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Game 23: Los Angeles (5-17) VS Houston (15-8)

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Re: Game 23: Los Angeles (5-17) VS Houston (15-8) 

Post#81 » by TMACFORMVP » Sun Dec 14, 2008 6:29 am

Good game guys, I really hope you can turn it around, Baron is one of my favorites in the entire league and Zach gets real hated on for his style of game. Gordon and Thornton are studs as well. I didn't even mention Kaman either.....lol. Best of luck the rest of the season.
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Re: Game 23: Los Angeles (5-17) VS Houston (15-8) 

Post#82 » by PlinkingPanda » Sun Dec 14, 2008 6:31 am

TMACFORMVP wrote:Good game guys, I really hope you can turn it around, Baron is one of my favorites in the entire league and Zach gets real hated on for his style of game. Gordon and Thornton are studs as well. I didn't even mention Kaman either.....lol. Best of luck the rest of the season.


Thanks. I hope your team gets healthy. I've been rooting for Houston the past couple seasons in the playoffs. :P
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Re: Game 23: Los Angeles (5-17) VS Houston (15-8) 

Post#83 » by Tommy Trojan » Sun Dec 14, 2008 6:31 am

Hey nice win guys! Clippers had two great games in a row.
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Re: Game 23: Los Angeles (5-17) VS Houston (15-8) 

Post#84 » by bballmaniac27 » Sun Dec 14, 2008 6:36 am

Nice game guys. You guys are definitely much better than your record indicates.
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Re: Game 23: Los Angeles (5-17) VS Houston (15-8) 

Post#85 » by madmaxmedia » Sun Dec 14, 2008 6:39 am

I was onboard with Zach too! If only because we only had to give up 2 filler contracts for him.

(good luck to Cutino, good riddance to TT...)
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Re: Game 23: Los Angeles (5-17) VS Houston (15-8) 

Post#86 » by thanumba2clippersfan » Sun Dec 14, 2008 7:43 am

With this win we move ahead of the Kings in the Pacific division. They lost to the Knicks tonight, we're finally not last in the division.
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Re: Game 23: Los Angeles (5-17) VS Houston (15-8) 

Post#87 » by illastrate » Sun Dec 14, 2008 9:20 am

JJ LoDuca wrote:I don't know if I ever said this out loud before, but uh, hey...that trade with the Knicks...I LIKE IT!


I was all for the Z-Bo trade, this guy is so beastly! But hey, glad you've joined the bandwagon. For you, I bet that crow never tasted so good! :D
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Post#88 » by ClipperDomination » Sun Dec 14, 2008 9:28 am

Win streak! Finally...
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Re: Game 23: Los Angeles (5-17) VS Houston (15-8) 

Post#89 » by TheNewEra » Sun Dec 14, 2008 10:25 am

It is very critical that we can string 4 more wins together then the words "clippers and playoffs" might not be out the question this season.

We have to win our next 4 games though great win.
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Re: Game 23: Los Angeles (5-17) VS Houston (15-8) 

Post#90 » by Lifter » Sun Dec 14, 2008 11:26 am

TheNewEra wrote:It is very critical that we can string 4 more wins together then the words "clippers and playoffs" might not be out the question this season.


I think Winston Wolf said it best:
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Re: Game 23: Los Angeles (5-17) VS Houston (15-8) 

Post#91 » by mj_shoefanatic » Sun Dec 14, 2008 7:10 pm

kaman better not be in our starting 5 when he returns.
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Re: Game 23: Los Angeles (5-17) VS Houston (15-8) 

Post#92 » by ClipperDomination » Sun Dec 14, 2008 8:01 pm

I agree with Kaman coming off the bench.
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Re: Game 23: Los Angeles (5-17) VS Houston (15-8) 

Post#93 » by playaloc916 » Sun Dec 14, 2008 9:27 pm

Finally, a game that we controlled for the most part, and didn't have a melt down in the winding minutes of the game. Thorton had a good game, with some nice aggressive drives. We need him to consistently do that when his shots are not falling. J-Hart with a nice game as well, nice to see him get some playing time. This was a nice display of what we can do if everything's clicking. This is what I pictured before the season started, it's really nice to see it actually happen.

And what can I say, Z-Bo is the man. We pretty much got away with highway robbery with the trade. We got exactly what we were lacking, which was scoring, and the added rebounding is nice. Who cares about the 2010 sweepstakes, there's no guarantee we would've lured any of the big names here anyways. I'm pretty sure we still have some space for some decent FAs, just not the big ones. And I like our roster, we just need some more time to gel, and a new coach.

And finally regarding Kaman, let him come off the bench. As far as I can remember, he wasn't doing so great in the beginning of the season, so now that we've been able to string a few wins together, I say keep everything as it is. We need Z-Bo's scoring and Camby's defense.
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Re: Game 23: Los Angeles (5-17) VS Houston (15-8) 

Post#94 » by mkwest » Mon Dec 15, 2008 2:43 am

playaloc916 wrote:Who cares about the 2010 sweepstakes, there's no guarantee we would've lured any of the big names here anyways. I'm pretty sure we still have some space for some decent FAs, just not the big ones. And I like our roster, we just need some more time to gel, and a new coach.


After the start that we had this season, I pretty much closed the door on my personal hopes of this franchise luring a big time free-agent in 2010. That is all subject to change, but I won't hold my breath. As it is right now, I'm not even sure as to how much cap room we will have when that time comes. If Camby is still an adequate producer at that time, I wouldn't mind seeing him back on the team. We could probably still bring in a nice player to provide depth to what will hopefully be a productive core.

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