Do the clippers actually think they have a chance?

[apalisoc_9]

They cant defend the drive to save their lives.

All time great defensive team my ass. Statistically, they have been in the 10th percentile defending the most common offensive set. :lol.

Beverly a fake "great" defender.


Anytime Lou and Harrell defending :lmao

Restnard Never healthy leonard :lmao

Playoff P :lmao

[Yogatti]

Low IQ poster from Failippenis with another shitty take

[Clipper Nation]

It's November, Kawhi and PG have played a whopping two games together. Way too early to start drawing conclusions for the playoffs.

Also, you can't judge a team's defense off games against the Rockets, a team that the refs won't allow anyone to play defense against in the regular season.

[apalisoc_9]

It's November, Kawhi and PG have played a whopping two games together. Way too early to start drawing conclusions for the playoffs.

Also, you can't judge a team's defense off games against the Rockets, a team that the refs won't allow anyone to play defense against in the regular season.

nah man.

Lou, and Harrell are huge defensive liabilites. That is certain.

And Kawhi is bringing the team down with all his resting. They cant find a rhytem. He will cause them to fall to 4-5...and ultimately lose against one of Nuggets, jazz, houston.


I can these teams just hunting Lou and Harrell. Anytime that pick and roll defense become lou and Harrell..its game over.

You dont win championships with players like williams and Harrell playing together for significant minutes.

No team has won a confrence finals with that much liabilities

[DMC]

KL is autistic level efficient. That is really underrated given the chuckfest coming from "superstars" in the league on any given night (see Westbrook cancering out in Houston tonight fwiw). With that kind of consistency, if Paul George can elevate his game to get anywhere close to the hype surrounding his move to LA, it could get interesting if the team stays healthy. The caveat is if LW Jordan Crawfords the Clippers out of too many games by never seeing a shot he doesn't like but so far so good.

[FrostKing]

Hopefully Clippers keep resting guys and slump to the #4 seed so they can dump Lebron in the 2nd Round

[namlook]

Hopefully Clippers keep resting guys and slump to the #4 seed so they can dump Lebron in the 2nd Round

If Lakers and Clippers meet in the playoffs every game will be a Lakers home game. Like the Chargers they are the red-headed stepchild who will never get a large fan base or respect in LA no matter what they do.

[whitemamba]

If Lakers and Clippers meet in the playoffs every game will be a Lakers home game. Like the Chargers they are the red-headed stepchild who will never get a large fan base or respect LA no matter what they do.
I would love a wcf with the clips. LA will be entertaining af again. but you’re right every game would be a laker game.

[DC23]

Clippers need some size, a legitimate big man. They really have no answer for matching up with the bigs of the Lakers, 76ers, and Nuggets. You can't have Harrell and Zubac playing center against these teams...

[LkrFan]

I'm not sweating the Clipps. If the Lakers are healthy, I fear no team in the NBA.

People talk about Kiwi like he MJ or some shit. He's good, but he's not transcendent like a lot of you farmers think. No doubt in my mind AD >>> Playoff P. But let's compare Kiwi (9th year) to LBJ (17th year):

Player Efficiency Rating (PER): Kiwi (25.14 ); LBJ (27.65)
Advantage: LBJ

Points: Kiwi (25.8) LBJ (25.6 )
Advantage: Kiwi - barely

FG%: Kiwi (44.2% LMAO) LBJ (49.3%)
Advantage: LBJ

3pt FG%: Kiwi (30.6% ); LBJ (35.1%)
Advantage: LBJ

Assists per game: Kiwi (5.4 LMAO); LBJ (11.0)
Advantage: LBJ more than doubles Kiwi's assists, handles the ball more and still turns the ball over less

Turnovers per game: Kiwi (3.6); LBJ (3.2)
Advantage: LBJ

Steals per game: Kiwi (2.0); LBJ (1.2)
Advantage: Kiwi

Rebounds per game: Kiwi (8.0); LBJ (7.4)
Advantage: Kiwi

Blocks: Kiwi (0.8); LBJ (0.6)
Advantage: Kiwi

Minutes played per game: Kiwi (31.8); LBJ (35.3)
Advantage: LBJ

Games played: Kiwi (13 LMAO); LBJ (17)
Advantage: LBJ - no load of crap management :lol

Free throws: Kiwi (83.5%); LBJ (68.0)
Advantage: Kiwi

Out of 12 categories, here is the final tally: LBJ 7; Kiwi 5.

