Preview: Clippers at Kings
by Tom Ziller on Apr 8, 2010 1:00 PM PDT
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AYKIS ALERT
Your friend Aykis16 will be on the XO Communications Crossover tonight. The short show is live in the arena sometime after 6:30 but before the game. So show up at 6:30 and check out Aykis16's pregame show debut!
SCOUTING REPORT
The Clippers have won three games since the start of March. The Kings have won, uh, four. This is not exactly a game which shall capture the imagination of a nation.
L.A., a cesspool of bad offense, scored 85 points in Portland last night. Rasual Butler, Chris Kaman and Steve Blake all led the way with, uh, 14. Baron Davis is healthy (I suppose) and starting; he shot 5/14, and has shot 40.3 percent this season. Drew Gooden and Eric Gordon are also starting, and DeAndre Jordan lives to destroy Kings.
The Clips are 28th in the league in team offense: 23rd in shooting, 29th in turnovers, 10th in offensive rebounding (word up to Gooden, D.J. and Marcus Camby R.I.P.), 24th in foul drawing. The Kings held the Clips an Offensive Rating of 92 in March, 96 in late February and 100 in mid-February. So the Kings, not a good defensive club, can keep L.A. from scoring efficiently. A good sign, yes?
The Clips aren't completely terrible on defense (though statistically worse than the Kings): L.A. has the No. 10 defensive rebounding squad and doesn't foul much. For the Kings, it's about getting clean looks near the rim and from deep, and not turning the ball over. Gooden's not a very good defender, and Kaman's overrated on that end (though he can block shots from the weak side and rebound).
KEY BATTLE
Beno Udrih vs. Baron Davis. If Udrih drops 20 assists, I will drop $10 into a local hobo's coffee mug. If Davis shots 50 percent or better from the floor, I will shoot myself.
BOLD PROCLAMATION
Baron Davis will not shoot 50 percent or better from the floor.
BOLD BROCKLAMATION
Emboldened by Jason Thompson's first three of the season in the closing moments of Tuesday's loss to San Antonio, Jon Brockman evokes an image of J.R. Smith, eventually scoring three points on 1-27 from beyond the arc. "Let's see them make me 'diversify' my game, now!" Brockman fired back.
DETAILS
7 PM PT. Two game threads (7, 8:15) and a post-gamer (9:45). Join us, won't you?
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Rasual Butler doesn't stand a chance tonight.
Get ready for a combination of charges and threes.
"Oh, y ahora ¿quién podrá defenderme?" "¡Yo!"
by chapuforyou on Apr 8, 2010 1:14 PM PDT reply actions 1 recs
Bold Proclamation
The powers will work one last time
"Children want what they want when they want it." ... Andy Sims
BP:
Aykis does such a poignant pregame that Gavin approaches him shortly after and asks him to replace Peaches, who was last seen running from the arena with tears of shame flowing down his be-freckled cheeks after professing his secret love of the Clippers organization. This in turn, becomes the viral hit of the week on You tube.
Sound the trumpets, Raise the drawbridge, and drop the Oldsmobile
Yo, you talkin 'bout me?
This is Black Dynamite for Anaconda Malt Liquor... Once you pop the top, the panties drop
by prowseinthehouse on Apr 8, 2010 2:08 PM PDT reply actions
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This is Black Dynamite for Anaconda Malt Liquor... Once you pop the top, the panties drop
by prowseinthehouse on Apr 8, 2010 2:09 PM PDT up reply actions
Goodluck Aykis
Tell Nicholson to get a haircut.
Oh yeah, and go Kings!
"Sometimes the capriciousness of youth anesthetizes common sense." -Let Geoff's words guide our patience this season.
Didn't know he travelled with the Clip show...
Sound the trumpets, Raise the drawbridge, and drop the Oldsmobile
Clarification
Andrew Nicholson, who I believe will be the one grilling Aykis during the pregame:
Nicholson is the one on the right. I believe the one on the left is Aykis.
