have been called to duty had Holy Cross ever been able to recover from KU's hot fusion shooting. Try 60% from the trey stripe, 63% overall, and 100% from the free throw stripe. It was likely one of the five best shooting exhibitions in Self's tenure at KU. The first half might go down as one of the best shooting exhibitions in the history of college basketball, too. Try 80% from trey, 70% overall, and 100% from the free throw stripe. But I digress.
The real story of this game in terms of relevance to the long season ahead, was the play of Composite 3 at the 5 position. C3 was composed of Hunter Mickelson, Cheick Diallo, and Carlton Bragg. When the composite dust settled, C3's numbers looked like this:
16 points
11 rebounds,
1 block
6 turnovers
9 fouls
Composite 3 was going up against Holy Cross' best. Holy Cross' best was probably comparable to Harvard's best. Coincidentally, or not, Holy Cross beat Harvard recently by 1. For what its worth, KU lost a lead and beat Harvard by six with Composite 5. In contrast, KU with Composite 3 beat Holy Cross by 33. Gleaning much from compared victory margins is tough. We can be sure that a large portion of KU's lopsided victory margin over Holy Cross was attributable to the extraordinarily hot shooting of KU. One infers that had KU shot that rate against Harvard; that game too would have turned into a sizable rout.
Still, Composite 3 was the center in a blow out and deserves some strokes for that, as well as some examination of his line scores.
Composite 3 seemed the slightly more adroit scorer than Composite 5, though it gets easier to score inside when one's perimeter makes 80% of its treys the first half, right? It would be reasonable to expect Composite 3 might have faced a little more help defense inside and perhaps scored at least one less basket, had KU's outside shooting been a little less stellar. One less basket would have put Composite 3 smack dab in the heart of Composite 5 shooting results prior to this game.
Composite 3 also had a good night on the glass with 11, which was maybe a little less than typical for Composite 5, but certainly a good night's work.
Composite 3 let down expectations a bit with only 1 block, but that is still about as good as Composite 5 has been doing.
Where things became unsightly for Composite 3 were his 6 turnovers and 9 fouls. The 6 TOs were as high as Composite 5 on his worst night and worse than some others. 6 TOs greatly cuts into fine 16 point showing in terms of net productivity. Alas, TOs were not Composite 3's only glaring problem. Try 9 personal fouls among only three players. Ugh. That high number of fouls meant that KU defense was not getting a lot of stops, and Holy Cross was getting a big chance to put points on the board. The 9 fouls really eat into Composite 3's net productivity.
In conclusion, one has to view with some trepidation what may happen if Composite 3 were to start against a better team on a night when KU is shooting nearer its average.
Looks like Cheick got into the number 4 tonight.
4 baskets.
4 free throws.
4 rebounds
4 turnovers
Its like a double hat trick, or something.
Must have lost the argument. :-)
Thanks, I had to miss most of the last half. Who shined? And who didn't?
Were Traylor and Lucas injured, or just being rested?
Loose Balls....First Half
Hunter wasted his opp.
Perry efficient but uninspired again.
Frank plays his usual good game.
Selden trying to substitute energy for focus and wipes out his efficient scoring with 4 TOs
Devonte took the efficiency pill and it helped.
Diallo turning himself into a California Roll.
Bragg joins Selden in trying to negate good play with turn overs.
Greene punishing his coach for suspending him by making all the treys Self had hoped Svi would make.
Svi is stepping into the toilet and flushing it for Self.
Vick impact free but also error free and so he might get another look.
Traylor and Lucas, the grand old men of the team, get the night off, proving they are the starters this season. Doubters will have to deal with it.
We've got to shoot the ball better, if we expect to double the score on the them.
BG could be the first guy to average 60% from trey for a season. :-)
BG getting his shots in quick.
Did Hunter do anything good?
Who started?
Yes.
BG. I don't need no hops.
Is the Z silent in Rusty's last name?
Brannen gets a chance to come back against some Princeton? Be ready BG.
Brannen who?
I am getting a MasterCard commercial and the guy shows a bacon tornado. Gotta make that!!!!
Bragg swatting when he shouldn't.
"They are playeeeeng like a bunch of baaaaaaabeeeeeesss."
