His thoughts about the Clippers’ struggles weren’t coded. “But we have to keep it going that way”. “We have to find a way to regroup and do the right thing”.
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The Pelicans were enjoying a season-high three-game win streak before getting trounced by the Clippers in a 111-90 romp last night. During those 3 minutes and change, the Pelicans were outscored by 15 points, 19-4 to be exact. Los Angeles shot 68.4 percent to 34.6 percent for New Orleans in the second quarter, when it outscored the Pelicans 35-24.
Neal scored 18 points and center Marcin Gortat had 17 points and 12 rebounds for the Wizards.
The Clippers didn’t play well through either of the first two quarters, but the Pelicans played worse. Stephenson had 10 points, five rebounds and four assists and Austin Rivers added 17 points.
The Pelicans were led by Anthony Davis, who scored 17 points and pulled down six rebounds. As a supposed championship contender, it’s expected of this Clippers team to finish the mentioned stretch favorably; going 10-0 through this 10-game stretch probably won’t happen but winning at least eight of the games is a feasible task. The Pelicans need to try to run circles around them and tempt the Jazz to join them. “I don’t know of a team in the league that has been able to do that”. The Pelicans got this road trip off to a good start and hopefully they can capitalize on this momentum against the Clippers.
Booker also had had three blocked shots on the night, three assists and a pair of steals to go with his double-double.
Lastly, I asked Hornacek about the strong play fro Jon Leuer and T.J. Davis would haunt Phoenix late, when Bledsoe twice got looks at shots near the rim but once got no call when he ran into Dante Cunningham. We can not make excuses for what we don’t have. The Clippers were tied with the Houston Rockets for the most technical fouls (10) entering Friday’s contest.
Los Angeles Clippers’ DeAndre Jordan, right, makes a dunk against…
By the way, this is the second game running where the Jazz have played good defense on a team, but allowed the superstars to get “theirs”. They rebounded better and got a better shooting performance from their bench as well.
It’ll be whether Chris Paul‘s contact with Anthony Davis that caused the All-NBA forward to leave the game – was carried off the floor – that’ll dominate discussion surrounding the Clippers and Pelicans’ first meeting of the season.
“I just play hard and bring energy and do what I do, ” Booker said, in the locker room with his young son Jackson sitting on his lap.
Davis suffered a right knee contusion in the third quarter of Friday’s game and is questionable to return, Jennifer Hale of Fox Sports reports.
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Jamal Crawford moved into 100th on the NBA’s all-time scoring list, passing Juwan Howard.
