Can the Clippers Finally Get to the Conference Finals?

[Quake Griffin]

Personally, I would drool over a Blake/Cousins tandem (would love to see us finally bully memphis). The problem with all those trade scenarios is that none of those players want to leave their current team and Brooklyn might be the only team who is ready to give up on their current roster. Just curious, is it an automatic ban from the forums if Klay Thompson is mentioned?

Funny you mentioned Klay Thompson. He and the Warriors are not getting along as far as extensions are concerned. He and Curry make one of the deadliest back court shooting duos in the NBA today. And he can hold his own on defense based on the Preventions I did for him in the first round. Against the Clippers, he prevented 3.1 shots for 7.4 points, 1.3 passes, and helped the Warriors on 1.4 of defensive assignments. His starting stats were much better than J.J. Redick's (2.6 shots for 6.3 points, 0.7 passes, and helped on 0.9 of Clipper defensive assignments).

But Doc is primarily interested in shooters and/or a superstar. With a .417/.424 in 3P shooting, regular season and playoffs respectively, and coming off of a Gold Medal in the FIBA tournament, he fits Doc's qualifiers.

Also consider that he was potentially being shopped for superstar Kevin Love. Did this snub Klay the wrong way? Not quite, but the inconclusiveness to an extension might. The Clippers have to understand that in competition, there's no such thing as friends, only enemies. Unless your franchise is located in the left side of Texas and/or you are named after the silver accessories to cowboy boots, your only other option could be to turning your enemies into allies (not friends).

he's going to be a restricted FA.

they're just going to match another team's offer sheet.
Klay and Curry are quickly becoming 2 of the most overrated players in the league because they hit threes.


but yea, he'd be an upgrade over JJ so blah.

[madmaxmedia]

I don't think we need a 3rd star at all, but we do need a significant upgrade at SF IMO. It doesn't have to be Paul George or anything, just someone along the lines of a Jeff Green. I feel our half-court offense gets stagnant due to lack of creators.

[Clemenza]

"B, b, b, but its only preseason, We're way better than last year, 60 wins easy"

[Quake Griffin]

Reminds me of Reggie Miller going ON and ON and **** ON during the 1st game last year when we lost to the Lakers about how Griffin hadn't improved over the offseason. The entire world road Griffin from here til Kingdom Come for like a week about how he hadn't improved all year.


brb best season of his career.
brb he was working on his game in the offseason.


it's actually pretty funny if people can remember that.