Don't say you haven't heard it. :-)
Self has always had this feminine side to him--the concern with appearance and fastidiousness, the long slender fingers, this finicky attention to detail, this feminine taunting of men for not living up to being good providers of what he "needs." Lots of guys have it, just like lots of women have this masculine streak in the midst of their femininity. Watch good old Camille Paglia. She's made a career out of managed release of it, while staying a woman. Its what makes here so appealing in addition to her awesome intellect. Since the 90s, it surfaces in mid life and after men as a cranky old lady the same way it surfaces in mid life and post midlife women as crochety old gentleman. You've seen these middle aged broads lose it and start lipping their cigs and cursing like sergeants, then just kind of muttering, right? That's just them letting loose that inhibited drama of their dad getting old. Daddy got to do this, so I can do it too. Men say pretty much the same thing. That terror of a mommie, she got to do these harangues on dad, or all of us, and screw it I can too now in todays world. There is a certain age after which the subordinated streak of gender gets released when a person is really disgusted and no longer feels like he, or she, has to act manly, or womanly, so as to live up to the cultures norms. Its wild to watch. Haven't you heard Self the last couple of seasons, after talking about "who we are" and about how we have to be tougher, and we have to stop playing soft, and walking around talking like we've got to be better Marines, finally, once in a while just drops all the pretense and says in this borderline reedy voice with an expression that looks like a little old blue hair that just sucked on some alum, "We played like a bunch of babies." This isn't a hee man coach speaking. This is his feminine side bursting forth in bitchiness. A lot of the woman comedians are getting laughs releasing the male countervailing equivalent juxtaposed against the girlish stuff. The woman in the movie Train Wreck is absolutely brilliant at this schtick. I saw her on Ellen Degeneres and it is tough to break up a real professional and great comedian like Ellen, but this woman, bouncing back and forth between these sides of her personality, had Ellen in tears.
This whole dynamical gender thing is coming more and more into play as the genders free themselves more and more of their traditional roles and so individual persons are able more and more to unleash those repressed portions of themselves with less and less subtlety.
Holy Cross plays the Princeton?
Ooooooookay.
This will be the game where guys get to become trusted on defense by Coach Self, or dig themselves holes that will haunt them the rest of the season.
Self loves to use Princeton teams to make guys prove their defensive manhoods.
Self figured out years back now that the way to beat a Princeton team is to:
a) dog it defensively everywhere without switching;
b.) bump their routes; and
c.) have our post man beat their post man to every ball screen.
This means our guys shooting legs suffer and long ball percentages sag.
In turn, this means you shoot treys early both halves with starters, and you let your subs trigger a quick trey, but mostly everyone is burning the energy budget chasing every where, and you play conservation of energy on the offensive end by banging it inside.
Which of our bigs play the most is determined by which can hedge defend on their posts either floating out side for shots, or breaking out to ball screen. Jamari and Landen are probably our best proven hedge and chase defenders of our Composite 5 post men. But Hunter's mobility he showed in S. Korea makes him a prime candidate get big minutes mad storking them.
The Princeton traditionally makes Self sit his long, skinny young centers and wait till next game, but Diallo sure could benefit from the experience, if his ego can stand looking bad.
Otherwise, Self will rotate on the perimeter as much as Svi and Vick allow him to; i.e., as much as they prove themselves able to fight over picks.
If Svi and Vick prove themselves not up to the challenge of fighting through all the picks, and Frank, Devonte, and Wayne have to play a lot of minutes, then we will see the Old Woman in Self bitch and moan, but then allow switching.
On offense, outside of some early quick trigger trey balling when the legs are fresh, I would expect mostly high low bang it inside.
Rock Chalk!
@justanotherfan said:
I think Pop understands what analytics try to get at, which is ultimately efficiency. But Pop’s system is already so efficient that he’s doing analytical things without relying on the specific stats.
I thought this observation by you was worth calling attention to.
In achieving efficient systems, one is iterating between what one hypothesizes is an efficient design, and at the same time sampling indicators of its efficiency. It is a reinforcing loop. Adjust the system. Read the stats. Adjust the system. Read the stats. The iteration helps you get familiar with the dynamics of the system. Hopefully you keep moving toward more efficiency, assuming you are correctly conceptualizing efficiency. At the point of diminishing returns in system adjustments, without sufficient winning effect, then you have to start thinking about adopting a new system.
@benshawks08 said:
there are significant complexities in measuring the worth of bench players and starters that limit the usefulness of statistical comparisons of players in different roles. That was my interpretation.
