2015 NBA 'OFFS

write bill simmons a letter

i didn't even bring it up!

loll

"actually blake griffin scored 35 points" is a very interesting point though

What was cwebb's line when he called the timeout when they didn't have one

no one will remember he put up 35-14-7 all anyone can talk about is the incredibly looming second half

remember when lebron actually put up a triple double in game 6 of the 2010 eastern semis? this is the one thing people talk about from that game.

Coming up on ESPN Classic, "the 35-14-7 game"

its non elimination first round game played while most of the country was asleep that people will be talking about for decades

all i said was that if the clippers lose in game 6, that really bad second half and getting hilariously packed by an elderly person is going to loom over blake next year, which...... is true!

blake is in the "what have you won" stage of his career, so things like that matter. blake putting up 35 and 14 isn't news.

Too bad for the clippers cp3 didn't get called for a violation on that danny green ft

no one is ever going to remember or thinl about blakes second half of that game except now the readers of this message board

and thats final goodnight

The only things people will remember about this game are questionable calls and Blake getting blocked by a geriatric Duncan which is jord's point basically

ppl will remember the dre basket interference actually if anything

but mostly not anything

if the clippers lose this series their whole offseason is gonna be about how their team has never won shit and if you think blake getting owned by duncan and missing the final shot is going to be forgotten in that discussion you are crazy

this is the clippers set that griffin got blocked on

seems like normally he spaces out at the top of the key but tonight for some reason he decided to drive straight into duncan

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VkmEjBlTMpc

just finished, my hot takes:

austin rivers played like austin rivers. jamal was shooting balls off the side of the rim he was so bad. hack a DJ kinda worked. chris paul stutter step move on d green was a thing of beauty. tech on paul was embarrassing. don't think blake was fouled on that second attempt after the GOAT blocked him, looked like he either just lost it on the way up or it got knocked out, great no call. clippers 3 point game disappeared. the travel on blake was a legit call he took two steps before he put the ball down.

i won't remember blake's not-that-great second half but what i will remember is that Boris step back.

also RIP dirk. every time i watched him this year he looked so labored and heavy footed, I guess he has one more year?

I passed out 2 mins into the 4th quarter and was woozy in the 3rd so I def missed some stuff but here's a hopefully evenhanded take:

blake played great in all of what I saw, I can't believe I missed him getting stuffed by the prophet duncan. anyway does that invalidate blake almost getting a triple double? of course not. how could it? will it be well remembered? well...yeah. largely as a result of media/fan perceptions about blake and his personality and the clips in general. is that fair? not really but it's definitely a factor, it's just something unavoidable about how the clips have developed in the past few years

not to mention it stems from the sports narrative/mythologizing stuff that goon is complaining about upthread. is that stuff kinda dumb? of course and it should never be seen as more important than actual performance but it's impossible to ignore it completely

if the clippers lose this series their whole offseason is gonna be about how their team has never won shit and if you think blake getting owned by duncan and missing the final shot is going to be forgotten in that discussion you are crazy

― J0rdan S., Wednesday, April 29, 2015 2:37 AM (4 hours ago)

their offseason should be about addressing the bench tbh

cp3 is under contract for 2 more seasons with the clips. if he can't get a ring there he can always go back to new orleans to play with the brow

if he can't get a ring there he can always go back to new orleans to play with the brow

i've never considered this, it would be amazing

interesting, even with AD's forthcoming (and well-deserved) supermax contract, pelis will prob have a reasonable amount of cap space in 2017-18, the year of cp3's player option

blake scored 35 though https://twitter.com/tomhaberstroh/status/593421751473807360

lol jordan i cant believe youre still quintupling down on that dumb thing u said last night

i mean like is anyone even talking abt blakes bad second half today

i was just annoyed at yr hyperbolic front running but its fine to just let it go

xp depends on who you consider anyone, him sorta losing his rhythm has been mentioned - directly and indirectly, respectively - in grantland and deadspin pieces summarizing the games

(in a way that wld loom over his career)

does grantland have comments go post this garbage there

― lag∞n, Wednesday, April 29, 2015 2:17 AM (8 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

lol they don't anymore! not that i think any of us would get embroiled in those sort of cesspools

this is the closest to A Grand Statement on Griffin's Career in the shootaround piece, and it sort of makes sense although no talk of looming specifically

When you search his name in the play-by-play of the final quarter, it reads like a thesaurus of unlucky basketball occurrences — misses, bad passes, turnovers, squandered opportunities. Griffin has made so many improvements to his game, but the one thing he can’t fix is the very thing that makes him so special. Blake is a high-performance sports car: If one thing goes wrong, nothing seems to run right.

[inserts jordans post in to jordans post translator]

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blake had a bad second half

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ok good i agree with jordan lets all move forward with our lives

i mean he also would've totally redeemed himself with a game winner and then deandre was like "better help out," whooooooooopsie

i actually feel sorry for DJ, like you said 0.01 seconds later and he's a hero

They also called that matt barnes tip in a goaltend, terrible officiating

that felt like one of those games that starts a curse

the clippers are already cursed

i mean no one says theyre cursed but they are like the alltime worst team

true. this feels like a curse signpost then.

there were so many opportunities for them to win that game and yet

second game too, tho in that case that was more a game they shouldve lost that they inexplicably had a chance to win

lol clips will never really be good. don't know why you guys always think for some reason they are going to be.

bunch of LA hoops newbs

XD

i believe ballmer can lift the curse players just need to rub his head 4 luck before each game

or maybe it will be lifted when he has a heart attack and dies on court one or the other

lolololollllllllllllllllllll

lol lakers will never really be good. don't know why you guys always think for some reason they are going to be.

― (•̪●) (carne asada), Wednesday, April 29, 2015 12:06 PM (5 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

#fixed

ritually burn a copy of windows 95 in the locker room maybe idk