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		<title>The Del Negro Effect</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 22 May 2013 19:44:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Fred Katz</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Jamal Crawford must be cursed. The man is about to enter his 14th NBA season and joining him will be coach No. 17 of his professional career. 17! Can a guy get some consistency? With yesterday’s news that the Clippers will not retain Vinny Del Negro as head coach, Crawford’s coaching polygamy isn’t the only thing affected. Del Negro made his stamp on the Clipper roster over the past three years – good or bad, we knew the traits of a Vinny Del Negro team, one that had a propensity to play veterans and one that supported a roll-the-ball-out-and-let-Chris-Paul-do-his-thing offense. A new coach means a new philosophy, a new philosophy means new roles, and new roles mean it’s not just a piece of random Jamal Crawford trivia that is going to change. Here is a look at how those changes might affect individual Clippers: Eric Bledsoe This is the obvious one, isn’t it? Everyone assumes that a Bledsoe trade is inevitable. It’s the worst-kept secret wearing red in Los Angeles: The Clippers will (or at least should) trade Eric Bledsoe. But with a new coach, that idea could disintegrate. If someone new comes in and says to himself, “You know what? I think this guy, Bledsoe, is a shooting guard”, something that is supremely possible, then maybe Bledsoe doesn’t leave the Clippers. Maybe he ends up playing the 2 more than the 1, getting 20 minutes a game at shooting guard while also playing backup point guard. Maybe he isn’t run out of town and the Clippers actually do extend him with that sort of plan. At the very least, if we see any of Bledsoe in a Clipper uniform next year, it’s probably safe to say he’ll be getting more playing time than the allotted 18 minutes a game he saw in games that Chris Paul started this past season. DeAndre Jordan In some ways, Jordan is like Bledsoe. With Del Negro out, Jordan is out, too – out of the doghouse that is. We saw DeAndre sit the entire fourth quarter 52 times this past season. He averaged only 5.0 minutes per quarter in fourth quarters in which he actually played. He attempted fewer shots per 36 minutes in the fourth (6.8) than he did in any other quarter. There was no crunch-time trust at all. That’s not something you want to see in your starting center. But presumably, it’s a new game for DeAndre in 2013-14. There’s a reason he’s included in trade rumors so often: it’s because there are teams out there that see something in him. He just hasn’t gotten an opportunity to show that in Los Angeles. Chauncey Billups and Chris Paul This is where we get to see exactly how much validity there is in the “Chris Paul is running the entire organization” jokes. If the Clippers sign Billups to a cheap deal this offseason, that’s not such a bad thing. The trouble comes if Billups once again has a prominent role in the Clippers’ rotation. If Billups is out there starting for the Clips for the third season in a row, we might have to start considering the idea that it wasn’t Del Negro who wanted Billups starting, but it was Paul all along. We know Paul considers Billups to be his basketball older brother. We know the two of them are close. We know Paul likes playing with spot-up shooters. Now, we’ll finally know (or at least get a chance to speculate more) on if Billups playing over guys like Eric Bledsoe, Willie Green, and Matt Barnes was an idea formulated by coaches or players. Matt Barnes Barnes has gone on the record with his Vinny fandom. Del Negro allowed him to play free. He gave him a chance. He had faith in him. Barnes enjoyed playing for a coach like that. So will Del Negro leaving have a negative affect on Barnes’s desire to return? Probably not. Barnes has spent his entire career bouncing around from team to team, taking small contracts on contending squads. If he wants to contend, returning to Southern California, where he grew up and went to college, makes as much sense as going anywhere else. Barnes has changed teams eight times in his career. He’s used to playing for new coaches. Blake Griffin Griffin’s numbers went down this year, but that wasn’t necessarily the biggest critique of his season. His biggest problem was that he became a first-quarter player. The Clips would often run the offense through him in first quarters, sometimes even in first halves, and then would get away from him down the stretch. With a different offensive philosophy, it’s possible we see Griffin more involved in the Clipper offense in third and fourth quarters. Look out to see if there’s a change in his crunch-time production and/or usage. The backup centers Who knows if Ryan Hollins or Ronny Turiaf will be back, but it&#8217;d probably be smart to bet that we won’t see a two-backup-center rotation in the playoffs next season. Del Negro was the only playoff coach running two backup centers out there in the postseason, Hollins in first halves and Turiaf in second halves. If the Clippers return to the postseason next year, a feat that doesn’t seem particularly bold to predict, it’s probably safe to say that only one player will be manning the backup center duties.]]></description>
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		<title>5-on-5: Coaching Change</title>
