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That stat said it all, Jordan and Crawford, 24 points, rest of team, 3 points.
And Haywood, like I said, a superstar in the making.
Off season moves will be interesting.
Clearly, this Clippers team has long past its window of opportunity for a championship. If the core team stays the same, they're not going anywhere past the first round of the playoffs for the next few years (at best). They're like another version of the Grizzlies.
Paul and Griffin both have player options. I predict Griffin will be gone, but Paul is a harder one to figure out. If he truly wants a ring, he's going to have to go to another team. But the Clippers are his team. He came to the Clippers with sooo much promise and brought longer term respectability to the organization, and for that fans should be grateful.
We know it’s time for the Los Angeles Clippers to blow it all up. We’ve known this to be true for months now. But after watching the Clippers blow yet another playoff lead, this time to the Utah Jazz, we can confidently say this is a team in need of a brand new identity.
Los Angeles had control of the series after three games, up 2-1. But as Clippers fans can tell you, that means zilch with this team. In fact, this was the fifth straight postseason in which Lob City took a playoff lead, only to blow it — an NBA first.
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I was pretty pissed the year the Clippers beat the Spurs in the first round only to blow a 3-1 series lead versus the Rockets (2015 playoffs). Not that it really matters as a Spurs fan, but I would have hoped they the team that beat the Spurs in round 1 would have at least made it to the Conference Finals.
Time to blow that team up... the Grizzlies are sort of in the same boat two as they've had the same stars for years with little to show.
I was pretty pissed the year the Clippers beat the Spurs in the first round only to blow a 3-1 series lead versus the Rockets (2015 playoffs). Not that it really matters as a Spurs fan, but I would have hoped they the team that beat the Spurs in round 1 would have at least made it to the Conference Finals.
Time to blow that team up... the Grizzlies are sort of in the same boat two as they've had the same stars for years with little to show.
So CP3 did get out the first round. Someone on a sports board he never got out the 3rd round.
And a team losing a 3-1 lead falls back on the coach not the players
Every year, the Clippers conversation has followed the same patterns. In October and November: "Can the Clippers do this?" Then someone gets hurt. "Can the Clippers survive this?" They survive. Then, we hit the trade deadline. "If the Clippers don't win, should they blow it up?" Then the playoffs arrive. "Are people overlooking the Clippers?" Then when they're just about to lose... "Is this is the end of Lob City?"
No more. Please. The Clippers were officially eliminated from the playoffs as of Sunday afternoon, and it's time for this to be over.
Kinda feel bad for them though. Blake Griffin is a porcelain doll, guy can't stay healthy. Utah shut CP3 down and forced the rest of the Clippers to beat them and they couldn't get it done. They need to take out the trash in the offseason.
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