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Unbelievable that CP3 is having a terrible game

Mo is single handily keeping us in this game

if Caron had made his 2 lay-ups and 1 free throw, it would only be a 2 point game.

but Caron is doing well other than that.

Yeah, theres something about the elevation in Portland
blah

Feel like we should be down by 20+. We’re sloppy and our second unit gave back everything they gained in the first.

The bench gave us 20 points in 2 quarters

But yeah they looked bad and most of that 20 points is from Mo (11).

Can't believe, especially since I just dropped Mo from one of my fantasy teams
Who will win the community award?

I’m going with Gomes, Evans in 2nd

We are finally out rebounding a team!
but hollinger doesn't put alot of importance on that

just saying

aka I dislike hollinger
Cook

Having him in just ruins the chemistry. He’s useless.

He threw up two bricks....bring in Trey
Bring in Jones

We need someone who can play D and apparently it’s not Trey.

Can't rebound

his shot is flat. always in the way!

I'd rather have Leslie playing backup C
at least Trey's shots are on line
at least there is a CHANCE that Trey's shots go in

as appose to Cook

even better point haha
We got

Quite few lucky breaks por missed few ez layups

There were bad calls made and missed on both sides

i just hope we are better than the blazers edge community complaining about everything. sheesh…

its called being a fan
maybe

but every call?

it’s like reading a live blog of a bunch of grieving widows.

Blazer's Edge

and other portland sites have a bad rep regarding that

i like reading the other teams blogs during games just to get a feel for what they see

but all they see is referee comments.

*I

I should proofread more. lol

I don't

mese be ignorantz

Mo-Chauncey-Caron trio playing ok

Caron needs to hit those layups though.

Mo: 11 points on 5-7 shooting, 4 assists, 3 rebounds, 2 TO in 15 min

Cp3: 0 points on 0-3 shooting, 1 assist, 3 rebounds, TO in 11 min.

Ouch

Must be CP3's new Jordans
Nobody will buy them now

They are jinxed.

He is not a fastbreak PG whereas Mo is, but still, CP3 just looks flat out slow compared to Mo right now, and Mo is no Rose or Westbrook.

Maybe CP3 is "resting" for tomorrow's game

Hopefully he shows up his buddy Lebron

again I ask if CP3 is ok

I just dont know if he will ever be the same as he was 2+ years ago

This kind of game happened a lot last year for the Hornets.

then in playoffs he went beserk
Except in the playoffs, dude was ballin' beyond belief

He is just too passive with the Clips

heck

maybe some hardcore blazers fan snuck into the guest room and switched the jordans w/ new balance look-alikes.

oh vinny says that he will get more production from CP3/Blake

good

why oucldnt he do that earlier
Thats was a mediocre coach would say

what have these guys been doing with all those practice days

Obviously, Reggie has been a bad influence
OMG DJ.. gotta get that
im just gonna say it..DJ is a terrible rebounder
4 to for chauncey
great start ot the half
$10.75M for this?
This is a lost game.

I really don’t see us bouncing back with the type of game we are playing.

not when Camby is going for a god damn double-double
C'mon it's like the earlier game vs. Portland @ Staples

Blazers came back

my god

Clips settle for a 30ft Billups 3. clank

Clippers, this is garbage.
we need to get blake or CP3 going

and let them have a 20pt second half

Blake can't even fucking guard Camby
I wish CP would take that midrange J more
there is nothing happening

we need some Rubio and Love tonite

wouldn't ya know it
4th foul game over.
really

what kind of fucking flop is that?

fuck that!!!

fuck that to hell!!!!

keep sitting and doing nothing VDN
hey

lil chris scored…

Starts shooting it, Chris
This is really not CP3's game
thank you Chris

you are a good shooter, feel free to do a heat check every once and awhile

VDN, if you are not going to coach, don't even show up.

This is just pathetic, there is this thing you can do to help the team. Quit.

seriously

are they really fouling out there. I swear refs sucking the cocks of this Blazers team right now

we are playing like shit

and only down 8. time for CP3 and Blake to get us back in it come on

paul being aggressive

first time all game

blake hitting a j

lets go guys

will not win without D

Aldridge is money

Always plays us tough, and gives BG trouble

Dude had a bad first half, though
Now Paul getting angry

good

blake is making his jumpers

but we need to lock down

I HOPE CP3 gets a technical.

