Dr. Oliver Eslinger is the Men’s head basketball coach at CalTech. He was on press row at Staples Center for the Clippers’ loss against Phoenix, and offers his impressions:

On Thursday night, Los Angeles Clippers coach Vinny Del Negro pondered one pointed question for what seemed like an eternity. His fatigue was apparent. He was drained from the loss and his team’s postgame team meeting. And his answer confirmed the team’s implosion. He essentially admitted that the Clippers’ offense sputtered in the fourth quarter, and it wasn’t necessarily a surprise. He then elaborated: “We’re playing too much as individuals instead of a team. You can’t win like that. We let one play infect another.”  More...

The Clippers out-gunned the Spurs 120-108  to get their first win in San Antonio since 2002. Let’s get to five thoughts from the win.  More...

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ClipperBlog’s Charlie Widdoes, Nick Flynt and D.J. Foster discuss the Clippers road win over Denver.

1. When the Clippers go small they are ______ ?

Charlie Widdoes, ClipperBlog: Really, really bad at rebounding the ball. With the exception of Chris Paul and Randy Foye on occasion, they struggle to stay in front of guys on the perimeter, which forces DeAndre Jordan to help. With the big man out of position, responsibility falls to the guards to pick up the slack, and as a group, they just don’t have the instincts to be even adequate in that area.  More...

Sooner or later the Clippers were going to get burned. It’s not that they’ve been playing poorly as a team, it’s just that their way of winning games felt a little unsustainable. To use our most recent popular term here (move over, glue guy!), the Clippers offensive performances without Chris Paul have been a little bit of “fool’s gold.”

The Clippers are a jump-shooting team. That’s their identity right now. According to HoopData.com, the Clippers lead the league in shot attempts beyond 16-feet. It’s what this roster is built to do. While that’s not necessarily a bad thing, it does put the team in an awkward position when the shots from the perimeter stop falling.  More...

ClipperBlog contributor Michael Shagrin answers three questions from last night.

Q: What really happened at the end of the 4^th Quarter?

Chauncey Billups brings me to hell and back. So he made the final shot of the game in the last second and confirmed his role as “Mr. Big Shot.” What about his play during the prior 55 seconds of the game’s final minute? He turns the ball over. He takes a bad shot. He turns the ball over again. What was going on with him? These issues could be a product of a few things:  More...