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What are the adjustments the clippers need to make to tie this series?











Some Kawhi News: Kawhi unlikely to travel with the team to Phoneix, according to Chris Haynes : 1 min mark timestamp

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1. Play hard consistently
2. Cut out the lackadaisical passes - this isn't the regular season
3. If up double digits, attack the paint and don't settle for 3s
4. Make Booker work on both ends
5. PG attack the paint consistently and force the Suns to guard Zubac or foul Zubac - Zubac's FTs in 1st Qtr were huge
6. When getting into the bonus early, don't settle for jumpers. Make them defend.
7. Clips need to keep going to Zu. Since getting inserted into the starting line-up for Game 2 look at these comparisons (Zu playing about 3 minutes less per game):

Ayton vs Zu -
Ayton advantages: 14 more shots made, 15 more shots attempted, 13 more points, 1 more Stl
Zu advantages: 15 more FTs made, 14 more FTs attempted, 3 more offensive rebounds, 1 more defensive rebound, 4 more total rebounds, 2 less PFs,
Push - Assists, Blocks Turnovers

The Suns roster is filled with guys that haven't learned this level of playoff intensity yet.

Clips need to start putting information out there tomorrow afternoon that Kawhi may play in Game 4.

Clips installed as 1 point underdogs by Vegas.

They have the same concern that I do... that Paul kicks of the rust, and Booker gets used to the plastic mask.

I think Lue's figured them out though, and if our guys elevate their game (which they have to after last night) offensively, another smooth but not easy win. Clippers by 10 tomorrow evening.

Crazy stats from last night:
Batum played 14 minutes, shot 2-3, scored 4, had 3 assists, 1 stl and 1 blk, but had 3 fouls and was a -10. The guy has been a key starter for us throughout the playoffs. Ty Lue needs to figure out how to make him effective again.

Kelphus wrote:Clips installed as 1 point underdogs by Vegas.

They have the same concern that I do... that Paul kicks of the rust, and Booker gets used to the plastic mask.

I think Lue's figured them out though, and if our guys elevate their game (which they have to after last night) offensively, another smooth but not easy win. Clippers by 10 tomorrow evening.

I think pg is fatigued. He's played the most mins in the PO season. I don't think it's rust. He just doesn't have any legs. I think he's she for a good shooting game.

I see the line moving tomorrow, probably in favor of the clippers

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No surprise Leonard is out. Morris is a game time decision.

he means chris paul's rust not paul george's

KL2 wrote:No surprise Leonard is out. Morris is a game time decision.

honestly i actually am surprised. was kinda ready to hear him say he was returning and see this series really turn into something epic lol

clipperlover wrote:Crazy stats from last night:
Batum played 14 minutes, shot 2-3, scored 4, had 3 assists, 1 stl and 1 blk, but had 3 fouls and was a -10. The guy has been a key starter for us throughout the playoffs. Ty Lue needs to figure out how to make him effective again.

Probably fatigue as well. Nobody has it every night, not even 24-yr-old Mann. Ty has done a great job of giving everyone a fresh look every night. [BTW, Rondo was minus-8 with 3 TOs in only 8 minutes. Meanwhile, Lou's shooting 43%/44% over with the Hawks.]

Apparently the league has already printed the t-shirts for the Suns' conference title:



This reminds me of when they were bringing the yellow ropes and the trophy out for the Spurs' celebration in Game 6 of the 2013 Finals. Hopefully the Clippers are seeing this ****. A 20+ point blowout win would be nice.

MartinToVaught wrote:Apparently the league has already printed the t-shirts for the Suns' conference title:

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This reminds me of when they were bringing the yellow ropes and the trophy out for the Spurs' celebration in Game 6 of the 2013 Finals. Hopefully the Clippers are seeing this ****. A 20+ point blowout win would be nice.

No need for faux outrage. They always do that for both teams and then the losing team's shirts get sent to some third world country. It is why some kid in Nicaragua thinks a 19-0 Patriots team won the Super Bowl in 2008.

https://www.qualitylogoproducts.com/blog/losing-team-championship-merchandise/
https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/647534/beach-trip-products?utm_content=infinitescroll1

I know that, but Game 4 of a 2-1 series seems way too early to be rolling out one team's shirts.

MartinToVaught wrote:Apparently the league has already printed the t-shirts for the Suns' conference title:

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This reminds me of when they were bringing the yellow ropes and the trophy out for the Spurs' celebration in Game 6 of the 2013 Finals. Hopefully the Clippers are seeing this ****. A 20+ point blowout win would be nice.

I worked at a Sports Authority during the Patriots undefeated season. We had Patriots Super Bowl Champ merch in the store about a week before the super bowl was played. Then the Giants won lol

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MartinToVaught wrote:Apparently the league has already printed the t-shirts for the Suns' conference title:

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This reminds me of when they were bringing the yellow ropes and the trophy out for the Spurs' celebration in Game 6 of the 2013 Finals. Hopefully the Clippers are seeing this ****. A 20+ point blowout win would be nice.

I'm pretty sure each of the four teams remaining have shirts printed.

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MartinToVaught wrote:I know that, but Game 4 of a 2-1 series seems way too early to be rolling out one team's shirts.

No one's rolling them out. Some jerkoff leaked the shirts. If they never did that we wouldn't know about them. That's probably standard time. The series is over in a week or so.

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nickhx2 wrote:he means chris paul's rust not paul george's

Ah ok. Man I always mix those guys names up.

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MartinToVaught wrote:Apparently the league has already printed the t-shirts for the Suns' conference title:

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This reminds me of when they were bringing the yellow ropes and the trophy out for the Spurs' celebration in Game 6 of the 2013 Finals. Hopefully the Clippers are seeing this ****. A 20+ point blowout win would be nice.

If you live in some countries, you can get some shirts of series wins and championships that never happened . No big deal here, they do this all the time, just that people aren't supposed to leak them. They don't want to tell the printers to start making the shirts a couple of days before and then there's some issue and it's not ready.

Figure out the bench minutes as best as possible. Don’t know if Rondo gets a dnp or not but we have to win the minutes Ayton and Booker are not on the floor.

clipperlover wrote:Clips need to start putting information out there tomorrow afternoon that Kawhi may play in Game 4.

That's not going to happen. In fact, we're never gonna know when Leonard will come back. They don't want to give their opponents an advantage or a sign of weakness whatsoever. One slipup is all it takes to make the opponent's defensive assignments a cakewalk. By keeping the details a secret, it instills a bit of fear, that the opponent may want to finish off the Clippers quickly or else they could lose automatically.

Had the Clippers gone down 3-0, then they'd be okay with releasing the details.

Let's even up the series. We can do this! *Raises hands for Clippers Super Spirit Bomb*