QFBA Rag – 2007-8 Week Fourteen

Battle For First - Sorta

It really wasn’t much of a contest between Incubus and Rednicks this week. The teams went into the week as two thirds of a three way tie for first (tie-breaker aside) and one emerged as half of a two way tie.

Incubus got the oft-injured McGrady back but thanks to D-Wade’s sub-par performance, didn’t have his best week ever. It didn’t matter much against the struggling Rednicks just as it didn’t matter much that Kaman failed to play for the AWOL Chief. Kaman would have needed 68 for the win. Kaman’s having a break out year but he’s still no Le Bron or Kobe, who could conceivably have a 68 point week.

At this point, the Chief has to count his lucky stars that he’s but a game back from the lead and still in playoff contention. With scores of 161, 154,152 and now 109, this reporter is spotting a trend: down. Something tells me the Chief is already over limit on chest-thumping and strutting – not that reality will stop him, should he ever emerge from hiding.

Cap’n Takes Jr. Behind the Woodshed

Coach Apes says we all know who would have ‘one’ had Garnett played. I knew I should have sent her to private school! Cap does admit that he’s less than thrilled with his team’s lack of consistency of late. Boozer and Davis were sub-par last week. This week it was Johnson and Gay. If the Powerhouse PD’s don’t get all five players on the same page in Week Fifteen, I can promise that the Parrotdead locker room will be a place where nobody wants to be.

Still, 178 points on an off week was enough to pull in the second highest score for Week Fourteen, proving that this win wasn’t all luck. Sorry, Kiddo, Cap needed this one to stay on top and he got it. ‘Nuff said.

‘Runners Put didi’s in Their Place

The one time of late that the ‘Runners failed to put up the weekly high score they fell to the ‘Bus. Cap’n was almost as disappointed as Coach Hayduke over that one. Coach HD wasn’t going to let that happen again in Week Fourteen so he set the high score again this week while clobbering the pitiable didi’s, 211 to 135. Poor Coach Sisti was left to scratch his head and wonder when it was that his team had ever had ballz.

Coach Sisti clings to the last playoff spot, having done a remarkable job of keeping his team in contention despite the 4th lowest average in the league. With The ‘Runners, FJ’s and Bugz all a game back, he’s going to have to elevate his game to hang on to it. I’m telling ya folks, this ‘Runners team is scary! I’m glad they’re not a game behind me!

Yao! Bugz Clobber Gals

Coach S dropped Parker to make room for a healthy Okur and SeaGals wisely wasted no time grabbing him. The storyline was set for Parker light it up against his former team but ‘twas not to be. Parker pulls up the rear for Cher with 11 and, after Ming’s numbers came in, it was all over. Ming spent most of the season being remarkably human for Coach S, but followed last week’s 52 with 57 while leading his team to victory in Week Fourteen.

With the win, Coach S moves into a three way tie, a game out of the playoffs with the win. As for Coach Cher, too bad that she didn’t play the hapless Chief this week!

Week-long Yawner Mercifully Over

I gotta say, it was tough to care who ‘one’ this one. It was a long and painful week waiting for the teams to find enough players to fill their stat sheets. It wasn’t until Sunday, when Butler finally hobbled to a 29 point performance for the Gubers that the curtain finally fell on this four on four tale of folly. To be fair, Clutch’s numbers wouldn’t have looked too bad if Redd had played and Ben Gordon finally pulling in 37 cinched for the Crutch.

As for Guber, he does have some decent players if they could just have enough fortitude to stay healthy and play every week. It will be interesting to see what Gasol will do now that he is a Laker and no longer the best player on his team. At this point, all I can say is, thank God Butler finally played to end this marathon week!