Game Thread (And Recap): Indiana at Clippers

Starting line ups:

F.Jones, Al T, DeAndre J, EJ, M Taylor (no zach? they showed him walking up the tunnel)

M.Daniels, R. Nesterovich, T. Murphy, J. Jack, T.J. Ford

Zach in and scores right away off a nice bounce from Mardy. Acker makes an appearance. Mardy gets 3 fouls in a hurry in the final 2 mins. of 1st.

They haven’t mentioned why BD is out. But the group looks better without him.
Hibbard is out due to family death.

pacers don’t look particularly better to me but all of a sudden rally back through begining of 2nd to tak eht elkead. EJ takes next possession and hits his 3rd 3. Zach bullies foster to get the bucket and the foul.
Kaman interview. Gives a nod to Taylor and Gordon. ‘Watching lotta movies and kinda chillin’ during downtime.

I bet Davis decided not to play because he’s a baby and he’s pouting about Sterling ripping him a new one in the locker room.

Ej with another nice 3. then a bit of slugginsh back and forth. then a nice sequence where DJ block somone and Taylor drives and scores at 3:18 and then I look up and F.Jones steals and drives and dunks at 3:05 and pacers call time.

b. davis is out with a “sore hamstring”
r. davis out with a sore knee
camby out with migraines
kaman… well everyone knows why

rookie mistake by gordon expecting a foul in the last possession with only a couple seconds on the clock.

in the last SEVEN minutes of the game the clippers went score less during that time gordon didn’t attempt any shots besides the last possession. EJ had the hot hand and no one passed, its almost as if everyone wants to create for themselves get their stats up… instead of having a team first so we can win mindset besides EJ.
he was the only one getting the ball to randolph because of the mismatch. sometimes watching these clippers games are really tough, the way they go down and the way they put themselves out of the game sigh

Breakdown of the last 6:33, after Eric Gordon hits a free throw to push the lead to 8, Clippers 102 – Pacers 94.

4 turnovers, 2 offensive fouls, and only 1 shot attempt each for Zach Randolph and Eric Gordon. Clippers get outscored 12-3 in the final 6:33, and that’s your ballgame.

This sort of thing happens all the time to young teams that are not used to protecting a lead in the final few minutes. You just can’t afford to go on that big of a scoring drought to end a game. The Clippers let multiple chances slip away, and you have to wonder if Baron Davis could have been the guy to seal the deal with one of his trademark daggers. The Clippers signed Baron for exactly this reason, to put games away for them in crunch time. But perhaps representative of his season thus far, his whereabouts are unknown.

Mike Taylor shows why it’s very hard for a rookie point guard to have success in the league tonight, pretty much self-destructing down the stretch.

These are the types of games that feed in to the theory that when this team finally gets healthy, they can compete in the West.

Good game to watch. Perfect ending. Every loss at this point helps us have a better chance in the lottery. Winning is for morons when the season is a lost cause.