OFFICIAL LOS ANGELES CLIPPERS 2024-2025 SEASON THREAD

[lawdog1]

If Kawhi isn’t Kawhi, having him out there just gives the advantage to the Mavs.

I think we’re cooked in this series.

 

[HIM]

I’m assuming no Kawhi Sunday, and if we lose, definitely no Kawhi game 5. That’ll be 4 straight postseasons cut short due to a kawhi injury.

Suns WCF
T wolves play-in
Suns 1st rd
Mavs 1st rd

We win all those easily with a healthy Kawhi imo.

this is all ZaZa Pachulia’s fault

 

[rfx45]

funny enough, hardens the only one really playing well and consistently

pg has kind of been terrible even in game 1

credit to zu for game 1 and tonight but noone else has really shown up

 

[second2nonee]

cant believe my GOAT needs help yet again. playoff p averaging 3 dumb fouls a game and kawhi is clearly not healthy. why rush him back and play him 34 min g2 if he's gonna be on a min restriction for g3?

 

[lawdog1]

Playoffs just isn’t the setting to be experimenting with what a guy can give you. It throws off the rhythm of the whole team.

Going out sad.

 

[HIM]

Playoffs just isn’t the setting to be experimenting with what a guy can give you. It throws off the rhythm of the whole team.

Going out sad.

This is where their secretive plan backfires on them. Us fans don’t know his status so we would be killing the team if kawhi didn’t play. If they just told us in March (out for 4-6 weeks) they could buy themselves some grace. But now you end up with a mess like this

 

[rfx45]

i mean we all know that but the problem is how many games will it take til he is there?

i think it took him a month to get it going in the beginning of this season (and last season too iirc) but the team has two losses left before they're done

they honestly might be better of gojng back to game 1 plan and play faster on both ends

 

[lawdog1]

Kawhi being rusty and minutes restricted has been compounded by Zu getting in foul trouble in game 2 and PG getting in foul trouble tonight. If we can avoid that, maybe things will start coming together better next game.

But probably not.

 

[bapar11]

series wasnt going to be easy.
a lot expected to be until game 7.

kawhi& pg have to show up.
the beard is doing his thing.

 

[lawdog1]

I’m assuming no Kawhi Sunday, and if we lose, definitely no Kawhi game 5. That’ll be 4 straight postseasons cut short due to a kawhi injury.

Suns WCF
T wolves play-in
Suns 1st rd
Mavs 1st rd

We win all those easily with a healthy Kawhi imo.

this is all ZaZa Pachulia’s fault

**** Joe Ingles too.

We were going to the Finals in ‘21 if Kawhi didn’t get hurt. And would have had a great chance to do it again in ‘22 if we had him, when you look at that Warriors team that ended up winning it all that year.

Oh well, **** happens…and it often doesn’t work out in the Clippers favor

 

[geno90221]

**** Joe Ingles too.

We were going to the Finals in ‘21 if Kawhi didn’t get hurt. And would have had a great chance to do it again in ‘22 if we had him, when you look at that Warriors team that ended up winning it all that year.

Oh well, **** happens…and it often doesn’t work out in the Clippers favor

Cry me a river

 

[bapar11]

well kawhi is out

 

[lawdog1]

well kawhi is out

Honestly wouldn’t be surprised if we look better without him. Him being out there and being limited wasn’t helping and seemed to result in the whole team playing with a kind of weird uncertainty.

 

[rfx45]

offense and defense looks smoother now, they can go fast on both end (as fast as their old butts can go)

a couple of missed assignments led to open 3s but lucky enough theyve all missed so far

but at least pg and harden are playing well, just got to keep it up and not go to sleep at any point in the game

 

[bapar11]

pg13 came to play i see

 

[lawdog1]

Pace, movement and spacing is just better without hobbled Kawhi. It sucks, but it’s undeniable.

 

[lawdog1]

Everyone cooking.

 

[lawdog1]

Love that TO by Ty. Don’t let the Mavs crowd get back into it.

 

[rfx45]

the hell was russ doing in that one, he got pg and harden on fire and decide to just miss a lay up

pg/harden halfcourt heave > russ lay up

need smarter plays from russ

 

[Mister Meaner]

this LA squad knows how to play 48 minutes of ball unlike those hiliter boys in the other locker room.

 

[lawdog1]

the hell was russ doing in that one, he got pg and harden on fire and decide to just miss a lay up

pg/harden halfcourt heave > russ lay up

need smarter plays from russ

His effort is awesome, but he’s so offensively challenged. Yikes.

 

[rfx45]

they said shooting is the last thing to go but i could have sworn russ used to be pretty damn good at mid range(?) and in his case, that seemed to be that first to go and the easy lay-ups soon followed

 

[rfx45]

yikes

gotta stop the bleeding

 

[lawdog1]

The uglier the game gets, the better it is for the Mavs.

 

[rfx45]

yah because of the crowd and now the refs favoring homecourt too (except clips has no homecourt)

like how can they miss that zu foul?




wow and its challenged by the mavs and they get the ball?