Game 37: Clippers (17-19) host Thunder (21-17) on 01/04 @ 10:30 PM ET

JGOJustin · Post #2 » by **JGOJustin** » Thu Jan 4, 2018 11:21 pm

Post #3 » by **bondom34** » Thu Jan 4, 2018 11:58 pm

Good luck tonight guys, always liked your team and feel free to drop by the OKC board. Hope you can get healthy and keep your run going (after tonight's game!).

Post #4 » by **og15** » Fri Jan 5, 2018 3:56 am

Not a bad start, the matchups are going to be interesting

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JGOJustin · Post #5 » by **JGOJustin** » Fri Jan 5, 2018 4:54 am

Probably my favorite 1st half of the season considering the opponent on both sides of the ball. They were active, played with energy and pace. Defended very well.

OKC just has 3 really talented shot makers and that kept them right there in the first half.

Post #6 » by **mkwest** » Fri Jan 5, 2018 5:05 am

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Ranma · Post #7 » by **Ranma** » Fri Jan 5, 2018 5:36 am

This game shows exactly why having quality depth and actually finding useful players on the fringes are useful skills for talent evaluators and personnel managers. With Doc no longer sabotaging himself as PoBO, he's been able to coach capably.

Ranma · Post #8 » by **Ranma** » Fri Jan 5, 2018 6:06 am

Well, the Thunder are now pulling away once the game gets into crunch time. Seems like par for the course for us against quality teams.

JGOJustin · Post #9 » by **JGOJustin** » Fri Jan 5, 2018 6:21 am

The Milos injury hurts. BAD. It's the same foot, which means that he SHOULD probably miss some time here moving forward.

It hurts even worse when Austin is also down for the foreseeable future.

In that regard, if we're still thinking playoffs, this is a dangerous time. You're asking a lot out of this roster, who IMO have already overperformed a bit.

JGOJustin · Post #10 » by **JGOJustin** » Fri Jan 5, 2018 6:24 am

Ranma wrote:Well, the Thunder are now pulling away once the game gets into crunch time. Seems like par for the course for us against quality teams.

They should of, we had thornwell, CJ Williams, and Wes Johnson as a closeout lineup defensively.

They should of won, and did what they did. Same w/ Saturday. It would of been nice to win tonight, but this was a L even if we were fully healthy, same w/ Saturday.

What I'm more concerned with is how are we going to win the games "we're supposed to win" w/ Milos AND Austin out in addition to Gallo and Pat? That's asking a lot to keep pace and compete for a playoff spot when that many starters / rotation players are out.

They HAVE to sign CJ and Jamil now.

esqtvd · Post #11 » by **esqtvd** » Fri Jan 5, 2018 9:10 am

Ranma wrote:This game shows exactly why having quality depth and actually finding useful players on the fringes are useful skills for talent evaluators and personnel managers. With Doc no longer sabotaging himself as PoBO, he's been able to coach capably.

WE have Lou and mid-1st rounder Dekker along with useful top-2nd rounder [#32] Trezz but they cost us Chris Paul. We have CJ and Jamil only because of the new G-league 2-way rules. Sindarius has pretty much played himself out of the rotation and though I like Jawun, he's shooting 35% and 26% from distance and would not be getting significant minutes on a legit contender unless they were as injured as we are.

I'm all for making the best of our situation but we were a far better team with CP3 and whatever minimum-wage scrubs Doc got from the dumpster.

Quake Griffin · Post #12 » by **Quake Griffin** » Fri Jan 5, 2018 10:05 am

Have no idea why TNT randomly blocks games out in my area.

Rockets-Warriors was fine.
Clips-Thunder? Blacked out. I live in the midwest.

WTH.

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Post #13 » by **thanumba2clippersfan** » Sat Jan 6, 2018 12:22 am

I watched the first 3 quarters, I was hoping that we would come up with the win. Obviously that didn't happen. Thunder had 3 of the top 4 players in this game and we still did well for most of it. Guess we'll have to find some more wins to get closer to .500