shooting blanks

In her closing argument on Wednesday, Farkas said Crump’s “smoking gun was shooting blanks.”

“They were shooting blanks,” she said.

DeRozan, who has a long history of playoff struggles, and LaVine, who made the first postseason appearance of his eight-year career Sunday, can’t keep shooting blanks.

Even fake guns, shooting blanks — the recoil, the vibrations, and you’re doing it for six hours a day.

The tough gunslinger dressed in black, he becomes a malfunctioning “Westworld” robot programmed to own the libs, walking in circles and shooting blanks.