Play-in Game 1: @ Minnesota 6:30pm PST on TNT

Bobbymcgee · Post #141 » by **Bobbymcgee** » Wed Apr 13, 2022 4:31 am

Of course gotta win at home against either the Spurs or Pelicans but I prefer the Suns than the Grizzlies.

LamarWho · Post #142 » by **LamarWho** » Wed Apr 13, 2022 4:32 am

Pat Bev vs. Ja should be fun to watch.

nickhx2 · Post #143 » by **nickhx2** » Wed Apr 13, 2022 4:35 am

oh well, good for the wolves

kinda was worried lue was gonna lean heavily on his namesake "starters" even though they clearly needed a better distribution of minutes. how can you not know that reggie turns into all kinds of awful once he gets tired? he finished at 42 minutes, while covington, mann, and powell were really underutilized. once reggie ran out of gas, he got taken advantage of time and time again by beverley. totally insane.

clipperlover · Post #144 » by **clipperlover** » Wed Apr 13, 2022 4:36 am

We get Karl Anthony Charmin as expected and blow the game. The Clips never played like they were desperate. They were running through the motions like they were playing with house money.

Love Patrick Beverley and we let him impact the 4th.

Reggie Jackson taking 18 shots while Powell only took 9 is unacceptable. We didn't need 41 minutes from Reggie.

spanishninja · Post #145 » by **spanishninja** » Wed Apr 13, 2022 4:36 am

Max Headrom wrote:Clippers blew this but if they can win the next game I think they match up better with Phoenix. Memphis has always been a bad match up for the Clippers

like i said earlier, you guys gotta be tanking for 8th, because if this is you trying your best, you arent besting anybody in the playoffs

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TheNewEra · Post #146 » by **TheNewEra** » Wed Apr 13, 2022 4:37 am

Welp that’s game and why is Powell not starting

MartinToVaught · Post #147 » by **MartinToVaught** » Wed Apr 13, 2022 4:38 am

spanishninja wrote:
Max Headrom wrote:Clippers blew this but if they can win the next game I think they match up better with Phoenix. Memphis has always been a bad match up for the Clippers
like i said earlier, you guys gotta be tanking for 8th, because if this is you trying your best, you arent besting anybody in the playoffs

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There is no way they tanked this game. Zero. They just choked, and will choke again on Friday.

Captain Ballmer · Post #148 » by **Captain Ballmer** » Wed Apr 13, 2022 4:40 am

nickhx2 wrote:oh well, good for the wolves

kinda was worried lue was gonna lean heavily on his namesake "starters" even though they clearly needed a better distribution of minutes. how can you not know that reggie turns into all kinds of awful once he gets tired? he finished at 42 minutes, while covington, mann, and powell were really underutilized. once reggie ran out of gas, he got taken advantage of time and time again by beverley. totally insane.

I'd expect him to play Reggie around 20 minutes only unless you wanna aim for the 8th seed. This is Doc type of Stubberness. I know Ty is different than this, he proved it last year. So I'm gonna look what he throw out there for the next game,

spanishninja · Post #149 » by **spanishninja** » Wed Apr 13, 2022 4:41 am

MartinToVaught wrote:
spanishninja wrote:
Max Headrom wrote:Clippers blew this but if they can win the next game I think they match up better with Phoenix. Memphis has always been a bad match up for the Clippers
like i said earlier, you guys gotta be tanking for 8th, because if this is you trying your best, you arent besting anybody in the playoffs

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There is no way they tanked this game. Zero. They just choked, and will choke again on Friday.

it was just so uncharacteristic. four 24 point comebacks this year.

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nickhx2 · Post #150 » by **nickhx2** » Wed Apr 13, 2022 4:44 am

Captain Ballmer wrote:
nickhx2 wrote:oh well, good for the wolves

kinda was worried lue was gonna lean heavily on his namesake "starters" even though they clearly needed a better distribution of minutes. how can you not know that reggie turns into all kinds of awful once he gets tired? he finished at 42 minutes, while covington, mann, and powell were really underutilized. once reggie ran out of gas, he got taken advantage of time and time again by beverley. totally insane.

I'd expect him to play Reggie around 20 minutes only unless you wanna aim for the 8th seed. This is Doc type of Stubberness. I know Ty is different than this, he proved it last year. So I'm gonna look what he throw out there for the next game,

pretty much what i thought. this is the first and only time i was like, whoa is doc rivers on the court and way overplaying the wrong guys?

reggie with like close to 30 minutes is fine, and i guess it was him heating up in the 3rd that caused lue to stick with him. but that was so stupid and i seriously can't believe he thought it was fine. i mean, we just watched an entire season of reggie self-destructing in half our games because he had no juice.

meanwhile, powell AND mann, both capable ball handlers, spent way, way, way too many minutes on the bench. christ

madmaxmedia · Post #151 » by **madmaxmedia** » Wed Apr 13, 2022 4:44 am

nickhx2 wrote:oh well, good for the wolves

kinda was worried lue was gonna lean heavily on his namesake "starters" even though they clearly needed a better distribution of minutes. how can you not know that reggie turns into all kinds of awful once he gets tired? he finished at 42 minutes, while covington, mann, and powell were really underutilized. once reggie ran out of gas, he got taken advantage of time and time again by beverley. totally insane.

