Game 40: Clippers (18-21) visit Warriors (33-8) on 01/10 @ 10:30 PM ET

[QRich3]

How can you not love this team, next injury, next man up, next amazing thing happens. We're going to the postseason and there's nothing the injury gods can do about it

[Dynamix]

Yeah, it's amazing that we're still competitive while dealing with so many injuries, but losing a guy every other game is crazy. CJ Williams was playing great lately and started hot yet again, so seeing him go down really hurts. On the plus side, he only had a few days left with us, maybe we can use the extra time to figure out how to keep him around. Wallace as well, that kid can ball. Good job finding all these diamonds in the rough, but it would be nice to actually cash in on them.

Pretty good win tonight, btw. And that one guy, Lou something, he's not too bad at scoring.

[Quake Griffin]

I started this game on the treadmill at the gym.

Passed out on my couch around the half and we were up like 16 when I woke up.
Tried to thug it out to the end could not make it another minute.

It’s 4:30 AM and I look at my phone and realize we went up 16 because Lou dropped 50.

LOL.


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[Ranma]

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[og15]

Better late than never, but if Doc didn't have the burden of the GM role and had this front office crew the past few seasons doing the player acquisition stuff while he just coached, this team would have been able to break through at least once or twice, even with the injuries, and we would probably still be fielding a contender.

We have found more 2nd round and undrafted gems this season than we did the previous 5, and all it took was giving roster spots to younger guys as opposed to 33-34+ year old players who were known commodities but had absolutely no upside.

Lou Williams though, the young man can score. This is what we wish Jamal Crawford was for this team. Score more in the flow, do it efficiently, get to the line.

[esqtvd]

Let's see how the team does, we don't have anything to lose tonight anyways.

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[esqtvd]

Better late than never, but if Doc didn't have the burden of the GM role and had this front office crew the past few seasons doing the player acquisition stuff while he just coached, this team would have been able to break through at least once or twice, even with the injuries, and we would probably still be fielding a contender.

We have found more 2nd round and undrafted gems this season than we did the previous 5, and all it took was giving roster spots to younger guys as opposed to 33-34+ year old players who were known commodities but had absolutely no upside.

Lou Williams though, the young man can score. This is what we wish Jamal Crawford was for this team. Score more in the flow, do it efficiently, get to the line.

Well, Lou is career en fuego at the moment. But we'd be cursing him and his gunner guts if he were turning in the numbers he did last year in Houston [39% FG, 32% from distance]. Overall, his career stats are virtually identical to Jamal's, and Lou does his share of firing early in the shot clock too but we don't notice because they're going in.

And the only reason we have Lou and Dekker and Harrell is because it cost us Chris Paul. We did not come out ahead on that deal, even with Beverly factored in, and these guys were Houston's choice, not ours--we had a gun to our head.

As for the draft, Jawun's a scrapper but even leaving out his early games, over the past 5 games he's only shooting 32.7% from the field and is 1-4 from distance [27% on the year]. And Sindarius has played himself out of the rotation [29.4% FG in his last 10 games].

27-year-old CJ's been a nice find, but he's the product of the new G-League two-way system. Had it been in place at the time, Doc would have been able to keep 27-year-old Joe Ingles, who the Clips scouted up in Australia. If the 2-way weren't in place now, no CJ and now, no Ty Wallace.

[And if Wallace pans out, it's only because we were desperate enough at guard to have to dip into the G-League and we were lucky some other team didn't get to him and his 22 ppg first.]


Look, I'm all for Doc stepping down/getting moved out, but his job focus in the CP3 era was the short term--to convince veteran bodies to sign with the Clippers and to somehow concoct an 8-man playoff rotation with a budget of close to zero. He got Luc, Austin, Felton, and Speights, and Collison before that. None of our non-Rockets is nearly as good as them, and if they're in our playoff rotation [God willing there is one ], it's at the very back. I'm really sorry to tap the brakes here, and I am enjoying the heck out of this, but whether any of these guys is a playoff rotation player for an A-list contender remains to be seen.