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PapaG said:
I don't recall LMA fighting with a veteran guard who has actually played in the playoffs, let alone won a title.

Adelman lets Love run that team like Love is a #1 option. He isn't.
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Who is their #1 option then?

Go Blazers
 
MickZagger said:
What do Francis and Jason Terry have in common?
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Both true SGs stuck in a PGs body who aren't going to lead a team anywhere.

Terry lasted through the years with his jump shot but was ultimately a 6th man, Francis never got the J down and was cast out of the NBA once people realized he was a black hole.
 
PapaG said:
I don't recall LMA fighting with a veteran guard who has actually played in the playoffs, let alone won a title.

Adelman lets Love run that team like Love is a #1 option. He isn't.
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You're up there with the best of em. Make way Maris and Jlprk.
 
Damn. Just saw the tweet by Marc Spears. Rudy out for the rest of the season with lower back surgery. Fuckin Ariza.

The prospects for Spain in the Olympics are not looking good.
 
yuyuza1 said:
Damn. Just saw the tweet by Marc Spears. Rudy out for the rest of the season with lower back surgery. Fuckin Ariza.

The prospects for Spain in the Olympics are not looking good.
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I should go back 2 or 3 hard drives and find my Ariza avatar with 'DOUCHEBAG' replacing 'LAKERS' on the front of the jersey.
 
What's odd about Denver this year is that Rudy was playing like garbage most of this season, and Andre Miller is having the worst season of his career with a 14.7 PER (he was 18.1 and 17.8 under Nate) and his playing time diminishing, yet Denver is playing very well. Karl's best coaching job, but they'll be one and done in the playoffs, if they make it there.
 
I wonder if this is still related to that Ariza hit. I never even thought of that. Yeah, Spain is getting thinner. Maybe the young guy Abrines will get on the team now.

Andre started out gangbusters. Now he's playing with a separated shoulder. As he said "if this was football, I'd sit out..."
 
Rastapopoulos said:
I wonder if this is still related to that Ariza hit. I never even thought of that. Yeah, Spain is getting thinner. Maybe the young guy Abrines will get on the team now.

Andre started out gangbusters. Now he's playing with a separated shoulder. As he said "if this was football, I'd sit out..."
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On the bright side, Sergio just may make it back onto the Spanish national team! I'll guess Claver is going to get a lot of minutes as well.
 
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Jason Smith has now become my new favorite non-Blazer.
 
I find it so hard to like Blake Griffen. He plays hard and flops around like there is no tomorrow which I dislike but I don't have the hugest problem with. My problem is that everyone wants to give him special treatment. His teammates call out players for hard fouls on him saying that he gets mugged more the anyone in the league and when they interview him about plays were he tangles with other players (like vs the nets against Humphries a couple of weeks ago) he acts like the ball was already his and they shouldn't be going after it.
 
Wow... that's a 1980's old school Pistons and 90's Knicks type of foul. That's good stuff. Glad he isn't injured but you gotta send a message that Griffin can't just be making highlights on you every time he's around the hoop. If Griffin played in the 80's or early 90's, he'd go home crying.
 
Unfortunately, Jason Smith will probably be fined a billion dollars and suspended for the rest of the season for taking out the NBA's favorite highlight machine.

Of course other players hate Griffin. He has been the NBA's favorite poster boy ever since the first time he dunked. He gets so much preferential treatment from the refs it's sickening. He constantly pushes off and comes over the back on rebounds and clears out with his off arm on dunks. But, he never gets called for the foul because it would negate a Sportscenter moment. Instead of getting called for over the back, or clearing out with his off arm, he often gets the highlight reel dunk and the the and-1.

Welcome to Davis Stern's NBA Jason Smith. Even if you are allowed to play (no one outside of New Orleans will notice, or care), don't expect to get any calls in your favor the rest of the year. Stern's minions will send a message loud and clear - mess with our favorite poster child and you'll be sorry.

BNM
 
Del Negro sounds like McMillan when he had Roy. Thanks to InsideHoops for this ESPN article.