The refs have to know that they can’t pull this kind of crap. If they are going to call bs fouls like that, they better face the consequences on and off the court. I know for a fact that off the court they will get scolded for taking out the star of the game so early.

are you gonna get out on him DJ??????????????????????
aldridge won't miss if you leave him open
+1

We are so impresed by his making shots, I’m more impressed by how bad the Clippers bad defense can be.

he hits that little fadeaway so well

why not shoot it more

Portland still shooting slightly over 50%, need better D
+1

Pick it up, guys

Griffin feeling it
FINALLY!!!!!!!
Blake Griffin only dunks
I think CP3 got hte message across.

If you are going to call bull crap on one side, be prepared to call it on both sides.

blake has hit 4 jumpers tonight

lets go guys get a big play for momentum

can you please grab some rebounds DJ???
Great to see us scoring, but we need more stops!!

DJ is stealing his money

DJ needs to box out/rebound
Clips need to dig in

this isnt over if they hustle

this game is winnable, fellas

crawford is scoreless

but camby has 10 tonight

u know that crawford does'nt do squat till the 4th qrt.
For some weird reason I have Camby in a fantasy league....i have mixed feelings
that's 2 rebounds this quarter DJ has let get away easily.
wow that was camby climbing over the back of DJ...
kinda what i was thinking.. and the foul is on DJ.. lame
how many points do we have in the paint?
dont get me wrong, its nice to see the jumper falling for blake, but damn
ESPN doesnt say
its gotta be under 10 right?
We are playing much better offensively

Now we just need to keep CP3 in the ball game.

no

get him out soon. he made it through a big chunk of the 3rd with 4 fouls, time to play it safe so he can finish

I wanna see

a steal and monster Cp to Blake/DJ alley oop, get the team pumped

DJ only with 3 boards

ridiculous

lets sub Reggie in
Camby with his first season double-double
rather first double-double of the season
DJ

BOX OUT!!!!

you cant just out jump everyone for rebounds!

Box out and rebound guys!!
box out dj

We had a run going

gotta stop ball watching dj

Where would the Clippers be with Marcus Camby?

Camby doesn't bring much offensively

Except, when he plays against the Clippers

block out!!!

Nothing more.

at least marcus missed both
I'm pissed off, he is messing with my ft% SOB..jk
butler is so smooth

dont look now, but its a 4 point game

how much is my delay???

lol im watching nba broadband… and they’re just coming back from a commercial break…. now camby to the line

UGH. Killer Wallace 3.
I thought that we were watching TV?

From what it looks like, the Clipper bigs are the ones watching.

TJ 3
who the hell is TJ?
TUFF JUICE (Butler's nickname)

self appointed nickname, i believe from his Wizard days

Man, Butler is nice to have!
It's great having a good 3
I love these close games...

so much more exciting than blowouts (even when we’re losing)

You spoke a bit too early man
GOD DAMN IT, PLAY DEFENSE

You are shooting lights out on offense, but you are leaving WIDE OPEN SHOTS!!

Portland should just take their starters out
like the Mo for Billups move by VDN....more 3's please
There goes Crawford
These two squads are a good match

terrible D AGAIN

why can't they defend?

Granted maybe not defend as well as Portland is right now but they’re just scrambling every other possession

we need a defense to support our offensive run
dj having a terrible game
the teacher is definitely schooling the student
damn aldridge is raw
Clippers, you deserve to lose this game if you keep it up.

I hate to be the one to say it, but they aren’t doing anything to help themselves. When they start knocking down shots, what do they do? They allow a WIDE OPEN SHOT.

Mo rotated to Aldridge

Blake should have gone to Crawford.

Coach?
I admit that VDN is to blame also.

But they are professionals, they shouldn’t leave shots THAT open.

I hate Raymond Felton so much

His face bothers me

i feel that way about Cookie
+1 cookie
i met cookie and got his autograph

probably worth next to nothing

dude looking at your profile you support some awesome teams

At least we are putting up a fight

It would be nice to cut this lead to 3 or better by the 4th

aren’t we past moral victories?

