Game 71 : Los Angeles Clippers @ Cleveland Cavaliers : Mar 14 7:00 PM

ducler · Post #1 » by **ducler** » Mon Mar 14, 2022 8:48 pm

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TheNewEra · Post #2 » by **TheNewEra** » Mon Mar 14, 2022 11:17 pm

Saw this coming before the game they will deny Kennard and force everyone else to make a play

TheNewEra · Post #3 » by **TheNewEra** » Mon Mar 14, 2022 11:36 pm

Tough end to the first

LamarWho · Post #4 » by **LamarWho** » Mon Mar 14, 2022 11:47 pm

At this point, we don't really have anything to play for, as far as seeding goes. I would like to see Boston getting some consistent PT to finish the season.

TheNewEra · Post #5 » by **TheNewEra** » Tue Mar 15, 2022 12:11 am

Up one at the half

TheNewEra · Post #6 » by **TheNewEra** » Tue Mar 15, 2022 1:23 am

Last minute let’s go one more stop

Max Headrom · Post #7 » by **Max Headrom** » Tue Mar 15, 2022 1:34 am

I KNEW Coffey was gonna miss one

KL2 · Post #8 » by **KL2** » Tue Mar 15, 2022 1:38 am

I’m sorry. I get half the team is out but what a crappy loss. Even a scheduled one. This team does some really dumb things.

nickhx2 · Post #9 » by **nickhx2** » Tue Mar 15, 2022 2:10 am

ya honestly they're pretty dumb i don't know why they don't just play at full strength

NickP · Post #10 » by **NickP** » Tue Mar 15, 2022 2:11 am

Respectable loss if there's such a thing. Next!

madmaxmedia · Post #11 » by **madmaxmedia** » Tue Mar 15, 2022 2:31 am

nickhx2 wrote:ya honestly they're pretty dumb i don't know why they don't just play at full strength

Reggie needed a break, maybe even Marcus too. But why not stagger them? They are our only 2 offensive initiators, taking both out and no RoCo is crazy.

That being said, we could go 0-12 the rest of the season and Lakers would still need to 8-7 to pass us in standings. I think since we got the last game, Ty decided to rest some guys.

Roscoe Sheed · Post #12 » by **Roscoe Sheed** » Tue Mar 15, 2022 4:34 am

The refs should have called a foul at the end of regulation- it was very obvious.

Coffey likely hits at least 1 of 2 (would have been great if he made both the previous time, but he was playing major minutes).

Cavs may have made a last second shot (they had a timeout)- but the Clippers should have been shooting 2 free throws. Pretty egregious noncall

donemilio21 · Post #13 » by **donemilio21** » Tue Mar 15, 2022 5:31 am

We are not gonna beat the Wolves in a play-in game in Minneapolis. luckily we fare pretty well against Lakers, Blazers and Pelicans.

Roscoe Sheed · Post #14 » by **Roscoe Sheed** » Tue Mar 15, 2022 5:36 am

donemilio21 wrote:We are not gonna beat the Wolves in a play-in game in Minneapolis. luckily we fare pretty well against Lakers, Blazers and Pelicans.

The Pelicans actually are a bad match up for the Clippers even when fully healthy- they are young and athletic and have run the Clippers out of the arena on a few occasions. Also, Valuncinuas transforms into Steph Curry when he plays the Clippers.

Clippers would be underdogs against the Wolves unless some players return, but with their fighting spirit, you never know what will happen

esqtvd · Post #15 » by **esqtvd** » Tue Mar 15, 2022 8:24 am

Well, I hope this will put an end to blaming Reggie for the last-minute clusterf**ks. We have a great supporting cast of roleplayers but nobody wants the ball. They dump it to Reggie but there was no Reggie tonight. We barely even got off a shot.

Great effort, though. The Cavs are pretty good and we were on a B2B on the road??? No shame here.

TheNewEra · Post #16 » by **TheNewEra** » Tue Mar 15, 2022 5:29 pm

esqtvd wrote:Well, I hope this will put an end to blaming Reggie for the last-minute clusterf**ks. We have a great supporting cast of roleplayers but nobody wants the ball. They dump it to Reggie but there was no Reggie tonight. We barely even got off a shot.

Great effort, though. The Cavs are pretty good and we were on a B2B on the road??? No shame here.

Considering it was a back to back and we had no natural ball handler that was a damn good effort. We were down 9 with 7 minutes to go and did a damn good job getting all the way to a game winning free throw situation that just didn’t fall. We had some slight hiccups like when Batum and Mann were battling for the ball and lost it out of bounds, no call on Coffey, and missed free throw.

Don’t think they ran from the ball tonight but didn’t know for sure who should start the plays.

TheNewEra · Post #17 » by **TheNewEra** » Tue Mar 15, 2022 5:30 pm

donemilio21 wrote:We are not gonna beat the Wolves in a play-in game in Minneapolis. luckily we fare pretty well against Lakers, Blazers and Pelicans.

Anything is possible and we don’t know who we will have for that game.

Kelphus · Post #18 » by **Kelphus** » Tue Mar 15, 2022 5:51 pm

Very entertaining game. Honestly, I expected a blowout with Reggie and Morris in street clothes. This team has heart. They were in it until the last minute.

As a Trojan, have to wonder what is Mobley's ceiling... as a rookie he is already a wicked beast. Guess he made the right move to leave his brother and cash in after one year (but I can't help dream about the "what if..." as March Madness starts).

To me, these last games are important for one reason only - to give at least two of the big three a chance to get their rhythm back on the court. Without them, we are second round at best. Will Kawhi really sit out a full year? I can understand some conservatism about PG13's elbow, nobody wants to go too far and inflict Tommy John surgery on the first NBA player to need it. Powell? I don't know, shouldn't he be about there, based on the projections at the time of injury? Maybe that explains the tweet from him.

LamarWho · Post #19 » by **LamarWho** » Tue Mar 15, 2022 6:31 pm

donemilio21 wrote:We are not gonna beat the Wolves in a play-in game in Minneapolis. luckily we fare pretty well against Lakers, Blazers and Pelicans.

We fare well against the Pelicans???