Baron Davis Recants

I like Mardy Collins, despite his limitations. I wasn’t saying that he’s the ideal player for this team, just that he’s a winner — and we need more winners! He passes well, plays D (although, i’ll concede your point…he’s overrated as a defender) & works to fit into any system and win games. I, however, LOVE EJ. He’s got a stroke, passes well, is explosive, doesn’t turn it over much & AND ACTUALLY CARES ABOUT DEFENSE (he’s our fucking perimeter defensive stopper right now…(which is completely ridculous)). In addition, he actually seems to be a good kid. I think he’s a winner because he fits into any system and does the things that you need to do to win championships: have an efficient offensive game & play good defense. He obviously has the potential to be a dynamite offensive player (#2 option on a good team), but seems like he’ll make a well rounded winner.

This team has had success one year in the last, I don’t know, twenty?

That success can be summed up in two words, “Sam Cassell.”

You can talk about Brand, Maggette, Mobley, Livingston, etc. all you want, but when it came down to winning games, not just getting good statistics, Cassell’s stock and trade his whole career was winning games. Teams he played for won in Houston, Milwaukee, Minnesota, and yes even in Los Angeles playing for the Clippers. You can take all the game winning shots from all of the players the Clippers have had over the years and add them together, and I’d be shocked if they were even close to the amount of game winners that Sam had. He’s a winner, and he had the balls to take big shots in the 4th quarter and MAKE them!

I initially thought that Baron Davis was the same type of player, that he was going to be a leader and a game winning player for the Clips, but so far, it looks like I was dead wrong. He’s turned himself into one of the worst 3 point shooters I can remember, and the more he misses, the more he seems to chuck them up. He says the Warriors had a rough time when he first arrived, but my recollection is that they started playing much better when he got there late in the season.

I sincerely hope that this situation changes and that he plays better, and the team plays better and starts winning, because I like Baron, I am a Clipper fan, and I want them to do well. But it’s getting to be like beating your head against the wall rooting for this team. It’s probably going to have to end up with Dumblooney being relieved of his coaching duties for the situation to really improve.