Why the T on Camby?
DJ got good position

foul on aldridge=good

and then that
DJ another board

and love Williams sacrificing and playing hurt

Wow just WOW

DJ you are stealing your money

DJ too block happy

dont jump a a savvy shooter like Crawford, Billups, etc

DJ having a pretty bad game
DJ another stupid foul.

This is a joke. I can’t stand to watch them right now.

dj does something good then redeems himself
2 shot foul

alleviates some pain

Crawford has weak legs, he trys to draw fouls like that all the time

DJ shouldn’t let it happen though

i like reggie/Blake much more than reggie/DJ
duh

Blake cna score

that didnt sound as obvious as i wrote it.

but reggie/dj is a complete black hole on offense.

oh god, they said Jasen Powell is out there
Thank God for Butler!
Butler is awesome
great drive and kick by foye

tlk about the finish by butler, but that was a great kcik

Let's tie this game right now!
Mo, WTF was that?

Please, pass the damn ball.

as bad as that qtr was, we came out even, from halftime at least
Still winnable

Hopefully Paul and Blake comes in strong in the 4th

Paul in particular

we need D to win

wtf?

why at the end of wuarters do we dribble out and launch threes off the dribble. Well-coached teams know to run a P&R at around 9 seconds

VDN

must of told the team stuff that kobe does and how his buzzer beaters are so trippy
dag nabbit VDN.

we have poor ball movement...lot of guys just standing around
Whether Vinny is blame for not or not

He SHOULD be reminding them and putting them in position to create better ball movement.

that's what you call a bad coached team!

she wants to be introduced to his wingman

bad heat checks
Mo gets a pass

His 14 points is carrying this team when our starters leave.

That's alright.. Mo and Butler are keeping us in this game..

and I think Gomes is about to check in…

:(

Butler is going to sit

This is all going to be on Mo and Foye for a few minutes

They should've set screen for Mo there
I like Mo as a player, but I am doubting his decisions.

He often pushes the ball when he shouldn’t, he trusts nobody on his team, and his shot selection is questionable. However, he is a solid player, but he needs to work on being a TEAM player.

He is 6-9 with one bad shot

He has 4 assists tonight, and is averaging 4.5 on the season in 22.5 minutes. How is that not trusting teammates?

Its hard when his 2nd unit teammates are Gomes, Cook, Evans, Foye

not exactly a trustworthy group on offense.

shooottttt

i must be far behind… the 3rd quarter just ended… lol stupid nba broadband

about 3 or 4 real time minutes behind
I wanna see CP3 all this quarter.
Paul with only 3 assists

He has looked terrible 2 games in a row.

CP3 should play basically the whole 4th
im hoping at least the final 8
looks like final 11!
in now
now or never, if we cant put a dent in this lead in the next 6 min

Vinny should rest starters for Heat.

airball for crawford

what a break

My GOD VDN, if this game becomes unwinnable because of this team.

I am demanding you get fired. When you are going into the 4th down by 7, you have to go for it.

its not a close game

WE ARE LOSING. WE NEED A COMEBACK. What is iin his head?

why is it that the other team always has open 3's while our are constantly contested
bc their D is just better

cuz they play D?

becuase they swing the ball

actually, you know what, I think it’s our defense. It’s just way too relaxed.

Blazers trapping so well
Maybe we should try a slip screen

IF they keep trapping

God damn Mo.

Don’t talk to Reggie as if it is his fault. You got trapped in the corner because your desire to be a one man team.

NO FOUL!?

Refs get your head into the game.

but by all means

send crawford to the line

suprised CP didnt get a T there

get pissed off chris. A road game in portland isn’t won easily.

these refs suck (on both sides)
cant freaking score
how many lay-ups do they have?

our defense is ridiculous

can really see why they're ranked dead last

which is comical seeing as the Wizards where 0-8 until today.

gomes got lucky

he hesitated

This game is as good as done.

We aren’t making ANY stops and our offense is atrocious.

Paul has to start shooting
Agreed.

He is our team leader and a great finisher. Why is he is so passive?

he best not be deferring

gomes got lucky

he hesitated

is it ok to say i love Reggie?
like how Chris Kaman loves reggie?
I hate his free throw shooting
Maybe keep Reggie in over DJ? He's hustlin' much more.
maybe

but length-wise, DJ plays aldridge effectively

this may be our last chance at a run
reggie evans cant play pg.

done.

