This games warrants a close look, and we’ll do that later when the Clippers broadcast emerges from its wormhole 90 minutes behind the rest of the universe. This is an odd game in which the gutsiness pendulum swings wildly.  On one hand, an Indiana team minus Danny Granger, Troy Murphy, Marquis[...]

Excruciating. The Clippers lead 106-102 with :25.1 seconds remaining — theoretically a two-possession game.  Eric Gordon has played a gritty defensive second half.  But on a dribble-handoff from Derrick Rose to Ben Gordon up high, EJ gets caught on a Drew Gooden screen as B. Gordon sweeps righ[...]

Tonight’s game is far more agonizing than it needs to be, in large part because the Clippers insist on waging a perimeter battle against a team they should be exploiting inside.  After a stellar first quarter during which the Clippers use Randolph down low to engage the Thunder on the block, the Cli[...]

Good teams win ugly basketball games, and tonight the Clippers notch their third W in four chances with a workaday, not particularly attractive win over Houston.  There should be comfort for Clipper fans in just how utilitarian and bland this victory is.  Ugly wins are indicative teams that understa[...]

Tonight’s game reads like a Russian novel –  between Zach Randolph’s return, Steve Blake’s improbable choke at the stripe, Baron Davis’ epic redemption at the end of regulation, Brandon Roy being Brandon Roy, Eric Gordon’s man-size drive to the rack in the first o[...]

Clipper fans have been eagerly awaiting the night that Baron Davis would unleash his entire offensive arsenal, take over a basketball game, and single-handedly notch a win for the Clippers against a superior basketball team.  There’s a buzz in Staples after Baron drains a 30-footer to cap off [...]

If Memphis plays at 45 rpm, then Minnesota is a 33.  The Wolves are a glacially slow team, and that allows the Clippers defense to gain some footing.  Al Jefferson gets his points — 28 on 13-22 shooting from the floor — but the Clippers’ smalls do a solid job on the perimeter, and [...]

I’m neither a physicist nor a statistician, but I’m inclined to believe that if you randomly assembled a basketball team from the nation’s leading Yeshiva academies, it would — by sheer chance — collect more than three offensive rebounds in 34 opportunities against the [...]