Even in his 17th year, LBJ still better than Kiwi. LBJ scores about the same as Kiwi, LBJ doubles his assists, LBJ's assist to turnover ratio is better, they rebound about the same, LBJ shoots better from the field and from 3, they both block shots about the same, and LBJ doesn't cheat the
fans with load of crap management. If it were not for "superstar" calls and
his 83% free throw shooting, I'm not sure Kiwi makes the all-star team. Talk about your NBA manufactured superstar :lol

LBJ > KiwiPERIOD. And I trust our frontline vs Trez and Zu in a 7 game series. Any woman will tell you, size matters :lmao

[LkrFan]

Clippers need some size, a legitimate big man. They really have no answer for matching up with the bigs of the Lakers, 76ers, and Nuggets. You can't have Harrell and Zubac playing center against these teams...

Size matters. Like the Shaq Laker days and the MVPau/Odumb/Baby Drew era, if you got a big versatile front line, you can cause issues for the opposition. I'd argue this frontline the Lakers got this year is better than the MVPau era. If they can stay healthy (big ass IF for AD), the Lakers will wear down a lot of teams and give the Clippers problems too.

Trez is fast and kind of strong, but he's probably 6'8". Zu (that's still my dude :cry) is legit 7footer, but he still soft. The Lakers are #1 in swats per game. If the Clipps aren't hitting outside shots, they gone be in trouble too. The Lakers are 5th in stopping 3pt shots (teams are shooting 33.3% from downtown vs the Lakers).

Protecting the paint still matters and protecting the 3pt line is huge - especially in today's NBA. For example, all Mike D wants is for his Rockettes to shoot 3s, layups/dunks and freebies. Lakers are elite defensively (so far) in protecting both areas.

So unless Kiwi and Playoff P metamorphosize into the Splash Brothers, I ain't sweating themPERI:lolD

[Bynumite]

^I mean, i'm not worried about Lebron and AD. I expect them to show up in the playoffs.

It's the supporting cast that has to step up and be consistent if they wanna have a legit shot, especially the IG model.

[LkrFan]

WK84KxOO8Os

[LkrFan]

^I mean, i'm not worried about Lebron and AD. I expect them to show up in the playoffs.

It's the supporting cast that has to step up and be consistent if they wanna have a legit shot, especially the IG model.

Good points. I am gonna say something controversial: Rondo is gonna be a major factor for this team. LBJ is the defacto PG. But what happens to the role players when LBJ sits? The offense gets stagnant. But Rondo is giving us 5.3 apg in 21 minutes off the bench. Compare that to LBJ's league leading 11apg. Lakers rank 6th in effective FG% (54%) and 5th in assists/game at 26.6 apg. This tells me that they are sharing the rock really well.

Clipps got good perimeter defenders, but can they consistently run faster than a pass? If the Lakers move ball, eventually their perimeter players will get tired of all that hustling. :lol Then we will pound their candy asses down low :lol

The Lakers have shooters (Troy Daniels, Danny Green, Quinn Cook, Kuz), finishers (LBJ, AD, Dwert, Kuz, even Javelle), rebounders and shot blockers (our front line is huge and versatile) and perimeter defenders (Avery Bradley, DG and KCP). My only concern is big wing defenders. If we can get Iggy...

[MultiTroll]

112 Clippers
102 Lakers

Oct 22, 2019.

:lol Laker Phans

[LkrFan]

112 Clippers
102 Lakers

Oct 22, 2019.

:lol Laker Phans

1st game of the regular season. Lakers were indoctrinating 9 new players. Clipps had their 2018 core + Kiwi. Even so, the Lakers are 15-1 since :lol

I do expect the Lakers to be 15-3 after tonight tho :lol

[MultiTroll]

1 > 0

[LkrFan]

16 > 0

FIFY ;)

[MultiTroll]

http://d279m997dpfwgl.cloudfront.net/wp/2018/08/SLUBB-1948-1000x771.jpgA team from another state beat these guys.
FIFY

1 > 0

[LkrFan]

FIFY

1 > 0

:lol

[whitemamba]

Size matters. Like the Shaq Laker days and the MVPau/Odumb/Baby Drew era, if you got a big versatile front line, you can cause issues for the opposition. I'd argue this frontline the Lakers got this year is better than the MVPau era. If they can stay healthy (big ass IF for AD), the Lakers will wear down a lot of teams and give the Clippers problems too.

Trez is fast and kind of strong, but he's probably 6'8". Zu (that's still my dude :cry) is legit 7footer, but he still soft. The Lakers are #1 in swats per game. If the Clipps aren't hitting outside shots, they gone be in trouble too. The Lakers are 5th in stopping 3pt shots (teams are shooting 33.3% from downtown vs the Lakers).