Paul has 4 fouls but he needs to play better d on Crawford

When Mo Williams is playing better d than you, you know you need to step it up.

if he is going to be conservative to avoid a foul

he can’t guard a great scorer like jamal

DeAndre has bad hands.

I think that is his biggest issue. He always seems to lose the ball.

is Clipper Darryl at the game leading the wave?

This game is at Portland. We on da road.

it sounds like a playoff game there
Blake makes his first non jumper
He had a drive in the 3rd
touch fouls

niiiice

Reggie is playing great defensively

play the man!

LOL.. Love Reggie's passion out there.. a much needed jolt
REGGIE

makes it all happen. VDN pulls DJ back to the bench. Finally good coaching

C'mon clips!
is that really a foul?
whoops didn't mean to reply
I really can't believe this is a 2 point game
are we that good now?

that a terrible game is still close?

Competitive 2nd half

We’ve settled down

oh come on

cant pick up cheapfouls!!

Keep 3 guard lineup in

I like it this time

CP3 time.. Make your money!
hey ref, eff you!!!!!!
that is a terrible shot by chaincey

and then the loose ball foul

Are you freaking kidding me?

You are going to call that bulls*** ref? I hope you all get fired.

i cant believe they called that on Mo

gotta get stops

This is your time CP3
wow CP3 is getting NO calls
WHAT THE HECK IS THIS REFS?

You are full of crap.

no foul? does this ref have a bounty on his head?
na fuck that

refs are seriously pulling that bias crap

seriously? no foul, eff you reff (am i repeating myself?
Billups, stop taking that crap. We have time still.
chauncey chucnking
blazers get tapped and its a foul

our guys flying all over the damn place…no foul

CP3 got chopped down
wow...not happening
I guess now we know why the blazers are undefeated at home...

refs swalloing their whistles

bribe?

possible.

swallowing something else
it's like we work hard to get it so close

and then they go on these 7-0 runs and put us right back where we started.

Not Sure Why VDN Left Reggie Out There

and didn’t put DJ in

Cause he is playing better.....
cause Reggie was getting the offensive rebounds and playing better than DJ
might as well bring DJ back now

Damn, felton face pisses me off. Looking like beetlejuice

Damn, Blazers have a GREAT 6th man.

I believe we know them as the refs.

dammit.. such a frustrating game to watch
makes me want to just... explode
Cant believe Felton made that
maybe why Perrin isnt on live chat.
this is getting relly dangerous

This is pretty near to our last chance

This isnt

Cp3 we brought

There must be a reason the score is hovering at 7+ lead for the blazers

The line is Clippers +6

thought it was clips -6?
It would be POR -6
wait

I didnt know that the blazers fouled… have they done that all game?

We still

Got the closers. Lets see

finally someone with a good play
a defensive 3 second bogus whistle at the end of a close game

is this little league?

A foul call? wow!!!!!!!!!
They do exist!
gotta collect them all!
Blake needs to make better kickout passes

Paul would have had an open three there

would love to steal this one!
6 point game

we neeeeed to hold them here

blake is so good

we need defense

Oh come on that was a charge!!!!!!!!
that was a charge
charge!
Mike Smith "i cant believe it was a no call"

I can

with these refs
Refs are intimidated
No wonder the Rose Garden is hard to win on the road

Refs are pussies with these loud manipulative fans

Bet my life they call that same play a charge on us on the other end
HACK A DJ THAT
DJ is makin cluth FT's
wow, a grey area call went our way!!!!
a make-up call
they still owe us another 5
Momentum change

Cmon

Blake playing hard
except he should've had the rebound on the defensive end when they got the put back
haha finally a call!!!!

Fuck these fans. Go to hell bastards. Total foul

+99999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999

999999999999999999999999999

if the officiating was reversed

the portland fans would run these refs out of town

Sounds like it

that’s why they’re so favorable to the Blazers.

Well, it's now or never!
does anyone know how to box out
On our team....

Reggie Evans?

