Game 79: Clippers (42-36) visit Jazz (45-33) on 04/05 @ 9:00 PM

[MartinToVaught]

By Williams, I meant CJ, not Lou.

And sorry, but this "toughest assignment" excuse is getting really lame. We've had Sin guarding guys like LeBron, Harden and Lillard. Austin doesn't just suck defensively because of his assignments; he sucks because he routinely has no idea where he's supposed to be, gets blown by and falls down all the time, and often takes plays off or quits on plays. He is not a good defender, period.

[esqtvd]

Sin started exactly 16 games.

I'll even stipulate he's a better defender, and he better be--for reasons given--he can't do much else. If you start Lou opposite Austin, who's going to get the tougher defensive assignment? Use you brain, son.

Regardless, Austin is not why we lost the Jazz game. That is moronic.

[MartinToVaught]

If you start Lou opposite Austin, it doesn't matter who gets what assignment because neither of them can guard anyone.

For the record, nobody was giving Austin all the blame for this loss. You're just overly sensitive to any criticism of Austin, even though it's based in facts.

[esqtvd]

LOL, you didn't point fingers at anyone else. Your boy Sindarius was 0-3 with 2 TOs in only 15 minutes and he barely touches the ball. This fiction of someone else deserving the minutes doesn't add up since only Lou [3-12, 4TOs, one of his worst games of the year] and Austin can even play the point, and in their defense, they're not true PGs.

I don't blame anyone, that's the difference. We lost as a team, once again trying to conjure up an NBA defense from what amounts to a pickup team.