This is a team that doesn't know what it is. And there is little evidence that Vinny Del Negro, the person in charge with forging the Clippers' identity, has the imagination and direction to cultivate one...The offense still relies on the simple diet of high ball-screens with Paul and Blake Griffin, isolations for Griffin and, of course, Paul's magical improvisation with the ball when things get hairy. The Clippers rarely go to counters, secondary actions or misdirection. In-game adjustments are far and few between...Opponents are now prepared for that pick-and-roll, and back-line defenders are ready to rotate to Griffin when there's even the hint of a dive or a spin to the hoop. After a confounding loss to Phoenix recently, Del Negro confessed that the team's fourth-quarter offense was predictable and disorganized. Players have confirmed as much.

The defense has yet to climb out of the bottom third of the league statistically and lacks bite. Rarely does a big man jump out aggressively on a ball handler and force the action to the sideline. Whether that's by design or by nature, opponents with refined offensive game plans are having their way with the Clippers' defense. Aware that the Clippers primarily use a "flat" coverage to guard pick-and-rolls, penetrators attack the team from the get-go, scrambling the Clippers' base defense and wreaking havoc with rotations. After that, it's a sampler platter of options that includes wide-open 3-pointers, baseline duck-ins, or mismatches gone bad.

...Paul...must unilaterally manufacture a game plan. Time and again, Paul cruises through the first three quarters of a ballgame, well aware that if he doesn't pace himself, the Clippers are likely doomed in the fourth. That's because the Clippers don't have a fourth-quarter offense so much as they have a fourth-quarter offender -- Christopher Emmanuel Paul. Many of the Clippers' wins feel like found money -- games won spontaneously, but not methodically...Del Negro has never claimed to be a strategist. He maintains that every team in the league runs the same basic stuff, and feels that giving players the freedom and confidence to work their strengths is his primary responsibility as coach...Right now, the Clippers need...someone who can compose a symphony with his last 10 play calls of the game, someone who can devise sets that take into account a game's rhythms and themes.
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http://espn.go.com/los-angeles/nba/story/_/id/7726313/the-trouble-los-angeles-clippers-del-negro

http://www.insidehoops.com/nba_rumors.shtml
 
Kevin Love:

8.1 ppg in the 4th quarter of games on 50% shooting. Tied with Derrick Rose for 4th quarter average.

He's a 3rd option guy for sure.
 
MickZagger said:
Kevin Love:

8.1 ppg in the 4th quarter of games on 50% shooting. Tied with Derrick Rose for 4th quarter average.

He's a 3rd option guy for sure.
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The only thing he has on LMA on the offensive end is the alpha male complex. He demands the ball and attacks.
 
Love is such a baller.

Durant hits a 3 to go up by 3 and the next possession Love hits a 3 to match him. Tie game. 42 points, game most likely going to overtime.
 
MickZagger said:
Kevin Love:

8.1 ppg in the 4th quarter of games on 50% shooting. Tied with Derrick Rose for 4th quarter average.

He's a 3rd option guy for sure.
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Kevin Love 1 point last 6 minutes of his 51 point OKC game.

Also, one of the few 50 point/zero assist games in NBA history, in yet another T-Pup loss. If Minny doesn't watch it, the Blazetanks might somehow move ahead of them. Rick Adelman is a superchawesome coach, though!

Love is a stat padder. I've already posted 4th quarter stats for 'close' games in other threads.


http://www.basketball-reference.com...&c3val=&c4stat=&c4comp=gt&c4val=&order_by=pts
 
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PapaG said:
Also, one of the few 50 point/zero assist games in NBA history.
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if you take michael jordan, kobe bryant, and moses malone off that list, then squint a lil bit, it almost looks like a bad thing to score 50 points in a game
 
PapaG said:
Kevin Love 1 point last 6 minutes of his 51 point OKC game.

Also, one of the few 50 point/zero assist games in NBA history, in yet another T-Pup loss. If Minny doesn't watch it, the Blazetanks might somehow move ahead of them. Rick Adelman is a superchawesome coach, though!
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A) They were in the top 8 and surging before Rubio got hurt and...

B) They are way improved from last year so...

C) Rick Adelman (4 conference Finals and 2 NBA Finals) is a superchawesome coach
 
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