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I have to admit keeping only half an eye on the first 3 games, which were pretty much extended preseason against lottery teams.

I'm excited about this one, also a little nervous. Let's see what we've got, the first real test of the post-CP3 era.

Props to Brother Docler for doing the game thread!!

Clippers have to rebound better. Gave up 8 o-boards in the 1st quarter.

Clips by 6 after 1Q. My pleasant surprise was Doc experimenting with combinations at the end: DJ played the whole 1stQ, out there with Austin & WeJo with ex-Sprockets Lou and Dekker.

Even gave Rookius Sindarious a look on D--the rook promptly and stupidly fouled on a 3. But that's OK. Doc giving a rook even a smell of the hardwood this early on is a new thing.

This is fun.

Hitting some lucky shots at the moment

Words cannot express how good it feels to see a rookie getting important minutes and making things happen.

Sindarius is probably the best rookie the team has had. Everyone tends to forget, but Bullock actually did get fairly decent minutes as a rook, he just didn't show anything like Sindarius which would suggest that he should get any more minutes. Remember that rookie Bullock got 15 mpg in a 10 game span from game 12-21 of the 13-14 season.

He wasn't bad, but he was underwhelming, and of course, we still had Dudley/Barnes at SF, so you would need to be a lot better than underwhelming to carve out 15 mpg as a rookie in a rotation that doesn't have 15 mpg freely and readily available.

Dynamix wrote:Words cannot express how good it feels to see a rookie getting important minutes and making things happen.

Up by 9 at the half.

Doc shoving it up his "nepotism" critics. Rookieus Sindarious earned his minutes by humping on D, Austin has earned his minutes as a Clipper period.

Gallo is Blake's safety valve. As a possession starts going sour, you pass it to Gallo, all of a sudden the ball goes in, the scoreboard keeps ticking, and let's get back on defense. [And the team D has been very good. Few lapses, zero slacking.]

Another half to go, but this is VERY fun for this longtime Clipper martyr. Clips built the lead very workmanlike, not by lucky shots or somebody getting hot.

No dumb third quarter, please and thank you.

bev sneaking in to tip 3 times so far is hilarious

Brutal 3rd quarter, but Clips still up by 1.



We need Blake to get it going.

Foul calls can be reviewed and overturned now?

Tough loss how can you reverse a foul

Blak3 MF'n Griffin FTMFn'W!!!!!!

Yess!!!!!

LETS FREAKING GOOOOOOOO