How did you get the invite, do you have some courtside seats? I went to the open house on Saturday and the new facility is pretty nice. The showers are comical, the shower heads must be 9 feet high which makes sense as these guys are freaking giants.

VERY cool! I’m still not getting my hopes up like I did last season.. The team’s health can change in a split second, as it seems to do every season.

Hard to believe the first preseason game is 2 weeks away. Can’t wait!

Hopefuly Mr. Lucas & Ricky were working out privately somewhere else!?

I have never been this excited about the Clippers!! It comes close to the one day last year when we thought Brand & Baron were to be team mates.

It has been embarasing to tell people I’m a Clipper fan, untill this summer. GM, Dunleavey, my hat is off to you for the GREAT moves you made this summer!!!!! The number one draft pick didn’t hurt either. Now please Coach Dunleavey, let the guys play. Please don’t give them pages & pages of plays to memorise. Loosen up, smile a little. Trust the guys a little more. Trust & enjoy

Let the games begin, I’m ready to enjoy this season!!!!!

Nice to see they are no longer practicing in the Spectrum next to other gym members. Did you see the locker room? Deandre’s area has newspaper clippings of “Penis enlargement ads”. I have a photo on my phone

Did anybody bother asking if Dumbleavy will unleash the reigns on the team this season and have them run? Not just run, but have offensive sets designed for an uptempo game.

Great post.

It’s interesting to try to figure out the matchups with these ten guys.

BDavis – Telfair
Gordon – Butler
Thornton – Smith
Griffin – Camby
Kaman – Jordan

There are some different permutations within the bigs, but the simple mix-and-match seems pretty basic. Butler and Smith would seem to have to play out of position. Perhaps Griffin matches up with Thornton (interesting), letting Smith guard one of the 3 centers.

I’m kind of fascinated by this idea of the ten guys playing at Playa Vista. It’s great for energy and commitment, of course, and part of a larger training portrait. The difference between the Clippers and the Lakers couldn’t be more stark. The Lakers know that they’re loaded, and they’re trying to relax and recharge, and train and perfect their game and they’re looking at details, Phil is back from his Montana retreat, Artest is trying to figure out geography and Southern California (see Plaschke today), and they’re just trying to prepare to get into the zone, to show up. The Clippers on the other hand have everything to prove, and they’re doing everything they can, and they’re getting after it like they’re kids on the playground trying to make the varsity, not sure if they’ll be able to hang. It’s all new. Baron was so bad last year that he seems to be completely humbled and plugged in, and the mixture of his humiliation with the arrival of Blake Griffin, a new Big Dog, is just an amazing chemistry project. It’s all old school, but within the confines of the sparkling new practice facility. They know that if they put the work in, they can compete and do something that no Clipper team has ever done before. The time is now. So let’s play.

So let’s say that you’re Telfair, and Baron gives you first pick, then takes the next two. How does it go?

Nice to hear the guys are working out together early before training camp. It should make the training camp experience much easier, especially for the new imports. I passed by the training facility a few times since it opened, and it blows that cinder-block shack that the Lakers practice at out of the water.

It sucks, though, that the Clips won’t do anything to acknowledge and celebrate McAdoo or Smith here. I could understand Roeser’s point…I don’t think most of the Clipper fanbase (or Donald Sterling) even remember or know who either one of the guys are. This is as good of a time as any to build a tradition, right now.

Who would be considered? Loy Vaught, Ken Norman, Gary Grant, Danning Manning, Cuttino Mobley?

Vaught had a 4 year run where he was about a 15/10 player. What are the Bobcats going to retire Okafor’s number for something like that?

Norman averaged 15/7 for us over 6 years. I guess this means we’ll retire Thornton’s number some day.

Grant had a couple of good years for us, nothing retirement worthy.

Manning was our 2nd best player ever (behind FElton) and he was only with us for 5.5 years and injured much of that time. He’s at least worthy of mention although he left the team on bad terms.

Mobley only played for us for a little over 3 years and certainly wasn’t our star player.

FElton’s the only one who made sense but that’s no longer viable after we got Falked.