But this is getting damn depressing!

I thought with the new guys(and so many others) facing free agency that the team would have entertaining games but just the reverse. No MDSR to blame. The defensive effort is truly awful. I tune in to see the score but then quickly tune out. The sad thing is tanking doesn’t even help since the Clips will still end up with the 8th pick at best. I became a Clippers fan because I moved to LA from the east coast and thought I’d adopt an underdog. 20 years and 100 k in tickets later, I wished I had gone with the Lakers.

if not then i atleast hope EJ plays

I really feel like things are gonna change for the better soon. Sterling was all about making money, he didn’t care about winning or losing as long as he made a profit. But you can tell, ever since we were one game away from the conference finals, he has changed. He is willing to spend money to put a good team out there. Unfortunately we chose Dunleavy to be the man to make us competitive, but atleast he Is out of the picture now. We have talented youth, an allstar center, tons of capspace (which should get us more than before thanks to the economy) and an owner who’s getting really really old and really rich and impatient with the losing. I read a mailbag by Bill Simmons where he wrote that Donald Sterling was offered $1Billion for the team a few years back and he turned it down, true story. Yeah, I died a little bit I side when I read that. But I think that and giving Dunleavy $5 million to go away, proves he is changing. I feel like we are in a great rebuilding situation and if Griffin turns out to be who we all think he is, then the sky is the limit for the Clippers future. All we need is a little patience.

is it when the coach tell’s the backup pg. run whatever play you want ,it’s not like it won’t work against these guy’s. thank goodness the ncaa tourney is here that’s what i’ll be watching on t.v. not the clippers.

I have to say that these games against the Spurs, this last one coming at the tailend of a road trip of absolute futility, is bringing back some memories of the bad old days. Yesterday, thinking about all of the expiring deals, I remembered the Miller-Gentry team, and Ralph did the same thing on the Milphcast. It’s a very different situation, although RL noted that team finished with 27 wins, but one thing that’s clear is that somehow we’re already thinking about before Dunleavy and after Dunleavy. Not that MDSr is a significant factor at this point, but his intensity and obsessiveness did seem to be able to raise the level of play towards a consistent mediocrity, rather than horrendousness. It’s going to get better, I think, but things could be pretty bad in the meantime. It’s also funny and annoying that it doesn’t take long for Sean Elliott and other types to break out their Clips are a joke and pathetic, bring on the local high school team material.

But I think that the Spurs and Popovich are on to something, something that has become more noticeable this season than in the past. There might well be a science to motivating your team to beat and even crush the Clippers, and I think Pop has been studying it. Human nature would lead one to guess that players might take a break against the Clips, ease up and not play their best. Eventually a bench player or some random guy breaks out and has a huge breakthrough or a career night, and the Clips go down. But I think Pop’s approach is to say, this is a chance for us to execute at our highest level. They won’t stop what we want to do if we do it well. So let’s play one great quarter, and let’s see the bench play their best, and the game will be over by the middle of the second period, they’ll fold, and that’s when we take our break. You can see how this works in SP’s chart. It’s a different approach, a corollary to the breakout games that we see so often. Random individual players often play their very best against the Clippers, with incredible confidence, but the Spurs seem to have advanced the phenomenon and level of execution and confidence to include the entire team. Pop and the Spurs seem to see facing the Clips as an opportunity to practice their blitzkrieg.

Anything else to say about this game? I like SP picking up the late season “why not check the score” approach, which is important just for mental health reasons. We’ll have a nice break during the playoffs before the offseason calls upon our collective best effort, but the futility and tanking and garbage over the last 15 games will take their toll. Might as well mitigate it.

The only other thing is the question of Eric Gordon coming back. We can all enjoy Kim Hughes and the way he isn’t pulling any punches—his halftime interview was pretty classic. “Our wings did nothing, they played no defense, guys are only interested in scoring points.” Dain asks him what he does in that situation. “I subbed. They came out, and I put other guys in.” Kaman’s limited minutes suggest that he’s not going to get his usual minutes with a subpar effort too. But the guy who is missing is Gordon, who can’t help but play hard on the defensive end, while he puts pressure on opposing defenses. The Clips will be extra pathetic until he comes back, and he may or may not do so.

It’s funny watching the ping pong tournament with new eyes, seeing how it’s virtually impossible for any of the teams to get wins. The Knick victory is a stunner, and gets them up to 23. It’s an especially significant win because it was nuts, but also because it wasn’t a head-to-head game against another Pathetic. Clips aren’t the only team going down easily. Will the 10 teams at the bottom win 10 more games all season? Seems at times like they might not? There’s no way they win more than that in non-head-to-head games. Not a chance.

The Clippers have fell apart for many reasons, no less that they have no interior defense with Camby gone and this exposes that Kaman cannot play defense.It also shows that Gordon is missed not only for his offense but for his defense,Gordon plays the other teams best scorer..Hughes is a product of Donleavy and his substitutions are rediculous.Hughes has knowledge of the game but let Allen finish the rest of the year as coach. Davis still does not play point guard by setting up his team first.The Clippers played better at Charlotte because they ran. Jordon should be given the playing time because he can run and has good reflexes give him that playing time experience or send him down to the D- League.

The Spurs always get exposed to teams that run and gun because of the age and half court
sets. I’ve never understand why the clippers don’t run against this old and slow team. Besides Parker and Hill this team is a boring slow half court set team.

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