#44 - LA Clippers @ Phoenix Suns

#44 - LA Clippers @ Phoenix Suns

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Thursday, January 24, 2013 - 7:30pm
US Airways Center, Phoenix, AZ
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Clips favored by 6.5, O/U 191

Eric Bledsoe PG Goran Dragic
Willie Green SG Jared Dudley
Caron Butler SF P.J. Tucker
Blake Griffin PF Luis Scola
DeAndre Jordan C Marcin Gortat

 

Team Stat Leaders

 
LAC
 
PHX
 
Points B. Griffin 18.3 G. Dragic 14.0
Rebounds B. Griffin 8.6 M. Gortat 8.9
Assists C. Paul 9.7 G. Dragic 6.2
Steals C. Paul 2.6 G. Dragic 1.5
Blocks D. Jordan 1.5 M. Gortat 1.9

 

 

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Total Points - Blake Griffin (LAC)

7:35p
Over
              
Under

Total Points - Jamal Crawford (LAC)

7:35p
Over
              
Under
              
 
(LAC @ PHO) - Total Points - Matt Barnes (LAC)
7:35p
Over
              
Under
              

Will Eric Bledsoe (LAC) make his first field goal attempt?

          Must play and have an attempt for action. Free Throws do not count towards wager.
7:35p
Yes
              
No
 

 Will DeAndre Jordan (LAC) make his first field goal attempt?

7:35p
Yes
              
No
              

 

 

 

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I think I'd bet on DJ here.  He wins the tap, and they like to go to him first to establish the post. At least they used to..Frown

Player to score first point of the game?

7:35p
Blake Griffin (LAC)
 
Caron Butler (LAC)
 
DeAndre Jordan (LAC)
 
Eric Bledsoe (LAC)
 
Willie Green (LAC)
 
Luis Scola (PHO)
 
Marcin Gortat (PHO)
 
Goran Dragic (PHO)
 
P.J. Tucker (PHO)
 
Jared Dudley (PHO)

 

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We need to win by 20+ points 2night vs Phoenix... Especially how we've been playing sloppy lately.... Get that groove back, from our 17 game winning streak...

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I'm hoping for another big game from Blake tonight, as long as Scola doesn't get under his skin, which he is notorious for doing to other players.

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Phx on the second night of back to back. Good for us.

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I think Butler will get the first point.

Griffin will be under.  (He'll sit the fourth).

Barnes will be over.  I think over 10 points is the easiest bet.

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Barkley on the Suns:  "They are playing for the future.  The best thing going for them is that the Lakers are gaining on them."

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  Bledsoe still seems to be  adjusting to playing with the starters.  The open up tempo reserves is what he is used to.. !  

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Grant Hill getting an early call with the Clips down 21 to 13.  Clips look confused. Blake having an anemic first quarter with 2 TO's and 0-4 FTs.  Odom completely airballs a short jumper.  Dragic and Gortat are the best players in the game so far.

Somebody better step it up.  I guess that should be Crawford and Barnes.

23-13

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Barkley "They're second unit is better in the half court than their starters".

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bledsoe still has a lot to learn, if he wants to be a starter one day.

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Odom, Barnes, and Bled each make buckets to cut the deficit down to 20-24 at the end of the quarter.

Lets keep the momentum  going in the 2nd.

VDN: "we turned it over too much and we missed our freethrows".  That's you Blake.

 

Blake turned his ankle.

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V-Ice wrote:

bledsoe still has a lot to learn, if he wants to be a starter one day.

Yes he does.

 

Clips keep missing shots. 0/5 so far this quarter. So much for momentum.  Jump shot mentality on the road does not get it done.

31-20 PHX.

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Blake is totally out of it right now...

Someone needs to get aggresive and light a fire for us.

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this is really starting to pissed me off.....

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Bled turnover, Blake misses a dunk, defense is half-assed, the anemia continues. 28 points at the halfway point in quarter 2, 6 missed freethrows, 32% shooting

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Nice pick and roll leads to the kind of shot that we can make: a Blake quake.

