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Down to brass tacks: You don't talk ball. You just talk. Then you cherry pick among the mul ude of various things you've sorta said and create your banner and wave it over and over. When you're shown to be wrong, you deny it and make false claims, then you refuse to support your claims by citing your religion which is obviously being a chicken .
Please.
12 was a gift He deserved no higher than 15
He's a walking, talking second-round exit. A choke artist with an $100+ million price tag. He gets more love from the media than he deserves, while Blake is the designated scapegoat for Choke's failures.
He's in the same line as Paul. He's been wandering in the winds for years now.
I want to see a skit where Blake is in the "zone" making a sandwich, someone shows up in a car, and Blake punches them in the face over and over.
I want to see a skit where the Spurs win a ring, someone shows up in a re blue blazer with a sewn on patch|logo of West over the right pocket and that drunk driver of a GM has to hand your 1st 5th over and over.
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Chris Paul elicits MVP talk in leading Clippers past Nets
y Robert Morales, Long Beach Press-Telegram
POSTED: 03/01/16, 3:47 AM PST | UPDATED: 16 HRS AGO
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L.A. Clippers coach Doc Rivers isn’t stupid. He knows Steph Curry of the Golden State Warriors is the best player in the NBA. He’s the reigning MVP and will almost assuredly repeat this season.
But Rivers believes one would be hard-pressed to find a better player in the league than Chris Paul since Clippers’ power forward Blake Griffin went down with an injury. Griffin hasn’t played since Christmas night because of a partially torn quad tendon and, more recently, a fractured right hand.
Including Monday’s difficult-to-come-by 105-95 victory over the Brooklyn Nets before a sellout of 19,060 at Staples Center, Paul has led the Clippers to a 22-7 record in Griffin’s absence. Keep in mind Griffin is the team’s leading scorer at 23.2 points per game.
“He’s been the MVP,” Rivers said of Paul. “He’s been one of the guys. I mean, MVP voting is done already, as far as I’m concerned. But if it was open, Chris Paul would be one of those guys that you would have to say ... especially since Christmas, there’s no doubt that he’s one of the best players in the NBA, if not the best, other than Curry. Right now, it’s Curry and everybody else.”
Paul averaged 17.7 points, 8.9 assists and 3.3 rebounds and shot 36.3 percent from 3-point range with Griffin in the lineup. Paul had averaged 21.8 points, 10.1 assists and 4.6 rebounds and was shooting 39.9 percent from distance during the 28 games Griffin had missed before Monday.
Paul had 40 points, 13 assists, eight rebounds and two steals in Friday’s 117-107 win at Sacramento.
Interestingly, Brooklyn interim head coach Tony Brown - without being told what Rivers said about Paul - had similar sentiments about the Clippers’ 6-foot point guard, when asked how one goes about slowing him down.
“It’s tough,” Brown said prior to tip-off. “I mean, this guy’s playing MVP-type caliber basketball. If it wasn’t for the guy down there at Golden State, he’d be right in the thick of things.
“But I think Curry just plays so well. But he (Paul) is definitely in that conversation. He’s been playing great, especially without Blake Griffin. And his leadership is one of the tops in the league. He leads this team, he’s feisty. Everything about him, I like.”
After the game, Paul was told of the comments by the two coaches.
“I appreciate it,” he said. “For me, it’s about trying to lead our team and trying to win games. I keep saying, we’re trying to hold down the fort until guys get back.”
The Clippers on Monday led the lowly Nets 29-27 after one quarter, by 52-46 at halftime, but by just 81-79 entering the fourth quarter. And that was only after Jamal Crawford sank a jumper at the third-quarter buzzer. The Clippers didn’t obtain their biggest lead (11 points) of the game until Crawford hit a 16-footer with 3:13 to play for a 97-86 lead.
Brooklyn is just 17-43, though it had won two in a row - at Phoenix and at Utah.
“They just played free,” Rivers said, when asked why the Nets were so tough to dispatch. “I told our team, ‘When you’re playing a team that’s out of the playoffs, if you don’t make it really hard for them, then they’re going to have a lot of fun.’