That's it in a nut shell. But I also think analysis that takes into account those differences (e.g., that looks at some aspect of performance that would be expected to be quite similar, or alternatively, that looks at some aspect that one would expect to be quite different and finds insignificant difference, or alternatively a counter intuitive difference) can be more or less useful in adding insight into how a sub might perform in a starting role.
For example if Diallo were scoring a little more per minute played as a sub than a starter is scoring, and KU is playing a team 2-deep with OADs at the position, and Diallo is expected to score as much as the starter, then we could infer that Diallo might do a little better than the starter and so maybe he ought to get a shot.
But if Diallo were scoring a little more per minute played as a sub than a starter is scoring, and Diallo were doing it against a very inferior sub, then we might leave the status quo as is, because we might infer that Diallo would probably score quite a bit less against a better opponent.
Or suppose Diallo weren't supposed to score against his man much, rather he was just supposed to guard and block. And let's suppose the guy ahead of him was scoring a lot, but giving up a lot of points and not getting any blocks against guys we think Diallo could at least alter shots on. Well, despite Diallo not scoring much, we might give Diallo a shot, because we think Diallo has good scoring fundamentals, and we think Diallo could guard and alter as well, and he could definitely rebound better.
And so on.
Sample size matters, of course.
But sample size is a third element to consider.
The samples, assuming adequate size, also have to be sampling similar universes to make inferences significant between the sample and a member of the universe.
For example, bolts and nuts work together as fasteners. If we want to sample the failure rate of such fasteners, we can sample the universe of fasteners and at the right sample size with randomization of sampling, we can assume a normal distribution (unless something tells us otherwise), we can draw some pretty reliable estimates of how many fasters will fail in a given quantity of fasteners produced.
But if we want to know about the failure rates of bolts, we had better sample bolts to make inferences about bolt failure, rather than sampling nuts to make inferences about bolt failures.
If we were to sample nut failures to learn about bolt failures, it just wouldn't help to draw a big sample of nuts.
I am hopeful for Nic that Larry will see some coaching genius in Nic. I have a hunch there is some there, but my hunches are too sentimental to be relied on in this sort of thing. I am not good enough to see it in young guys before the pros like Larry recognize it. Not all good point guards have the head coaching gene, but some sure do. Damn, it would be good for the game if Larry found one or two more coaching greats before his time is done. I know Janks is better for having assisted Larry after just watching Janks run the SMU team in Larry's absence. I thought Janks looked pretty ready after assisting Bill. But there is something that rubs off from Larry that Janks really needed. I know Larry's willingness to obey the rules closely has lead to his image being tarnished, and his character being questioned, but I just cannot emphasize too much how much good Larry has done for the game, not only by his own excellence, but by finding the great talents he has found and giving them their shots. The game desperately needs a steady flow of great coaches and there are only a few coaches at any given time with the insight and generosity of spirit to take the chances on the unknowns, and marginals, with the right stuff and elevate them sufficiently to get them into the game. Larry is a wily devil. There is always method AND opportunism to his madness. He learned the game from Frank McGuire, Dean Smith and John McClendon. McGuire and Smith were about as cunning and opportunistic of operators as ever walked a sideline, or fought a bureaucratic battle in a university, and McClendon had to fight and scrap and outsmart red necks and racists for everything he ever got during the autumn of Jim Crow. There is no question that Larry has been out for Larry, as any red blooded American ought to be out for himself in the land of opportunity, but he has always been out for the game, too; that is what has always redeemed him in my eyes.
Go, Larry, go.
Go, Nic, go.
P.S.: I love it when we find common ground on someone like Nic. I will understand if you don't share my love of Larry. LB tests me sometimes, but I love the guy.
My god, he's still one of the strongest, most beautiful dunkers I have ever seen play the game. It looked like he was dunking on some guy from K-State instead of an NBA player. He is just an awesome talent still looking for a team with the right slot for his talents. I hope its Brooklyn. Any team with Brooklyn on the jersey is a place where Thomas could become a mega star if the players and coach align with him.
You know, now that you mention it, I have never talked to a Nova fan. There are a lot of programs with bad fans, and mercifully some with good ones. I will be on alert for them, as I trust your judgement.
I forgot to say how much I loved Lonnie putting it to the poster boy for jerks, Jay Wrong.