Blake back at the line on the next play. Makes one. Now 1/6.  That's not premium.

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Reggie and Charles ragging on Blake for his lack of rebounding.

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ok now we are down by 2 :)

we are starting to pick up energy

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I agree w/ both of there comments on Blake's rebounding. What's happen to all out hustle going for the boards? It's really missing this season..

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          As one of the Fickle fans of basketball,  anger about Clippers playing badly,  will be totally forgotten if they come back and win big going away..!   The old saying   " what have you done for me lately"..?     Smile

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Lets check that out.... Blake is the 21st best PF in the league in rebounds/48.  Lamar Odom is better.  That's not impressive. Or, as Barkley says, "Blake isn't asserting his dominance".

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Lets check that out.... Blake is the 21st best PF in the league in rebounds/48.  Lamar Odom is better.  That's not impressive. Or, as Barkley says, "Blake isn't asserting his dominance".

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Reggie and Charles make for an interesting cast.  They hardly talk about the game at all, but luckily Charles is entertaining.

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that is the 2nd time Blake doesn't challenge the shot by Goran....

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Yeah. Charles gets his eyebrows waxed and he's not ashamed of it.  He says he gets other things waxed too.

You won't get that from Mike Smith.

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  it's not important to some, but Griffin does draw a double team, and even on defense they always double him out from the basket drawing away defenders... when a shot goes up, and Odom and Griffin both with lanes to the hoop, which player do you think they will body out..?   Griffin..!  When they focus on keeping Griffin off the boards, every other Clipper gets more rebounds.    When they don't focus on keeping Griffin off the boards... Griffin get 10 + rebounds.. That is if you care or are watching what happens. 

     Griffin is the best rebounder, and opposing teams focus on keeping a body on him and off the boards.Surprised

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Soonerhopeful1 wrote:

 

  it's not important to some, but Griffin does draw a double team, and even on defense they always double him out from the basket drawing away defenders... when a shot goes up, and Odom and Griffin both with lanes to the hoop, which player do you think they will body out..?   Griffin..!  When they focus on keeping Griffin off the boards, every other Clipper gets more rebounds.    When they don't focus on keeping Griffin off the boards... Griffin get 10 + rebounds.. That is if you care or are watching what happens. 

     Griffin is the best rebounder, and opposing teams focus on keeping a body on him and off the boards.Surprised

...I think you may be delusional.

In any case, Kevin Love gets his rebounds just fine, and did so when he was the only good rebounder on his team.  

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Matt Barnes' new years resolution was to not get any more technical fouls for the rest of the season

How many does he have since January 1st?  I haven't been keeping track but at least 3?

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       My biased Clippers eyes keep telling me the refs are Suns friendly; but after those late fist half tech's on Clippers , my biased eyes might be accurate and not  deceiving me.. !  The calls sure don't seem to be going our way..!     Undecided

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Sooner, I respect your comments about Griffin, but he's not the same rebounder this season.... He's not going for the boards aggresively like in years past..

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Rhy1244 wrote:

Soonerhopeful1 wrote:

 

  it's not important to some, but Griffin does draw a double team, and even on defense they always double him out from the basket drawing away defenders... when a shot goes up, and Odom and Griffin both with lanes to the hoop, which player do you think they will body out..?   Griffin..!  When they focus on keeping Griffin off the boards, every other Clipper gets more rebounds.    When they don't focus on keeping Griffin off the boards... Griffin get 10 + rebounds.. That is if you care or are watching what happens. 

     Griffin is the best rebounder, and opposing teams focus on keeping a body on him and off the boards.Surprised

...I think you may be delusional.

In any case, Kevin Love gets his rebounds just fine, and did so when he was the only good rebounder on his team.  