Yup, that's about it.
Gotta make these FTs
I think I like evans more than the deandre!
If someone can do it

HaS to be cp3

Reggie need to grab a ref by the balls
These refs need to stop messing with my emotions
Paul with the quick score
Dane jinxed the Clips by giving him player of the game
charge

and i called it before the refs did. damn

Done gd nite

Bring miami

Nice work Chauncey!
chauncey is so smart
Vet move by Billups!!!
6pt game if chauncey hits em... club O
1st miss of the year
and of course his first miss of the year
what were they chanting?
welp, that's just how the game has gone
I hate porkland
missed one... my god just one of those nights
mike smith says its tebow time
No God for this Clippers team
God hates the Clippers
If God was a Clipper fan, I'm not sure that's a god I want to serve
A cruel one indeed

wish there was 3:16 left

Cp3

Meeds to get his head out of his a@$

A win tomorrow will erase the memory of this loss

Please make it happen Clips.

not a loss yet.
I blame all of this on the 5 minutes when Cook was in

Not really, but I would like to.

he was something like -8... so yeah
If only we could make at least 75% of our free throws

Be a different game.

I will

Sell all their souls for a w today

there we go

i like the steal

Whoa, CP tryin to make it interesting
Game

It’s The Law.

How is that an offensive foul?
WHAT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
i thought that billups would shoot 3
NO, NO, NO, NO, NO FUCKING WAY!!!!!!
that was wierd
Subdued reaction
yea

feel bad for the guy, but his crotch got in the way.

I think Reggie's been teaching Chauncey his moves
Turnover

That was huge

refs got money on the blazers (with the spread)
Im done with this game

Bring on Miami

Horrible refs
It's amazing how bias they are
Is Reggie Miller available?
That was a questionable call, but Billups missed anyways, and it certainly wasnt a foul on Matthews

We got ball back anyway.

Blake had the follow dunk.. could've used those points
it was a no call

but definitely not an offensive foul

Can't watch the game but what's wrong w/ CP

Billups and Butler hogging the ball again?

I can see he's having a horrible game looking at the stats
CHAUNCEY!!!!!!!!!!!!!
He is SOO good at that
Way to go, Chauncey!
holy crap billups
oh yeah

3 point play opportunity. Thank you refs

and 1
Mo Williams in for DJ

Keep it that way

the question becomes..do we foul?
No we going to get a steal :)
to foul, or not to foul?
wow wat a game
yeah, this is a good game

as entertaining as it is frustrating

ditto!
what justh appened?
Mike Smith just outcoached VDN
Mike Smith is right
mike smith outcoaching vdn, yee
what...

yea, VDN is going to be left without any timeouts, they need 2 scores..

I am very confused

They were trying for the trap, or were they fouling?

looks like they were fouling
Mike Smith is a better coach than Vinny
That's why Vinny gets paid the big bucks, right? LOL
and he puts

cookie in?

What play was that Vinny????
don't know

was a good mismatch

Great play call from the final time out VDN
At leasy Dunleavy had freakin plays.

Vinny just hopes their talent leads to something good.

And that was the play he wanted to run?
Great timeout
Vinny is an idiota
still dont get why we didnt just play tough d
Wow!!!

This is a terrible ending

We lost already, why foul
holy shit what just happened?
Well Blazers beat the spread
Blame it on the coach
i think the assistant coach's eyes just said to VDN

“you effed this one up coach, your job is mine.”

Vinny is safe all season

Unless of course we go on a season ending losing streak

I think this is the result we'll see a lot, with the coaching staff that we have
yup

no faith in Vinny.

Wow, Cookie takes the last shot..wow
lololol oh Cookie, sorry, but that was funny.
Can't wait to read the 4th qrtr recap
was a good game

till VDN decided to get involved…

Man

I started swearing like a sailor when I saw Vinny’s strat

Can we start the...

Fire Vinny chants yet?

Noo

In my opinion he did a great job tonight

I hope this was...

sarcasm

who's gonna get fireVDN.com up and running.
Cookie trying to draw foul

lmfao

I think I might do a purely rantish fanpost series

Studs of the game and Duds of the game.

Today’s Stars: Caron Butler, Chauncey Billups, Mo Williams

Today’s Duds: Chris Paul, DeAndre Jordan, Brian Cook, (Blake Griffin?)