		<link>http://clipperblog.com/2013/05/22/5-on-5-coaching-change/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 22 May 2013 16:44:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andrew Han</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Taking just over two weeks, news finally came out yesterday that the Clippers decided not to retain their head coach, Vinny Del Negro. What are the implications? What are the next steps? Our five panelists weight in: 1. How does a coaching change impact Chris Paul and/or Blake Griffin? Jovan Buha: It will allow them to properly form the big-little synergy that we’ve yet to consistently see from them. Moreover, it increases the likelihood that Paul will re-sign with the Clippers this offseason &#8212; if he wanted Del Negro back, Del Negro would&#8217;ve been back &#8212; and will likely allow Griffin to be featured more frequently (and in better situations) in the new offense. Patrick James: If nothing else, it says management is listening to them. Both stars were hoping for a new man behind the clipboard: Griffin issued some not so thinly veiled critiques of Del Negro&#8217;s defensive schemes during the Clippers&#8217; mediocre March, and, more recently, CBS Sports&#8217; Ken Berger suggested that Paul was &#8220;not a fan&#8221; of Del Negro&#8217;s. Fred Katz: The swirling rumors claim that CP3 wasn&#8217;t Vinny Del Negro&#8217;s biggest fan. From that perspective, bringing Del Negro back would have shown at least some disregard for Paul&#8217;s desires. With Vinny gone, Paul now has the chance to have a major say in who should be the Clippers&#8217; next coach. Michael Shagrin: Chris Paul would never speak out publicly against his coach. He wouldn’t do it for a current coach or a former coach. But Chris Paul was “not a fan” of Vinny Del Negro. Now there’s a big crop of talented head coaches on the market with many already having built strong relationships with Paul. Unless the newly active Donald T. Sterling becomes overly involved, no other franchise can match what’s being offered (competitively or financially) in Clipperland. Paul stays. Seerat Sohi: In a nutshell, positively. It&#8217;s likely that Paul is much more optimistic at this time today than he was 24 hours ago about his future with the Clippers. Not to mention, the days of the Chris-Paul-or-bust offense look to be dead. Griffin, on the other hand, has never had a chance to learn from an experienced NBA coach during his career. The potential for an increase in skill and discipline could do wonders for him. 2. How does a coaching change impact Eric Bledsoe and/or DeAndre Jordan? Buha: Now neither player will be traded until the new coach is hired and has time to determine what his plan of action with the current roster is. The chances of Bledsoe being traded are still extremely high, but the new coach will have a reasonable voice in the type of package the Clippers haul in such a deal. James: We know that Jordan and Bledsoe were increasingly marginalized under Del Negro, who certainly under-utilized them and probably stymied their growth, but we don&#8217;t know how the next hire will use them. Assets have only as much value as you leverage, either on the floor or on the market. And who knows what role the next coach will play w/r/t personel decisions. Katz: We all assume it&#8217;s a done deal that Bledsoe will be traded. That might be getting ahead of ourselves. If a new coach comes in and decides that Bledsoe is a shooting guard and can play 20 minutes a game at off guard while also acting as the backup point guard, then maybe Bledsoe is actually extended and not traded. And as for DeAndre, he might actually get an opportunity to play in fourth quarters. Shagrin: If Eric Bledsoe remains in Los Angeles, he’ll stay shrouded in the overwhelming shadow of Chris Paul, coaching change or not. However, Bledsoe’s trade value could improve immensely in just a few months under a defensive-minded head coach. Bledsoe’s stock is currently pretty high, but his game is still primarily athleticism. If a cerebral coach can deploy him effectively within a swarming defensive system, Bledsoe will be all the more attractive. Sohi: As a Bulls fan, I&#8217;ve always had a theory about Vinny: you don&#8217;t really know what you&#8217;ve got in your players as long as he&#8217;s around. Bledsoe and DJ will A) like Griffin, have the potential to benefit from an experienced coach and B) blossom or bust. Either way, it&#8217;ll be their own doing. 3. Does the decision to seek a new coach impact the perception of the franchise? Buha: Yes. The Clippers have a done a great job of shedding the stigma that surrounded the franchise over the last three to four years, and this is another monumental step. They took their time (over two weeks), fairly evaluated their options, and ultimately made the difficult decision of dismissing Del Negro (whom Donald Sterling was fond of). Job well done. James: That the organization didn&#8217;t wait until the 11th hour to part ways with Del Negro (they had until June 30) suggests more savvy than we&#8217;d historically expect from the Clippers, sure. And now the job might be the most desirable in the league. But perception still hinges on the next hire, Chris Paul&#8217;s free agency, and whatever the team does next year. Katz: The Clippers didn&#8217;t fire Del Negro; they just decided not to retain him. And though that yields the same result practically, not firing Del Negro means it cost the organization nothing to let him walk. If the Clips go out and commit to a big-time coach long term and sign Gary Sacks to a legitimate contract, then maybe it&#8217;s time to start talking about a culture change. If not, that conversation is probably premature. Shagrin: Yes, but not significantly. The franchise’s upward ascent into respectability has been steep. It seemed the Clippers might peter off last offseason when Sterling retained Vinny Del Negro and failed to retain Neil Olshey. But the front-office triumvirate rose to the occasion and Del Negro’s hands-off style worked well with the Clippers’ deep, veteran roster. The first-round loss to Memphis was a backwards slide, but the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Vinny Del Negro: The happy warrior departs</title>
