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Griffin said the Clippers' bond formed early this season.

"It's hard to describe. For us, from the very beginning, this group has just come together. We all have the same idea. We all have the same goal," he said. "A lot of times, guys will say that and say, 'We want to win a championship.' But this is one of those things where it's almost like a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity. You might not be able to play on a team with this much talent and this much chemistry.

"It's our outlook."

Chemistry is big. You can win games without having great chemistry off the court, but it helps," Griffin said. "The closer you are off the court and the more you genuinely like each other, the more you want each other to do well.

"That helps on the court because you're not playing for yourself out there. You're playing for your teammates."

Dan Woike, OC Register

HILL AND BARNES SEE CLIPPERS AS ‘SPECIAL’ SITUATION

“It’s a new feeling for me,” Barnes said after Tuesday’s practice. “It’s a new feeling for the organization. I think we’re enjoying it, but we want to continue. We’re not satisfied. We want to continue to get better.”

“A chance to win a championship,” Hill said. “I think if you see what we’ve done thus far and I don’t think just with the guys that we’ve played, I don’t think that we’ve reached our potential yet. You don’t always have these opportunities and I’ve been in the league 19 years and to have a team that has this kind of talent, this kind of depth, this kind of character, I don’t know that I’ve ever been in a situation like this. And once you’re done playing there’s no looking back, so you want to give it all you can while you are playing.”

Hill’s comments echoed young superstar Blake Griffin from a day earlier when he called this year’s Clippers team a potential “once-in-a-lifetime opportunity.”

Hill and Barnes know it, too.

“The last few years you can slowly see that [the Clippers] were building something special here,” Barnes said.

“When they got Chris [Paul] last year, you knew they were really going to turn it up and all the acquisitions they made this summer, you knew that something good was going to happen.”

Eric Patten, Clippers.com

Clippers have championship chemistry

"It's a team sport," Odom said. "If we were playing a poker game and we don't like each other, then … you've seen those movies. But if everyone gets along, it's s---- and giggles. In this locker room we have fun, it's s---- and giggles and cake."

Odom wasn't joking. After the Clippers beat the Dallas Mavericks 99-93 for their league-best 13th straight win at home that pushed their record to a league-best 28-8, Ronny Turiaf was handing out chocolate cupcakes from a plastic Tupperware tray he had in his locker.

"Only if they're gluten-free," said Chris Paul, taking a quick look at the cupcakes.

"They're gluten-free, bro," Turiaf said, in his best surfer accent.

"It matters," Paul said when asked about chemistry. "It matters a lot when you really, truly care about somebody. You'll dive on the floor for them. You'll run through that screen for them. You really genuinely care how they feel. It just means a little bit more. When you win, you're genuinely happy. You'll go out to eat with your teammates after the game. You want to win for each other and not just for yourself."

"We came into this season knowing we were going to make a great run," Odom said. "We were going to win games. It's going to be fun. It's going to be totally different than any other year. Every time we step onto the court and win a game, we're making history. We're starting a tradition. That feels pretty good to be the start of something. As a matter of fact, it's a feeling like no other."

Arash Markazi, ESPN Los Angeles

Neddy wrote:Im sorry.... its my nerdiness coming out..... especially when i'm drunk.

just in case there are people who gets it, Cp3-Caron-Crawford-Chauncey makes 4 carbon link, thus butane organic structure.... odom becomes Oxygen, making the chain butanol(as of alcohol).... all the other guys become elements that fill up the free bond to be occupied of the carbons.........

i intentionally added the entire starting line up to Cp3 links, then the weakest link of the starter, Caron linking to our bench studs... then Chauncey link to add our most vet and most rook, then odom to link our bench bigs.......



damn, i just turned 38 and still have no common sense and still a goddamn nerd...... lmao.

Quake Griffin wrote:

Neddy wrote:Im sorry.... its my nerdiness coming out..... especially when i'm drunk.

just in case there are people who gets it, Cp3-Caron-Crawford-Chauncey makes 4 carbon link, thus butane organic structure.... odom becomes Oxygen, making the chain butanol(as of alcohol).... all the other guys become elements that fill up the free bond to be occupied of the carbons.........

i intentionally added the entire starting line up to Cp3 links, then the weakest link of the starter, Caron linking to our bench studs... then Chauncey link to add our most vet and most rook, then odom to link our bench bigs.......



damn, i just turned 38 and still have no common sense and still a goddamn nerd...... lmao.

saw what u were doing with all the Cs for carbon.

after that