Protecting the paint still matters and protecting the 3pt line is huge - especially in today's NBA. For example, all Mike D wants is for his Rockettes to shoot 3s, layups/dunks and freebies. Lakers are elite defensively (so far) in protecting both areas.

So unless Kiwi and Playoff P metamorphosize into the Splash Brothers, I ain't sweating themPERI:lolD

We just need to stay healthy homie, it would be nice if our role players step up and give LBJ/AD chances to rest 4th quarters. That would be a solid positive. As for the clipps, Lakers size might be too much, but they have to play big. Lots of PnR's with AD, lots of post ups. Vogs is a good coach, i think he will make the proper adjustments.

[swrowe78]

I think Clippers are the favorites. I would take AD and Lebron over PG and Kawhi. But outside of that, the Clippers are better. Not saying the Lakers aren't capable of beating them in a 7 game series. It's not like the Warriors where we knew no one could beat them. But Clippers are favorites.

[LkrFan]

We just need to stay healthy homie, it would be nice if our role players step up and give LBJ/AD chances to rest 4th quarters. That would be a solid positive. As for the clipps, Lakers size might be too much, but they have to play big. Lots of PnR's with AD, lots of post ups. Vogs is a good coach, i think he will make the proper adjustments.

Agreed. I haven't really seen PnR too much with Bron and AD since preseason. That play is easily their go-to when they need a bucket. Nobody on the Clipps will be able to stop it (hell, I saw AD drop 46 on them last year, with Jrue as his Robin). :lol

I'm not gonna test the LkrFan curse. :lol What concerns me is Bron's mileage and AD being fragile (historically). We need them to stay healthy to have any chance to do anything.

[Laker_1995]

I think Clippers are the favorites. I would take AD and Lebron over PG and Kawhi. But outside of that, the Clippers are better. Not saying the Lakers aren't capable of beating them in a 7 game series. It's not like the Warriors where we knew no one could beat them. But Clippers are favorites.

Yup facts. I believe AD and LBJ are better but clippers are a better team imo. They have a good bench and are perhaps a true big man away from being even more dominate . I still don’t think Zubac is ready for that challenge and harrel is nice but undersized for the 5. I’m sure a great mind like west is already surveying the field to see what trades he can make. I believe the clippers are the #1 fav but I still believe we have a change along with Denver HOu and maybe Utah. It’s nice knowing it’s not a huge gap as you said with GSW. eveeyone has a legitimate chance in the west

[whitemamba]

Agreed. I haven't really seen PnR too much with Bron and AD since preseason. That play is easily their go-to when they need a bucket. Nobody on the Clipps will be able to stop it (hell, I saw AD drop 46 on them last year, with Jrue as his Robin). :lol

I'm not gonna test the LkrFan curse. :lol What concerns me is Bron's mileage and AD being fragile (historically). We need them to stay healthy to have any chance to do anything.

Yup, i feel like in pre season thats all we saw. Hopefully a sign of things to come. These are good problems doe, unlike the farmers, figuring out what to do with deFrozen and LMA. O yeah, and how to cope with davis bertrans straight balllin :lol

[LkrFan]

Yup, i feel like in pre season thats all we saw. Hopefully a sign of things to come. These are good problems doe, unlike the farmers, figuring out what to do with deFrozen and LMA. O yeah, and how to cope with davis bertrans straight balllin :lol

:lmao

[DAF86]

Kawhi will spread everybody's asscheeks wide open on the playoffs. He's the best player in the World and his style of play is made for the playoffs.

[pookenstein]

I'm not sweating the Clipps. If the Lakers are healthy, I fear no team in the NBA.

People talk about Kiwi like he MJ or some shit. He's good, but he's not transcendent like a lot of you farmers think. No doubt in my mind AD >>> Playoff P. But let's compare Kiwi (9th year) to LBJ (17th year):

Player Efficiency Rating (PER): Kiwi (25.14 ); LBJ (27.65)
Advantage: LBJ

Points: Kiwi (25.8) LBJ (25.6 )
Advantage: Kiwi - barely

FG%: Kiwi (44.2% LMAO) LBJ (49.3%)
Advantage: LBJ

3pt FG%: Kiwi (30.6% ); LBJ (35.1%)
Advantage: LBJ

Assists per game: Kiwi (5.4 LMAO); LBJ (11.0)
Advantage: LBJ more than doubles Kiwi's assists, handles the ball more and still turns the ball over less

Turnovers per game: Kiwi (3.6); LBJ (3.2)
Advantage: LBJ

Steals per game: Kiwi (2.0); LBJ (1.2)
Advantage: Kiwi

Rebounds per game: Kiwi (8.0); LBJ (7.4)
Advantage: Kiwi

Blocks: Kiwi (0.8); LBJ (0.6)
Advantage: Kiwi

Minutes played per game: Kiwi (31.8); LBJ (35.3)
Advantage: LBJ

Games played: Kiwi (13 LMAO); LBJ (17)
Advantage: LBJ - no load of crap management :lol

Free throws: Kiwi (83.5%); LBJ (68.0)
Advantage: Kiwi

Out of 12 categories, here is the final tally: LBJ 7; Kiwi 5.