		<link>http://clipperblog.com/2013/05/21/vinny-del-negro-the-happy-warrior-departs/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 21 May 2013 21:11:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andrew Han</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[On TrueHoop, Kevin Arnovitz reflects recent news of Vinny Del Negro&#8217;s departure. He’s well-liked personally, and has uncommon charisma. He charmed Sterling at a dinner with the Clippers brass at the Montage Beverly Hills in late June of 2010. The mood at the table was festive, Del Negro a pleasure to be around and the spouses had a nice rapport. Del Negro exuded exactly what the Clippers felt like they needed to fumigate the place after the final tumultuous seasons of the Mike Dunleavey era &#8212; a happy warrior, both confident and communicative. Charm is infectious, but if it’s a person’s No. 1 personal attribute, it can also raise suspicions among management if it’s not accompanied by success. When Paul arrived in Los Angeles, expectations soared far more quickly than either the Clippers or Del Negro anticipated. The bar was set at contender, and Del Negro would have to prove himself as not only a morale booster, but as a coach who could design a plan that delivered. Del Negro never claimed to be a tactician. He maintained that everyone in the league ran the same basic stuff. He summed up his philosophy best during the winter of 2012 when the Clippers were playing well. “&#8221;I think it&#8217;s important for guys to go out there and play off instinct instead of, &#8216;Go here, go there,&#8217; or whatever,&#8221; Del Negro said recently. &#8220;I like guys to play. I like guys to get a feel for what we&#8217;re doing and how we&#8217;re doing it and work off the instinct and play. I think guys enjoy the game that way a little bit better.” Paul certainly appreciated his coach’s sentiment, as Del Negro happily ceded most of the play-calling. It was also nice to have Del Negro go to bat for Paul’s personnel causes &#8212; free agent signings, potential trades and the like. But having never reached a conference finals eight years into a Hall-of-Fame career, even Paul realizes he needs a little help in the final five minutes of a basketball game. Read the full post here.]]></description>
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		<title>Woj: The Clippers have fired Vinny Del Negro</title>
		<link>http://clipperblog.com/2013/05/21/woj-the-clippers-have-fired-vinny-del-negro/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 21 May 2013 18:51:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>D.J. Foster</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[According to Adrian Wojnarowski of Yahoo! Sports, the Clippers have fired Vinny Del Negro. The Clippers have fired Vinny Del Negro, source tells Y! — Adrian Wojnarowski (@WojYahooNBA) May 21, 2013 Woj went on to clarify, as our resident stickler for details (Andrew Han) likes to point out, that the Clippers couldn&#8217;t actually fire Del Negro, but rather tell him he wouldn&#8217;t be back next season as coach. I should clarify: Del Negro wasn&#8217;t fired as coach. He was informed that he won&#8217;t be offered a new contract to return. His deal has expired. — Adrian Wojnarowski (@WojYahooNBA) May 21, 2013 Kevin Arnovitz explained last season why Del Negro no longer fit the needs of the team, and it remains on point today: &#8220;This is a team that doesn&#8217;t know what it is. And there is little evidence that Vinny Del Negro, the person charged with forging the Clippers&#8217; identity, has the imagination and direction to cultivate one despite being furnished with an impressive collection of talent. Right now, the Clippers need someone with the confidence to say to Paul, &#8220;You want to make it past the conference semis one of these years? Well, I&#8217;ve got a plan. Follow me.&#8221; They need someone who can coach up Griffin, make things easier for him on the court and teach him how to be one of those big men a point guard never wants to see when it&#8217;s time to turn the corner. They need someone who can compose a symphony with his last 10 play calls of the game, someone who can devise sets that take into account a game&#8217;s rhythms and themes. Del Negro might work his tail off and have sound ambassadorial skills. There are teams in the league that might be able to use those gifts to shepherd a young club to respectability. But the Clippers, as currently constituted, are no longer one of those teams.&#8221; &#160; Watching the Clippers the last two years was like watching a talented orchestra play with illegible sheet music and an amateur conductor. The music they created was often beautiful regardless, but it was never perfect, never refined. Opportunities for little tweaks were missed. Errors only a trained ear could catch went unnoticed. The product was never maximized to meet the potential of its players. Del Negro embraced the basketball as jazz philosophy, allowing his players full freedom. He championed the belief that coaches should let players make plays with little interference, and that initially jibed well with the roster he inherited. Believe it or not, there was a time when DeAndre Jordan was allowed to make mistakes and play through them. At the start of the Del Negro era, the Clippers were an enjoyable and understandably unsuccessful jam session. But as Kevin Arnovitz noted, Chris Paul&#8217;s arrival changed the objectives. Del Negro&#8217;s objectives changed then as well. On a one-year deal, he had to have known that the growth of a player like Jordan or Eric Bledsoe would not relieve him of his lame-duck status and help him earn a long-term contract. The only way to attain that next deal was through undeniable, irrefutable playoff success. Unfortunately, Del Negro became so focused on winning that he failed to see that it was the development and use of guys like Jordan and Bledsoe that could have accomplished what he needed. Ironically, the players he most often spurned were the players he needed most. Unlike most coaches, it doesn&#8217;t appear that Del Negro is losing his job because the players found him insufferable, or because the team nose-dived in the standings, or because he had a bad relationship with management. Del Negro won&#8217;t be back because it&#8217;s hard to truly believe that he&#8217;s the best available option to maximize the abilities of a talented roster. As a motivator, leader and politician, he was everything Donald Sterling and company believed to him to be when they hired him three years ago. It&#8217;s hard to say he was a disappointment in that regard. But what Del Negro taught us is that jazz can only really work on one side of the court. Defense requires everyone on a string, moving together, knowing where to come in and come out. The Clippers were never quite in tune on that end, and more than anything else, that responsibility lies with the conductor.]]></description>