Larry is charismatic and a genius at basketball. People find that combination attractive and love to come and partake in activities such persons are engaged in. For Larry, there really is no off-Broadway. Broadway comes to him. And he is probably as mystified by it as anyone. He is just being LB.
Nic is a very special player and PG. He proves size is never the determining factor in a PG. He is a guy that knows how to operate offenses and defenses, not just play point guard, or 2 guard. It's the difference between a chef and a cook, or an engine tuner and a garage mechanic, or a maestro and conductor. Nic is a chef, a tuner, a maestro. Frank learned some from Nic. You have to play with one of these guys to even know what they can do is possible. Larry Brown was this kind of PG once. They are geniuses at making teams run well. Everything Devonte lacks right now he might have learned from Nic. You can't learn it watching them. You have to play with them. This genius is what makes Larry such a great coach. It's how Larry finds so many genius PGs and coaches that operate teams beautifully. It takes one to know one, or at least it helps. Larry doesn't look for just talent. He looks for genius. They are different things. Most coaches are nearly blinded to playing genius by physical talent and frankly surprised by genius. Talent is mostly all they look for. In contrast, Larry is walking around looking for the physical and skill pieces of a team, but he is also recognizing genius. It's how he hired Self, and found Pritch, and all those guys no one wanted in San Antonio's front office, and every where else he has gone. Even Cal has some of this genius. Larry picks guys for assistants that he thinks get it. Of course, genius isn't enough. Many geniuses lack other skills. Many aren't driven enough, or confident enough, or don't have quite enough physical ability. Nic would be starting on the KU team, if he were on it. He has point guard genius written all over him. Nic was what enabled the KU team to run so well in the WUGs. People that thought Devonte was going to make KU better than Nic didn't get the genius thing, what Nic was doing. Those folks can read a line score, but they can't see how a guy like Nic is constantly moving to enable circuits of ball movement that wouldn't happen at all with an ordinary player. . Larry did Bill and KU a HUGE favor.
In a recent thread about likely starters for the KU/Holy Cross game started by @benshawks08, some discussion about per minute productivity occurred that caused me to recognize at least part of why I tend to interpret who should be playing and who should be sitting somewhat differently than quite a few board rats. It caused me to try to distill the issue of analyzing per minute productivity.
Per minute based productivity stats are fine for analysis, but they have to be indexed for the differences in starting and rotating in. The starter, if he were a cornerstone player, has to start against all kinds of opponents. He has to go against the guys ready for the NBA and the green wood; against the 1ADs, 2ADs, 3ADs, 4ADs and 5ADs; against the best of whatever the opponent has to start. The guy rotating for the starter is often going up against the opponent's lesser players, or going up fresh against the opponent's tired starter. Against a long stack, like Duke, UK, and UNC, you can probably compare starter per minute productivity somewhat with rotating back up per minute productivity, because those long stacks are so deep, your back up is playing against a pretty good player. But against a mid major, or against an unranked major, there is probably no unadjusted comparison worth making, because the unranked major and the mid major are usually very thin after the first five, maybe first six guys.
The other adjustment that has to be made to get to a common denominator in comparing per minute production stats among starters and relievers is the situational nature of many relievers. When they are sent in, they are often sent in with a very narrowly scoped purpose. Self doesn't want Diallo going in and being a first, second, or third scoring option right now. He wants him rebounding and trying to block and alter everything in sight. It makes his per minute scoring deceptively less than he is probably capable of. It is the same at many positions. The sub has a much narrower job description. It inflates some of his per minute productivity numbers and deflates others.
What most board rats fail to take into account when arguing for more time for back ups based on their per minute productivity numbers are: quality of opponents encountered by back ups; and the differently scoped roles of back ups.
Nic Moore is a true PG. Frank and Devonte need to watch more tape of him.
SMU running textbook high low
SMU LOOKS LONG AND BOUNCY, but UM has better shooters.
Dubya was studying the game program hard.
LB COULD GET SOME SERIOUS FINANCING IF DUBYA STARTS BRINGING JIM BAKER TO GAMES!!!!
Janks is looking like serious HC material after some grooming by LB.
Man do I wish we had nic Moore back with KU!
Bob is tempting the heart to fail!!!
Huggy, stop eating. The game needs you.
