awesome writeup of last night's loss to the Nets: http://sports.yahoo.com/news/what-happened-to-the-once-dominant-clippers-155418664.html NEW YORK – Doc Rivers emerged from the Clippers locker room Wednesday night and delivered a damning indictment of his once-vaunted contender. L.A., the coach and president of basketball operations declared minutes after a humiliating 127-122 double-overtime loss to Brooklyn, had become arrogant. “We lost our respect for the game,” Rivers said. “We lost our humility. We got up, we got cool, we got ‘showtime,’ and when that happens, you deserve to lose the game. Champions have humility throughout the game. And we lost that.” As November winds down, the Clippers have to wonder: What happened to the team that opened the month? That stingy defensive unit is gone, replaced by a team that had been gashed by Sacramento (115 points), Toronto (115) and Dallas (104) in recent wins and blitzed by Detroit (108) and Brooklyn as part of a troublesome three-game skid. The team that stifled Damian Lillard and Kawhi Leonard early in the season couldn’t stop Sean Kilpatrick (who?) from dropping 31 of his 38 points after the third quarter and newly minted stretch five Brook Lopez from raining threes. So what’s happened? Overconfidence can probably explain the Brooklyn loss. The Nets had lost seven straight coming in, and two weeks earlier had absorbed a 32-point drubbing from the Clippers on a swing through Los Angeles. The Nets’ lineup is headlined by Lopez and fleshed out by a bunch of players even the most ardent NBA fans would have trouble picking out of a basketball lineup. The Clippers rested Blake Griffin, started Paul Pierce and checked out after building an 18-point second-half advantage. They opened the door for the Nets and then seemed stunned when Brooklyn stormed right through it. more at the link plus video
Let me know when they turn the corner. If you turn the corner enough times you end up going in the right direction again!
Considering all the flopping they have done over the years, they never had respect for the game to begin with. So this is just empty rhetoric.
This doesn't distract from that fact, because it's an extension of loosing that 3-1 playoff series lead to the Rockets.
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They are not as bad as they were the past week, but are not as good as they were to start off the season. It's just variance.
The opposition must be careful not to sever the head of a Chinese water snake. The "doctor" will continue to eat its tail -- resulting in an infinite cycle of pain and suffering for Clipper fans. In the mean time, don't run with scissors kids.
Yeah, and after it's over, make sure the equipment manager isn't the first one to come back into the lockerroom.
J.B. Bickerstaff on his Rockets: 'We’ve disrespected the game' http://sports.yahoo.com/blogs/nba-b...---we-ve-disrespected-the-game-085621265.html
It's a marathon, not a sprint, so they need to take it one game at a time and not get ahead of themselves. Night in and night out.