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		<title>A Combine Review: Who Should the Clippers Be Looking to Draft?</title>
		<link>http://clipperblog.com/2013/05/20/a-combine-review-who-should-the-clippers-be-looking-to-draft/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 20 May 2013 18:31:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Fred Katz</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[If you don’t remember Alex Acker, all that means is that you’re normal. The former guard played 18 games for the Clippers back in the 2008-09 season, averaging 9.9 minutes per game in those uneventful appearances. He hasn’t played in the NBA since. The Clips acquired Acker from the Pistons (along with a future second rounder that turned into Trey Thompkins) for a 2013 second rounder. But that 2013 second-round pick was conditional. If it fell before the 56th overall pick, it stayed with the Clippers; 56 or later and the pick got shipped off to Detroit. So when the Clippers “won” a coin flip that gave them the 25th pick and pushed the Memphis Grizzlies to the 26th pick, they may not have actually won much at all. The rules on a coin flip say that the winner gets to pick first in the first round and the loser gets to pick first in the second round. That left the Grizzlies with the 55th overall pick and because of that, the Clippers fell to that vaunted number 56. Bye bye, second round. It was nice knowing you. The Clips do, however, get that earlier first-round pick. In a draft that isn’t at all riddled with franchise players, there are rotation players a team might be able to find at No. 25. With the NBA Combine taking place in Chicago this past Thursday and Friday, prospects had a chance to start to make a name for themselves. If you’re not particularly well versed in the college/international game, that’s why we have prospect rankings. Here are some impressions that potential 25th picks (or even potential second rounder’s if the Clippers were to buy a pick or make a trade) made: Rudy Gobert, C, (France) 7-foot-2, 238 pounds I&#8217;m starting with the most unrealistic of all these prospects because I&#8217;m a tease and that&#8217;s what teases do. Gobert tested off the charts at the Combine. He&#8217;s 7-foot-2 with a 7-foot-9 wingspan. Let&#8217;s just go over that again: 7-foot-9 wingspan! 7-foot-9 wingspan! According to DraftExpress.com, he&#8217;s got the fifth longest wingspan of any player in the database since 1989. His arms are so long that he only needs a three-inch vertical to touch the rim &#8211; and that&#8217;s because his standing reach is 9-foot-7. He can actually shoot a little bit with a jumper that goes out to 16 feet and for a 20-year-old that is 7-foot-2 and who is supposed to be a project, that&#8217;s a pretty good start. So if he somehow falls to 25th or if the Clippers have a chance to trade up just a bit for him, they should Gobert or go home. Also, he has a 7-foot-9 wingspan! Steven Adams, C, (Pittsburgh) 7-foot, 255 pounds Adams is also a bit of a project, but he proved to be one of the most athletic centers at the Combine. His max vertical (33 inches) placed him fifth among centers and his times in both the agility drill and the 3/4-court sprint were solid. He&#8217;s still only 19 years old and is quite raw in multiple facets of the game, but he can actually shoot a little bit &#8211; especially from the elbows. The biggest question about Adams: Can a kid who grew up in New Zealand playing against subpar competition (and often playing against girls) adjust to the talent of the NBA? And unfortunately, he doesn&#8217;t have a 7-foot-9 wingspan. Allen Crabbe, G, (California) 6-foot-6, 197 pounds Crabbe is the first in a long line of wings the Clippers could take. And in a lot of ways, he makes sense as a Clipper. He&#8217;s a shooting guard with a lot of range, one that&#8217;s streaky, but one that can catch fire quickly. His 36-inch max vertical was actually better than expected heading into the Combine, though he does rebound pretty well (9.7 percent rebounding rate in his career at Cal). He&#8217;s originally from Los Angeles and stayed in state for college. But there&#8217;s one big problem with Crabbe: he&#8217;s a dreadful defender. You can take the shooting, but you might have to deal with points on the other end and on nights when Crabbe isn&#8217;t hitting his shots, he&#8217;s not going to provide much. Ricky Ledo, G, (Providence) 6-foot-6, 197 pounds What is Ricardo Ledo? Excuse me, I guess now he&#8217;s Ricky Ledo. He&#8217;s is a total mystery. After sitting out his freshman year at Providence, he declared for the NBA Draft. He was the No. 6 recruit in the high school class of 2012 according to the Rivals 150. The little we do know about Ledo says that he&#8217;s probably bound to be a combo guard. He&#8217;s played plenty of point guard, but measured at 6-foot-6 in shoes at the Combine. That allows for versatility. Can he play point guard in the NBA? We&#8217;re not sure. Can he play shooting guard? We&#8217;re not sure. Can he guard small forwards? We&#8217;re not sure. Ledo is a relative unknown, but judging from his high school career, he could be worth taking a flyer on late in the first round or early in the second when a team doesn&#8217;t have to commit a roster spot to him. Archie Goodwin, G, (Kentucky) 6-foot-5, 189 pounds You&#8217;ve got to love the Archie Goodwin school of logic. After Kentucky lost to Robert Morris in the first round of the NIT, Goodwin said, &#8220;There&#8217;s no reason any of our guys should leave. We should come back next year&#8230;and just try to do better&#8221;. Goodwin was kind of right. His teammates did stay. Projected first-round pick Alex Poythress returned for his sophomore season. Will Cauley-Stein elected to stay in Lexington. But then Goodwin entered the draft anyway, presumably because Kentucky has such a good recruit class coming in that he&#8217;d rightfully worry about playing time. So because he didn&#8217;t want to compete against high schoolers in practice, he decided going against NBA competition was the better choice. Goodwin measured well at the combine (6-foot-10 wingspan and a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Exit Through the Team Shop</title>
