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Los Angeles Clippers VS New Orleans Hornets
Where: STAPLES Center in Los Angeles, CA
When: Friday, October 22nd, 2009 @ 7:30PM (PST)
TV: FSN West
Radio: KFWB News Talk 980


Clippers Starting 5

Telfair - Butler - Thornton - Griffin - Jordan

Reserves

Davis - Gordon - Davis - Smith - Kaman


Hornets Starting 5

Brown - Peterson - Wright - West - Armstrong

Reserves

Collison - Thornton - Posey - Songaila - Marks

Injury Report:
Los Angeles Clippers

Al Thornton (right arm stinger) is probable.
Marcus Camby (ankle sprain) is doubtful.

New Orleans Hornets

Chris Paul (upper respiratory conditions) and Julian Wright (knee) are game time decisions.
David West (leg), Ike Diogu (knee) are questionable.
Emeka Okafor (sprained toe) is out.

Based on your best guess as to the Clips projected finish this year, their corresponding draft pick in 2010 and the projected status of the Minny pick, should the Clips spend their cap space in 2010 or hold onto it until 2011? And which FAs would you target and be willing to pay for in the year you choose, even if that means you can't get any FAs in the other year?

Jim, Santa Monica.

EP: I appreciate your excitement Jim, but I think you’re getting ahead of yourself. The Clippers may have some cap room this summer but with league projections that the number may drop, team may not have quite as much flexibility as originally anticipated.

Roster moves can impact things but before we start planning on how to put the 2010/11 team together, let’s look at this current squad.

What kind of contribution are they going to get from Sebastian Telfair, Rasual Butler, Craig Smith, Ricky Davis, Steve Novak, Brian Skinner, Mardy Collins and Camby this year? Every one of them has the potential to be a free agent next summer. If they prove to be valuable parts of a strong Clippers run, the focus may be on retaining talent instead of looking outside the organization for help.

I expect to have a better feel for this Clippers team a month or two in. Who knows? This may be one of the best rosters they’ve had in years.

Eric Pincus, myClipper NATION

NBATV 2009-10 Clippers Preview


This is the final preseason game. Here are some preseason statistics: Clippers are the number 7 team in ppg with 104.85. We have the highest FG% (.512) out of all teams with quite a big margin (next highest is Utah at .495). We have a whopping 27 assists per game average to lead the all teams, with 2nd place belonging to the Lakers with 23.8. We have been struggling in rebounding and are ranked at 17th. We are number 6 in blocks with 5.71 and middle of the pack in steals. These stats don't mean everything, since it is preseason and many starters are playing reduced minutes if at all. The positive note is that we are passing the ball and are taking higher percentage shots. Hopefully those 2 things will be a continuing trend once the real season begins.

We have had a very successful preseason so far and the main objective of this game is to finish with no further injuries. Then we will have a few days before the regular season tips off on Tuesday night against that other LA team.

Also, there are plenty of available games for anybody that wants to sign up. Variety and uniqueness is usually a good thing and keeps them interesting, so everyone should feel free to participate.

Damn good to see where sharing the ball with our assist averages

I can't wait to watch our game tonight and it will be exciting to see what we will do on Tuesday against the Lakers

LETS GO!

Glad to see Telfair playing tonight. Sucks that I'll miss Tuesday's game due to school.. I'd skip class, but it's lab night.

Pandam00nium wrote:Glad to see Telfair playing tonight. Sucks that I'll miss Tuesday's game due to school.. I'd skip class, but it's lab night.

Did you change your username?

i didn't want to put a new thread,

but did anyone see on ESPN's nba homepage predicting the NBA awards? For the coach of the year there were two votes predicting it would go to Mike Dunleavy. Anyone find that surprising? haha!

clipperfan4life wrote:i didn't want to put a new thread,

but did anyone see on ESPN's nba homepage predicting the NBA awards? For the coach of the year there were two votes predicting it would go to Mike Dunleavy. Anyone find that surprising? haha!

For some reason, I didn't find it surprising at all. We have a lot of talent on this team. I get the feeling that we'll surprise a lot of people this season and not even Dunleavy's coaching can get in the way.

All Dunleavy has to do is let this team loose, and he'll start to see why this team was built to play up-tempo. So far in preseason, it's been working and I hope he keeps it up. He'll be silencing a lot of critics if this holds.

clipperfan4life wrote:i didn't want to put a new thread,

but did anyone see on ESPN's nba homepage predicting the NBA awards? For the coach of the year there were two votes predicting it would go to Mike Dunleavy. Anyone find that surprising? haha!

It was kind of funny, but I think that a better way to look at it would be that for him to be coach of the year that his team would have to be successful. If this team has a big increase of wins then you would have to consider him, even if he wasn't the primary reason for that turnaround. What would really be interesting is if he pulled off both coach and executive of the year. I am realistically not expecting either, but if the team wins enough games he would be in the mix for both.

adiedanny wrote:

Pandam00nium wrote:Glad to see Telfair playing tonight. Sucks that I'll miss Tuesday's game due to school.. I'd skip class, but it's lab night.

Did you change your username?

Yeah I changed it about a week ago. I got past my little fish phase. It's all about pandas now!

I almost forgot about this game.. Too busy playing 2K10, and I managed to take a little break to check the time and see the game started at 7:30..

Oh shnaps that was a nasty alley oop to DJ. x.x

Good start so far.

DeAndre!!!!!

Some good hustling by Blake and Al. DJ is 4-4.. I think all on dunks.

Now that is hustle.

very sloppy quarter

This is some ugly @$$ basketball lol

Indeed. :X

I can now give the team my undivided attention.

I want to see how BG responds to that horrible 1st half. DJ is doing his thing