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Game 27 : Los Angeles Clippers (18-8) @ Chicago Bulls (10-14) - 8:00 PM
Posted: Fri Feb 12, 2021 10:12 pm
by ducler
Re: Game 27 : Los Angeles Clippers (18-8) @ Chicago Bulls (10-14) - 8:00 PM
Posted: Sat Feb 13, 2021 1:02 am
by esqtvd
Something to watch for:
Tyronn Lue hopes Patrick Beverley can fix Clippers’ pick-and-roll woeshttps://www.latimes.com/sports/clippers/story/2021-02-12/clippers-look-to-improve-pick-and-roll-defenseThe Clippers hadn’t just struggled: By points allowed per possession, and the frequency with which opponents scored while running the staple of the modern NBA playbook, the Clippers rated as low as the league’s second-worst defense before Wednesday’s 119-112 win in Minnesota.
Lue has called the pick and roll “the hardest play in the game,” because stopping it requires all five defenders working in concert, rotating as if connected by one string. Yet the “drop” coverage run by the Clippers, and the way they’d stuck with it, had too often given opponents’ easy opportunities in exploiting it, said Mo Dakhil, a former NBA video coordinator with the Clippers and San Antonio Spurs.
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“I don’t think they’re getting enough help from the guards fighting through the picks or recovering in time to release the big so they can go back to their man,” said Dakhil, who analyzes the NBA for Bleacher Report. “And I think the bigs are just way too far back, so it’s letting [guards] tee off, either from long range or just go right into a mid-range pullup. That’s something that analytics will say you’re OK giving up. But they’re also letting these guys get to the rim.”
For Brooklyn’s Kyrie Irving, that buffer created an opportunity to walk into uncontested open midrange jumpers. For Sacramento’s De’Aaron Fox, it meant enough space to rev up his speed on drives. For Boston’s Kemba Walker, it was enough space to fire a game-winning 12-foot jumper.
Re: Game 27 : Los Angeles Clippers (18-8) @ Chicago Bulls (10-14) - 8:00 PM
Posted: Sat Feb 13, 2021 1:14 am
by playaloc916
Welp, Kawhi going back to the locker room.... F.
Re: Game 27 : Los Angeles Clippers (18-8) @ Chicago Bulls (10-14) - 8:00 PM
Posted: Sat Feb 13, 2021 1:17 am
by playaloc916
Now Ibaka rolls his ankle, WTF is going on here
Re: Game 27 : Los Angeles Clippers (18-8) @ Chicago Bulls (10-14) - 8:00 PM
Posted: Sat Feb 13, 2021 1:17 am
by TheNewEra
Everyone getting hurt
Re: Game 27 : Los Angeles Clippers (18-8) @ Chicago Bulls (10-14) - 8:00 PM
Posted: Sat Feb 13, 2021 1:21 am
by esqtvd
ICYMI: Clippers 14-16 w/o Beverley over last 3 seasons
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ADD: Kawhi back out there
Re: Game 27 : Los Angeles Clippers (18-8) @ Chicago Bulls (10-14) - 8:00 PM
Posted: Sat Feb 13, 2021 1:23 am
by TheNewEra
Keeping an eye on Sato
Re: Game 27 : Los Angeles Clippers (18-8) @ Chicago Bulls (10-14) - 8:00 PM
Posted: Sat Feb 13, 2021 1:25 am
by playaloc916
On the bright side, Terance is a Mann again
Re: Game 27 : Los Angeles Clippers (18-8) @ Chicago Bulls (10-14) - 8:00 PM
Posted: Sat Feb 13, 2021 1:27 am
by esqtvd
Kawhi-Lou-Senior-Zu-Mann again
Re: Game 27 : Los Angeles Clippers (18-8) @ Chicago Bulls (10-14) - 8:00 PM
Posted: Sat Feb 13, 2021 1:30 am
by TheNewEra
Kawhi on fire
Re: Game 27 : Los Angeles Clippers (18-8) @ Chicago Bulls (10-14) - 8:00 PM
Posted: Sat Feb 13, 2021 1:33 am
by playaloc916
Kawhi flexing on these guys
Re: Game 27 : Los Angeles Clippers (18-8) @ Chicago Bulls (10-14) - 8:00 PM
Posted: Sat Feb 13, 2021 1:38 am
by TheNewEra
They are doing a good job finding spaces to split the defense
Re: Game 27 : Los Angeles Clippers (18-8) @ Chicago Bulls (10-14) - 8:00 PM
Posted: Sat Feb 13, 2021 1:47 am
by playaloc916
We need to start tracking how many fouls on 3 point shots Kennard averages a game, smh
Re: Game 27 : Los Angeles Clippers (18-8) @ Chicago Bulls (10-14) - 8:00 PM
Posted: Sat Feb 13, 2021 1:49 am
by TheNewEra
Kennard has to these
Re: Game 27 : Los Angeles Clippers (18-8) @ Chicago Bulls (10-14) - 8:00 PM
Posted: Sat Feb 13, 2021 1:50 am
by TheNewEra
White was wild for shooting that
Re: Game 27 : Los Angeles Clippers (18-8) @ Chicago Bulls (10-14) - 8:00 PM
Posted: Sat Feb 13, 2021 1:52 am
by og15
Lot of layups not falling
Re: Game 27 : Los Angeles Clippers (18-8) @ Chicago Bulls (10-14) - 8:00 PM
Posted: Sat Feb 13, 2021 1:53 am
by esqtvd
well Ty said he was gonna experiment with combinations in these 2 games
looks like G League, just like the 2nd quarter vs MINN
Re: Game 27 : Los Angeles Clippers (18-8) @ Chicago Bulls (10-14) - 8:00 PM
Posted: Sat Feb 13, 2021 2:01 am
by TheNewEra
Reggie threw that up like and BANG
Re: Game 27 : Los Angeles Clippers (18-8) @ Chicago Bulls (10-14) - 8:00 PM
Posted: Sat Feb 13, 2021 2:21 am
by TheNewEra
Kawhi refusing to lose
Re: Game 27 : Los Angeles Clippers (18-8) @ Chicago Bulls (10-14) - 8:00 PM
Posted: Sat Feb 13, 2021 2:23 am
by playaloc916
Coby White is looking like a young Derrick Rose the way he's getting to the rim at will