		<link>http://clipperblog.com/2013/05/16/exit-through-the-team-shop/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 16 May 2013 14:06:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andrew Han</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I was wrong. Not that it matters at all, but I was in the minority of people that declared the Clippers would win the first round series in five games. I imagined every match a taut, closely contested duel. But when one team has two top-15 players, unarguably the best point guard in the league and one of the very best closers, it felt like those would be enough to slingshot the Clippers to victory; especially against a team that&#8217;s generally struggled offensively. I felt so comfortable with this logic that I made impassioned arguments, convincing others to abandon &#8220;Clippers in 7&#8243; or &#8220;Grizzlies in 7&#8243; predictions for the &#8220;Clippers in 5&#8243; wagon. &#8220;Of course, it will be five games with Los Angeles closing out in Staples. It&#8217;s no disrespect to Memphis &#8211; they have a great team. But if every game is going to be close, then wouldn&#8217;t you trust Chris Paul more than any other factor in the series?&#8221; So much did I believe in this rhetoric that I made my first (and likely last) sports bet. But that&#8217;s already near the end. *** This is something that I&#8217;ve been struggling to write for the better part of two months. It started with flipping through the television guide in March, Banksy&#8217;s Exit Through the Gift Shop* was half over. *Exit Through the Gift Shop is a 2010 documentary about the rise of street art in the late &#8217;90s and early 2000&#8242;s. It takes a peculiar turn when Banksy transitions from the object to the subject because of an unexpected new &#8220;artist&#8221; developing during the filming of the documentary. It&#8217;s very confusing as to whether the joke is on the viewer, on the art world, on the artists or simply inclusive of everyone. I&#8217;d highly recommend watching it. This was in the midst of the Clippers&#8217; turbulent March when they appeared more like a struggling .500 team than the contender that claimed a perfect December. Was the team like artists featured early in the doc? Did the Clippers rise from the back alleys and streets like Banksy, Space Invader, Shepard Fairey to make something on the periphery mainstream? Those graffiti artists operated on their own terms and forced the art world and pop culture to conform around them. And whether anyone liked it or not, the Clippers have largely functioned however they deemed fit. Now, after many seasons on the margins, they enjoyed the first spotlight of contendership. Or were the Clippers more the quixotic documentary personality Thierry Guetta? He had the good fortune of being in the same social circle as the newly minted artists. And when these same artists told Guetta to &#8220;make art&#8221; as a distraction so they could make sense of all the footage shot, he unabashedly copied their style and method, pulled all his assets together and created a Banksy-esque art show. He transformed himself to Mr. Brainwash. What was so hard about street art? Imitate a style, mash it up, that&#8217;s what it looked like these newly famous street artists did. And so Guetta did the same. And he debuted to incredible success. This sounds vaguely familiar, doesn&#8217;t it? Maybe the Clippers were Mr. Brainwash; having the good fortune of drafting Blake Griffin, being one of the few suitable partners to acquire Chris Paul. Explosion. They are now bonafide. Forget about the lack of positive history in the franchise. The past does not matter. Before, they were the Clippers; a team more interested in putting two nickels together than basketball. Now, they were Lob City; an instant success, their glitz demanded it. Which is it? It&#8217;s something I&#8217;ve been struggling with since All-Star weekend. And it&#8217;s only been compounded by their early playoff exit. This cognitive dissonance is what&#8217;s caused so much discombobulation in writing, thinking, even appreciating the team this season. Are they a sustainable power now? Is it a situation of perception? Graffiti isn&#8217;t art until it sells at Sotheby&#8217;s for a million dollars. A franchise as infamous as the Clippers isn&#8217;t reformed until they are the main attraction. And that&#8217;s already happened. *** Progress in the NBA is not a linear arc. We can project the upward trajectory of a team or franchise, marveling at the savvy maneuvers as an organization tries to inch closer to a championship. Oklahoma City has spoiled us in this regard. Slowly but surely they made steady, deliberate steps towards elite status; winning very few games with a young Durant and Westbrook. A first round six-game surprise battle with the eventual champion Lakers, a conference finals appearance the next year, an NBA Finals date the year after that. The Thunder painted such a clean narrative of their promise and realization of stated potential. And by that standard, every team that does not push forward is flailing backwards. But you only have to look across at the Clippers&#8217; ouster from this year&#8217;s playoffs to see that isn&#8217;t true. Memphis made the stunning upset over San Antonio two years ago before pushing Oklahoma City to seven games. The next season, the Grizzlies are the victims themselves of another team with promise, the Clippers. Now, Memphis has marched to their first conference finals appearance with a reasonable opportunity for more. Progress only looks like a straight line in hindsight. *** In April 1917, Marcel Duchamp submitted Fountain to the Society of Independent Artists. It was a &#8220;Bedfordshire&#8221; model urinal that he turned on its back and declared art. Duchamp&#8217;s Fountain was equal parts high and low; the elevation of ready-made art, that anything could be art. And it was also a wry prank, the joke that art is literally a porcelain waste receptacle. When Exit Through the Gift Shop first came out in 2010, I couldn&#8217;t tell if it was an elaborate hoax. Truthfully, I can&#8217;t completely be sure it still isn&#8217;t. I thought, &#8220;People couldn&#8217;t have really believed that Guetta was some grand artist, could they?&#8221; I looked up information on the events that transpired over the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>I swim for brighter days, despite the absence of sun</title>
