Not Calling Any Clipper Performance on Sunday Clutch

[nickhx2]

i would agree

[TheNewEra]

How the hell did we become the only team to go 7 games with a 3-1 lead. This crap is disgraceful.

[Quake Griffin]

glad we got a couple days off instead of going every other day.

Because I originally couldn't bring myself to think about getting behind this team and cheering for them in Game 7.
The weekends been alright to me. I'm calm. I'm not drunk. I'm not emotional and I will be cheering for our guys tomorrow just like any other game.

Yes, we were stunned but our season is still alive and we need to make the most of it.

Hopefully the extra day will get rid of the sting, give us a bit of rest for our "depth" and Doc can do what he does best….MOTIVATE!

[MrHill]

I'm as disappointed and still shocked as many of you, but I'm still behind my Clips no matter what. Some folks (could care less to name names here) are acting like we're the Showtime Lakers, the Bird-McHale-Parish Celtics, the 90s Bulls, or the Spurs--teams with more or less a decade-long reign of dominance (in SAS' case, nearly two decades). This core has only been together for four years, and had to endure a coaching change, an ownership change, a lot of roster turnover, and yet still have gotten progressively gotten better each and every year. I'm not the biggest Doc fan, and I thought he made some coaching blunders, but I still believe he can get the job done.

The problem with fans like M2V (and other like him) is that they lack the proper perspective on these things. After watching pitiful basketball for most of the past 20-plus years, no matter how long it takes for the Clips to win a title, I'm still sticking around. What say you?

[Neddy]

I'm as disappointed and still shocked as many of you, but I'm still behind my Clips no matter what. Some folks (could care less to name names here) are acting like we're the Showtime Lakers, the Bird-McHale-Parish Celtics, the 90s Bulls, or the Spurs--teams with more or less a decade-long reign of dominance (in SAS' case, nearly two decades). This core has only been together for four years, and had to endure a coaching change, an ownership change, a lot of roster turnover, and yet still have gotten progressively gotten better each and every year. I'm not the biggest Doc fan, and I thought he made some coaching blunders, but I still believe he can get the job done.

The problem with fans like M2V (and other like him) is that they lack the proper perspective on these things. After watching pitiful basketball for most of the past 20-plus years, no matter how long it takes for the Clips to win a title, I'm still sticking around. What say you?

this post is the embodiment of everyone who cheered for this team for decades, we have been forever optimists and pulling for the perennial underdogs, and guess what guys, we are just 1 stinking game away from making history, where Sam and Elton couldnt quite get it done. Coach Doc has taken this team higher than the Clipper PG Doc.

BTW looking hindsight now but I always felt Doc should have stayed after that 92 season and not force his way outta LAC to be a Knick. Larry Brown had just taken over mid season and we had corrected the ship, and made the playoffs that season. with Doc, Ron, Danny, Charles, Kenny, Buddha, the general, Olden, and young Loy, we were a sharp shooter away from being a real contender and had the trading pieces of LeRon/Kimble/picks to do so. of course the old man T. wasn't gonna trade picks, but he would have listened to Larry as T respected Brown like no other.

[MrHill]

I'm with you, Neddy...if had that core stayed together, Clipper history would have so different than we would have known it today. Then again, of course, it would have constituted Elgin and the Donald each having brains, balls, and foresight to make it possible. Especially at a time when the Lakers were down (not unlike today), those Clipper teams would have had a chance to carve their place in the Los Angeles sports hierarchy...both of our NFL teams were a couple years from leaving the region, the Dodgers were rebuilding, the Angels were an afterthought (at least on this side of the Orange Curtain), and USC & UCLA football were so-so in those days. Our only strong competition for sports attention was the Gretzky Kings.

If you haven't checked it out yet, Deadspin did a three-part series on the Sterling Clippers...great read and interesting perspectives from those interviewed (and you can tell Marques Johnson still hates Donald Sterling with a passion).

[Neddy]

just finished reading that article. good stuff, hope donald is born as his true form in his next life, which is a nice, plum leach.

[Roscoe Sheed]

I just hope there are clutch moments in game 7 and not a Houston blowout. As stated by others, hopefully the extra day off gave the Clippers a chance to regain their focus after the shock of game 6

[kylem4711]

I'm as disappointed and still shocked as many of you, but I'm still behind my Clips no matter what. Some folks (could care less to name names here) are acting like we're the Showtime Lakers, the Bird-McHale-Parish Celtics, the 90s Bulls, or the Spurs--teams with more or less a decade-long reign of dominance (in SAS' case, nearly two decades). This core has only been together for four years, and had to endure a coaching change, an ownership change, a lot of roster turnover, and yet still have gotten progressively gotten better each and every year. I'm not the biggest Doc fan, and I thought he made some coaching blunders, but I still believe he can get the job done.

