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use the term "matador defense" when the team just stood and watched as opponents drove past them to the basket.
My impressions from what I had read about Catricala led me to expect to see him play matador defense at third. The kind of defense that has no appreciable range, timid and uncertain, only able to field routine plays and botching even them way too often. More "whoops!" than "we got this one covered!" Greg Luzinski at the hot corner.
That tells me two things. I probably wasn't paying enough attention to exactly what criticisms there were of Vinnie's defense, leading me to false impressions. Also, whatever you hear about someone, wait until you actually see them in action before you let your impressions gel.
The Jack Zduriencik talent pool is becoming amazing. Jim Bowden let the cat out of the bag nationally. But even with that, most people around the country are hearing about the Big Three pitching phenoms. Like a dam and a reservoir, they don't have a clue about the hitting talent straining to be unleashed in Seattle. They think it's just Montero and some guy with a name that makes them think of "Mars Attacks!" And even when they begin to see the sluicegates open, they won't have a clue about the huge trading potential that's accumulating behind the dam.