The two rookies; Gordon and Taylor are our two best players right now, with Camby coming in third. I think the go-to-guy on this team has to be Gordon, the ball needs to touch his hand on every posession. After cooly hitting the 3-pointer to tie the ball game, I don’t remember Gordon didn’t get another touch on the final two posessions.

Taylor expends alot of energy on the floor, and if we could have gotten 3 more minutes out of him tonight, we probably could have pulled this game out. I like that Kim Hughes wasn’t afraid to play all three rookies at the same time. Give DeAndre more minutes and he will help us with rebounds and blocks.

My worry is that Miami got embarassed by Portland tonight…they lost by 38 and D-Wade has too much pride for that. He is going to come out with a vegenance on Saturday. If Baron has to guard Wade down the stretch, it can get really ugly.

We need to win 2 out of 3 from here on out just to get to 41 wins. There is no margin for error now. If we can turn it completely around and play .667 ball the rest of the season to get back to .500, then we can probably lay claim to being the best come-back team in NBA history.

It was a horrible flop, and Hughes left them out there way too long. You can see the value of the rotations though. Randolph will be a big help once he gets his feet underneath him.

Definitely with you on Saturday’s game. I’m expecting us to win that as well.

Was Deandre lost out there? His best offense and defense was to foul the other player.

In the 2nd quarter, the Nuggets just dribbled up court and then the refs stopped play. I thought they called 3 secs but they the clippers the ball and couldn’t a 2 pt basket. Only problem is nobody shot the ball. Kenyon was awarded two points??? What the hell happened?

Making those definitive statements…. “they WILL win this one.”

I just hope you’ve done some voodoo magic and broken yourself of the curse of anti-nostradamus

…seems to be that they can’t put together a good offensive and defensive effort in the same game. If they can figure that out, they’ll be fine, but that would mean something we haven’t seen very much from Dumb Looney.

yeah mardy collins is horrible. at least he didnt jack up any shots. I was glad jordan got some minutes but hes very very far away from being nba ready.

I don’t expect scoring from Mardy.

I think that the key to the Clippers’ little glimmer of hope here, along with having virtually no expectations at this point, is taking away some weak, conservative, and frustrating options from Dunleavy.

I have to say that Eric Gordon’s success isn’t a surprise to me at all. I was a bit concerned about him as a pick but we all studied him very carefully, and in the end he seemed like a great choice, perfectly suited to the Clippers needs—and that was before the BD deal. There were still some questions after the quick exit from summer league, but he looked pretty good and seemed to do some interesting things. And then there was his training camp injury, which gets forgotten with all the rest. But when he broke out in that one preseason game (Utah? Sac?), it was obvious that he was the real deal. Our friend Bill Simmons—ahem! still haven’t read his actual post—wrote about how he had fallen in crazy man-love with Eric Gordon’s jump shot. And unless I’m mistaken he had a couple of good quarters during the Clips 1st stage ascendency, and might have contributed significantly to their first victory.

But he wasn’t playing. At first, hardly at all, and then, not enough, because he was behind Ricky Davis. MD was never going to stint his Blanket on minutes, and it was probably sensible to work Gordon in rather slowly in his first 3 or 4 games. But when the Clippers started losing and hitting droughts, Gordon needed to get in the game and start playing. Now Cat is gone, although he would be a splendid backup to Gordon, but he needed to be completely removed from MD’s toolbox, and I suppose I give him some credit for packing him off.

The Ricky Davis injury is a gift from the gods. Of course, this “injury” may be a reason why he has been so horrible. The Clippers have been extremely ill-served by guys trying to play through “minor” injuries. The result always seems to be a lot of empty minutes and a failure to heal and play at the necessary, top flight level. Most recently, in Kaman’s case, today we hear that he hasn’t been able to jump and elevate for a week. So why is he playing, and isn’t there a chance of it getting worse? Whatever. No Ricky Davis, no Cat Mobley, means Eric Gordon in the starting lineup getting plenty of minutes, and a really fun guard rotation of Gordon-Taylor-Davis. And also some Steve Novak, who plays hard and gets rebounds and doesn’t force up bad shots—and if the other team is going to stay at home on Novak 30 ft away from the basket, that will open things up for other guys.

And Kaman’s injury gave us not just a little DeAndre Jordan, but a significant dose of Paul Davis, who was actually a game-changer in the first half and played well. Davis is going to have a hard time getting minutes with Kaman-Camby-Zach, but that’s the way it goes, and he seems to be doing a good job of staying sharp when he’s sitting. The big thing is that Tim Thomas is gone. Oh happy day!

didn’t BD just drive in for the foul? A better question, why didn’t they call timeout?

What to be thankful for this years as a Clipper fan?

Eric Gordon
Mike Taylor
And instead of waiting for 2010 to find out who we can get, we won’t be in it til 2011

Of course, Laker fans…for the comedic value. Someone just told me that this year Pau Gasol will definitely get his 1st allstar bid.

Ahhh..Happy thanksgiving and peace out .