The problem with fans like M2V (and other like him) is that they lack the proper perspective on these things. After watching pitiful basketball for most of the past 20-plus years, no matter how long it takes for the Clips to win a title, I'm still sticking around. What say you?

when something happens like it did the other night, it is nearly impossible to put things into perspective right away. I was crushed and pissed when that happened. Yes, the clippers have the best team they have ever had, but that doesn't mean that I am not allowed to criticize how terrible of a game that was. The team and players were pathetic. Out of all my years of being a clipper fan, that was the worst moment. I give anyone who said over-the-top things that night a pass, personally. It is really easy to say people should put things into perspective days later. Please don't take that as a shot to you.

as the days go on, so does life. I will most likely always be a clipper fans because thats what I have been my whole life. The thanks for that can go to my dad and brother.

I also think that this is the best team the clippers have ever had so this post season more than ever, I want it more. I am not expecting it more, I am just fearful that this team will be as good as it gets for clippers. The pessimistic attitude, to me, goes hand in hand with being a clippers fan. Or, maybe thats just the type of person i am... ha

[Neddy]

I'm as disappointed and still shocked as many of you, but I'm still behind my Clips no matter what. Some folks (could care less to name names here) are acting like we're the Showtime Lakers, the Bird-McHale-Parish Celtics, the 90s Bulls, or the Spurs--teams with more or less a decade-long reign of dominance (in SAS' case, nearly two decades). This core has only been together for four years, and had to endure a coaching change, an ownership change, a lot of roster turnover, and yet still have gotten progressively gotten better each and every year. I'm not the biggest Doc fan, and I thought he made some coaching blunders, but I still believe he can get the job done.

The problem with fans like M2V (and other like him) is that they lack the proper perspective on these things. After watching pitiful basketball for most of the past 20-plus years, no matter how long it takes for the Clips to win a title, I'm still sticking around. What say you?

when something happens like it did the other night, it is nearly impossible to put things into perspective right away. I was crushed and pissed when that happened. Yes, the clippers have the best team they have ever had, but that doesn't mean that I am not allowed to criticize how terrible of a game that was. The team and players were pathetic. Out of all my years of being a clipper fan, that was the worst moment. I give anyone who said over-the-top things that night a pass, personally. It is really easy to say people should put things into perspective days later. Please don't take that as a shot to you.

as the days go on, so does life. I will most likely always be a clipper fans because thats what I have been my whole life. The thanks for that can go to my dad and brother.

I also think that this is the best team the clippers have ever had so this post season more than ever, I want it more. I am not expecting it more, I am just fearful that this team will be as good as it gets for clippers. The pessimistic attitude, to me, goes hand in hand with being a clippers fan. Or, maybe thats just the type of person i am... ha

I dunno man, it is all subjective but my worst memories as a clipper fan was littered with awful moments that the game 6 is not even in the ball park. again, it is all subjective, and to each his own, but...

A) when Danny forced his way out and Dominique doinked on that dunk and still didn't resign.

B) Sam Cassell not crossing that half court line out of time out.

C) finding out our guys were dead or paralyzed. RIP BIson Deli, RIP Lorenzen Wright, RIP, Malik Sealy, and wish the best, Rodney Rodgers.

D) Benoit giving us the finger

E) Lamar crying on Elgin not to match the heat's offer

F) when Bones didn't even want to don our uni for the slam dunk contest that he was in his warm up jacket.

G) guys like Byron, Tom Chambers, and Ferry refusing to sign with us...

H) Ron calling his time in our uni as a prison time.

I) Bo Kimble. take any moment, I don't care.

I think Im okay with the game 6, and I believe we will win this series still.

[Little Digger]

You guys are in the middle of the toughest 4 series run in NBA history..SA-HOU-GSW-CLEV..There's absolutely no reason to be down on these Clippers IMO..LAC has the premier top3 in all of basketball and they've proved it this postseason with some fabulous play..So you don't win it all this season? Next season with an actual decent bench and maybe one good wing starter, the Clips could easily be the most dominate team around..It's a process.

Only question mark I see is..Who's going to be the GM? If it's Doc, I wonder if he can improve from last summer's disaster ..

[Dynamix]

Only question mark I see is..Who's going to be the GM? If it's Doc, I wonder if he can improve from last summer's disaster ..

Can't do much worse, but I really hope "someone" higher up realises that he's not the right man for the job.