I hear ya, I'm just gonna go ahead an put KingSpeed on block until the Grizz are out of the playoffs/win it all.
The last thing you want as a diehard fan that's supported your team through ups and downs, watched an entire 82 game season, etc. is to get trolled on during the playoffs. If you post on this forum, you're probably more than a casual fan, so you probably put a lot of energy and time into watching your team all year, and the playoffs can be just as stressful as they can be rewarding. There's no need to add to that stress.
With that said, on a legitimate note about the series, I see a lot of "doom and gloom" prognoses from the media and fans, but I still think this is a series that's going to come down to the wire. The Clippers have a hard time containing Gasol offensively, and we just need to go to him more. Z-Bo needs to stop trying to make his match-up with Griffin into a wrestling match and just out-play the guy fundamentally, like he's done before. We'll fix the issues on the glass... I'm sure of that. We're the second best rebounding team in the league, and we've done well on the glass against LAC in the past. They got us tonight, but if history is any indication, it won't happen again.
Another factor in it all is that Tony Allen only played 17 minutes tonight, and the Clippers were able to post 112 on us. I don't have the numbers right now from our regular season schedule, but I think that's probably the most a team's scored on us this year, and it was largely coming from the perimeter, where Allen usually locks people down. I do know off the top of my head that we held teams to under 90 ppg on average this year, and Allen's probably the main reason for that. Gasol is the favorite for DPOY, but it should be Allen. Having him sit on the bench in foul trouble for 31 minutes is one of the more overlooked aspects of that game. Gasol's the defensive quarterback, but Allen's the guy who puts in the work and locks down the opposing team's best/hottest player, regardless of whether they're a pg/sg/sf. Having him out for significant stretches with foul trouble enabled LAC to go on some runs.
