Comments on: John Lucas Joins Clippers Coaching Staff

By: DJ News

DJ News — Sun, 29 Nov 2009 18:33:31 +0000

What a Great mix !

By: TNT57

TNT57 — Mon, 28 Sep 2009 20:49:06 +0000

This is clearly the beginning of Dunleavy transferring totally in to the GM job. Next season he passes the torch to Lucas and the Clippers sign LeBron.

By: bongstradamus

bongstradamus — Mon, 28 Sep 2009 00:31:16 +0000

Nope, the numbers dont work. Jax is in the 9m range and Al is in the 2.7m range. We’d have to add a lot more in contracts to even get close.

By: Adog

Adog — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 22:34:12 +0000

So Stephen Jax wants out of GS. What’s the appetite for him coming to Clip-town for Thornton? (I haven’t worked the numbers, but assuming they work out…) Pairing Jax w/ BD together again a winning formula?

By: Clipped12

Clipped12 — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 18:06:09 +0000

Bongstradamus, when you set yourself in position to have a chance at maybe the best player in the NBA in LeBron, you do it. Even if you don’t think he’ll come, you still need to be in position to make an offer. Even if it’s less than a .00001 chance. I said in another post that the Lucas hiring could be a pitch to LeBron because I’ve read somewhere that Lucas and LeBron have a great relationship. Dunleavy has to have put this on his mind before hiring Lucas. Now I’m not saying that we’re getting LeBron, I’m just saying that when you have a chance to add the best player in the NBA (my opinion), you have to go all out. If he doesn’t come, fine. Then move on and find somebody else. The moves that Dunleavy have made this off-season has told me that he has eyes set for the summer of 2010.

By: Asin

Asin — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 17:26:20 +0000

Kareem Rush is coming to camp to try and make the team.

By: SamMays

SamMays — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 14:54:11 +0000

Lot’s of talent, but they’ll be this year’s Clippers. They have the wrong talent. Iverson and Zach on the same team? Two huge black holes who don’t play any defense. I thought only Isiah would be dumb enough to pair those two. Add young players Mayo and Gay, who also don’t defense and both need their shots and you have a team of gunners. They’ll be stealing the ball from each other to get up shots… Thabeet better be the best defensive player of all time, because he’ll be the only one play defense on that whole team. The rest will be in the passing lanes, gambling for steals and getting beaten for layups.

Hollins is going to get them in line? They have the talent to win 50 games and the attitudes to win 19.

By: bongstradamus

bongstradamus — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 01:49:20 +0000

Adding Lucas was a critical step to bringing in new blood to the organization, hes someone with an obviously unique way of dealing with and motivating players than we’ve had before. Thats a great step to take with a young core. It begs the next logical question though: when does Dunleavy pull a Riley and head upstairs to “focus on the business stuff”?

I want to see Ricky Davis bought out or traded at some point before the season. I know he can play, but as far as building an image is concerned…he needs to go. In the same vein that Z-Bo was banished from the Blazers. We want good minds around these kids to nurture them and set an example. And we want good PR too, so people buy tickets, DTS makes money and we feel better about signing Joe Johnson to a 16m a year deal next year.

Which leads us to our third point. Assuming God has blessed this franchise and Blake Griffin plays like Elton Brand on an 8-ball with a steroid chaser, we will need to offer some real money to some real talent next season that fits in with the long term goal. We missed out on doing that so far this offseason with Sessions, and we should consider even this very minute offering contracts on David Lee or Nate Robinson or Raymond Felton. We have great cash flow, some exceptions to use, contracts begging for a buyout, and we could rob NY of talent they will need to attract LeBron or Bosh or Wade when those players will most likely receive max extensions from their respective teams. At the very least, we challenge them to threaten their financial flexibility next season in order to remain viable this season and retain their players. I say screw it, use the exceptions to rattle some cages and offer some deals. If anything, we get valuable young assets that could either mesh or be traded for the peices we need. NY has advertised that they are being cheap. Charlotte cant agree on an extension with Raymond. We arent gonna get LeBron next year, so why are we standing around adding Brian Skinner when 3 of the most promising young players in the league can be had for great values, with teams unwilling to risk adding cap? DTS should know this is a buyers market if you have cash. We should be spending to acquire young peices now and trade into cap on our older assets moving into next years FA market.

By: Petey Pablo

Petey Pablo — Tue, 22 Sep 2009 21:41:01 +0000

I was just thinking about how the Heat improved this past season. Going from 15 wins to 43., A 28 game improvement. Given they are out east, this may not matter though.

Lets see what may have hepled their cause? Dwayne wade came back , They added Beasley and not too sure about when spoulstra came in. I see this change being possible for the Clippers.

I also remember the Nuggets sucking hard the year prior to Carmelo Anthony’s arrival.
They too improved , winning 26 more games and eventually became a lock for the playoffs every year after.

Thoughts?

By: clipper george

clipper george — Tue, 22 Sep 2009 02:25:20 +0000

Since D’levy really wanted to share the bench with Lucas, then maybe they can blend their talents and the coach will lose some of his control freak mentality. They could be a really good team which bodes well for the Clipps as a team. I don’t care what the naysayers say I’m excited about the season!!!!!!!