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The Spurs were defeated by 1 man, tbh..Tony Parker..
We can rip on "Tom" all we want, but the fact is we got beat by him. .
The Spurs were defeated by 1 man, tbh..Tony Parker..
Steve Ballmer will keep Uncle Tom to fulfill his dream, a black coach and his son winning a championship
Ballmer needs to get some outside opinions from consultants. Doc is a failure of a coach, doesn't make adjustments even though we lost to them. We lost to Monty as well and he was fired before winning even one more game.
Yet he insisted on Crawful, Barnes, and Doc. Those were his decisions. Therefore, he deserves some blame when they the bed.
Wow I thought it wa sonly 3 prior to this year but 5?!
But, losing to Monty was your choice, D, unlike losing in the first round to the Clippers.
You're much too kind, Hair,,,Pop had the stronger hand in that "defeated."
With an excellent assist by Duncan's reigning wife.
I don't recall Daddy & Rodman being on the same roster. Are you sure?
pop getting on by this hack
I thought you were a Laker fan. 's sad when Spurs fans know the Lakers better than Laker fans.
HOUSTON – There were eight men in the huddle outside the Los Angeles Clippers' locker room, all of them wearing suits or street clothes and none of them looking pleased.
But only one was doing all the talking.
Doc Rivers, the Clippers coach and top front-office executive whose team had just suffered a case of asphyxia in the Western Conference Semifinals that won't be soon forgotten, was speaking with endless exasperation and surely trying to explain how this could all come to pass.
Steve Ballmer, the former Microsoft CEO who paid a record $2 billion to buy this team last August and was so -bent on bringing them all better days, listened intently inside their huddle with a blank look upon his face. The others, assistant coaches who surely thought like so many others that this team was finally turning the corner after its gritty first-round series win over the defending champion San Antonio Spurs, had open eyes and ears as well.
Playing Parker through thick and thin wasn't a choice I suppose.
You're a sideways er, that's for sure. Inconsistent and jaded.
"I want to fix it," Rivers told USA TODAY Sports. "I want to win. That's why I came here. I knew when I came here that roster-wise it was going to be very difficult. The first thing I did before I took this job, I looked at the roster and we laughed. I was like, 'What the (expletive) can we do with this?' It was more the contracts. But we have to try to do it somehow. I don't know how yet, but something will work out."
The difference this time is that the Clippers could wind up losing one of their key cogs – Jordan will be an unrestricted free agent in July, and the Houston-born-and-bred big man has made it clear that he will consider other options. Rivers made it clear that the Clippers will do all they can to keep him, and the fact that they can offer a five-year maximum-salary deal while other teams can only offer four could surely play a part in his decision.
But there have long been rumblings that Jordan is eager to step into a new situation, one where he's not always perceived as the third fiddle. He swears by Rivers, which certainly helps, but even his coach admitted there was some concern.
The 30-year-old Paul is coming off one of the best seasons of his career and is signed for at least two more seasons (he has an option for the 2017-18 campaign). Yet because the Clippers are so limited in what they can do – they owe a combined $40 million to Griffin and Paul next season and hope to add Jordan's max deal – might Rivers look to take the extreme approach and considering trading someone like Paul before Father Time catches up with him? Rivers, from the sound of it, isn't entertaining the idea in the slightest.
"You've got to give (Paul) just some more support, you know?" Rivers told USA TODAY Sports. "I think bringing (his son) Austin (Rivers) here (in mid-January) helped us. We've got a 22-year-old (in Austin), and now to me we've got to get another guard who's in the middle age group. So now you're growing with Austin and CJ (Wilcox), and we need another defensive guy too."
I thought you were a Laker fan. 's sad when Spurs fans know the Lakers better than Laker fans.
He doesn't even watch the Lakers, spends too much time trolling other teams that do make the playoffs.
cubby's just a bitter Suns fan making up an alter ego so he can say something about the Spurs. But deep down it kills him every time he has to type O & 48.
Because other than Doc's son who was pure in Louisiana, there are no PGs in the league these days. If Ballmer doesn't castrate Doc and his son he doesn't have a hair on his balls.
HOUSTON – One by one, the Los Angeles Clippers trudged off the Toyota Center floor and through a concrete corridor toward the losing locker room. From eyes empty to eyes enraged, a colossal collapse had conspired for a collision of confusion and contempt. Doc Rivers marched out dropping F-bombs. Chris Paul stared straight, silent. Steve Ballmer, gaunt and speechless
"We took too long to get over the intoxication of beating the Spurs," Doc Rivers told Yahoo Sports late Sunday afternoon. "I never thought we gave Houston the same focus that we gave the Spurs. Even though we were up 3-1, I never felt that way.
"We stepped back instead of going forward."
Morey let Chandler Parsons walk on a max deal to Dallas, signing Trevor Ariza on a discount and sparing his franchise the salary-cap that belongs to the Clippers now.
The Dallas Mavericks are chief among several significant suitors, and the questions for Jordan are these: Does he want a larger offensive role elsewhere, and does he think the organization can win a championship with the co-existing of Paul and Griffin?
"You can't take anything for granted, but DJ loves being a Clipper," Rivers told Yahoo. "DJ loves being here. We have an amazing relationship."
Once the Clippers make him the franchise's third max player, they're paralyzed to make the roster much better. Nevertheless, Rivers insists the Clippers don't need an overhaul of the Big Three, but an upgrade of the role players surrounding them.
"That belief doesn't change at all," Rivers told Yahoo Sports. "I want to do it with them. I want them to do it together. When I took the job, that's one of the things I told them: We're going to win together, we're going to lose together. There will be no life raft.
"It's hard with the contracts. I came here with a great collection of talent, but contractually it's now difficult to make a lot of changes. We aren't going to add any big pieces, but we've got to add the right pieces around those guys."
Quite likely a version of TDMVPDPOY and Lefty's love child.
He really should trade Paul. Point guards whose game relies on speed turn to after 30. See Enrique. See Isiah Thomas. See Allen Iverson (I know I'm stretching the PG definition here, but he's still a PG by size). See Kevin Johnson. Nation is right, the team should be blown up and rebuilt around Blake. They'll be in a great position to land free agents next summer with the higher cap if they can dump Paul for picks and prospects and just completely cut ties with Jordan. They can pick up their option on Crawford and then trade him too.
By God, you're right.I thought you were a Laker fan. 's sad when Spurs fans know the Lakers better than Laker fans.
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