Ugh, UVA GOT OFF THE ROPES
If Diallo can board and guard like Rodman and 2 inches taller, he is NBA gold!
Maybe give this to George Raveling of Nike and he can keep it with MLK's speech he got as a boy from MLK!!!!
Just looked at the roster @wrwlumpy was kind enough to post.
They've got a 6-10 lug that goes 24 mpg and Malachi Karl, a 6-7 guy that goes 36 mpg.
When the 6-10 lug is in, we'll probably see Lucas and Hunter.
When the shorter guys are in, Traylor and Diallo.
How much Diallo plays will depend on how much separation there is and how banged up The Tray is.
If we jump off to an early lead, by playing the quick trigger three offense, then I think we will se a lot of Cheick.
If HC guards well and hangs around, then Diallo will have to wait another game.
If I were Self I would not change a thing about Composite 5. Composite 5 was out only rock inside. I am an if it ain't broke, don't fix it type. I would however have had senior Traylor running Allen Field House steps for the three turn overs. But at the same time, Traylor looked completely injured and, given last seasons experience with players playing injured, I would have to guess the Jam Tray may already be operable.
If The Tray were not operable, then I would stand pat on starter and sequence of substitution, and just give The Tray a butt chewing about the turn overs.
But Self is not a stand pat guy, as much as he is a match-up guy. I haven't looked at The Church of the Holy Cross' big men, or style of play. So: if you tell me they start a skinny guy 6-6 to 6-8 at the post, and The Tray were operable, then I might start Lucas, then come quickly with Diallo, then Hunter. And I would try to get most of Bragg's minutes subbing for Perry. But if The Tray were NOT operable, then I'd have to stay with The Tray starting, then come with Diallo, then Hunter, and give Lucas a night off.
But if Holy Cross starts a lug in the paint, then I'd tell Lucas to grab his hard hat and lunch bucket and put in a nights work and come with Diallo, and Hunter and maybe rest whatever ails The Tray.
Other wise, Self has to try to separate on Holy Cross as early as possible and get a look at Vick coming in, after the egg Svi laid against Harvard. Its not Svi's shooting that was the problem, though that was ugly. Guys that go 6 of 7 just do later go 1-6. But Svi didn't rebound. Didn't really disrupt much. Self has to at least see if Mr. Mylar can stay on a spot for a few minutes and guard someone enough to make them uncomfortable.
Elsewhere, I am most definitely talking to Devonte about efficiency. His trey balling will come around whenever it will. But he's got to be more productive when he takes it inside. Its got to be a make, or an assist. I think you give Frank another night off from point guard duty at least to start with, and keep trying to get Devonte oiled up and able. Devonte needs the middle ten minutes of the first half to run the team again to get his confidence back. But if he struggles again, then come with Vick, or Svi and see what happens with Frank running the show with them at his side; that needs practice, too.
Perry is the daddy, so he's got to go back out and turn up the amperage on his own. He's got to push through that feeling of being absolutely alone in leading his family and then getting it done. Better now than later.
It is too soon to tell about Cheick.
If he proves he can adapt to D1 speed and violence, which I expect him to by January, or February at the latest, and make reads on defense, and offense, I reckon he is the kind of guy they would draft on potential if he wants to come out this season. He doesn't really have to be a big scorer, just show that he has enough touch to make it seem like a couple of years shooting practice and he could Knock'em down and that's enough for the NBA these days.
But I get the feeling Cheick is a very smart cookie and enjoys the team. And that NBA D-league is increasingly looking like a player graveyard to me. So: if it looks like they will just draft him to control him and then send him to the D-League, money, or not, I expect him to hang around one more year, if he doesn't have some handler breathing down his neck to jump after one.
Those handlers appear increasingly decisive in all of this. Its not just about players and their parents IMHO. Its the handlers that stand to loser their fee if he gets injured.
Thankeee kindly, Jethro. Let's go have some pork bellies on the billiard room's fancy eatin' table.
@JRyman said:
Would you give up Allen Field House forever and ever as our home gym just to be guaranteed a National Title.
PHOF
Howling!!!!!
But we also won't play every game as we did against UCLA.
This is why Self talks about 1/3 good, 1/3 average, 1/3 bad and about trying raise up the bad with things like going hard on defense, which he feels can be done even on a bad night.
Regarding your pithy set of why on earth questions, which I enjoyed.
