Terrible, I was at the game. Kaman was horrible, he didn’t recognize the hard double team. We couldn’t hit a jump shot. Only good thing was Novak is a good shooter, B. Davis is the best clipper PG ever and Baron showed his leadership w/ a post game scolding to get the team focused

we better win against denver on friday night. with or without camby Melo is out and this is pretty much our only real good chance of winning for a good 5 games to come. not to be pessimist but we have the jazz twice then the lakers then houston and dallas. at least deron williams might be out.

Loved:
-Thomas’ first 7 points, without which we might have lost by 50.
-Baron’s first quarter. Once he gets back to 100%, we’ll get a much more prolonged effect.

Liked:
Novak nailing some threes…he was the only guy with a positive +/-
Camby’s little interview in the 3rd quarter.

Didn’t Like:
-Thornton tonight, even though he was our high scorer and his stats look ok. I don’t like him with the ball in his hands, I like him finishing around the basket and taking open shots much better.
-Our Bench
-Jason Hart…I’ll be happy when he’s finally 3rd string
-Tim Thomas after those first 7 points
-DeAndre’s DNP-CD

Scared by:
-Kaman 0.5
-Our 2nd and 3rd scoring options/ inside game.
-Our team w/out Baron on the floor

Never ever seen him pass so much in my life…he had 6 assists! I expected him to try and score more, but it seemed like he was almost afraid of shooting the ball. It’s only one game…Denver should be a more pleasant game, as we can see if the Clips can sustain more than a few minutes of uptempo ball.

After all the TT bashing during the offseason, its good to see him non-injured and interested again. He’s a versatile dude.

first off i have to say the lakers are ridiculously good.

My friend who claims to be a laker AND clipper fans so that he always wins, was IMing me from the game via his tmobile G1.

And well I could have been at the game had I made the choice to drive down from the bay area (I didn’t fearing something horrible like this would make my 5 hours of driving feel even more terrible).

That said, tim thomas looked like he actually cared and Baron davis at least for a while made it interesting. I personally hate these laked- clipper games because its always basically a road game. The clippers basically only have 39 home games a year.

Overall the team was terrible especially the 2nd unit. Kaman needs some new drugs. And I’m really thinking that we could have used jason williams out there instead of hart. I’m almost ready for mike taylor as the 2nd stringer even though watching him play he seemed rather erratic (Though on the box score he had 0 turnovers). Eric gordon also seeme dto be really annoyed by sasha vujacic . He’ll need to learn how to get away from those annoying types and I’m sure he will.

Also on a side note, since I’m in warrior country watching the warriors game (after the clippers were down 30 I wathced the end of the warriors-hornet) towards the end maggette was basically their go to guy, just have him run into the paint draw a foul. They actually were up with about 28 seconds left and then chris paul basically killed them on an iso. I’m still surprised it was even close. The warriors dont even have a point guard. They basically played 3 SGs the entire game and managed to go toe to toe with the hornets.

I really hope the clippers pull it together and are at least compeittive. I mean if the warriors with no pg at all can be competitive the clippers better be able to. The lakers though did play particularly well. I dont think they can possibly continue shooting 70% from the 3 among other things.

Kaman would leave his man and go for the block… but he wouldn’t jump high enough and the ball whizzed right past, and if the shot was missed, he was in no position to get the rebound. You cannot do that when you’re the only rebounding force on the game. our guards and wings have to do a better job on defense when when kaman or camby are out.

This game really looked like a pickup team with no idea where anyone was supposed to be vs. a well coached ball club. The only reason we were tied after the 1st was the 4 possesions in a row with good defense leading to baskets. I was expecting a different team, due to all the new players, but still some commitment to defense.

A few other notes from watching before the 4th quarter, which was my breaking point:
-No one knew how to play with B.Davis except Thornton. Thornton’s best points all came from slashing to the basket and converting without dribbling the ball.
-Our perimiter defense was horrible. Fisher was open every time he worked off of a screen. All of our rotations were very sloppy.
-I didn’t see one pick and roll. Not one. In fact it looked like everyone was runnning away from the picks, leaving them trapped in a corner with two defenders.
-We’re going to have a hard time keeping Kaman active if no one passes him the ball when he has his man sealed off. Not only that but it puts him in horrible rebounding position. The worst offender was Thornton, who several times had the ball in the corner with an easy pass to Kaman for a post shot, and instead he ran at his defender for a contested 15 footer. If Kaman doesn’t get that ball, then he’s going start doing the “drive from 3 point line and flip it up move” that drives us all insane.
-Right now there is no conception of who our second and third scoring options are. It looks like a fight between Thornton and Kaman, and it should be Kaman, but the center can’t score without the ball.
-That lineup we came out with in the second quarter screamed disaster. There were 0 scoring options and all the shooters were outside ones. The Lakers crowded the 3 point line and all of a sudden they went on a 17 point run. That lineup needs Taylor and/or Gordon for some ability to score off the dribble or penetrate the press.

On a posive note I really enjoyed Baron’s energy and leadership while he was on the floor. Personally, I’m going to try and forget this game even happened and judge us against Denver.

He let Chris Mihm score 10 points on him in like 8 minutes.

As the game started to pull further and further away I started to drink more and more. I do remember sitting next to an assistant coach’s ex-wife, her son, and her sister (hot).

From what I remember:

It reminded me that LA fans are horrible. No one cheered in my section but me…
I was frustrated with Kaman
I wanted Hart out of the game.
BD did not impress me last night.

This game was fine: the Clips were playing a preseason game, while the Lakers were a stacked team that has had a month of fine tuning.

So I think we just have to take the first quarter as our moral victory, and move on from there.

I have a couple of notes that haven’t been discussed yet.

When Jason Hart came in—back when the game was still competitive—my thought was that he has one job, and he should be good at it: stop Jordan Farmar. Play tough D on him. If Hart can’t do that, he doesn’t have much of a value, although he might make fewer turnovers than Taylor.

Dunleavy didn’t win any coaching prizes last night. It seems like Phil suckered him into leaving the reserves in for too long in the 2nd quarter: gigantic advantage Lakers. And MD should know that when Tim Thomas is a big catalyst in the first quarter (pleasant surprise), and then he sits with foul trouble, the chance that he’s going to carry your second unit in the 2nd quarter, without BDavis on the floor, isn’t too good. He’s going to need help. Where was Eric Gordon? You don’t have Camby, but why wait on playing Paul Davis—too much Brian Skinner. The 17 straight points, or whatever it was, was the real killer in this game. The Thomas foul trouble busted up the rotation, which was already stressed by Camby’s absence. At the very least Kaman should have come back much earlier. MD did a decent job of getting Novak out there—when the Clips were already down by 20—but Gordon should have played a lot more minutes.

BDavis showed in the first quarter that the Clips can compete and he even got Tim Thomas fired up. My guess is that after the game he began to voice his displeasure with Kaman, number one, along with some other guys. Nobody likes going to the bench fired up, with a 1 point lead, and then coming back on the court with the deficit of 13 and a ton of momentum on the other side. He was embarassed as the leader of the team, but the loss makes some sense, given all the factors. Lots of work to do.

Moving on, Utah (without Williams) beat Denver. Not sure what that means for the next 3 games.

Does anyone know the situation with the DNP-CD? I’m in agreement…if you aren’t going to give him play time, send him to the DLeague.