Season 50 Featured Game No. 5...Los Angeles at Milwaukee...Plus Golden Extras

Los Angeles 92, Milwaukee 60

Big One destroys Milwaukee

MILWAUKEE -- In a season replete with massacres, the visiting Los Angeles Big One delivered the most massive beating of Season 50, smashing first-place Milwaukee 92-60 on the Greyhounds' own home court. 

This was the eighth "slaughter rule" game already this season and the fourth in a row on the schedule. Comparatively speaking, there were 9 such games total all last season...and we haven't even hit the halfway mark yet this campaign. 

The destruction delivered by L.A. makes them 4-1 for the season and puts them temporarily in first place in the West Division. It was the first time all season that a West team has beaten an East team in five cross-over contests thus far. It was the third win in a row for The Big One.

The Big One, using its excellent guard tandem of Great Gruncle Terry and Flufferton Springs, got out of the gate quickly to a 25-14 first-quarter lead and were never threatened.

Milwaukee, now 3-2,  drops out of first place in the East.

POINTS PREVENTED BY TEAM

Los Angeles...13

Milwaukee.......4

TOP INDIVIDUALS IN POINTS PREVENTED

1. Quick Tink, Los Angeles ... 6

2. Lothario Fartlek, Milwaukee...4

3. Great Gruncle Terry, Los Angeles...3

PLAYER OF THE GAME

After playing for Milwaukee for one season, GREAT GRUNCLE TERRY of Los Angeles made his first trip back to the Midwest a memorable one, burning his former team for 20 points, a game-high 6 assists, 2 blocked shots, 3 rebounds and 1 steal. He owned Fatty McButterpants. The seventh-year point guard was 7 for 12 from the floor and uncharacteristically launched 7 treys, popping in 4 of them. He was 2 for 2 from the foul line. This performance locks him in for his fourth All Star Game appearance.

Other 20-plus GVP performers

-- The other half of L.A.'s dynamic guard duo, Flufferton Springs, led all scorers with 22 points while handing out 3 assists and grabbing 2 rebounds. Going head-to-head with another fine rookie, Thomas Thomas Thomas, it can safely be said that Springs got very much the better of that battle. He is a cinch for the All Star Game with his 19.2 per game scoring average, which is second in the league.

-- Another dominant performance by an L.A. player was by center Quick Tink, who won the battle of pivots with Lothario Fartlek with a 12-point game that included a game-high (tied) 3 blocked shots, 3 rebounds and 2 assists. The 6-8 fifth-year center led everyone in the game with 6 points prevented, holding Fartlek to just 4 points.

-- Having another excellent season is second-year Los Angeles forward Crentis Dentist, who took apart Entha Shortzone, the Milwaukee forward who was having an outstanding campaign. Dentist held Shortzone to 2 points while scoring 12. He blocked 3 shots to tie for high in the game, stole a game-high 2 passes, grabbed 3 boards and had 1 assist. 

-- The only Milwaukee player to get on this GVP list is 12-year power forward Ape Con Myth, who dominated his Los Angeles opponent Turk Attaturk. Myth used his 6-10 patented short jumper to amass a team-high 21 points while tying for team-high in rebounds with 5. He added 3 assists. 

MBA Standings … Season 50

EAST DIVISION

PHILADELPHIA…..3-1

CHARLESTON…… 3-1

MILWAUKEE…….. 3-2

DALLAS…………...2-2

OKLAHOMA CITY 1-3

 

WEST DIVISION

LOS ANGELES…..4-1

SAN JOSE………..3-1

GILLETTE……….1-3

SACRAMENTO….1-3

SEATTLE…………0-4

 

Next Game:  Do we smell another slaughter rule game coming up? It’s quite possible. The last time Charleston met Oklahoma City, the Mountaineers put a “hondo” on the Lariats with a 103-72 whooping. This game is in Oklahoma City.

MOUNT RUSHMORE OF EACH FRANCHISE

Fifth in a Series

BASED ON NUMBER OF AWARDS GARNERED BY A PLAYER WHILE PLAYING FOR THIS TEAM.

Milwaukee Greyhounds

CAPPY GAMBOL, Hall of Fame guard

DAN MANN, Hall of Fame guard

HRUNDI V. BAKSHI, Hall of Fame guard

LINUS MANDRAKE, guard

2nd Golden Bonus: 👎

The 10 Lowest-ranked players in MBA History

No. 6

In the cutpile from Season 33 through Season 40, 6-8 forward Gunga Galunga's was the 12th son of a Lama who's only notable brush with fame came in the movie Caddyshack, where groundskeeper Carl Spackler invokes his name in a golf story. Spackler, who caddied for the Lama's son once, asked for payment on some good golf advice he gave him. 

Galunga replied "Oh, uh, there won't be any money, but when you die, on your deathbed, you will receive total consciousness."

"So," Spackler noted, "I got that goin' for me. Which is nice."