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What about the fact that Vinny kept in an ice cold Mo Williams in the clutch? We got close enough to win this one and Williams is out there missing threes and layups!

Randy Foye was playing fine and was the only guy able to sink threes and deserved to be out there for the last minutes.

The overwhelming reason the Clippers lost to Cleveland was DeAndre Jordan. No sensible person could argue otherwise. He did block two shots last night, which should show people here how ridiculous it is to keep pointing to his shot blocking as an indication he’s good. He’s not good. As a starter, he’s terrible.

He didn’t score any points and he only got four rebounds, which is especially bad since there were so many missed shots.

Anderson Varejao, not surprisingly, torched him. Varejao scored 15 points on 6-8 shooting. That’s not the most points he’s scored this season (though it’s close), but it is his best shooting percentage of the season.

Jordan’s terrible defense also was related to Ramon Sessions attacking the rim in a way he’s usually incapable of doing and scoreing by far his most points of the season and for Antwawn Jamison lighting up the post for 28 points, which was his highest point total of the year.

All in all, Jordan’s defensive disaster was about as bad as a defensive disaster can get. Then his offensive disaster just made everything even worse.

Clearly he’s not any better than he was a year ago, and those who want to pipedream otherwise are deluding themselves.

Kenyan Martin, as many problems as he brings, is far superior at center to Jordan. Martin has to start.