Blake had a good 3rd quarter that kept us in the game with some of his outside shots oddly enough

Definitely put VDN in the Duds side.

True but he was bad through most of the rest

VDN and Cook look to be on just about every dud list.

today's shitface: VDN
Also our offensive sets suck hardcore when Paul is doubled
Blake, even with the bad game, still walks away with 18 points, 12 boards

Otherwise looks good

His defense was beyond awful though

Atrocious is about the right word.

Can he even jump on defense?

I swear he has cement blocks on his feet.

tis true

well not quite dud but not a stud by any means. Just leave him off the list.

Especially in the 2nd half, in the first it was pretty good
We played hard tonight

I love that. It’s a loss, but we didn’t give. This game will help us learn a lot.

dont understand why the fk did we foul??? was that intentional? wtf.!

Thats was stupid, it looked intentional, since players kept looking at Vinny

i dont understand… even blazers were like wtf free points ? sure why not..

and then the timeout after they made the free throw, wasting our final time out???

makes no sense

yea

he stuck reggie, DJ, and Blake in the game to secure the rebound, so even if they missed, they couldn’t run out with that group on the court….

I don't think so, why come with 2 players then

just looked like Blake was too enthusiastic

i'm still confused

by the last 30 seconds… what?… i’m just like…. what?

NBA 2k12, despite its faults, got our coaching staff down pat

Iavaroni, Demoupoulos, and VDN all got Ds with no potential.

same w/ jason powell
If Mike Smith in the last 5 mins. has better stratergy than VDN

then we need a new coach.

yeah seriously

I don’t even think Smith knows what he’s talking about half the time and yet he still knows the basics to playing in crunch time.

Vinny, what a joke.

Makes Smith look like John Wooden or Coach K
What. The. Hell. Did I just watch?
+1

so confused now. what just happened? chances were slim as it was, but how’d they win by 8?

Cp3 nonexistant
This is the basic storyline of the game

More than VDN, more than Cook, more than questionable ref calls.

but hese ref calls caused CP3 to be nonexistant!!
He needed to dominate the 4th quarter and he utterly failed
cp3

cp needs to turn on his playoff mode killer instinct, we need more of that type of cp3 , i think hes playing too conservative with his passing and what not. he can easily turn the game around if he wants to..

2 games in a row...
Reading the play by play

it was 100-97 w/ 26 seconds left and the Clips decide to foul? WHY???!

didn't look intentional

just Blake being too enthusiastic

VDN just blew aNOTHER JOINT
I don't blame VDN on this one.

It’s obvious that the call was NOT to foul, and Blake did a stupid thing. He got too aggressive. You could tell that he knew he made a mistake.

Griffin really showed some rookie mistakes in the end game.

First off, he was NOT suppose to foul. He knew it and that’s why his face looked disappointed. It was an unnecessary foul and he knew it.
Second, what the hell were you thinking on the next play? When the coach puts in Cook, Williams, Billups, and CP3, you know you are looking for a three pointer. And what the hell do you do? You try to get a foul. And what would you gain? You missed your free throws tonight!
All in all, I did NOT like what Griffin did. He seemed to take the game into his hands and he made two big no-nos.

i dunno

looked kinda intentional to me.

so

what are you saying?..

I'm saying that Griffin has long ways to go.

And it looked intentional? Is that why the other players seemed puzzled? It may have looked intentional because Griffin was an idiot. He ran up right onto Felton. I know you want to blame VDN, so do I, but it was Griffin’s fault at the end game.

I guess you're right

just looked like he intentionally reached in, I thought in a trap he’d keep his arms out. I guess he saw an opportunity to try and knock the ball out and gambled. Either way, if the clips played D, and they just threw a shot up at the basket as the shot clock expired, the game clock might’ve run out if anyone didn’t secure the ball right away. It was a super long shot anyways, so I’ll stop complaining

on a positive note we outrebounded an opponent for the first time this season
probably because of the offensive ones

offensive ones=more missed shots

Also, I'm not impressed by the Blazers.

There were extremely lucky with their shots and the refs were basically handing them the game. If you are only up by 3 and that is the case, wow, not a great team.

They looked pretty good to me.....

Rock solid defense, good players at all positions, decent depth off the bench. Of course they were making shots- they were all wide open.

