For the better part of a month, Marcus Camby stabilized the Clippers’ interior play — both their rebounding attack and the business of patrolling the paint defensively. As bad as things got for the Clippers over their twelve-game losing streak that ended on Saturday night, Camby helped[...]
In their effort to acquire a center corps composed exclusively of former Denver Nuggets, the Clippers acquired 7-foot-1 Senegalese center Cheikh Samb from Denver on Monday for a conditional second-round draft pick. Samb was drafted by the Lakers in the second round of the 2006 Draft — 17 picks[...]
Statistics are still an emerging science in basketball. Several new systems have been introduced in recent seasons to measure a player’s offensive and defensive value. Now that we have this interwebby thing, we can do cool stuff like sort by offense, defense, this metric, that metric. What&[...]
There’s little to say about this one other than it’s very apparent that the Clippers’ starters hit a wall early in the first quarter. Coming into tonight, the Clipper starters have averaged almost 43 minutes per game each over their past six games. Add that eye-popping number to [...]
I agree with Kim Hughes that timeouts tend to be overvalued in last possession situations. Transition and general chaos always favor the offense, especially when the ball is in the hands of someone as effective in the open court as Baron Davis. As Hughes points out in Ramona Shelburne’s item,[...]