		<link>http://clipperblog.com/2013/05/14/i-swim-for-brighter-days-despite-the-absence-of-sun/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 14 May 2013 15:46:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Seerat Sohi</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Living is better than dying. It&#8217;s a simple concept. We lose touch with the idea in our daily tasks but deep in our subconscious, we cling to it. We don’t know why, we just do. We all live our lives in one microcosm or another. Be it an insatiable desire to attach significance to an otherwise mundane life or just the way that as humans, we connect with each other, it&#8217;s almost second nature to see the functions of our personal lives as a metaphor for the world-at-large. For me, that microcosm is basketball. Not because I look for escapism and perfection in sports because my life is mundane. Because the questions on the court, while complex and problematic, are ultimately solvable. When you break it down to its core, amusing player tendencies and discernible decision making et al, there&#8217;s nothing more predictably exciting than an NBA game. &#8220;Of course he made that shot.” “Of course they drew that up.” “Of course he turned it over.&#8221; Of course. Nothing else makes that much sense. The outcome is often a foregone conclusion. It&#8217;s why the &#8220;process over results&#8221; moniker rings truer in the NBA than it does in any other professional sports league. This draws me to the Clippers. Of course, the past 88 games have presented us with so many different versions of this team that it&#8217;s becoming difficult to distinguish 12 players with a basketball from one sole person with multiple-personality disorder. I&#8217;m talking about the post-February version of the Clippers, the one that hobbled into the playoffs on the back of a once-in-a-generation talent of a point guard but carried fatal flaws that were equally indiscernible. Quiet murmurs of mediocrity were amplified and overblown thanks to a heavily-documented and troublesome late stretch and Clippers fans immediately went into retreat mode. Losing was okay, but only because it seemed inevitable. &#8220;Once a man has realized that death is the end of everything, then there is nothing worse than life either.&#8221; I read this sentence in an introduction to Leo Tolstoy&#8217;s Anna Karenina. I wrote it down immediately and for some reason, it always stuck with me &#8212; probably because, as eloquent as it sounds, I knew it wasn&#8217;t true. And as fans of sports teams, we know it&#8217;s not true. Life is better than death because it carries with it the hope of something different. In the real world, we know deathlessness is unattainable so hope morphs into whatever we choose it to be. In sports, the idea of living forever does little aside from pay homage to its conventional definition but it&#8217;s a possible feat. Immortality is a desired although rarely achieved state. Still, we dupe ourselves. We comfort ourselves with platitudes to which we always give ready tongue&#8230; &#8220;It&#8217;s okay. They have no real shot this year.&#8221; &#8220;The Clippers&#8217; defense simply can&#8217;t stop Kevin Durant.&#8221; &#8220;They rely too heavily on Chris Paul.&#8221; &#8220;Vinny Del Negro can&#8217;t coach this team to the Finals.&#8221; Whether you&#8217;re a fan of the Bucks, Nuggets or Clippers doesn&#8217;t matter. It hurts just the same but the narratives are an ever-reliable crutch. For fans of fringe contenders, it&#8217;s all part of a never-ending circadian cycle. Then Russell Westbrook got hurt and all of that candid, self-deprecating preparation from early March was thrown out of the window. With Oklahoma City&#8217;s eccentric sidekick sidelined and the Spurs tied 2-2 in a series with the Golden State Warriors, it&#8217;s hard not to imagine one of the most painfully irresistible things in life that one could imagine: what could have been. That&#8217;s the thing about sports &#8212; and life. You can analyze something for months, break it down to its core and be almost-certain of an outcome. And then all of that work can be eradicated by one solitary moment. We&#8217;ll never know which way the wind will blow but isn&#8217;t that the entire point? We want to be there to feel the gust. Playoff basketball is another wind all together. It makes the rest of the world feel slow-paced, uninspired and monotonous. It makes lying in your bed with League Pass Broadband feel like an out-of-body experience. My 2013 playoff experience is headlined by two teams that don&#8217;t have much in common aside from their inevitable defeat: the Chicago Bulls and the Los Angeles Clippers, the team that I love and the team that I cover, respectively. The Bulls play against that wind. Despite mounting injuries and an uphill battle from the beginning, the Bulls are alive today because the buzzwords and cliches we make drinking games out of actually apply to them: effort, resiliency, toughness, pride. And then there are the Clippers. They lost the same way they&#8217;ve always lost: lackluster defense, a Chris Paul-or-die game plan and questionable lineup decisions. Watching Game 6 was like driving by a hospital and seeing cancer patients smoking outside of the building. It wasn&#8217;t surprising, which is what made it all the more depressing. I&#8217;ve never understood it but I don&#8217;t expect to, for better or for worse. It felt as if the Clippers were welcoming death. That&#8217;s not to say they weren&#8217;t trying. They were. But it&#8217;s hard to get any sort of a run going when you have to stop for a cigarette every so often. When the going gets tough, complacency can take you over if you allow it to&#8230; and old habits really do die hard. Right now, the Grizzlies are fighting tooth and nail with the Thunder for that one elusive prize: immortality. Behind the stack of papers that represents the Clippers&#8217; list of tasks and questions this summer lies life&#8217;s most haunting, encapsulating reaction to failure: regret. What could have been.]]></description>