100%. We have way more to throw at teams than the ‘closing 5’ who played too long at the end.

Wolves went on a high energy run which we don’t really have the guys to match, we gotta be smarter with the substitutions.

All that being said, we also went cold at the wrong time, but it’s on us to fight through and still find a way.

NickP · Post #152 » by **NickP** » Wed Apr 13, 2022 4:45 am

MartinToVaught wrote:
spanishninja wrote:
Max Headrom wrote:Clippers blew this but if they can win the next game I think they match up better with Phoenix. Memphis has always been a bad match up for the Clippers
like i said earlier, you guys gotta be tanking for 8th, because if this is you trying your best, you arent besting anybody in the playoffs

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There is no way they tanked this game. Zero. They just choked, and will choke again on Friday.

Easy there. Let them actually play and lose.

clipperlover · Post #153 » by **clipperlover** » Wed Apr 13, 2022 4:49 am

Ty didn't look like a coach that was disappointed in his press conference. He took responsibility for not making adjustments to Russell.

Clips were just running through the motions tonight. Maybe they think they will have no problem on Friday and would rather play the Suns.

MartinToVaught · Post #154 » by **MartinToVaught** » Wed Apr 13, 2022 4:50 am

NickP wrote:
MartinToVaught wrote:
spanishninja wrote:like i said earlier, you guys gotta be tanking for 8th, because if this is you trying your best, you arent besting anybody in the playoffs

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There is no way they tanked this game. Zero. They just choked, and will choke again on Friday.

Easy there. Let them actually play and lose.

I'll believe it when I see it. Literally everything I had been warning about for weeks with this stupid play-in came to fruition and cost us the game tonight. No reason to expect the long scoring droughts, blown leads, pitiful rebounding, and flat-out stupid play from Reggie/Mook to suddenly stop on Friday when they've been a constant all season.

Post #155 » by **og15** » Wed Apr 13, 2022 4:51 am

nickhx2 wrote:
Captain Ballmer wrote:
nickhx2 wrote:oh well, good for the wolves

kinda was worried lue was gonna lean heavily on his namesake "starters" even though they clearly needed a better distribution of minutes. how can you not know that reggie turns into all kinds of awful once he gets tired? he finished at 42 minutes, while covington, mann, and powell were really underutilized. once reggie ran out of gas, he got taken advantage of time and time again by beverley. totally insane.

I'd expect him to play Reggie around 20 minutes only unless you wanna aim for the 8th seed. This is Doc type of Stubberness. I know Ty is different than this, he proved it last year. So I'm gonna look what he throw out there for the next game,

pretty much what i thought. this is the first and only time i was like, whoa is doc rivers on the court and way overplaying the wrong guys?

reggie with like close to 30 minutes is fine, and i guess it was him heating up in the 3rd that caused lue to stick with him. but that was so stupid and i seriously can't believe he thought it was fine. i mean, we just watched an entire season of reggie self-destructing in half our games because he had no juice.

meanwhile, powell AND mann, both capable ball handlers, spent way, way, way too many minutes on the bench. christ

I'm going to assume that Lue's thought was that in those games Reggie was the first option and expending a lot more energy. PG was doing the heavy lifting in this one, so Reggie's energy level was expected to be higher than comparable regular season games where he was posing as a first option.

If Clippers can't win either play in game, then they weren't going to give Phoenix any difficulty either, so at least on that front, I guess we're not missing out on much if they end up losing game 2.

nickhx2 · Post #156 » by **nickhx2** » Wed Apr 13, 2022 4:54 am

madmaxmedia wrote:
nickhx2 wrote:oh well, good for the wolves

kinda was worried lue was gonna lean heavily on his namesake "starters" even though they clearly needed a better distribution of minutes. how can you not know that reggie turns into all kinds of awful once he gets tired? he finished at 42 minutes, while covington, mann, and powell were really underutilized. once reggie ran out of gas, he got taken advantage of time and time again by beverley. totally insane.

100%. We have way more to throw at teams than the ‘closing 5’ who played too long at the end.

Wolves went on a high energy run which we don’t really have the guys to match, we gotta be smarter with the substitutions.

All that being said, we also went cold at the wrong time, but it’s on us to fight through and still find a way.

yeah, i mean once covington started showing us he was still the same dude, morris getting starter minutes when both PG/powell were back made me really uneasy.

Max Headrom · Post #157 » by **Max Headrom** » Wed Apr 13, 2022 4:54 am

At least we know a couple of posters have hard ons for this Clippers loss...lol

clipperlover · Post #158 » by **clipperlover** » Wed Apr 13, 2022 4:55 am

Read on Twitter

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TheNewEra · Post #159 » by **TheNewEra** » Wed Apr 13, 2022 4:58 am

We did a terrible job taking of size mismatch

nickhx2 · Post #160 » by **nickhx2** » Wed Apr 13, 2022 4:59 am

note that that seems to be a lakers fan account lol