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12-2 in November?

Is it just me, or does the whole of November seem like the easiest schedule we've ever seen?  2 meetings apiece against Minnesota, New Orleans, Oklahoma City?  3 meetings with Memphis?  The other five games against Denver, Toronto, Indiana, Detroit, and Golden State?  Denver has been a juggernaut, with 'Melo throwing his hat into the MVP race.  Toronto has one of the better records in the league and Chris Bosh and Bargnani may be a tough match up for both Kaman and Camby.But the rest of the teams on the schedule...?  Memphis has more talent than the majority of NBA rosters, just like Golden State.  They have at least 5 players that could be good for at least 30 a game.  BUT just like Golden State, they are a collection of "me-first" players.  AI is playing for his stats and a future contract.  So is Rudy Gay.  OJ Mayo, from what we saw last year, gets his PPG by the sheer volume of shots he throws up.  ZBo doesn't know how to pass or defend.  Neither does AI.  On a positive note, they've got a good player in Pau's brother.  He's the only one who plays any semblance of defense, I think.  Someone commented that if we don't win tonight's game, then our win against Golden State shouldn't count for anything.  I would have to agree.  New Orleans isn't the same team that took the league by storm a couple of years ago.  As good as CP3 may be, he simply doesn't have the running mates to compete.  They're a flawed team that we should toast the minute Paul sits on the bench.  If the Clippers play their game and not play down to the competition, we should handle a scrappy up and coming team Oklahoma as well.  Detroit is on the decline.  Indiana can be dangerous, as the Wizards found out...but we have enough talent to take them down.  Looking further down the road into December, I hope that the our Clippers get the most out of this stretch.  As talented as our team may be, I wouldn't wish consecutive games against Philly, San Antonio, Houston, Phoenix, Boston, Portland, Philly, Portland, Lakers, and finally Miami on anybody...! 

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6-6 is more like it.

by crab dribble cocktail on Nov 7, 2009 10:12 AM PST reply actions   0 recs

How many points did we (LAC) Beat GSW by again?

Everything starts out New, Gets Old and Dies or is Destroyed.

by HVYDRT007 on Nov 9, 2009 4:40 PM PST up reply actions   0 recs

Heh

Rare chance for us to be cocky, its been awhile since we’ve had anything to brag about.

FA in 2010.

by ClipperChuck on Nov 9, 2009 6:14 PM PST up reply actions   0 recs

its doable

but we need AL Thornton to step up. We need his points and defensive presence on the tougher Small Forwards in the league.

by big0lbad on Nov 7, 2009 10:20 AM PST reply actions   0 recs

thats really optimistic

knowing our team they wont get that. but i do expect them win tonight’s game(grizzlies), but i have less hopes against new orleans and even toronto got better though theyre kind of on and off. new orleans with cp3 and david west. toronto with turkoglu(sp?) bosh, bargnani.

by Final692 on Nov 7, 2009 11:37 AM PST reply actions   0 recs

You spelled it wrong.

It’s Turkeyglue and Garbagenani.

Stuck in limbo.

by PaperClip on Nov 7, 2009 11:39 AM PST up reply actions   0 recs

Just like the Clippers...

I’m sure we’ll lose a couple of games that should be gimmes…but we’ll at least take 1 out of two from New Orleans. I’m not too sure about our chances with Denver…but I’d love to see if we can’t get under ’Melo’s skin again which I’m sure we will if we jump on them and beat them by 20 or more…

by bystander on Nov 7, 2009 5:04 PM PST up reply actions   0 recs

hahaha.

In all seriousness, the Raptors are very good. I put them fourth in the EC behind the big 3

http://www.clipperscurse.com/

by ClippersCurse on Nov 8, 2009 8:56 AM PST up reply actions   0 recs

agreed

i really hope we have a great game in OKC andit carries over to the Raptor game.

i wouldn mind a blowout win, but im looking forward to a close game down to the wire (since im going to that game!)

by KidJustin on Nov 8, 2009 3:35 PM PST up reply actions   0 recs

OKC dangerous

they are. beat magic tonight, albeit magic are missing lewis and carter and actually had j.j. redick as a starter, but aside from that they did good defending howard judging from boxscore since thunder do lack a good center hopefully kaman can exploit that

by Final692 on Nov 8, 2009 10:06 PM PST up reply actions   0 recs

Hm..

Well, I remember last year when Durant had a great game against us. I’ve noticed something though, whenever we play against smaller guards who are fast, he tends to have bigger than usual games. Another problem we face is that sometimes we don’t box out the rebounds, which leads to offensive rebounds for the other team.

The key player in my opinion to stop is Russel Westbrook. The Clippers need to contain Durant, but something tells me they might have a problem since they had a problem trying to contain Rudy Gay.

by JackduhSun on Nov 9, 2009 12:46 PM PST up reply actions   0 recs

On another note

it’d be intresting to see how Harden does.

by JackduhSun on Nov 9, 2009 12:46 PM PST up reply actions   0 recs

stop Russel Westbrook?

See Eric Gordon 41 points 63%FG 71%3FG 2 Reb 4 Ast 1 Stl
vs.
11 points 30%FG 50%3PG 3Reb 2 Ast 1Stl

by KidJustin on Nov 9, 2009 1:05 PM PST up reply actions   0 recs

See 08-09 and 09-10

Yes, Gordon is having a better season, but Russel is a lighting fast point guard. He has to have the ball in his hands, which is completely different of Gordon’s game. Not to mention, this year’s Westbrook is muched improved from Westbrook’s season last year. I’ll admit that I havent seen a game of Westbrook this season, but so far he’s been able to shoot 48% with 18.2 ppg. True that he’s a turnover machine, but it just shows that Westbrook can have a really good game. I mean lets face it, who else is capable of having as good as a game as Westbrook? Thabo? Kyle Weaver? Arguably the next best is Jeff Green but he doesn’t score in bunches the way Westbrook is capable of. If Baron or Gordon can’t guard Westbrook and lets Westbrook blows past him, Westbrook can have a pretty darn good night.

by JackduhSun on Nov 9, 2009 2:45 PM PST up reply actions   0 recs

Dude

If we play, and more specifically shoot, as well as we did last night in most games, we will never be out of a game. We will never be handled like GSW were last night. And if we can cut the turnovers in half i would expect to win.

by IronMike003 on Nov 7, 2009 11:55 AM PST reply actions   0 recs

Lets not get ahead of ourselves.

http://www.clipperscurse.com/

by ClippersCurse on Nov 8, 2009 8:55 AM PST reply actions   0 recs

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