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		<title>The Chronicles of Ridicule</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 13 May 2013 16:04:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael Shagrin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I told myself that if the Clippers lost Game 6 that I wouldn’t blame it on Vinny Del Negro. Blake Griffin was injured. The Memphis post game was near unstoppable. The shots just weren’t falling. See, the thing is, I like Vinny Del Negro. From his first day on the job, it wasn’t easy. He inherited a college-age core with some peripheral veterans. He worked for a historically cheap franchise, always indifferent to winning. Then, in rapid succession, the Clippers nabbed a star and uncharacteristically spent a good deal on payroll. All of a sudden, the Clippers were built to “win-now.” Whether your skills as a coach are technical, organizational, or motivational, it’s not easy to be successful if someone moves the goal posts. But the Clippers did keep moving forward. Regular season results improved drastically during Paul’s first season, and once again improved during his second season as the Clippers’ leading man. But the playoffs were different. The first time the Clippers faced the Grizzlies in Round 1 the path to victory was unconventional. In a brawl of a series, the Clips failed to closeout a winnable Game 6 at Staples Center. They travelled to Memphis and pulled off an impressive, though anticlimactic victory. In Round 2 against the methodical Spurs’ offensive machine, the Clippers defense needed a sophisticated plan. They had to execute swift rotations while maintaining a deep awareness of how interior spacing must balance perimeter spacing, and vice versa. Unable to unplug Popovich’s machine, the Clippers got swept. They managed to wrestle four of seven games away from the Grizzlies, but hand-to-hand combat didn’t stand a chance in the age of modern weaponry. This postseason, the Clippers faced familiar foes in Round 1 with a repeat matchup against the Grizzlies. The narrative parallels the previous playoffs, with Lionel Hollins and the Grizzlies upgrading their ammunition before the third game of the series. Vinny Del Negro and the Clippers responded by dusting off their muskets, a barely noticeable upgrade. Just as they dropped four straight to San Antonio, the Clippers dropped four in a row to the Grizz. Vinny Del Negro extolled the virtues of “stability and continuity” more than a few times during his exit interview. For a franchise that’s been to the playoffs six times in 25 years, “stability and continuity” represent quite desirable characteristics. “Press forward along this path,” the thinking might go, “and we’ll continue to be a customary postseason participant.” It’s a very odd feeling to generally agree with the sentiment of Vinny Del Negro’s words. The problem (of course there’s a problem) is that Vinny Del Negro didn’t embrace the sentiment of Vinny Del Negro’s words. Stability and continuity may seem like inherently positive concepts, but in reality, they’re enabling concepts. (It’s similar to the introduction of new technology; the innovation is neutral. It’s the people who use it that give it beneficial or harmful characteristics.) Stability and continuity enable growth and understanding within a specific context—“I’ve seen a similar problem or opportunity before. So this time, I know how to react.” Under Vinny Del Negro, the Clippers did grow. The individual players on the Clippers roster did learn each other’s strengths and weaknesses and improved accordingly. But each step forward was accompanied by uncertainty. We were constantly left to wonder if the Clippers would integrate an improvement into their schemes or if Vinny Del Negro would simply send the same lineup onto the floor and tell them to recreate the magic? Recreating “magic” is much more difficult than reprogramming a definitive system. So, I’ve said it. The dirty word that bloggers throw around with such nonchalance. Vinny Del Negro didn’t have a system. And now to the crescendo: what’s the point of stability and continuity if the franchise doesn’t build on said stability and continuity? Del Negro embraced the “win-now” strategy as was entirely necessary when the Clippers acquired Paul, but he did so in a myopic way. He rarely, if at all, sacrificed short-term for long-term, even within the context of the Chris Paul Clippers. And that’s not entirely his fault. In both seasons since Paul arrived, Vinny’s been in the final year of his contract, a lame-duck whose only hope for retaining his job was winning. The abstract concepts of stability and continuity have such resonance for Vinny Del Negro because blind adherence to them would require Clippers management to re-sign the head coach. And re-signing Del Negro would be just that—blind.]]></description>
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		<title>Five Missed Connections Between the Clippers and Greatness</title>
