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Wouldn't have mattered as the Spurs would've swept the Clippers tbh. The Clippers were the Spurs easiest matchup.
Report: Clippers' Chris Paul cried after Game 5 loss in OKC
By James Herbert | NBA writer
September 20, 2014 10:24 am ET
Remember when the Los Angeles Clippers surrendered a seven-point lead in the final minute against the Oklahoma City Thunder? It was a while ago now, but Game 5 of that second-round series was crazy. Chris Paul made three crucial, uncharacteristic mistakes at the end of the game, and he blamed himself for the loss. Doc Rivers unleashed a tirade about the officiating. Two days later, the series and Los Angeles' season were over.
Looking back during a break on a commercial shoot, Paul told the Los Angeles Times' Ben Bolch that he still thinks about it:
Paul was so devastated he cried in the locker room afterward.
Four months later, the emotional fallout lingers.
"It would be lying to you to say I'd forgotten about it," Paul said during a break on set. "It's one of those things that I don't want to forget, to tell you the truth. I think for me, I feel like you have to remember things like that and therefore you don't want that feeling again. I know I don't."
It's stating the obvious, but let's not poke fun at Paul for the crying bit. Teammate J.J. Re cried after the Clippers were eliminated, and during the Donald Sterling fiasco it was an emotional time for the players on and off the court. They cared, so they cried. As for Paul remembering that disastrous finish, it makes sense to try to hold onto it and use it as motivation.
While Paul wouldn't directly compare it to the San Antonio Spurs' Game 6 loss against the Miami Heat in 2013, it's hard not to make that connection. Outside of his office, Spurs head coach Gregg Popovich had a framed picture of the scoreboard, with San Antonio up by 13 in the third quarter. He took it down last month. Perhaps the Clippers could do something similar.
Wouldn't have mattered as the Spurs would've swept the Clippers tbh. The Clippers were the Spurs easiest matchup.
Crybaby got
CP3 Kobe'd after game 5.
Very touching.
I dont see the big deal. He cares. It's not "macho" but when you really look at it with all the hugging, slapping etc the NBA sometimes is not macho. I was never embarassed when Kobe/Fisher cried as the Spurs murdered the 3 peat. To me it showed how much they cared ... and I think that has proven out as they continued their careers.
Make fun of Paul for being a flop/con-artist. YOu can even say he "chokes" (whatever happened to that best finisher since MJ thread? lol)
But crying after a loss is not a negative in my book. IF he uses that hurt to destroy PG's this year ... it's all good.
^ The hate is strong in this one.
I agree. but clips do have elite talent ... I just think Paul and Doc are a bit overrated. Paul is a great PG and if you love advanced metrics an all-time great ...but something just seems off with this team. doc has improved it as Paul did before him, but they just lack SOMETHING. Heck, even Blake added to his post game and Deandre improved on defense ... but yet I still dont trust them as le contenders which they should be.
Huh? I dont hate Paul ...or did you mean my boy, Amb.
So its wrong for Chris Paul to cry and blame HIMSELF but Doc Rivers gets 50 million bucks for having a child-like meltdown over the blown out-of-bounds call?
I wonder what the Clippers think if Doc Rivers ever tells them to keep their cool.
"The Meltdown" was the worst display of coaching Ive ever seen in the NBA.
Duncan didn't cry after Amy & Battier, but, I certainly did.
tee, hee.
I don't have a problem with CP3. In fact, CP3 > Parker and every other PG in the league right now, and probably since about 08.
And Malik Hairston thinks today's players would have survived in the 90's ?
Kirby
Durant
CP3
Hop off Choke Paul's , he is stealing $107 million from this franchise and always chokes in the playoffs....
Speaking of child-like meltdowns, remember when Amar'e was too ing re ed to stay off the court and the Suns and their fans melted down and blamed Stern?
The problem is that the $107 million crybaby thinks he's a LeBron type who can carry an offense by himself, but in reality, is a six-foot-nothing choker point guard who is extremely easy to shut down in the playoffs....
I dont know. I underrated Paul at first ... maybe I overrate him now. DOK's PG theory is interesting but I grew up on Isiah and Magic and that is who Paul reminds me most of Thomas. If you put a Badboy type defense around him and just enough offense I think Paul could win a le. I think Doc has some stuff to prove as well, tbh.
Paul is so cut-throat cant understand how people buy the Cliff Paul commercial version. dude is as ruthless as Isiah was ...
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I used to think Paul was the next Isiah, possibly better, but nope, he's just soft and a choker....
Like his good friend Kirby, he manufactures an image of a "ruthless compe or" when in reality he is selfish and can't win jack as the first option.... even with an elite defense, he would have to be a role player on offense to even sniff a ring....
Clippers can't blame on Sterling anymore cause he gone.
Problem with CP3 is that he is ball dominate, and his effectiveness nosedives when he doesn't have the ball. Isiah shared the ball well, and acted as a great decoy even without the ball.
Won't take the Kobe bait, but outside of the past few years he never really lost when he was favored to win, which for me has to be first criteria for a "choker". What i think happens to Paul he expends so much energy flopping, pestering, trash talking and harassing that he looks great early on in most series but falters late as the series wears on ...
i think he could benefit from a Bowen type to take on the best PG's and I do think he can be the #1 option for the right team and coach. Maybe I am wrong, but we will see.
Is there any player in history who has gotten more of a pass than Choke Paul? Routinely chokes, routinely raped by supposedly lower-tier PGs, never even sniffed a conference Finals, widely regarded as the 3rd best player in the game, takes all the credit from Griffin, flops constantly, etc
Funny how times change. I was leading the CP3 is overrated, not THAT much better than Dwill/Drose/Westbrook/Parker buss ... Now I am his biggest defender here, outside of Amb and maybe Harlem ...(not sure if he has disowned him)
I agree he is a bit overrated by metric guys... but remember Dirk was once considered a choker too ...heck even some called Lebron that too. Give Paul near prime Wade and Bosh doesnt he get at least one le? No he is not Lebron but he is pretty good.
The "taking credit from Blake" thing is the funniest part, tbh.... I've heard so many people claim that he's a product of Choke, when in reality, he's played his best basketball without Choke
Also love how before last season, Choke tried to claim that Blake "needs to be the closer," but then spent the entire season hogging the ball in the second half of games per par and choking in the playoffs again.... seems like he was just trying to deflect the blame onto the more criticized player
Now where I will go on the Paul attack is the notion because of some stats that he is the GOAT PG ... he has to go along way to sniff that. Right now, Magic Isiah, Stockton, are definitely greater and you can make a case for GP and Kidd ...
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