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jdw · Site Admin Joined: 01 Sep 2005 Posts: 12609

Yeah... Kaman is much more entertaining than Chris Paul. :P

John

JAG · Joined: 27 Jul 2006 Posts: 1376

This thread has lost its irony.

Let's kill it before Yohe falls in love with Paul and begins enjoying the Clippers too much.

Jagdip

Steve Yohe · Posted: Thu Dec 22, 2011 3:25 am Post subject:

You guys are cruel. Wonder which team John will switch to this year?--Yohe

jdw · Site Admin Joined: 01 Sep 2005 Posts: 12609

Barcelona.

John

Rian · Joined: 01 Aug 2006 Posts: 1777

Picked up tickets from Groupon (yes Groupon) for the Blazers/Slippers game in Portland on the 10th. Obviously this deal was in place long before CP3 hit the Slips, but it was between Sacramento, Houston, and the Slippers for the Groupon special.

Steve Yohe · Posted: Tue Dec 27, 2011 1:40 pm Post subject:

This is not a great team. They do not rebound. They've got a bunch of skill players who don't know how to block out. They looked like shit for 3 Qts vs G.S. They still have problems.---Yohe

JAG · Joined: 27 Jul 2006 Posts: 1376

Billups didn't play last night and the Bulls took the Clips' lunch money, so Yohe's initial assessment is correct.

There as a shitload of lob dunks and Griffin highlights, but Derrick Rose dominated Paul in 114-101 win at Staples.

Rose had had 29-16-8, while Paul had 13-14. The MVP took over the fourth quarter and blew open a close game.

If this team is serious about being good, their commitment to defense needs to improve by about 300-percent. Griffin was posing late in the game after a dunk put them down 13.

Jagdip

Rian · Joined: 01 Aug 2006 Posts: 1777

Slips slipped past the Blazers lat night, turning things around maybe?

Rian · Joined: 01 Aug 2006 Posts: 1777

Slipps looked a little lost after Chris Paul got into foul trouble and could never recover. Not good rotation on defense leaving Gerald Wallace and Felton open for three time and time again.

jdw · Site Admin Joined: 01 Sep 2005 Posts: 12609

Jag's worst nightmare: Howard adds the Clippers to the list of teams he'd be willing to go to.

Clippers now on Dwight Howard’s wish list

Dwight Howard adds Clippers to list of places he’d sign

The Clips have a real hard time pulling off such a trade, and Blake + CP3 + Howard would bust the balls of Donald's salary cap and a luxuary tax.

John

JAG · Joined: 27 Jul 2006 Posts: 1376

Howard kind of denied this on Twitter. Just telling a guy who brought it up to not believe everything you read.

I'm sure that situation seems attractive right now, but there are already whispers about the Donald's shittiness seeping in. Simers wrote about it.

And the financial ramifications of trying something like that are yet unknown. Breaking the tax barrier 4 out 5 years is going to be death now, which is why Cuban pulled back for this season and the Lakers will try to do the same after Kobe's contract is up.

Jagdip

JAG · Joined: 27 Jul 2006 Posts: 1376

As I was writing that Otis confirms:

Orlando Magic General Manager Otis Smith said Tuesday that he has not been informed by Dwight Howard's camp that the superstar center has expanded his list of preferred trade destinations beyond the Dallas Mavericks, the Los Angeles Lakers and the New Jersey Nets.

Smith said the Magic have not granted Dan Fegan, Howard's agent, has permission to speak with any teams in addition to the Mavericks, Lakers or Nets.

http://www.orlandosentinel.com/sports/orlando-magic/os-dwight-howard-magic-clippers-0117-20120117,0,7821397.story

jdw · Site Admin Joined: 01 Sep 2005 Posts: 12609

Drag the Simers stuff over here. We love that dirt. :)

John

JAG · Joined: 27 Jul 2006 Posts: 1376

The whole thing with some Kobe stuff linked below:

I'M NOT sure if you are familiar with the House of Batiatus, you know, "Spartacus: Blood and Sand," Showtime, lots of violence and sex.

I have no idea why I know so much about it, but one of Donald Sterling's advertisements got me to thinking about some of the wild parties thrown in the House of Batiatus and the future of Griffin and Chris Paul.

Batiatus is a social climber, using his parties/orgies to draw more attention to his ludus, which is a center for the training of gladiators. He likes to put his gladiators on display for all his guests to ogle.

Sterling is having a luncheon for sponsors, advertisers and partners Thursday. Invitation only, and yet he's been advertising the party in the paper, noting that Griffin, Paul, Caron Butler, Chauncey Billups and DeAndre Jordan will be available to be ogled.

OK, so the Clippers' sponsors, advertisers and partners help pay the players' salaries. But Sterling is asking his performers to be there after three games in three days, with a game to follow their appearance the next night.

I'm not sure even Spartacus could survive such a grind.

At the very least it's probably a distraction; most teams in most sports do whatever they can to avoid distracting their players during the season.

Some folks say only Sterling can ruin the good thing the Clippers have going. I have no idea where they would get such a thought. But he certainly has to keep Paul and Griffin happy as Clippers, as both Paul and Griffin become free agents after next season, and how would it look if they tried to leave?

I'm guessing schmoozing with fat cats is not high on the players' priority list as they look ahead to seven games in 10 days.

As hard as Griffin plays, giving it his all against the Nets, why ask for more? Sterling might want to reconsider and tell his stars to take Thursday off.

As if Sterling needs any more encouragement to reconsider, he probably should know the gladiators finally just had enough and killed Batiatus and all his friends.

http://www.latimes.com/sports/basketball/nba/lakers/la-sp-simers-lakers-20120117,0,1987983,full.column

JAG · Joined: 27 Jul 2006 Posts: 1376

That Blake Griffin dunk over Kendrick Perkins last night was the best in-game dunk I've ever seen.

Wow.

Jagdip