		<link>http://clipperblog.com/2013/05/10/five-missed-connections-between-the-clippers-and-greatness/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 10 May 2013 16:44:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Patrick James</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Now that the dust has settled on the 2013 Clippers season, those of us at Clipperblog have a lot less to do. The upshot of that is we have a lot more time to focus on our hobbies—like, say, trolling message boards for titillating material. Look, sports is basically low-level voyeurism, but it pales in comparison to capital V voyeurism. In the course of scouring the internet for signs of humanity&#8217;s beating pulse, I discovered a series of one-sided communiqués that appear to have been sent in the direction of the Clippers team. It&#8217;s as though Greatness itself (herself?) were personified, demanding to know why — WHY — had the Clippers passed her by? So in the spirit of total insanity, here are five Craigslist-style missed connections between the Clippers and Greatness. CB &#62; SF BAY AREA &#62; EAST BAY &#62; PERSONALS &#62; MISSED OPPORTUNITIES &#8220;I Thought You Were Cool with Long Distance&#8221; g4t aka greatness for team (Oracle) I thought you were cool with the long distance thing, but I guess you were a little too cool with it. That&#8217;s the only explanation I can think of for you letting Steph and Klay go haywire from deep. We had all the momentum in the world, 17-straight games and a chance to start the New Year off right in Oakland, but you totally ignored me. You could have had the best record in the league with a win that night, but instead you tucked tail and lost four straight, never again in the conversation for best in the West. CB &#62; TORONTO &#62; CITY OF TORONTO &#62; ALL PERSONALS &#62; MISSED OPPORTUNITIES &#8220;Dejected in White Vegas&#8221; g4t (Air Canada Centre) It was like you weren&#8217;t even there. But you were. I saw you. All mopey and over-confident. You needed a win so badly — to get your Grammy trip off to a good start while Chris Paul was injured — but you punted, unable to muster more than 45 points in the first three quarters. Don&#8217;t think I didn&#8217;t see what happened the following nights in Boston and D.C. &#8230; I bet you wish what happened in White Vegas would have stayed in White Vegas. CB &#62; SAN ANTONIO &#62; PERSONALS &#62; MISSED OPPORTUNITIES &#8220;Remember the Alamodome?&#8221; g4t (AT&#38;T Center) You were looking so hot after four straight wins before the All Star break. I thought maybe &#8230; I dunno. OKC had just dropped three straight, so a win against the Spurs would have been a statement that you were ready to contend out West. But you were a mess in Texas. What happened? Now the guys on TV are saying Parker is better than Paul, just days after CP3 took MVP of the All-Star game. I know it&#8217;s a meaningless game, but it meant something to me. And at the risk of scaring you off entirely by referring to myself in the third person, I have to know: Why are you afraid of Greatness?  CB &#62; USA &#62; ALL REGIONS &#62; PERSONALS &#62; MISSED OPPORTUNITIES &#8220;Where Did You Go?&#8221; g4t (Everywhere, March) We haven&#8217;t seen each other lately. I guess I was wrong about you. Those nights in December feel like a lifetime ago. If only there were a way to collapse the distance between then and now, but there&#8217;s not. Everywhere you go it&#8217;s the same: Oklahoma, Denver, Memphis, San Antonio, Houston — even Sacramento and Dallas — every one of those cities is a plot on the map of my broken heart. Find your way back. Please. CB &#62; TEN &#62; MEM &#62; PERSONALS &#62; MISSED OPPORTUNITIES &#8220;When You Needed Me Most&#8221; g4t (Grind House) So we were never exclusive, mostly you never let go of your hang-ups to make a commitment. Maybe you thought my heart was still in Oklahoma, but come on! It was going to work with me and the Thunder. I might have even loved them, but I wasn&#8217;t in love with them. And I know this makes me shallow but with Russ out, it was never going to happen. How could you not see that?! How could you just let me pass you by? Oh, those lonely nights in Memphis. I was right there — RIGHT THERE — waiting for you, but you ignored me. I even followed you back home to LA. I&#8217;ll admit it, it&#8217;s creepy, but the chance was yours. Right now OKC is relying on Derek Fisher (AS A PLAYER) for crying out loud. You had a clear path to the Western Conference finals, but you drove home alone. I hope one day you&#8217;ll come back for me, but know that you might never have a shot at Greatness like this again. &#160;  ]]></description>
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		<title>Clippers&#8217; offseason improvement list</title>
		<link>http://clipperblog.com/2013/05/09/clippers-offseason-improvement-list/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 09 May 2013 19:23:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jovan Buha</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Over at ESPN Los Angeles, I wrote about the Clippers&#8217; offseason and some of the issues they need to address. Here&#8217;s a quick excerpt: Big man with shooting range One of the biggest problems for the Clippers offensively this season was that besides Griffin &#8212; who’s at his best when operating down on the low block &#8212; they didn’t have a big man that could space the floor and stretch opposing defenses out with his shooting. Odom was supposed to fill that role, but his shooting stroke deserted him for the second straight season. He shot 39.9 percent from the floor and 20.0 percent from the beyond the arc, figures that ranked as the second worst of his career. Meanwhile, Jordan, Turiaf and Hollins combined to make 9 shots beyond 10 feet all season. Defenses often ignored the latter two and only paid attention to Jordan because of the ever-looming threat of a lob from Paul. No matter who he played with, Griffin was always paired with an offensive non-factor, forcing him to single-handedly carry the interior-scoring burden. After he sprained his ankle before Game 5 of the 2013 postseason, no one else stepped up &#8212; the remaining big men combined to average just 15 points per game over the final two games of the series. With the Clippers on a strict budget, and floor-spacing big men a hot commodity, it’s unlikely they find a guy without severe flaws (especially defensively). Regardless, finding a shooting big man who can play with Griffin for 10-15 minutes a night will spruce up the Clippers’ offense. Potential fits: Earl Clark, Antawn Jamison, Dante Cunningham (Team Option), Anthony Tolliver, Jon Leuer (Restricted Free Agent) Read the full post here. Follow @jovanbuha]]></description>
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