"Sometimes the capriciousness of youth anesthetizes common sense." -Let Geoff's words guide our patience this season.
by AnotherStupidSN on Apr 8, 2010 3:41 PM PDT up reply actions
No, Aykis NaPG.
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by jjham15 on Apr 8, 2010 3:43 PM PDT up reply actions 3 recs
Neither is the guy in the photo
Not in the NBA anyway. :-P
"If you give me six lines written by the hand of the most honest of men, I will find something in them which will hang him." - Cardinal Richelieu
Michael Finley is old
that is all
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by vfettke on Apr 8, 2010 2:12 PM PDT reply actions 1 recs
Clippers are 16-16 against sub .500 teams.
They have been close in last three games and could have beat Den if Blake hadn’t had 9 turnovers. Evans missed last game when Beno had 17 assts. In other 2 games Kings had 17 & 19 assts total as a team. Evans scored 21pts on 14 shots and 22pts on 21 shots so he can score to keep up his run for 20-5-5 but not helping with assists with 7 total in games he’s played.
Spencer had 19 rebounds and 29pt in last 2 games, and will be missed. The Clips should dominate the boards, but will turnover the ball so we can’t. Or, they’ll get too big a lead in FGA’s and 2nd chance points. The Clips are shooting better than 48% from the field this month, so we need to take care of the ball and make good choices in our shot selection.
I think Tyreke will maintain his scoring on way to the 20-5-5, but the game is very much in doubts especially if our wings can’t score at a high percentage.
"If you don't have anything good to say, LIE" - Mom
The greatest impact player in NBA History - Tim Donaghy
by HighTops on Apr 8, 2010 2:47 PM PDT reply actions 2 recs
Thanks for slacking on the previews HT!
I came to the preview expecting them and now they are no more. You’re letting us down HT!
EvilCowtownInc: Screwin Suckaz over since 1985......
No mistakes in the tango, Donna. Not like life. Simple. That's what makes the tango so great. If you make a mistake, and get all tangled up, you just tango on.....
Yes but the soft HT you know is better than the one you don't.
EvilCowtownInc: Screwin Suckaz over since 1985......
No mistakes in the tango, Donna. Not like life. Simple. That's what makes the tango so great. If you make a mistake, and get all tangled up, you just tango on.....
Have you been talking to my wife?
"If you don't have anything good to say, LIE" - Mom
The greatest impact player in NBA History - Tim Donaghy
BINGO!
"(Jason Heyward) is like the Grim Reaper -- you know he's going to get you, you just don't know where or when."
Will JT get smacked around by Kaman?
Got a feeling we may need more minutes from May tonight because JT will get into foul trouble.
Woke up this morning to snow on the pass so going to travel tomorrow and not make the game but
I will come back and hang out in the GDT
That sucks.
EvilCowtownInc: Screwin Suckaz over since 1985......
No mistakes in the tango, Donna. Not like life. Simple. That's what makes the tango so great. If you make a mistake, and get all tangled up, you just tango on.....
GUARANTEED WIN NIGHT!!
The Clips have given up on the season and are playing 2nd night of a back to back. This is a guaranteed win night in the making!!!
BOOK IT!
Book it?
Wait....Why is everybody clapping? Everyone around me is clapping.... I guess I should be clapping too... GO LAKERS!!! I hate living in So Cal
by 27freethrows on Apr 8, 2010 4:48 PM PDT up reply actions 1 recs
BB:
Jon Brockman is working on his jump shot doncha know? Therefore I fully expect JR to be proclaiming “Jon is Brocklomatic from the 3!” on a regular basis from now on.
"If you give me six lines written by the hand of the most honest of men, I will find something in them which will hang him." - Cardinal Richelieu
Clippers faithful look of disapproval.
GREENE! You’ve been superfluously apostrophe’d! - andy sims
iashwash, you are the voice of reason - Holmdel
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