It’s another late-game option the Clippers didn’t have late last season, which is why they withered at the finish.
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There aren’t many players who can get up and block Griffin in the disrespectful manner that Ezeli did on that play. “We just weren’t making any shots”. But we’ll see. They’re the champs. He’s powerful. He can go in there and go strong. Well usually it would be a few kind of explosion that could destroy the very fabric of the world as we know it, but tonight it was a sick block. The Clippers could use Lance’s help a little more all-around, but so far, so good.
Three games in the Suns are 12th in the league in bench scoring, with just over 37 points a game. That was considered a lackluster 114-109 win Saturday.
“I think it should be a lot of fun”, Clippers coach Doc Rivers said. “They were worse. They were flat”.
For the 6-foot-11 Nigerian who lost a the entire 2013-14 season recovering from knee surgery and didn’t even begin playing the game until age 16, now it’s about continuing to grow his game on offense and confidence.
“Again, he’s been in the league long enough now and doubled enough and seeing all different things that [the Clippers] just go to option two”.
The last time Phoenix was in the Staples Center to take on the Clippers, the Suns played their collective hearts out only for this to happen. Phoenix came out motivated in the third quarter and promptly erased the Clippers lead. You have to be lucky to win a championship, but at the same time, teams make their own luck by winning the most regular season games like they did a year ago. No National Basketball Association player had reached each of those figures in a game since Kyrie Irving did it for Cleveland on January 4, 2013.
Hornacek has beaten the Clippers once in eight tries since becoming head coach. In his first Suns-Clippers game on December 30, 2013, the Suns won 107-88 when Channing Frye kept Griffin to 15 points and Goran Dragic scored 26.
Jordan has the NBA’s longest active consecutive games streak at 325 games. Jordan had nine rebounds and is 12 away from tying Elton Brand’s career franchise record of 4,710….
What will be interesting now is to see the Clippers and Grizzlies do battle this season.
Coro also reported that rookie Devin Booker has been receiving treatment on an ankle he sprained during an off-day workout, so purely off of that it sounds like he’s out.
Paul finished with 17 points but had an uncharacteristic five turnovers to go along with his five assists.
Falling behind during that time period won’t show up quite the same was as Curry’s pyrotechnics, and the degree to which a second quarter possession is equally valuable to one in the fourth is an open question, but it’s hard not to wonder if through more balanced deployment of talent earlier in the game, those Curry daggers might have instead been made in a futile attempts at a comeback which fell just short. “But I felt like the energy for both teams was pretty high”. Rivers convinced Josh Smith to make the free agent jump from Houston to L.A., re-signed his son Austin Rivers to a new contract and packed the bench with Wesley Johnson and Pablo Prigioni.
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Key Clippers injuries: None reported.