           Maybe true, and I'm delusional like all NBA coach's who say these things about " Body Griffin off the boards" which people informed should know.  Is not calling other delusional for opinion which is not liked a sign of  personal insecurity...?     yes..!  Some one didn't get enough love when he was little...!    Undecided

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Soonerhopeful1 wrote:

 

       My biased Clippers eyes keep telling me the refs are Suns friendly; but after those late fist half tech's on Clippers , my biased eyes might be accurate and not  deceiving me.. !  The calls sure don't seem to be going our way..!     Undecided

This is a game where calls shouldn't matter. We should be running away with this game. 

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Yeah, sure, Griffin is the only guy in the league that other coaches tell their players to body off the boards. Uh huhhh.

 

Maybe he's just a weakling then.

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Sooner, I respect your comments about Griffin, but he's not the same rebounder this season.... He's not going for the boards aggresively like in years past..

 

    One could say that from the #'s, if what I did say, was not true..  You play Griffin at Center, and #'s would improve.  But if you watch the game, they focus on having at least one player with body on Griffin, and some times even 2 or 3 when ball goes up on a shot..  Of course my opinion and predictions as always so wrong...58 win season and a championship for Clippers prediction...  I am surprised I am not laughed off the board...!     {#emotions_dlg.devil_smile}

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Charles call himself a "mentosexual"

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   More fodder for the humiliation of Sooner;.... He actually believes that Ref's think Griffin is a bully, and even could be a dirty player. Being less aggressive, and more passive at times is a slow way to change ref's opinions.. Although I don't like it, to see Griffin with only 1  to 3 fouls a game.  Griffin being aggressive and fouling out games, is what I'm used to, and what I like and what Clippers fans like.  But Griffin needs to have a good reputation with ref''s, and not get all these " double technical  " calls, with ref's thinking he is dirty..

          what it is worth, I do believe he is on his best behavior, even at risk of less aggression and rebounds. Which I also believe is instructions from coach's.. don't foul or give ref's cause for tech's...   There are a lot of things which are going on in games, people do not comprehend or believe there is a reason.  Griffin has focused on improving his team and personal defense, without fouling or appearing as a dirty player, which he has succeeded at the cost of rebounds.   IMO   Smile

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We should go to DJ more often.

No one draws a foul quite like DJ.  

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Yeah, sure, Griffin is the only guy in the league that other coaches tell their players to body off the boards. Uh huhhh.

 

Maybe he's just a weakling then.

     As to game play and a must do on list of  all coach's,,,,Yes he is..!    Griffin's best games in rebounds are against other good rebounders, who play him one on one.. Cool

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No worries, we have Bled to do the hard work of rebounding. He now has 6 boards to Blakes 4 and DJ's 3.

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Soonerhopeful1 wrote:

JGlanton wrote:

Yeah, sure, Griffin is the only guy in the league that other coaches tell their players to body off the boards. Uh huhhh.

 

Maybe he's just a weakling then.

     As to game play and a must do on list of  all coach's,,,,Yes he is..!    Griffin's best games in rebounds are against other good rebounders, who play him one on one.. Cool

Link or it's a lie!

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this is a pathetic performance.... We don't have any energy at all, and playing slow down basketball.....

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No worries, we have Bled to do the hard work of rebounding. He now has 6 boards to Blakes 4 and DJ's 3.

 

          And you really don't    think how they play against Griffin in blocking him out and DJ, doesn't effect Bledsoe's rebounding , Barnes and Butlers rebound's... Bledsoe is just the best rebounding guard in league, going and getting to hoop not bodied out, amazing....  It is a team game.    Smile

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Sooner is cruising for me to bring back his avatar....

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This is what our team looks like when we are just coasting.

...I don't like it.

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How many jumpers does Gortat have to make before we decide to guard him?

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LMAO!!  Charles Barkley's coach of the year is Phil Jackson!

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Charles says Mark Jackson is 2nd in the running for Coach of the Year.  He says Phil Jackson is first.

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I'm speechless... Were going to lose this game.

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