The answer is: rotating a bunch of mediocre players and talented but sushi freshmen really does keep the opposing post men out of their comfort zones.
Composite 5 had a double double against Harvard. Composite 5 was largely why we beat Harvard, and it turns out, largely why we have beaten all of the good and bad teams we have played.
Composite 5 has had way more solid games than anyone but Frank and Perry, and even rock solid Perry finally lost his mojo for a game against Harvard.
Composite 5 is our ace in the whole.
And he will be even when we run into that OAD Number 1 draft choice center, if there were one this season.
Why?
You know why.
We are going to run his legs off, and bump him and bang him, and keep him constantly changing the way he guards and offends, based on a constantly changing offender and defender on him.
The opponent's superstar OAD 5 will win the battle with Composite 5, of course, because ONLY another superstar OAD 5 could have a good night and beat him. But Composite 5 will play the opponent's superstar OAD 5 closer than any other single mediocre, or single above average 5 could.
The reason we got out rebounded against Harvard is so obvious that I cannot believe I am the only one that has posted about it and reiterated about it and chastised the players responsible for it.
To re-reiterate, Composite 5 and Frank Mason got their allotted rebounds needed for us to be successful and outbound Harvard. It was the players that staffed the 2, 3 and 4 positions that completely let their teammates down as rebounders. Graham, Selden and Perry, plus Svi in relief, decided they didn't like to have to establish position and rebound against Harvard's unpleasant motion offense, especially. Those three starters came wanting an off-night, where everything came easy, but instead they got that terrible Bob Knight/Coach K motion offense with all those awful picks and all that staying on spots and shoving others off theirs, and all that contact that Knight and K have always required of their less athletic player. And Svi, who wanted to bang a little, then got distracted by shooting 1-6 from trey and he began to pout. Devonte, Wayne, Perry and Svi couldn't fill a thimble with the defensive rebounds they collected, and EVERYONE, including them, has known from the start of the season that for this team to rebound competitively, their three positions were going to have to be productive, because we know sooner or later Composite 5 is going to have an off night. But they didn't wait for Composite 5 to have an off night. They just went ahead and dogged it against Harvard.
Now to be fair, it is probable that Devonte, Wayne, Perry, and Svi were fretting some about finals coming. They are students and Self does make them go to class. But this fretting about finals did not distract them from hoisting a bunch of misses inside and outside, did it?
So: this is why the buck stops with these four guys. They let the team down, because they came out without enough want to for rebounding, just shooting and some defense. But of course there defense was also a big part of the problem, too. Wayne getting fouled up early because he lacked enough focus even to get out of offenders way, proved once again just how hard it is to get a stop from the bench. Its a bitch!!! Man, you sit on your butt on that bench, and no matter who much you chop your feet on the bench, your man just keeps running on the court and scoring and grabbing rebounds, and stopping other guys. Wayne, baby, listen to you coach. You have to come focused and properly prepared to play. You are a pretty good defender on the floor. But on the bench, man you are totally exposed as a lousy defender that never gets a single stop from outside the black lines.
Now I could rake Devonte over the coals for what he did on the floor, but,. well, Devonte has the baby face, and he is a sophomore teetering on the verge of succumbing to the sophomore jinx, and board rats love him and feel protective of him because he was a stand up frosh last season, and put on some pounds for Andrea, and moves like a player, so, like I cannot talk about his inefficiency without seeming like an ogre. And I've already pounded Perry into the cracks in the floor for what he did out there. He looked like a guy that that just broke up with his sweet heart and he just might have for all I know. So I have to lay off Perry. And well, the Ukraine Kid, he is another guy you have to be careful about calling on the carpet for failing to wear out the nets, because, well, because his whole world back in the Ukraine is in danger of being swallowed up in World War III, and he's packing a bunch of unnecessary bulk for Bill's and Andrea's excellent adventure into bulk weight acquisition. Gotta cut the Ukraine Kid some slack, right?
So: in the end, all we can really do is say the 2, 3, 4 and reserve 3 had off nights and have to come back raring to go, because sooner or later Composite 5 and Frank are going to have an off-game and we need those other guys firing on all cylinders when that happen to squeak out another 5 point win. The other nights, when everyone is playing well, and we are hitting 50-60% from trey, well, then we'll blow anyone in the country out of the gym.:-)
Rock Chalk!
But you never know!