Even in his 17th year, LBJ still better than Kiwi. LBJ scores about the same as Kiwi, LBJ doubles his assists, LBJ's assist to turnover ratio is better, they rebound about the same, LBJ shoots better from the field and from 3, they both block shots about the same, and LBJ doesn't cheat the
fans with load of crap management. If it were not for "superstar" calls and
his 83% free throw shooting, I'm not sure Kiwi makes the all-star team. Talk about your NBA manufactured superstar :lol

LBJ > KiwiPERIOD. And I trust our frontline vs Trez and Zu in a 7 game series. Any woman will tell you, size matters :lmao

The bolded parts are not Advantages for Lebron.

[LkrFan]

The bolded parts are not Advantages for Lebron.

Um, yes they are. Bron's not taking games off. Vogel is making a concerted effort to play Bron and AD together as much as possible. The more Bron plays the better his teammates learn how to play with and off of him. All this equates to team chemistry.

Of course I want to reduce Bron's workload, but the Lakers need to get a jump on team chemistry. The Clipps basically brought back their same team from last year. They added Kiwi, PG, and Harkless - the rest is basically their core from last year. Their core being in place is a reason why they can somewhat stay a top 4 west seed even when Kiwi load manages. The Lakers don't have that luxury, given that they are tryna have 9 new players gel.

I've seen other ways that Vogel is tryna "rest" Bron during games. As I mentioned before, Rondo is gonna be huge. Again, he's giving us 5.3 apg in about 20 minutes. I've seen him bringing the ball up and facilitating the offense - even with Bron on the floor. Just last night Rondo had 7 dimes vs 2 turnovers, in only 19 minutes (without him, we lose that game last night). He's gonna be key for the Lakers all year, for better or for worse. :lol

Bron will get load managed later in the year but not until the team chemistry is sustainable enough to be somewhat competitive without him on the floor. Clipps have that. Lakers are tryna get there.

[Clipper Nation]

Playing LeBron and AD 35 minutes per game just to barely beat lottery teams doesn't sound like an advantage to me, tbh. Especially with LeBron's age and how injury-prone AD is.

[Laker_1995]

Playing LeBron and AD 35 minutes per game just to barely beat lottery teams doesn't sound like an advantage to me, tbh. Especially with LeBron's age and how injury-prone AD is.

I mean kawahi knees make him seem like he’s 35 and PG shoulders have been an issue since indy. He’s extremely Injury prone too. AD is 26 he can handle 30+ min and Lebron is averaging the least minutes in years. But That aside for us to compete we need to defend the 3 better and get more production from the bench or make a trade . I mean we’re winning all games we should be winning and people say their lottery teams so then should be we losing? Lol I don’t get the concept. If we had 6 loses people would say we’re over rated but we have 2 and people say it’s a soft schedule which it is but it’s stupid thinking . Next month we’ll face much stronger teams and we’ll see what we’re made of. Looking forward to it

[LkrFan]

Playing LeBron and AD 35 minutes per game just to barely beat lottery teams doesn't sound like an advantage to me, tbh. Especially with LeBron's age and how injury-prone AD is.

Here's a fun fact: Kiwi has missed more games than AD, yet AD is considered the "injury prone" player. :lol

Kiwi is in his 9th year. Should have played 738 regular season games (82x9 for you farmers :lol). He played 480 (missed 35% of his games due to injury).

AD is in his 8th year Should have played 656 regular season games. He played 483 (missed 27% of games due to injury). AD has played 3 more career games despite not being in the league as long :lol

Still not convinced? There's more. Kiwi has played in 82 TOTAL regular season games since 2017 (9 for Spurs, 60 for Raps, 13 for the Clipps). But AD is injury prone? :lol

Kiwi's already "load managing" a mere 13 games into the season. Can't play B2B? I think something really is wrong with his knee/quad areas that the Clipps not telling the world. If he has a degenerative condition that I read about he will have to load manage the rest of his career. He's already 29. Sad tbh.

Back to AD. He played 75 games in 2016, 75 games in 2017, 56** last year, and 100% of all games this year. He still gets nicked up but to his credit he's playing and not load managing. Plus he's just entering his prime at 26. Not worried here.