They destroyed us off the high pick and roll with Aldridge and Felton.

Yeah, they did look good

But it seems our defense is going to make many teams look good.

But it seems our defense is going to make many teams look good.

That’s one of the huge problems. Case and point, that Bucks game.

I think they were lucky with some plays (that one bs tip in) and the refs helped them out.

The Clips were pretty much handicapped and the Blazers could only get a small win. That’s not good in my books. If this were a playoff series, the refs’ attention would have been called to their lop sided calls.

I have to admit

They played physically and if that is what the ref’s will let you get away with we should too. Except were not allowed to do that.

Sorta agree

No denying they’re a good team but f—k me they got bailed out all night. Whatever the reason, refs scared of loud fans are just hate the Clippers; they were wildly inconsistent.

impressed with their defense!

but im also impressed with their shooting! and I am unimpressed with our offense and defense!

in other words I’m pissed!

Shittiest called game ever

I have never seen such a shitty job by any refs in any sport. And what the F was that game management. I’m still in WTF mode right now

wtf mode = why-the-foul?!?!?!? mode
Lol exactly
I say this loss was all DJ

He kept leaving Aldridge alone to help CP3 defend Felton. I mean, come on man, Aldridge was killing us all night and yet he decides to give him free shots. Come on DJ, you’re better than that.

Why do you foul?

…when you are only down three with 29 seconds left?

Well, they got close and definitely put a scare in Portland. Pretty much nobody beats Portland in the Rose Garden.

called impulse, courtesy of that effed up Jersey boy
Come on, let's be honest

It was 25.9 seconds left. If you don’t foul there, you’re likely looking at a second (or less) to get off a desperation three.

Blazers fans

We need to learn form the Portland fans, their building is loud as h3ll. We need to bring that same energy to our team every time at Staples., especially when we’re supposed to be playing home against the Lakers…

h3ll????

gangsta?

It's a good point.

One of the reasons it’s so hard to win at the Rose Garden. Their fans get up and yell over anything and everything. Even when their team is struggling they cheer loud as a moral boost. Same with Thunder fans.

So glad we have another few days off until our next game to fix the problems.

all jokes aside, it was a good game. Sure some of the calls may have sucked towards the end, but we got beat by a better “team” in their homecourt today. We have better players and hopefully we will learn defense and become a better team in the future. It’s safe to say we are pretty evenly match up against the Blazers right now. Clearly if we meet them in the playoffs then home court advantage will be key.

ummm we play tomorrow

against the Heat.

kobe dropped 48 points tonight, damn
Well

Nobody cares

that'll happen when you take 31 shots
Plus Miami game is going down to the wire.
Couldn't care less about the Heat right now
well considering we play them tomorrow it's good to know their starters are playing lots of minutes.

but you go with your bad self and not care.

OK sorry Chrisd. tonight's loss was kinda depressing
and it's going to overtime
Vinny just said they were trying to trap.
Not intentional
CP3 seems somewhat disconnected.. Me thinks he thinks VDN is BS, too!
Off topic question

Is Raymond Felton Nate McMilian’s son. They have the same chubby cheeks and tubby bellies

We will beat the Heat tomorrow. I'd bet on it!!

The Heat just let a lead slip to the Warriors. 96-93 with 0:39 left.

Warriors tie it

96-96

i hope it goes to quadruple overtime

and that’s only because i can’t spell anything higher than quadruple

overtime it is!!!!
That last play was everything but smart WOW
almost as dumb as some of our plays down the stretch
sextuple?

that would be hot

Octuple overtime!!!

Lol not sure of that’s a word

dodecatuple overtime
infinity overtime?

we win cause they don’t show up for the game cause they are still playing in one?

bad foul cost us the game
I wouldn't say it "cost us the game"

Mostly because our defense was letting them score all night long.

Lack of intensity cost us the game

Wait who I’m I kidding it was bad fouls

Cookie's 4 minutes in the 2nd quarter cost us the game

i could go all night…..

CP3's new shoes cost us the game

Threw off his game

Caron Butler's 2 missed lay-ups cost us the game?

nah, i can’t say that cause he actually kept us in the game. Let’s see, i’ll add DJ’s lack of boxing out in the 4th quarter costing us the game.

