Remembering 2006

April 4, 2006

It was after that game, you knew.

The win or go home T shirt…. I still have mines

That was a fun year.

I was at Game 5 when we beat Denver. It was the same day that LA’s illegal immigrants protested by not going to work…and there was no traffic on the roads.

Anyway, sadly, they followed up their great season with EB getting married, palying with Team USA, going to Thailand to shoot a movie, then the whole team doing preseason in Russia, something they apparently still haven’t recovered from (they blamed the Russia trip on their sluggish play for like two years).

They then signed Tim Thomas, Cassell got old, EB reverted back to his career averages, the Clips started the season 5-1, lost the next six in a row, and never saw .500 again after that.

Quite a year.

and being almost completely silent through the 4th quarter and feeling a type of joy i dont think ive ever felt watching basketball

im extremely vocal whenever i watch sports, but i was overtaken by some sort of weird sense that i needed to just watch the game and do nothing else. like if i punched a wall or something then id ruin our chances of winning.

sam cassell, now THATS a leader. cmon baron. time to step up.

Game 6 at home against Phoenix proved that Maggatte should have been in more in Game 5 at Phoenix. Mobley missed 2 layups and a 7 footer in overtime. Maggatte would have made a difference in Game 5 overtime.

I don’t think there were any media references to “it’s the clippers” that year. Brand in the MVP conversation. I know a lot of you won’t agree with me, but I still root for him to get back to that level. It would kinda hurt cause we were supposed to build something here, but he did go from a MVP candidate to an albatross of a contract in like 2 years.

I’ll add to the “bad” though:
Bandwagon Fans

Although even that was kinda bittersweet, cause at least people wanted to be clipper fans :(

of the crap thats been going on with this blog. Great cueball just made me happy thinking
for one instance that we were better than the fakers.

we would have reached the Finals that year.

Is there anywhere i can find game vids for the nuggets series?

can give your song a run for its money.

http://www.realgm.com/src_wiretap_archives/68449/20100730/wizards_renounce_rights_to_singleton/

let’s bring him back!

i was up at 430 am one night, happened to notice a new clips banner, and clicked it to enter some contest…3 months later, I get a phone call telling me to claim my prize..i had won the grand prize of 2 tix for the whole season…i was so excited I stupidly told the rep…“anywhere downstairs is fine” and he gave my behind the basket 22 rows…damn! i should have let him pick instead of me, as he was looking for GOOD seats….nevertheless, the clips ended having the best year ever, and me and Z even got to go on court one break and do an event. It was a 4 player game of “make the layup musical chairs”…We had a whole scheme planned out…turns out the 2 guys we were playing were French, and both were rooting for Tony Parker! No way we could stand for that…Zack took one frenchie, I took the other, and we were racing towards opposite goals…at the whistle i was just focused on beating my man, and I raced frenchie and made my layup with a perfect finger-roll and rushed back to the chair..suck it little tony parker fan! Seconds later, Zack is rushing back to the seats and it was Me versus him. With me beating him easily with my cat-like speed…well, zack was going to Universal city with me if I won anyway…SO…
What I didn’t know, was that Zack had no intention of letting the frenchie even score,(Big Z is 6foot 5 and big dude!) he followed the dude down, and as frenchie attempted his layup, Big Z fully blocked his shot into the stands. frenchie was totally pissed…Zack calmly made his layup and strolled back to the chair all smiles. the crowd cheered really loud ( i though it was for my finger-roll!) and to this date, this is the first BLOCK in a game of musical chairs in clippers history.

BEST SEASON EVER!!!!

highlights bring back memories but… is there anywhere to find full game vids of the nuggets series?