Los Angeles outshot Utah 47.5 percent to 42.2, but the Jazz outscored the Clippers 17-1 on second-chance points.
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Blake Griffin led the Clippers with 40 points and 12 rebounds Wednesday. Jordan finished with 11 rebounds as Clippers fell to Utah Jazz on Wednesday. He averaged 24.0 points as Los Angeles won two of three from New Orleans last season, and Paul added 21.7 per game along with 11.3 assists.
“This is just not right”, Paul said. It was only their fourth game of the season with 16-or-fewer assists. Which, despite his obvious problems with shot selection and controlling the offense as a ball handler, doesn’t justify him getting nearly no playing time.
Overall, the Jazz shot 50 percent to 50.7 for Los Angeles.
Now there are no hints on who exactly would be the players that would be shipped out from the line-up if Clippers would indeed go with the reshuffling.
Better lip readers than I could confirm this, but it looks like he said “F*ck you, f*cking b*tch”. However, Malone knows his rookie floor leader is facing a gauntlet of the NBA’s best point guards in the first month of the season.
Nov 24, 2015; Denver, CO, USA; Los Angeles Clippers guard Wesley Johnson (33) dribbles the ball against Denver Nuggets forward Danilo Gallinari (8) in the third quarter at the Pepsi Center.
The Jazz out-scored the Clippers by only six in the fourth quarter, but those numbers are lying. “I know that for a fact”. “We have to be able to withstand a run and not get down on ourselves”.
On Tuesday, it was an alley-oop three-pointer to beat the shot clock. He hit his next two shots to put the Clippers ahead 71-60 midway through the third. At one point, Blake Griffin got so mad at all the fouls, he said something to Denver coach Mike Malone and got a technical foul. “You have to have a short-term memory. But tonight, Hayward hurt us more“. Gallo was enjoying a seemingly endless parade to the free throw line in the first half, and wound up going 16-of-17 from the stripe in the game. 500 yet again this season as they moved to 7-8 and dropped to 8th in the Western Conference. The Clippers, meanwhile, place near the bottom of the league (27th) on the defensive backboards with a defensive rebound percentage of 73.3%. Nuggets C Joffrey Lauvergne has started running but continues to sit with a lower back strain. He finished with nine points.
When the Denver Nuggets took the court against the defending National Basketball Association champion Golden State Warriors on Sunday night, trying to prevent the Warriors from matching an National Basketball Association record with their 15th consecutive win to open the season, Denver head coach Michael Malone joked that his team was playing the role of the Washington Generals. And as Doc said, the only way they can be an elite team (besides improving numerous other aspects of their game) is by improving their rebounding. “The Sixers would give up Nerlens Noel and Robert Covington to the Clippers.It will be tough for them to give up DeAndre, but they will get Noel (who could develop to be DeAndre) as well as Tyler Zeller and Robert Covington to give them youth and depth”.
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Letting things come naturally was what helped Rajon Rondo propel himself to the position he was in with the Boston Celtics – so it comes down to a matter of whether you have trust in and respect for the process.
