Game 20: Los Angeles (12-7) @ Memphis (9-8)

[og15]

why wont Paul shoot?

Shooting is not that fun, that's the real reason

Go Jamison!

[mkwest]

64-53 Clippers at the end of 3. The Clippers pad their 3rd quarter numbers on the season by outscoring them 24-11 in the period. Need to carry the momentum onto a victory and not make this any harder than it needs to be.

[TheNewEra]

Hope we can hold this lead and finish strong.

[TheNewEra]

timeout maybe?

[TheNewEra]

Bench wings doing work and Collison.

[mkwest]

Always good to see Bullock knock down a triple.

[TheNewEra]

Pouring it all in now.

[TheNewEra]

Doc should start Bullock at SG and run JJ plays. Its a better energy jolt chance to start games.

[Quake Griffin]

not the memphis team i wanna beat...but we still had to win and winning by 20 against an injured memphis team like that is how ur supposed to win.


glad to break the streak.
onto the next one.

[TheNewEra]

Needed that win in the worse way possible.

[mkwest]

not the memphis team i wanna beat...but we still had to win and winning by 20 against an injured memphis team like that is how ur supposed to win.


glad to break the streak.
onto the next one.

Both games have been at less than full strength. Hopefully both teams will be at full health the next time we play, which will be the 2nd game after the all-star break. Still, it's a nice bounce back effort in the second half. We haven't had too many complete games, but if we're only going to play really well for one half of a game, I'd rather it be the 2nd half. This win was needed after that BS in Atlanta yesterday.

[mkwest]

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[thanumba2clippersfan]

I'm happy that we finally pulled away in the 2nd half, and it was about time. I was wondering why we were struggling so much. I feel like we should have had a comfortable lead when Allen, Gasol, and Randolph are out. (even though Randolph had a minute restriction)

I'm happy that the bench had lots of time to play and was still scoring. Also it was nice that Blake and CP3 didn't have to play in the 4th.

[mj_shoefanatic]

I'm happy our bench showed signs of life.

Appreciate DJ stat line as well.

[TheNewEra]

i just wish Dudley would help rebound more on defense. Go getsome boards it woukd help cut down the second chances.

[Angel strike1]

Dudley is so bleh. Other then that no gasol alen so we better have won


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[og15]

i just wish Dudley would help rebound more on defense. Go getsome boards it woukd help cut down the second chances.

It actually would, not really sure what the issue is with his rebounding, usually that's actually something that is sort of constant as players move from team to team. It is only sort of because if you play with a lot of good rebounders, your rebounding will decrease, but he doesn't have a decrease, his rebounding has tanked.

I caught him leaking out before securing the rebound last night, and him and Redick do leak out a decent amount, might be systematic, but Redick is barely below his career DRB% with 7.2% compared to a career 8.3%, so that can't be it.

Collison more than doubles Dudley's defensive rebounds / 36 minutes, that is embarrassing.

The defense:
The team currently has a 105.0 Drtg which ranks 13th in the league. After games against:
Cleveland 27th Ortg (97.7)
Philly 25th Ortg (101.2)
Boston 26th Ortg (100.5)
Brooklyn 24th Ortg (102.0)
Washington 19th Ortg (103.4)

The Clippers defensive ranking will probably start to look a lot nicer as well as the win%. Just holding those teams to their average would leave the Clippers Drtg at 104.2 (would at the moment rank 10th) after 25 games. Should be nice before hitting up San Antonio on December 16th.

After about half the season and a good spread of games, assuming the schedule has been balanced with good and bad offensive teams, we should get a decent idea of what tier of defense this team is playing