Eric Gordon was 5 for 15 from the field when it happened. He couldn’t get a shot to go in from outside, nor when he drove and the fouls had rarely come. The Clippers themselves even looked downright terrible at times in the first half, falling behind by as many as 16 points and on the verge of[...]
The Clippers play host to the Oklahoma City Thunder, a team whose plan the Clips would love to follow. Draft a couple blue chip prospects (Durant/Westbrook or Griffin/Gordon), fill the team in with talented young role players (Ibaka, Harden, Maynor or Jordan/Aminu/Bledsoe), value highly the chemistr[...]
Just prior to the game, both Chris Kaman and Steve Nash were ruled out due to flu-like symptoms and Ryan Gomes was having problems with his knee. The Clippers did lose their third or fourth option on offense with Kaman (and their last option with Gomes), but the Suns lost not only an efficient score[...]
The Clippers will face a Suns team that they haven’t seen in their first three meetings, not that any of those teams were exactly the same (pre-Marcin/VC trade, Marcin/VC trade adjustment period, post-Marcin/VC trade), but now the Suns have fallen two games below .500 and are 5.5 games out of [...]