GAME #6: PELS @ CLIPPERS—SUNDAY 10/30 NOON

[esqtvd]

another ridiculous Sunday matinee at the Crypt




Kawhi OUT
RoCo OUT [health & safety]
Senior IN



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[PeteyPablo]

I liked the better overall play we saw vs the last Thunder game. Offense is starting to click and defense was tighter.

Looks like now need to reduce turnovers and Clippers should be back to winning basketball games.

On the other hand , Clippers typically come out sluggish for noon games . Hoping they got rest and are locked in to come out with intensity from the start of the game.

Thunder beat the Mavs after us , so maybe they are coming out to prove what they can do this year?

[LamarWho]

Might wanna skip watching the 1st quarter of this one.

[clipsfever]

TREY Murphy III is shooting 61.5% from 3pt range on the year so far (16-26)

[Scoundreldays]

Great game so far

[LamarWho]

PG back in pandemic mode again. Thank god Reggie starting to heat up.

[MartinToVaught]

So when's the guy we traded our whole future for and paid $190 million going to show up? This team would be a thousand times better right now with SGA.

[Clemenza]

No Kawhi, PG has regressed, and the rotation is old asf

[MartinToVaught]

Lue has turned into an exact replica of Doc. No system whatsoever on offense besides hoping isoball will bail us out. Wide-open threes galore on defense against everybody. Misguided obsessions with smallball and guard-heavy lineups. Playing favorites with veterans (Reggie) at the expense of what's best for the team (Coffey). No halftime adjustments, we get blown out in every third quarter. His "ten-game sample sizes" really just feel like an excuse to avoid making tough decisions during games.

I'm almost starting to wish the Lakers and Nets weren't even bigger disasters than us, because this team deserves a LOT more scrutiny and criticism than it's getting, and it might be the only thing that makes them wake up.

[TheNewEra]

Not mad just sad

[MartinToVaught]

So which team's getting our lottery pick this year?

[Bobbymcgee]

Well, so much for all that off season hype.

[TheNewEra]

Not much we can do to fix this and damn this team is still slow lol

[esqtvd]

these young athletic teams have solved our vaunted switching defense

go straight through it

[KL2]

If I have to hear Lue say the sky isn’t falling one more time…

As bummed as I am with whatever is going on with Leonard at least he shows up when he plays.

PG otoh ….

[MartinToVaught]

If I have to hear Lue say the sky isn’t falling one more time…

Reminds me of the old classic, "it's a make-or-miss league."

Lue is barely better than Doc in my book. A great coach wouldn't have started every series down 0-2 and wouldn't have choked away the play-in games. They wouldn't wait every 10 games in the regular season to start doing their job. He should be on the hot seat right now.

So should the front office that traded everything for an old slow roster in a young athletic league. They built the deepest team of 2015, except it's 2022.

[LamarWho]

At best we are a play in team without Kawhi.

[og15]

That was an awful game. There's not much point in analyzing too much for me right now. I'll give more than surface analysis at games 20+. I've just seen too many teams start poorly 5, 10 games, even 20 games into the season and then it's a whole different situation by game 35 or 40.

The Bucks last season were 4-6 after 10 games and 6-8 after 14 games including a 42 points loss to Miami. This was partly due to Jrue Holiday missing 6 of the first 8 games and Middleton missing games 7-14. The Grizzlies started off 10-10 and won 56 games. It's too tough to gauge a whole season at this point in time, especially since teams of course make adjustments to counteract why they are losing.

What's important now is not what has already happened, it's what is going to change in games 7, 8, 9, 10, etc, and therefore what will be happening by games 18, 19, 20+.

[MartinToVaught]

The Bucks last season were 4-6 after 10 games and 6-8 after 14 games including a 42 points loss to Miami. This was partly due to Jrue Holiday missing 6 of the first 8 games and Middleton missing games 7-14. The Grizzlies started off 10-10 and won 56 games. It's too tough to gauge a whole season at this point in time, especially since teams of course make adjustments to counteract why they are losing.

There's a glaring problem with this analysis.

The Bucks had Giannis, a young star in his prime. Memphis had Ja, a young star in his prime, surrounded by other young athletic players.

I'd say we have Kawhi, but he never actually plays anymore. PG has been one of the worst players on the team this season and has never been the most reliable star. Most of the remaining roster is either old and slow or Lue is too blinded by favoritism to play them. This team isn't just struggling, they look hopeless, like one of the worst teams in the league.

We have a retirement home roster in a league full of youth and athleticism. I hope there's a magical turnaround, but there is nothing at all that's pointing to it. The roster is just the worst possible fit for the modern NBA, and it's compounded by the fact that Lue has no system and no clue.

[LamarWho]

We are currently averaging 100.7 PPG as a team. Guess where that ranks us in the league? That's right, dead last. We are actually doing pretty good in defensive stats so far. This team relies heavily on 3s and so far our 3pt% is among the worst in the league. Until that starts to turn around, and PG starts to play better, it won't be pretty.