30 Teams In 30 Days: Los Angeles Clippers

[Boston34Celtics]

Here we go, it's that time of year. Basically what I'm doing is making decent-sized team previews, one per day in alphabetical order. Today's featured team is your Los Angeles Clippers.

Teaser:

When you combine last season’s rebounding numbers of Marcus Camby and Chris Kaman, you come up with an average of 25.8 rebounds per game, with 19.8 of them coming from the defensive glass. If you combine the interior duo’s shot blocking numbers, you come up with an accumulative average of 6.4 blocks per game, which falls just 0.3 BPG short of tying Denver’s league leading team average in 07-08.

Those numbers speak for themselves. The psychological advantage and intimidation factor of having Camby and Kaman on the floor together should force the opposition to think twice, or even three times, before charging the basket against the Clippers.

The Clippers? Intimidating? Who’d have thunk it?

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Comments appreciated.

[mkwest]

I enjoyed the read, I think you did great a job. As you mentioned, chemistry and health are going to be huge determining factors to the degree of success for this season. As a Clipper fan, I think that even with those concerns it's easy to be optimistic, because we've had those concerns in the past just with lesser talent. Now, it's a risk that we're willing to take, because of who that risk is.

It's still kind of unknown how Dunleavy is going to allow this team to be run. We know that he wants have the option to be versatile, to be able to push the ball, slow it down in the half-court, play strong team defense, etc. My concern is he going to try to have us play to our strengths or have us adapt to counter the other team's strengths?