**AD would have likely played 70+ but the Pels held him out of games for PR reasons after the botched trade to the Kang.

Boiled down: AD has been way more durable than Kiwi the last 3 years and countingPERIOD. :toast

[LkrFan]

And Bron been off since April. He rested AF :lol

[LkrFan]

Dwert played like 9 games last year. He rested too.

Bron, AD and Dwert (arguably our 3 best players) are all rested and playing with "something to prove" this year. Me likey :tu

[pookenstein]

Um, yes they are. Bron's not taking games off. Vogel is making a concerted effort to play Bron and AD together as much as possible. The more Bron plays the better his teammates learn how to play with and off of him. All this equates to team chemistry.

Of course I want to reduce Bron's workload, but the Lakers need to get a jump on team chemistry. The Clipps basically brought back their same team from last year. They added Kiwi, PG, and Harkless - the rest is basically their core from last year. Their core being in place is a reason why they can somewhat stay a top 4 west seed even when Kiwi load manages. The Lakers don't have that luxury, given that they are tryna have 9 new players gel.

I've seen other ways that Vogel is tryna "rest" Bron during games. As I mentioned before, Rondo is gonna be huge. Again, he's giving us 5.3 apg in about 20 minutes. I've seen him bringing the ball up and facilitating the offense - even with Bron on the floor. Just last night Rondo had 7 dimes vs 2 turnovers, in only 19 minutes (without him, we lose that game last night). He's gonna be key for the Lakers all year, for better or for worse. :lol

Bron will get load managed later in the year but not until the team chemistry is sustainable enough to be somewhat competitive without him on the floor. Clipps have that. Lakers are tryna get there.

As if it's so hard to play with Lebron. Run somewhere and he'll find you for a good look. Otherwise get out of the way and let him workk 1v1. Also you won't get a problem if you play him 31 or 32 minutes a game, instead of 35/36. Plenty of time to build chemistry.
Also, while the Clips kept three core piecec in Bev, Lou and Montrezl, they also lost key players in Gallo and SGA. As is, they're far from the same team as they were last year. Kiwi, PG, Zu (he had 26 games with the Clips in 2018), Patterson, McGruder, Harkless. That's six new rotation players for this season. Five if you count out Zu.

[namlook]

Playing LeBron and AD 35 minutes per game just to barely beat lottery teams doesn't sound like an advantage to me, tbh. Especially with LeBron's age and how injury-prone AD is.

Speaking of beating lottery teams...Clippers got spanked tonight by a lottery team that had lost 10 of 11. Don't be surprised if players on the team start to resent KL's load management while they bust their asses every night.

[Allan Rowe vs Wade]

yew got dettt right sweetheart

[Clipper Nation]

Looking like fraudulent pretenders once again. Pathetic.

[LkrFan]

Speaking of beating lottery teams...Clippers got spanked tonight by a lottery team that had lost 10 of 11. Don't be surprised if players on the team start to resent KL's load management while they bust their asses every night.

Bingo! They are busting their asses. Kiwi picking and choosing when he feels like playing. I could see Somali calling him out tbh. :corn:

[apalisoc_9]

Autist thought hed win a ring with playoff P

:lmao


5pts..Your robin 5 pts :lmao

Kiwi 40% FG :lmao

[apalisoc_9]

Bingo! They are busting their asses. Kiwi picking and choosing when he feels like playing. I could see Somali calling him out tbh. :corn:

worst. He gets to shot 25 shots a game to his hearts content while joe ingles son playing b2b after two major injury

[Laker_1995]

Looking like fraudulent pretenders once again. Pathetic.

we should have lost to Memphis CHi and New Orleans. Y’all straight lol . Shit games happen

[LkrFan]

worst. He gets to shot 25 shots a game to his hearts content while joe ingles son playing b2b after two major injury

:lol

[Bynumite]

To be fair, Rodney McGruder was injured otherwise clips would have won tbh.

[namlook]

To be fair, Rodney McGruder was injured otherwise clips would have won tbh.

Hmm. Rodney the real Clippers MVP?

[Dirks_Finale]

Against that vaunted Spurs defense...the likes of a male person named "Patty" and Marco and the gang. Totally understandable.
Autist thought hed win a ring with playoff P

:lmao


5pts..Your robin 5 pts :lmao

Kiwi 40% FG :lmao

[SuperCam]

Playoff piss at it again... he aint ever good enough to help beat LeKang on the road :lol

And kiwi has been overrated for the year per par, he's not even performing better than old teammate siakam..