ClutchFans Game Thread: Clippers @ Rockets 5/4/2015 (Playoffs Round 2, Game 1)

Deandre and those lobs along with Crawford and his ridiculous shot making ability will be extremely annoying to watch.

Not looking forward to this series.

 

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If only we still had The Canaanball.

 

We probably won't see lobs this series from the clips. Look how the spurs neutralized that

 

The words for what will happen, have yet to be invented.

 

Fire Murray

 

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-partner="tweetdeck"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">CP3 officially listed as questionable for Game 1 with his hamstring injury</p>&mdash; Dan Woike (@DanWoikeSports) <a href="https://twitter.com/DanWoikeSports/status/594925127659233280">May 3, 2015</a></blockquote>
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No sympathy here.

 

for real but if we win thats all we will hear

 

By the way, not sure if anyone was watching Inside the NBA post Clip/Spurs last night but Kenny Smith was saying "oh I don't know who will guard CP3, big match up problem" to which Nate Robinson said "they'll be fine, they got a lot of 50/50 guys who can play both sides"

I submit to evidence the answer to Kenny Smith's 'who gonna match up with Cp3 comment'

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I wasn't able to catch most of the Clippers games this year. Did we have Ariza on Paul for most of the game, or was it a situational thing?

 

Rockets should be ready and start off focused to set the tone for the rest of the series. The Clippers will get their game going but it will come down to the bench play like in the Spurs series that will decide the semis.

 

we stop crawford, we contain the clips... the reason i say this is because their starters will almost inevitably do well, so if we can contain 1/5 of the game when bench players are playing, we'll be decent shape

 

we cant have austin rivers going off for 20+ in random games either.

 

As bad as he is skillwise he is very quick and will probably get past Terry/Prigs at well.

 

Paul will play. Bet.

 

We about to whoop that ass

 

Rockets should win this series. Simple as that. The injury to Paul certainly doesn't help LA's cause.

 

As I recall, we opted in that game to force Cp3 to beat us from the outside and closed off Deandre going to the hoop on the P&R.

We did have Brewer/Ariza on him at times throughout the game straight up and they switched onto him a lot that i think made it tough for him to find a rhythm.

We didn't have Dwight any of the games either so I think we play the P&R even better.

 

We better hit our threes, I'm tired of seeing all teams players making it look easy.

 

I mean the Spurs were just leaving him wide open all game long on the perimeter. I think you want him to shoot those shots. If he has one game where he happens to make those so be it. 20 points in one game doesn't make up for being able to play 5 on 4 on one end for entire series. Just look at how different it was to defend the Mavs when Rondo quit.