Well, the clippers use flops and pussy ass whining to get them into the position they were in to start. I think if both teams played "straight up" basketball, we would have pummeled them!
I don't necessarily disagree with the strategy - I'm not taking issue with that. Given the fact that LAC was scoring at-will against us it was a decent strategy. But in order for it to be successful you've got to capitalize on the offensive end, and we weren't. Doc made a mistake by trying to go offense/defense when he didn't need to - his defense was keeping us from putting any pressure on them to perform on the offense end. And after Jordan missed 6 straight FTs the odds say he's going to make a couple.
That's not necessarily true. Yes, their whining is UNBEARABLE but we had 11 more FTA than them last night and that's including sending Jordan to line intentionally. We got a lot of calls go our way surprisingly.
LOLz
Nope, that's a psudeo-Point Guard running a lineup with no other legit shot/play creator. The offense would be even more cluttered, Damian is our best player, he is what drives the ship. The team needs to do their part in giving him space to work, he isn't Jordan or LeBron... He can't just dominate double teams.
Then the team needs to adjust, set better screens and this isn't an issue. It's not Dame's fault that he is getting doubled (besides the fact that teams fear him).
I'm going to have to disagree with you on this. I think our team needs Dame more than any other player. Aldridge is technically our best player, but playoffs are won when you have that wing that will dominate like Dame can. There isn't a fluke that Dame is always the leader (1-2) in 4th quarter points.
LA gets doubled but I think it's more because teams know he rarely kicks the ball out when he engages the defense.
Checkmate!
For the win in both counts
I don't know how you can type this with a straight face.
I was talking about pick/pops.
See my response to BDSF94.
No, he just doesn't like PG's who aren't pure passing ones. He wants Bob Cousy back in the NBA!
Oh, well yeah. Doubling would be kind of dumb though considering when he pops he is taking a generally harder shot. When he is left open I'd like to see him drive the ball instead of take a jumper. Good way to rack up fouls /get an easy shot.
Just to be clear, I was in no way suggesting that LMA would be doubled out there - that would be stupid. But teams don't even go to single-coverage in those situations - literally every time we run a pick/pop Lillard is doubled and LMA is left open. Teams are HOPING that we'll take that shot.
They should have called another T a bit later when Jordan clearly fouled Lillard on a drive, and Jordan ran complaining clear to the other baseline, and kept screaming at the refs that it was a 'block', and Rivers was all over them about it too. On an obvious foul where the defender flew laterally 6 feet through the air to crash into a player attempting a layup. But I guess it was 'too soon' after the 'message T' so they held their whistles. Whine City. The cake was Doc telling the sidline reporter at the half than none of Chris Paul's fouls were fouls. SMH
