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[...]

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. That’s, like, a really long time: Fox Sports Prime Ticket ran a graphic during the game that said gas was $1.29 a gallon the last time the Clippers won in[...]

 Photo by Jack Dempsey/AP   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 Chr[...]

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 wi[...]

ClipperBlog contributor Michael Shagrin answers three questions from last night.   Q: What really happened at the end of the 4th 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 hi[...]

It’s time to start the show. The lockout is done, the NBA is back, and now it’s time to sort through some of the details of the proposed CBA and what it might mean for the Clippers: Before we get into it, I should mention a really cool thing that happened as the word broke last night on [...]

I’m emerging from my Grad School Thesis Cave to post some Clipper thoughts by none other than my brother, Reyn Murphy. I miss Baron Davis and I shouldn’t. Baron was special. He wasn’t great, and by the most important measurement he was rarely even good. But, nevertheless, he was one of the rar[...]

The Clippers dropped their final clash of the season with the Lakers 112-104 in an entertaining but sloppy game last night at the Staples Center. Watching the game, it was hard to figure out how the Clippers kept it as close as they did. Leading scorer Eric Gordon suffered through his worst shooting[...]