GAME #4: BLAZERS (1-3) @ LAC (2-1)—WED 10/30 7:30 PM, CHANNEL 5

[esqtvd]

We're not good enough to have a "trap game," but here we are. Clips favored by 8.

Clippers defense better than ever, says Terance Mann

Through three games this season, the LA Clippers have boasted a defensive rating of 103.2 points per 100 possessions. According to NBA Stats, that’s the third best defensive rating in the league behind the 3-0 Oklahoma City Thunder at 90.8 points per 100 and the Golden State Warriors — who played the Utah Jazz and Portland Trail Blazers before losing to the Clippers — at 95.9 points per 100.

“I think it’s the best defensive team I’ve ever been on in my life,” Terance Mann said at a recent Clippers practice. “I’m excited for that. I just think everybody’s ability to guard the ball one-on-one, to scrap, help, people’s knack for stealing the ball, getting their hands in there, deflections. It’s easily top two, probably one defensive team I’ve ever been on.”

https://www.msn.com/en-us/sports/nba/terance-mann-s-strong-claim-about-new-look-clippers/ar-AA1tawiK

[madmaxmedia]

Either that, or every game this year is a 'trap game' lol. Let's get it!

[Ballings7]

Return home off two wins, against Portland.. would be shocked if not a decent win.

[Clemenza]

This should be a win but at the same time, we need this win.

[ejftw]

First Intuit win! Hopefully

[esqtvd]

CHANNEL 5

[Scoundreldays]

Well that was anticlimactic at the end lol

[ejftw]

[Clemenza]

What a sh*t show of a performance. I jumped the gun on this team. Harden and Zu were awful!

[Roscoe Sheed]

all the missed free throws cost them the game- shameful

[LamarWho]

Exactly what this team does all the time. Give you a little glimpse of hope and bam, slam you back on the ground.

[Captain Ballmer]

all the missed free throws cost them the game- shameful

0/2 from Zubac, twice 1/2 from Harden. 4 miss ft in the last 4 minutes or so and that abysmal last play. Such an unclutch performance from Harden and Zu.

Its to bad we waste another great Powell game.
Love DJJ.

[esqtvd]

Nothing on the stat sheet is particularly egregious. We won rebs and TOs were 13-12. FG% about the same. We missed a few too many FTs.

Zu only had 6 points--expecting him to become a 20-pt scorer was a fantasy. He still had 12 rebs and 2 blocks. Mann was neither good nor bad--4 pts, 4 rebs, 3 assists, plus+4.

Except for Powell's 30 pts, nobody was particularly good or bad. Bench was 16-26, which is good. B2b tomorrow with the Suns.

[Ballings7]

Crap loss..

hopefully get back at the Suns tonight.