Clippers 100, Spurs 103- What Should Have Been

Honestly, I don’t really blame Ryan Gomes on this one. I blame our coaching staff and CP3. We simply got out-coached. How many possessions in the game were lost because of a bad-executed play? Our offense was horrible. We DON’T have an offense!

Here are some of my questions too: WHY weren’t we playing DJ? The dude played for only 26 min! He made a JUMPSHOT. Why were we playing Kmart when he was fumbling the ball and turning it over? I don’t get it. Don’t forget that it was also RANDY FOYE who saved us from the 15 point deficit. And why didn’t he get more touches in the 4th? I don’t get it.

The thing that you don’t see on the box score is HOW CP3 got those 21 points. He got most of his points in the 4th. Had he scored more or at least try to take control the game earlier, none of this would’ve happened. Why didn’t he just try to hold on to the ball at the end of the 4th?! I DON’T GET IT. BUT. I’m not mad at Cp3. I still love the Clippers. We won some games this season just because of him. I don’t mind losing one here. Everyone makes mistakes. I just hope that we can learn from this loss, and move on.

Like I said in the 2nd half game thread, you have to stick with the guys that got you there in the first place.

Poor coaching on the part of VDN to bring in Gomes to throw the ball in at the most crucial point of the game.

Poor execution on the part of Gomes to overlook his other teammates during the most crucial point of the game.

Poor choice by CP to try and save that turnover from happening. In hindsight, they would’ve been better off going back on defense. Time was in their favor and the Spurs were out of timeouts, i recall correctly.

All in all, the comeback was nice. The overall result was bittersweet. As a fan, you can definitely sense the way this team has dug in deep, esp. on defense since losing to the Cavs.

It’d be nice to see them sweep the next two games leading up to the Break.

I mean, it’s bad enough that Ryan Gomes sucks. It’s bad enough that Ryan Gomes showed he can’t throw an inbounds pass late in a game when we needed one against Philadelphia. But to make him do it again when he hadn’t played since 4:24 left in the 2nd quarter? That’s just down right abysmal coaching. I blame Ryan Gomes for the pass but Vinny Del Negro deserves even bigger blame for putting him into that position in the first place. How a Paul-Williams-Foye-Martin-Blake lineup isn’t in there at the end is beyond me. Just have Foye inbound the ball or have Blake do it while Martin sets a screen. Don’t rely on a bench player who has been ridiculed all season long to do the job. It’s the worst kind of coaching. It’s incompetence. And that kind of crap gets you fired.

Yes, he rushed the pass, yes he had the fate of the game in his hands, but he didn’t pass it to a Spur, he passed it to Paul, so he found his guy, only he overthrew the ball, too strong with it. However, Gary Neal is the LAST player you want having the ball in this situation, and that’s the ONLY reason WHY he was the ONLY Spur on the backcourt side of the ball, in case the Spurs stole the inbounds pass…right there, as Neal catches the ball, Foye is right in front of him, and just looks. Paul, upset at Gomes (or himself) doesn’t even bother running to Neal to foul him. They just hoped he’d miss and, if not, at least it’s just OT. Right?

Then, the play that REALLY pissed me the F off, because this specific play was designed by Pops to work the way it did: Parker has the ball, Paul on him, Duncan pick n roll play comes up for the screen, switch the D, now Martin is on Parker, with Paul on Duncan. Pass to Duncan, Duncan backs off Paul, so, of course, here comes one, then two Clippers to help defend Duncan down low. Duncan had Bonner and Neal wide open at the 3pt line, sees Neal, passes to Neal, right there I knew that the game was over.

The most simple of plays yet the Clippers couldn’t figure it out.

Pops beats Vinny. End of game.

Up by 3 WITH the ball at midcourt at HOME and we LOSE?

Talk about him (and his mother) on the blogs but to insult him and his family directly is out of bounds. Nobody is more pissed than I am but leave the man alone.

Real Clippers fans have been through hell and back. Don’t remember anyone ever threatening one of our players over anything.

Not the best pass but looked like Paul had way too much momentum and it carried him. Paul is a good 3-4 strides away from half-court is he not? All he’s got to do it hit the breaks when he catches the ball.

With all who do have a twitter on here, maybe you can find the courage to go and try to put something positive on Gomes’ twitter account.

After all, he did play decently up until then- 4 points, a rebound, and decent defense in 8 minutes.

really Vinny??

Here’s the deal with this guy ^^. There’s nothing I can do. Right now, only Steve can delete comments/ban people. I e-mailed him and texted him, but I think he is already asleep. I also tried getting in touch with Raffo, but he appears to be out for the night as well.

The only thing I can do is ask you to ignore his comments and posts and proceed as you would were they not there. I personally garuntee you that he will be gone as soon as possible.

I was high fiveing everyone around me thinking we had the win in the pocket! I still have the sour feeling in my mouth. Everything went wrong in that play. Why did Foye give Neal that much space? Didn’t he know he is a great 3pt shooter? Whatever…you can’t win them all, even though you want. The great teams rise from the ashes and this shouldn’t faze us

but I am going to hide it until steve can fix it up tomorrow.

Two great players who have a style of play that keeps them off the court as much as on it.
He now may be out a while (again) with a strained oblique. With Splitter also out that means more minutes for Duncan who Pop has been watching his minutes.

in about 2 1/2 minutes.

Kind of strange seeing we went from being the youngest team to the 5th oldest.

But, except for Cleveland (same as us), we have still played less games than any other team. Some have played 4 more games than us.

Rule #1 about inbound passes: DO NOT THROW IT IN A CORNER. Rule #2: DO NOT THROW IT AT THE HALFCOURT LINE! THROW IT BEFORE IT OR ON THE OTHER SIDE!

E Bled and Mo and Foye need to play together more often. We saw it last year the last quarter of the season. There’s actually a real chemistry between those 3 when theyre in the game together. that start of the 4th quarter lineup should be those guys and Blake and DJ. We’d run teams out of the building even before CP3 got back in the game. I think we might see it again because coaches never forget whats good to them (case in point: Jeremy Lin). Bled is about to play again and produce.