I started my New Years Eve stupidity a little early this year. This post is actually from Clipperblog’s newest contributor Michael Shagrin, although I wish I was the one who wrote it. Everyone be safe tonight, and enjoy this post from Michael.  More...

Right now, through three games, the Clippers are the worst defensive team (per possession) in the NBA. 27th in transition, 27th in overall halfcourt, 30th overall when you put those together.

Where are the weaknesses (of which there are many)? Spot-up defense has been mediocre, pick-and-roll defense against the ball-handler is slightly below average, the team is almost dead-last in isolation defense, bottom-5 in post-up D, mediocre in defending off-ball screen plays, and finally the team is rebounding poorly while also giving up a bad rate of conversions on offensive putbacks.  More...

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Kevin Arnovitz, D.J. Foster and Mark Shore discuss Friday night’s Clippers v. Bulls game on ClipperBlog Live.

We’re chatting live below for the Clippers home opener at 7:30 pm PT against the Chicago Bulls. We’ll also have a live postgame edition of ClipperBlogLive right after the game, so watch out for that as well. Let’s get chatty:

We’d like to introduce our new postgame coverage that we’ll be using for the rest of the season – ClipperBlog Live Postgame Podcast. A few of us from ClipperBlog will be hosting a show after every game as well as talking with an associate live from the arena (on most nights).

With that being said, we also want to hear from you! If people have questions for our analysts they can use the Twitter hashtag #clipperbloglive, send a direct message to our Twitter account @ClipperBlogLive, or send us an email at clipperbloglive@gmail.com. We’ll also be taking call-ins – in order to do that you’ll have to call ClipperBlogScreening via Skype.  More...