Blake's two foot short FT cost us the game
oh that's a good one

Blake turning the ball over and doing the splits cost us the game.

Blake's awesome pressure D cost us the game
June 6 2010 VDN becomes clippers new coach cost us the game
Chauncey's first missed free throw of the season cost us the game.
i was so mad a cookie when he was playing

he looked way worse than trey has ever looked

Haven't kept up with Portland.

Do they always get these calls at home?

considering how bad the Lakers play against them at the Rose Garden for the last decade

I’d say yes

Refs were indeed horrible

But the bad calls went both ways. IE DeAndre(?) stepping in on the inbound pass… HOW DO YOU MISS THAT

I've taken time to digest this game and here's what I came up with

WTF????

Is that towards...

a) VDN’s Coaching
b) The “Refs”
c) Blake Griffin’s Last 26 Second Heroism
d) All of the above.
Here is a hint, there is no wrong answer.

Yea but most of all it's WTF
Everyone talking about Kobe's big game.

I think they fail to realize that that isn’t exactly a good sign. He is basically carrying the whole team, and yes, this can win you league games. But then Laker fans wonder why they lose in the playoffs?

+/- stuff

Highest +: Evans +4 in 17 minutes
Lowest -: Cook -14 IN 5 MINUTES

2 late game timeouts.

Play 1: VDN called a basic play. Inbound to the wing, then have the inbounder run off a screen to get open up top. This play has worked before.

In this case, the pass (I forger the passer) was late, and Chauncey (the shooter) didn’t get a clean look. He bailed out and mahe a mid range shot and 1.

Play 2: VDN calls the SAME PLAY. Portland just denies it, and we end up with a BG turnover. He had a whole timeout and he didnt’t draw up a play. What does he do?

You keep blaming VDN in this.

Was it him who told them to foul? No, that was Griffin’s doing.
Was it him who told Griffin to do it all himself? No, that was Griffin’s doing.
All in all, I agree that he is a terrible coach. However, don’t try to pin this all on him. Griffin made terrible decisions in the end game.

VDN actually made a couple good VDN moves tonight.

He did a good time out once, plus when he changed his mind to keep Reggie in when he was doing well (although they ran it up again when we pulled to within 2).

Where did I pin it all on VDN

just piping in about some terrible play calling.

I agree about Griff

You seemed to focus on VDN's play calling in this post...
Play 2: VDN calls the SAME PLAY. Portland just denies it, and we end up with a BG turnover. He had a whole timeout and he didnt’t draw up a play. What does he do?
Oh yeah

I posted about the play calling. Blake had nothing to do with the play calling. I blame VDN for calling a repeat play and putting Blake in a position where he could make that play.

The overall loss, no, I don’t blame Vinny for all of that. But the playcalling? Absolutely on the coach.

Too bad we lost...

But the Clips played fairly well despite Chris Paul having a terrible game and took it all the way to the end. The Rose Garden’s a tough place to play in, and the Clips hung around despite all of their mistakes. Not bad for a team still trying to figure each other out.

As for VDN, we can’t blame him for that late game foul by Blake Griffin. That was ALL on Griffin – he played wayyyy too close to Felton. It was an easy call by the refs.

I too felt that PDX got some calls going their way, but we already know that the more aggressive team will usually get the calls, so I wasn’t too surprised with the calls.

Chalk it up as a good learning experience, and move on the next game.

My post of studs and duds is up

Vote on the goat of the game!

VDN

And let’s hope that goat gets sacrificed

You know who wouldn't have lost us this game?

Jerry Sloan.

I heard there are rumors he might be back hmm...
What a coincidence, we NEED a new coach!
LoL
i hear he has some experience with a star pg and pf.
there's no system

i feel like our team is based completely on individual play. there’s no set plays, no system. if paul is not able to create because he’s got an off night, it’s basically all about 1 on 1 plays. DJ and blake are below average screen setters and defenders who still haven’t learned to switch on defense. this team will make the playoffs because of talent. but unless dj and blake make some progress on playing team defense we will make an early exit.

Well Heat lose in OT

Both teams gonna look for revenge tomorrow.

It's in possible to go to Portland and play

Rose garden air is still full of weed smoke from Rasheed. It causes opposing players to choke

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