Comments on: Utah 107, Clippers 85

By: Insighter

Insighter — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 20:54:37 +0000

Good. A ray of hope for getting rid of Davis in the off season.

By: Insighter

Insighter — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 20:53:29 +0000

I like Kaman. I think he will be especially effective playing next to Blake Griffin. They have two different strengths and they should complement each other well. The main goal is to get rid of Davis, who is a toxic influence on the team.

By: Chris McD

Chris McD — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 18:00:01 +0000

Well, I’m not a fan of placing the blame on one person at all. It takes a lot more than one person to play a game, let alone win it. That’s why the Lakers lost 3 in a row even with Kobe. No team is perfect and there’s several factors involved.

I’m sure Griffin will play next season. Judging from interviews his personality warrants it. He feels he needs to make it up to the team.

By: Chris McD

Chris McD — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 16:50:34 +0000

1000% agreement. It ain’t gonna catch on, dude. If you’re gonna compare him to a dog, “Hooch” is a way more appropriate name.

By: neiljlax

neiljlax — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 13:26:11 +0000

must be karma.

By: bongstradamus

bongstradamus — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 12:01:35 +0000

Its a nice thought, but its unrealistic for a number of reasons.

NO wants to save money. They dont do that by taking on Baron and Kaman. So thats a big reason why this would never happen.

Secondly, they have Collison who is just blowing up lately in the absence of CP3 and its probably turning heads in the front office which makes trading for another center and an aging point guard even more unappealling.

In all honesty, the Lakers actually have a better chance of landing CP3 even though they are woefully over cap. They have expiring contracts on attractive players that they can sign and trade over to new orleans in exchange for CP3 and still save money in the long term. Shannon Brown and Jordan Farmar come to mind immediately. They could even potentially ship Ron Artest out after the season should a championship not go their way.

There will be a few options this summer once the peices fall where they do. Teams are going to have cash and miss out on the marquee talents (most likely we are going to be holding a bag of cash and desperate to sign talent) in which case we might be able to work out sign and trades with the peices we recently acquired and adding Kaman and/or Davis in deals to teams who want to make a big splash. We could go after players with long term deals who are on other teams (Tayshaun Prince, Rip Hamilton, Richard Jefferson) and dump Kaman and Davis that way. We could look to do sign and trades for guys on 1 year deals like David Lee or Nate Robinson and ship back Baron or Kaman. Theres actually a lot of possibilities this offseason, we should see a lot of movement.

By: Ben S.

Ben S. — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 10:29:19 +0000

oh and after reading some of these comments
i wonder if the front office cant just say to themselves
“hmmm lets try to emulate what we did prior to 2006″

i mean really is it that hard?

and about Kaman….hes played great this season but we are NEVER going to win anything with him as our first option ..ever….hell if Eric Gordon were our first option personally i feel great things can happen …but as long as we keep feeding Kaman its not going to amount to wins….

and i dont care who we bring in next season but it needs to be somebody that hustles night in night out that talks shit to the guys whenever they take plays off…..

and i think Blake Griffin could be that guy…but as much as it sucks to say this id be surprised if we ever see him play in a regular season game in a Clippers uniform…

By: Ben S.

Ben S. — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 10:23:44 +0000

haha i havent got on here a while but one theme i noticed is …it seems everyone is blaming Baron Davis now……before it was Dunleavy….
one thing is for certain this season went to waste rather quickly….i remember when we were within 4 games or so of .500 and we kept going back n forth….until the decision came that Blake would be out all season its like the guys just gave up….I mean we had a chance…but now (more than ever) The Clippers have become unraveled….
THEY NEVER WIN….its gone back to how it has been every single year…
I start watching the season with optimism but after they get 10 or more games under .500 and start losing to EVEN THE SORRY TEAMS….(once in a blue moon they beat good teams) you know its over….

this is kinda getting boring and repetitive…..
I dont know how long fans are going to go “well theres always next year”

By: Brian

Brian — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 09:34:51 +0000

since new orleans backcourt has been performing so well we should go after chris paul for baron and kaman for paul and filler. I’d be estatic if this were to happen

By: David Gross

David Gross — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 06:46:40 +0000

It’s incredible that Sloan hasn’t gotten more accolades. I guess people are used to him, meanwhile he keeps chugging along with 50ish wins and a playoff appearance every spring. The guy is one of the greatest coaches ever. If he were in NY, fuggedaboutit….we’d never stop hearing about him.