Game 66 : New York Knicks @ Los Angeles Clippers : Mar 6 10:00 PM

ducler · Post #1 » by **ducler** » Mon Mar 7, 2022 12:13 am

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TheNewEra · Post #2 » by **TheNewEra** » Mon Mar 7, 2022 3:46 am

Just tuned in and holy crap

KL2 · Post #3 » by **KL2** » Mon Mar 7, 2022 3:47 am

Clippers don’t know which way is up on either side of the court. Hard to see them waking up in time but we’ll see.

Bobbymcgee · Post #4 » by **Bobbymcgee** » Mon Mar 7, 2022 3:50 am

Clippers definitely needed a timeout there lol. Zero points three minutes into the second quarter versus twelve for the Knicks, yikes.

MartinToVaught · Post #5 » by **MartinToVaught** » Mon Mar 7, 2022 4:00 am

This is the most pathetic performance in a long time. I can still see the Knicks switching into tank mode and giving us the win, but yikes either way.

Once again, the stubborn refusal by the front office to get a point guard has been a colossal mistake. Imagine if we have one of these endless, hopeless scoring droughts in the fourth quarter of a play-in game and end up missing out on the playoffs? It's not out of the realm of possibility.

KL2 · Post #6 » by **KL2** » Mon Mar 7, 2022 4:12 am

Hopefully I’ll wake to good news but I’m not watching whatever effort they’re calling this.

esqtvd · Post #7 » by **esqtvd** » Mon Mar 7, 2022 4:12 am

getting punked 37-22

old school Eastern Conference basketball

either start banging back or hit some damn threes lol

MartinToVaught · Post #8 » by **MartinToVaught** » Mon Mar 7, 2022 4:13 am

This officiating is outright corrupt too. Totally biased in the Knicks' favor. I rarely ever complained about the refs in the past, but they are getting worse by the year.

TheNewEra · Post #9 » by **TheNewEra** » Mon Mar 7, 2022 4:20 am

Need another third quarter blitz

LamarWho · Post #10 » by **LamarWho** » Mon Mar 7, 2022 4:20 am

Down 19 against a 25-38 team, am I surprised? Nope. We are due for a bad game and it's usually against a bad team.

Having said that there's still a half to play. We are the king of comebacks and Knicks are known to give up big leads.

Max Headrom · Post #11 » by **Max Headrom** » Mon Mar 7, 2022 4:26 am

I'm here at the game and this officiating is ridiculous. You've never seen Lue use a challenge that early but that's just how bad and incompetent these refs have been. You'd think the Clippers were playing the 96 Bulls

TheNewEra · Post #12 » by **TheNewEra** » Mon Mar 7, 2022 4:44 am

If they make a run now it’s about Covington helping with a boost of effort

TheNewEra · Post #13 » by **TheNewEra** » Mon Mar 7, 2022 4:54 am

Missed opportunity but still in it

TheNewEra · Post #14 » by **TheNewEra** » Mon Mar 7, 2022 5:06 am

Sims killing us Hartenstein on the glass

nickhx2 · Post #15 » by **nickhx2** » Mon Mar 7, 2022 5:06 am

luke passing up multiple shots is really hurting us badly.

nickhx2 · Post #16 » by **nickhx2** » Mon Mar 7, 2022 5:08 am

btw this dude calling the game is horrendous. when you're praying for mark jackson to say something to fill the air, that's the sign of a terrible commentator.

TheNewEra · Post #17 » by **TheNewEra** » Mon Mar 7, 2022 5:10 am

Probably should of went back to Zubac to start the 4th even with the fouls and played it out

MartinToVaught · Post #18 » by **MartinToVaught** » Mon Mar 7, 2022 5:15 am

I'm just going to be brutally honest, I don't like our chances in the play-in at all with our dysfunctional offense that can always have a game like this. If we actually get through to the playoffs, I'll be pleasantly surprised.

Again, I have to keep harping on the front office's failure to get a point guard in here who can run a NBA-caliber offense. Their blunder is probably going to end up wasting all the effort our players put forth this year to keep us afloat.

MartinToVaught · Post #19 » by **MartinToVaught** » Mon Mar 7, 2022 5:29 am

32-point deficit to the freaking Knicks. Honestly, this team has been playing terrible basketball since the All-Star break despite the record. Think it's probably time for a player's only meeting or something, because this is disgraceful.

Post #20 » by **og15** » Mon Mar 7, 2022 5:29 am

Sliver of hope at the end of the third, but this has been a beat up in the 4th, rough, even with the little run.

MartinToVaught wrote:I'm just going to be brutally honest, I don't like our chances in the play-in at all with our dysfunctional offense that can always have a game like this. If we actually get through to the playoffs, I'll be pleasantly surprised.

Again, I have to keep harping on the front office's failure to get a point guard in here who can run a NBA-caliber offense. Their blunder is probably going to end up wasting all the effort our players put forth this year to keep us afloat.

I don't think you're going to find an acquirable PG who would be able to do enough as a playmaker, scorer and shooter to change the offense much without high scoring options for them to also give the ball to. You would need closer to one of those elite type PG's to be able to take the current team and get you above average offense out of it.

We have an elite playmaker in Lebron averaging 29 ppg / 6 apg on the 24th ranked offense. We have DeAaron Fox, who was also playing with Haliburton, two PG's better than any on the Clippers leading the 22nd ranked offense.

So while, yes, I agree, adding a PG would be great, there was no free agent option that the team could get, and I don't see what team was just going to gift one to the Clippers to be nice. I wish one of the teams wanted to do that, but unless I can think of a concrete player they could have gotten and didn't, simply saying, "well why didn't they do it", the answer just becomes "because there is a salary cap, trade rules, etc, etc".

EDIT: Technically the whole point of the salary cap is so that you can't easily build perfect and/or stacked teams and so that the talent gets spread out