2015 NBA 'OFFS

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

xp you can wish and hope for that but history shows that the lakers have never gone 10 years without a finals appearance . so save that shit for 2020 at least

Lakers fans gtfo here, no one likes your horrible ass team or the horrible ass people in charge of it

xp that is true, they also have not missed the playoffs /and/ been under .500 for two consecutive seasons in the modern era (they've sneaked in under 500)...until they did

well, mid-70s was the last time, that is my arbitrary cutoff

wtf bison

lol bise in the full throws of playoff fever

i didn't even mention the lakers .
i don't have any hate for the clips. I've seen them break clipper fans hearts' all my life. I used to "sneak" into the Sports Arena and watch them along with the dozens of other people in attendance.

btw let's not forget blake got laid out by danny green in the second half and was getting attention (from a chiro, but still) on the sideline after. could have easily affected his game

that was a hard fall

ya was rough prob had something to do w it

https://scontent-gru.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-xpa1/v/t1.0-9/11188417_10153323978108200_6222463948570998963_n.jpg?oh=a839d6afde5f08ca6b0cdb6666089424&oe=55DE8F51

casually wandering...

https://fbcdn-sphotos-e-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-xfp1/v/t1.0-9/s261x260/11024762_10153323979583200_2647568619358187634_n.jpg?oh=9a4e666d32bb8f93a758278401dfe257&oe=55D2068C&__gda__=1436306293_650fd45ff1d322bdc8396708dcb9172f

casually shooting..

https://fbcdn-sphotos-c-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-xtf1/v/t1.0-9/11120519_10153323982523200_2702420828484153701_n.jpg?oh=c5cf48e9382a3a1fec18d883f5cb82c6&oe=55CD90B5&__gda__=1439992209_7ff8bec3fe6ba7973c5384e21464f1ed

casually "¯\_(ツ)_/¯"

ohhhh. the shot, again

https://fbcdn-sphotos-e-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-xfp1/v/t1.0-9/11024762_10153323979583200_2647568619358187634_n.jpg?oh=c5e29fbe240312c53e9192e37c5094bc&oe=55DA688B&__gda__=1439749614_652dba6ef78e69c508d6ce38aeece2c0

that was so good

he sees the shot clock going down to 0 on the other side of the court, shrugs, turns around and just tosses it in

yeah that was ridic, horrible D by the clips too