I have a post up at TrueHoop that lays out what I believe is a fair characterization of the debate over the Randolph acquisition: When considering ‘desirability of location,’ we might also want to look at the organization itself. When the Clippers traded Cuttino Mobley and Tim Thomas (b[...]
Statistics are still an emerging science in basketball. Several new systems have been introduced in recent seasons to measure a player’s offensive and defensive value. Now that we have this interwebby thing, we can do cool stuff like sort by offense, defense, this metric, that metric. What&[...]
That’s what Baron Davis shot during the Clippers’ four-game road trip. Baron hit only four of 24 attempts from beyond the arc, and when you take away the technical free throws, Baron turned only eight additional possessions into trips to the line. 28.6% from the field, a true-shooting p[...]
There’s little to say about this one other than it’s very apparent that the Clippers’ starters hit a wall early in the first quarter. Coming into tonight, the Clipper starters have averaged almost 43 minutes per game each over their past six games. Add that eye-popping number to [...]
It’s fair to say that the Clippers perform best in the halfcourt when Baron Davis is looking to pass the ball, rather than chucking shots from beyond 20 feet. In two of the first three Clippers’ possessions in the first overtime, Davis distributes twice to Marcus Camby for two FGMs [a p[...]
This games warrants a close look, and we’ll do that later when the Clippers broadcast emerges from its wormhole 90 minutes behind the rest of the universe. This is an odd game in which the gutsiness pendulum swings wildly. On one hand, an Indiana team minus Danny Granger, Troy Murphy, Marquis[...]