Comments on: New Orleans 108, Clippers 100

By: Dump Davis

Dump Davis — Wed, 17 Mar 2010 22:57:39 +0000

Many of the teams at the bottom of the standings play free flowing styles, i.e. New York, Sacramento, Golden State .. . now the Clippers. It’s no coincidence. The only upper level team that does is Phoenix. It works with them because of Nash and Stoudemire, but even they never go far in the playoffs. It’s a loser style of play. Now Davis has forced it onto the Clippers . . . so he can have fun and do what he’s meant to do . . . or whatever his words were. And now the Clippers are big time losers.

By: neiljlax

neiljlax — Wed, 17 Mar 2010 20:59:19 +0000

“The one thing I know about Penn is that a lot of people within the organization did not like him. What I heard most often was that Penn was impacting the culture in a negative way. He was apparently sensitive about things said in the media, by his own broadcasters and even others in the front office. There was a new brand of paranoia creeping in and a lot of people felt Penn was power hungry and eating away at Pritchard’s power base.”

hoops hype has links to various stories on Penn.
i still vote for tim legler.
or someone else who is young and suave and can lure better players here

By: NugNugz

NugNugz — Wed, 17 Mar 2010 18:13:24 +0000

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ShdMmF4-0Ew

show some love

By: Q.D.

Q.D. — Wed, 17 Mar 2010 16:47:00 +0000

Really? Where’s the link?

By: D.J. Foster

D.J. Foster — Wed, 17 Mar 2010 05:58:56 +0000

We’re working our sources – we’ll have something if we find anything substantial to the rumors.

By: bongstradamus

bongstradamus — Wed, 17 Mar 2010 04:53:54 +0000

Its kind of hard to blame Baron for the lack of success of the free flowing offense when Kim Hughes is on his 3rd month of being a head coach and half the team has been traded away with the guys we got in return looking forward to being free agents in the offseason

By: Beard The Curse

Beard The Curse — Wed, 17 Mar 2010 02:48:15 +0000

Clipps talking to fired Blazer Vice President Tom Penn. Clipperblog where are you? Update!

By: Dump Davis

Dump Davis — Tue, 16 Mar 2010 23:58:53 +0000

Shortly before Dunleavy was pushed out as coach, Davis was spending a lot of time criticizing Dunleavy’s system and saying he wanted to play in a more free flowing style of offense (meaning forget the set plays Dunleavy was calling and forget Dunleavy’s demands to play defense). There was a lot of this criticism like this from Davis in the paper. Dunleavy was asked about it in the paper and reponded that teams with the free flowing style never advance far in the playoffs. That is true, and one big reason it’s true is that free flowing teams play terrible defense.

Davis persisted in calling for a more free flowing stye, and now that’s basically what the Clippers are doing. The result is predictable. The defense is terrible.

Teams are blowing out the Clippers on a regular basis. The Spurs (hardly a free flowing team themselves) blew the Clippers out by thirty points. Then last night the Hornets (who were playing on the road in the second night of a back to back and with several significant injuries to key players) ran away from the Clippers in the fourth quarter.

The Clippers are far worse now than they were before switching to the more free floating/no defense style of play Davis demanded and got.

The main weak link in the defense is Davis himself. He does not defend the perimeter. He doesn’t make any effort at it. Opposing guards are taking wide open threes as well as penetrating undefended into the paint.

By: D.J. Foster

D.J. Foster — Tue, 16 Mar 2010 23:27:06 +0000

Thank you BritClip.

Hope springs eternal, right?

By: D.J. Foster

D.J. Foster — Tue, 16 Mar 2010 23:25:15 +0000

Thanks Jclipper!