1. Dwight must get the ball deep in the post or not at all. No more posting up outside the paint. He can't back Jordan down effectively or get around him. He either has to score but cutting into the paint and getting a pass, or on PnR. He has to attack Jordan face up and draw contact from him that way. 2. Stop Hack-a-Jordan. As much as it disrupts the clippers, it's clearly killing our offense as well. It stops us from having any kind of early offense game as L.A. will be able to set-up defensively. Plus instead of getting turnovers to transition points we are denying a keep part of our attack. 3. Harden must get to the rim and stop worrying about calls or being intimidated by blocks. He's not going to get them. He has to accept that. And he has to get to the rim. We have no hope unless he starts making better decisions about driving to the basket and driving hard into Jordan. 4. Frustrate Jordan. We have to get Dorsey out there and get into it him with a bit. Get him on tilt so he starts fouling. 5. Do not leave Jordan to help on the driver. Not only is this letting Jordan get moral-crushing lob dunks, it allows him to get offensive rebounds. Stay with him. Find someone else to step up into the paint, or force the Clippers to shoot the mid-range shot instead of driving. Better to get killed on the outside than inside. I think we are in a tough position, but these might be our best chances to stopping this monster.
Just remember that Maury passed up on DeAndre Jordan to draft Joey Dorsey. Also, please remember that Jordan is making half as much as Dwight Howard. Mauryball for the win!
Clippers aren't that good. We just need to do 3 things. 1. Rebound 2. Play with intensity 3. Play physical on their guards and stop being so weak In my book, clippers complained way to much and we saw a shift in how the game was reffed.
#4 made me laugh. Dorsey in there to frustrate someone?! Joey Dorsey is a pure scrub who doesn't belong on the court.
What was the logic? A barely 6'7 tweener vs a nearly 7ft legit center. I have no idea what Morey was thinking.
slip the ref six hunnit fiddy during warmups and tell him that he needs to place it on the Rockets this time, when calling their bookie.
The logic is that Joey wasn't drafted by us. We drafted Batum @ 25, then traded him for Donte Greene & Joey Dorsey. Donte Greene was then traded after like 1 Summer League game for Ron Artest. So we traded Batum for Ron Artest and Joey Dorsey. We didn't choose Dorsey over DeAndre.
Joey Dorsey is Morey's worse signing. There are dozens of legit seven footers who aren't 20% free throw shooters out there available. Morey instead gives guaranteed money to Joey Dorsey.
35 mill on Lin 4 mill on Dorsey 15 mill on Mchale 10 mill on Papanikkalou 30 mill debt on maloney = Total 1/10 of a billion dollars. Morey taking Les to the cleaners.
Valid points. But the only thing I see that they have that we don't is a set of balls. They are playing with a sort of defiance that we played with in Dallas and fearlessness.
I am a McHale (as a coach) hater with passion, but I haven't jumped on McHale yet just because Clippers is so good, the way they pulled out of 7 games with Spurs. We went 1-3, 2 games without Paul and 2 with half Paul, we cant beat Pauless Clippers when it matters, I know we suck but they are just damn good. I wont be surprised that fully reloaded Clippers take Warrior over 7.
