[Western Conference - 1st round] (4)LA Clippers vs. (5)Portland

Man I feel heartbroken for the Clippers

 

Austin Rivers showed me a lot this game he is ready to be a starter in this league.

DD

 

Wow, Rivers eye leaking pretty bad while doing handshakes. That guy gained a lot of respect tonight.

 

#ripcity

This is a great second round matchup

Poor clippers

 

Not heartbroken, but it sucks when you lose and you left everything on the court. I feel bad for them.

Oh well.

 

so what game is Curry expected back?

 

Terrible all around last possession for lac, why not just take a 3?

Feel bad for clips!

 

That's exactly what I was thinking... the ONE time Jamal Crawford decides to take the 'smart' shot rather than jacking a 3.

 

One of only 3 people predicted Blazers in 6.

 

0 people predicted season ending injuries to both Paul and Griffin

 

Nasty... looks like the stitches below the eye opened up at the end...

Spoiler

 

Not really, I think the Warriors will mostly roll.

Too bad the Clippers could not stay healthy. Warriors-Clips has been a rivalry and we would have gotten Paul vs Curry, Crawford vs Klay, Griffin vs Green, and Bogut vs Deandre.

Was going to be SOOO many heroics and at least 4 gifs of Paul flopping on screens but at least these screens will have actually been illegal and I think there was a chance that between Jordan/Blake and Green/Bogut was going to break into a fight. It was going to be one of those glorious classic WC playoff series.

 

I've been one of Rivers biggest critics. Called him the bust of the draft when it was going on. Still not gonna gonna give him too much because talent wise its not there, but the dude is a f'ing Warrior for getting back out on the court tonight and doing what he did.

Much respect to you Austin, better luck next year.

Now GTFO!

 

Clippers got rekt on the fast break vs Portland. They would have been slaughtered by GSW.

Portland - GSW is going to be an entertaining matchup.

 

Yeah because they missed Chris Paul for half of the series. Clippers had complete control of the series when Chris Paul played. Chris Paul is an excellent pace controller.

 

Yeah I was anticipating a fully healthy clips team finally going against GS. That would have been a good series full of playoff basketball and emotion. GS will cruise against port.

 

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">J.J. Redick (31) and Jamal Crawford (36) both said they want to play five more years. Redick would like a 4-year deal next summer.</p>&mdash; Arash Markazi (@ArashMarkazi) <a href="https://twitter.com/ArashMarkazi/status/727192466277945346">May 2, 2016</a></blockquote>
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