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http://espn.go.com/nba/statistics/te...rt/avgRebounds
but i do agree, you guys need a big, bosh isnt quite cutting the mus down there.
mavs are maybe the worst rebounding team in the league and miami ain't nowhere close imho, but rebounding still remains the shortest stave on our squad to be quite honest. we better land a decent defensive big before the trade deadline otherwise we're gonna have a hard time fighting the likes of NY and OKC, but i doubt phili will actually make the trades that will benefit this team knowing what a dumbass he is. our perimeter D is fine though and we can inflict considerable turnovers on the opposing team which will make up for our lack of paint defense imho
http://espn.go.com/nba/statistics/te...rt/avgRebounds
but i do agree, you guys need a big, bosh isnt quite cutting the mus down there.
everybody has said the same about Miami the past 2 years..these idiots never learn, tbh
Clippers are good, but they won't win a le, tbh..their deep bench is largely irrelevant in the post-season..Matt Barnes won't sustain his shooting clip..Crawford is a loser, tbh, he will be a cancer in a big series..Jordan can be exposed in a series..
More importantly, their best player is a PG, which eliminates their le hopes..
Clippers will either lose in the WCSFs or get killed in the WCFs, book it tbh..
To be fair though, I've been on record saying Chris Paul is the only PG that I could imagine leading a team to a le during this era, tbh..if he stayed aggressive and elevated his game during crucial stretches, they could win, but I haven't seen him do that yet..
Last edited by HarlemHeat37; 01-16-2013 at 10:15 PM.
They won't be 2nd round exit if they get in 1st place.
Not underestimating them at all. I watch the Heat and LeBron appears to be the only player still hungry to win it all this year. Bosh even came out implying its hard for them to have the same passion after winning it all last year. Tonights game vs LA will confirm my belief. Assuming the Lakers sticks with the same game plan which is feed Dwight, the Heat will lose.
Clippers have improved, but Spurs swept them last year. Have they improved enough that they can go from being swept to beating the Spurs (assuming we are 2 and 3)? I'm not sure.
I can't help but keep looking at the free throw shooting on your front line and ask questions. Sure Jordan has improved, but he won't be on the court if he's shooting 40% from the free throw line. Can't replace him with Turiaf, so I think they will struggle to rebound against a big Spurs frontline of Splitter/Timmy.
Would be another fun series though, definitely could go either way.
Great point, Lebron is the only flame that burns constant ...but come playoffs he will kick it up another notch and his team will follow. Plus Ray and Wade are clutch as though maybe not as much as they were in their primes. Chalmers also isnt shook ... I doubt Battier and Miller can hit 3's like last year but they also have Lewis. Rebounding is an issue but in big games Wade and Lebron rebound like bigs ...
I actually think the Clippers match up about as well with OKC as possible. They have a ton of athleticism, and a lot more ways to score than OKC does with Chris Paul facilitating.
this, the clippers have so many scoring options.. but tbh im not sure if i expect all those guys to keep those numbers up in the playoffs. who knows, but they def are deep on the offensive end.
On free throws: hacking DJ would be a terrible strategy.... the Clippers are too deep and too good on offense for coaches to willingly give extra possessions to....
Extra possessions? I don't understand. The Clippers would obviously have more possessions throughout the game due to the clock being stopped, but I wouldn't call those extra possessions because the Spurs get the ball afterwards. I term extra possessions where you take a possession from the other team through a turnover. The Clippers don't get more possessions than the Spurs by doing it.
If anything, its closer to describe it as giving the Spurs extra possessions. Ill happily give the Clippers 120 possessions per game if 20 of those are Jordan shooting free throws (at 40%, thats 16 points) if it means the Spurs get 120 possessions too.
The reason I would be worried as a Clipper fan would be just looking back at the playoffs last year. You were up 22 in the first half 33-11 in Game 3 and we got back in to the game by hacking Reggie Evans, who might even be a better free throw shooter than Jordan.
The worst part for the Clippers is that it isn't just one guy either, so when hacking them every possession you don't have to let a single guy get in to a rhythm. It could be Blake, Jordan or Turiaf, although to be fair Blake has clearly improved. The pressure of the playoffs could get to him though you never know, the same could be said of Splitter though. In fact, Blake absolutely has to hit his free throws because you can't afford to bench him.
It's the Clippers biggest weakness that they are bad at free throws and it gives any team playing them an edge. They're still a good team and the Spurs almost certainly wouldn't sweep them again, but I'd be quietly confident knowing that the Clippers achilles heel is there if you need to exploit it.
Would be a great, fun series though.
Pop can hack all he wants, but all that'll do is lengthen the game and negatively effect the Spurs' defensive intensity, making it easier for one of the best offenses in the league to build or extend a lead once the Spurs actually have to start playing defense again....
Btw, the reason why the Hack-a-Big strategy worked so well against us last year wasn't because of the Clippers' poor free throw shooting, it was because three of our starters were too injured to consistently contribute enough on offense to take advantage of the Spurs' self-sabotage on the defensive end, and we didn't have nearly as much depth last year to counteract that.... you still would have easily won that series just by playing defense, tbh....
This year, I'd love it if the Spurs once again decided to stop playing defense, tbh... considering how many great offensive players we have now, do you really want to derail any defensive momentum you may have and risk a total collapse, just so DeAndre Jordan can brick a couple free throws?
Derail defensive momentum? The whole point of the hack-a-Jordan strategy is that it is there to be used if our defence is floundering. Obviously this is the case, because we did it in the 2nd quarter of Game 3 when we were down 22. We aren't going to do it when we're ahead, or at least not often.
I think you're literally spouting nonsense to help convince yourself hacking Jordan won't be a liability. I don't understand what you're saying about 'defensive momentum', if we have any momentum (i.e. getting multiple consecutive stops) then we aren't going to stack hacking Jordan for the fun of it. It's there in our back pocket to use when the Clippers are rolling on offence and we can't get stops, as shown in Game 3 when we were down 33-11. It also takes the Clippers crowd out of the equation because crowds hate it and get irritated.
IMHO, when a team can't match up or simply sucks defensively, then they will resort to hacking. If their D is good enough to force low % offense, they'll choose that avenue, rather than giving freebies to opponent.
Not always true, sometimes teams do it in an attempt to stop a late-game run by the other team even if they aren't bad defensively.... the Clippers (an elite defensive team) started the Hack-a-Dwight late against the Lakers a few games ago when our lead started to dwindle, but all it ended up doing was letting the Lakers keep cutting the lead all the way down to 4...
Imho, it's an overrated strategy even when you're losing, since you're relying on the assumption that the worst free throw shooter on the opposing team won't start making the free throws once they shoot enough of them and get into a rhythm, but it's especially stupid when teams do it with a lead....
Last edited by HarlemHeat37; 03-03-2013 at 05:33 PM.
Clipper Nation with the horrific bads in this thread
LOL Lefty.
You should have a field day when Thunder fail to make it to the finals. They were also shoe ins.
Is me saying that supposed to make your re ed take any less re ed ?
yeah you really got me there heeeeyoooooo
I dropped some pearls in this one ...too many of yall bought the Clips hype
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