“And that’s how they played. They don’t have a lot to play for, except for careers. And I think the way to make those teams go away is you have to make it a hard night defensively for them and I just didn’t think we did that. We did that down the stretch, but we didn’t do it all game.”
The Clippers shot 49.4 percent, the Nets 41.6.
Crawford scored a team-high 26 points for the Clippers (39-20) off the bench. Paul had 23 points, 12 assists and six rebounds; J.J. Re scored 19; and DeAndre Jordan had 10 points and 10 rebounds.
Brook Lopez led Brooklyn with 25 points and 10 rebounds and Bojan Bogdanovic scored 19 points. Wayne Ellington scored 13, but he left the game in the third quarter after taking a shoulder to the head from Jordan. Ellington was being checked for a possible concussion.
Brown praised the Clippers.
“They are a veteran ballclub,” he said. “They obviously know how to play. They have been playing well together since losing some of their key guys.”
Clippers forward Luc Mbah a Moute left the game in the second quarter with a left eyelid laceration and did not return. He is questionable for Wednesday’s game against Oklahoma City at Staples Center.
Lastly, the Clippers unveiled their new mascot at halftime. His name is Chuck the Condor. The cherry on top came when Clippers owner Steve Ballmer dunked off a trampoline with the promise that if he was successful, each fan in attendance would get a voucher for a free pair of Chuck Taylor sneakers.
Why do we underrate Parker, tbh? Best Spur at the moment by far.
Do you ever get tired of being a rube?
http://espn.go.com/nba/statistics/rpm/_/sort/RPM
Tell me where Parker sits on that list. I'll wait for you to scroll.
I've never underrated him. He's an advanced stats monster and the best pure PG (as in a playmaker, running the offense) in the NBA, who actually seems to get the best of Wardell nearly every time they play.
But he has a in' knack for screwing up in the most high profile situations (expect when it's against the Spurs, of course). He also goes hero mode too much in the closing moments of games.
They tied him to that whipping post and there he will remain.
Man who melts down because his team might lose to the Lakers doesn't have my attention. I'll let you catch my farts next season when your stench fades away.
Deflecting again
He is still far more fundamentally sound PG than this low-IQ chucker..
ON defense, he actually get a leeway from refs to pester Wardell pretty aggressively..so I would rather him bloody/soften up Steph in a knockout drag out series before we (potentially) meet ...
Dude ALWAYS gets injured in the postseason
CP3 only fault imho is to defer to whomever in important games... if I were a NO fan back in the days or a clips fan today that would drive me ing nuts... Few NBA players can take over a game and turn it around, he is one of them... He will start a run late 3rd, start of 4th for his team in very important and close games, he starts then to break a defense apart and start scoring to reach the point when the clutch shots / minutes arrive here he starts to pass the ball at role players and hide in a corner... smh
For all the Parker receive dude at least take his responsability
I wouldn't say he's underrated. Perhaps he's not being talked about as much as he used to be, but no one's saying he's a bum or anything. I think he was talked about way too much and in fact a bit overrated a couple years ago, but yeah, at this point I would say he's rated just fine. No one says he sucks, people know he's good. Everyone's just focusing on Steph Curry now as they should be. Westbrook is getting more attention too, but it's negative attention, also the Thunder are above the Clippers in the standings and Westbrook is putting up more stats (not necessarily playing better, but the media always tends to focus on the players who score the most points).
No Lyfe got loves being a feline.
He's not underrated. Until Curry's ascension last season he was widely regarded as the best PG in the game. Everybody knows how talented he is, and most still consider him the best pure PG in the game, but he's also got some serious loser traits. Sometimes he gets too caught up in playing baiting games with officials and forgets to just play basketball, and there have been times where that trait has cost him dearly.
He's also been a part of some inexcusably embarrassing playoff failures, especially the past two seasons.
He's a conference finals virgin.
That said, I do think he's underappreciated. He's gotta be a top 10 PG all time.
Carving up the Mavs with no mercy..wish we had a point guard like that..
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