But on Saturday, they delivered a performance for the ages, setting records for margin of victory (44 points) and highest field-goal percentage (71.4 percent).
"When I tell people about it, they often start telling me how so-and-so spent ages setting up the new digital TV, or recount a lengthy conversation with a helpline in India," he says.
Altman takes ages setting up the fact that here is a town where nothing much has happened for years - until the eccentric Cookie commits suicide in a bid to be reunited with her late husband.
The second series "Voir La Mer" (2011), is a video installation that documents the experience of 15 individual people, of various ages, setting their eyes on the sea for the very first time.
The opera in question was Wagner's Tannhäuser, which lasts several hours, has a tortuous plot, a misty Middle Ages setting and a tragic end.
But Belmont's obliteration of what is basically an entire army inside the first half-hour of LOS2, in a distinctly Dark Ages setting, doesn't telegraph what follows: the degradation and decay of Dracula, who the game catches up with in the present day, a wretched wraith wrapped in a curtain.
