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Blake has to pick it up on the defensive end
CP3 needs to step it up even more

Andre thoroughly outplayed CP3 in the 1st half

+1

Paul or bust tonight to finish

both ends!
Is the game back yet

I have the Laker game on

Can we please get an edit button for this board?
You will have to take that up with SBnation
The Wolves starting shooting too many jumpers!!
Thats it, Lakers beat the Wolves
I swear, Lakers announcers sucks.
Whoa!

Wait a minute…

I've always liked stu lantz!
-100

He’s terrible!

He's was better with chick hearn!
he

is straight up the worst announcer in pro sports.

Need to get CP3 and Blake going

Andre miller was destroying us.

Butler has been awfully quiet too

We really have to get in a different gear to start off the second half right

They just looked like a better team the first half

CP3 needs to ball, Blake needs to hustle and calm down offensively, Butler needs to hit shots.

I think we can pull this out, but we need more of those open jumpers to fall.

SA down 1 with 10 secs left in OT
Jumpbal!!!
you see it wayyy earlier than me

must be the distance ;)

good pass by chauncey
Paul needs to do that more often
C'mon Clips!!1
DJ did nice!!!
Mavs eke out the win over San Antonio.

Good for them… they’ve lost so many games at the last second this year, they were due for pulling a win out of their ass.

You gotta be kidding me!
ok, where's the defense
I've pretty much already conceded the L at this point...

no defense, no wins on the road. Simple as that.

I think we can still win this
It is within striking distance. But the need to tighten the defense.
down 6 with 20 minutes left

either you are joking or annoyingly pessimistic.

Sorry...

years of Chargers fandom has sapped the optimism out of me. :P

lol

I’m sure the Clippers haven’t helped

doesnt it suck

that we all pretty much know no matter how close the Clippers get it we are going to lose?
He is not being pessimistic we are playing atrocious defense

Tebow is the house!!

Cus all he does is win!!!

can he be our backup center pleeeeaaaase?
billups feeling it.
it's pretty nice too see that we are rebounding a bit better

We started out really bad but its a 27 to 25 lead to Nuggets now

Paul with the sidney crosby concussion?

please no

They stole those 3 points from us on that first three-pointer?
No bledsoe

sigh

See what I mean?
see what I mean?
Thank you Chris!
Butler shot is really off
Butler is really off
I don't get it...

Blake and DJ are just walking up and down the court.

Gallo is straight up ballin' us
he does this alot
Just to us or all the league
wow what ball movement
Miller is killing us
Bingo!!! That was a crazy shot
I thought BG had two fouls already?
billips carrying the team!
Billups has 20 on 7-14

great night for him

used to the altitude. its his hometown
maybe the gravity is different on jumpshots
Billups is keeping us afloat.
We are a three-point demolition crew.
And so are they.
CP3 and Billups keeping the clippers in the game
Let's play some defense!
it's raining threes
Altitude.tv are EXTREMELY fast at granting points on the scoreboard, it's almost annoying

It feels like I we never get a point, every time a look at the score after a bucket it doesn’t change, cause it happens so fas, or I’m too slow ;(

argh, edit button :<
i cannot believe our defense...
Wow!!!! Get the fuck out of here!!
Clips 10-20 threes
Chauncey Billups!
Yes!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Let's do this!!!
big shot by mister big shot
The clippers have the lead!!!
Waddup 82-0
If we can just have some defense to go with that offense...

I’ll be a happy camper.

waddup what

clippers havent proven they can stop anything on D….and well see that in the 4th quarter

I'm joking around with him

lol

DJ just stay with your man.
hard for him as the perimeter D keeps letting Miller get through

has to rotate to adjust for their bad defense.

and everyone is making jumpers!
so is Andre as good as Paul in passing?
Hell.... bet Paul will school him the 4th quarter
It appears so
This game is heading north of 110
typical nugget basketball. bringing back the paul westhead days.
i told you get the bad out early..play better in the 2nd half.
We are making much harder shots than denver though.... this cant be continued
I love those Mandalay Bay commercials
So much for "Lob City"
We're lobbing up three pointers...

and they’re going in.

This is a three-point shootout
Good thing we have Chauncey, CP3, and Caron

instead of Baron, Foye, and Gomes

i forgot the bench will have to come in at some point..ugh.
Gallo has 3 fouls

good for us

He should have six!!
watching DJ and Reggie trying to score was sad.
kickball!! Damn it!
Reggie shooting... *facepalm*
Mo with the dance
Cmon Billups you gotta be smart with your shot selection..
We need to clone CP3

So, when he exits, the clone enters the game. That way we wouldn’t look like chickens with our heads cut off

It's clear that CP3 is pretty much the head coach of this team.
Clippers have 2 stars

and 4 starting caliber players.

Nuggets have 0 stars, and 8 starting caliber players

Billups drives and gives it to Evans

LMAO ROFL

of all people right..
he flicks his hand back instead of following throughh

gonna miss that every time

Are you serious?
of course

always against us

this happens to us so much
it does and I'm sick of it!
I feel with a better coach we can overcome these type of things!
It's good. Unreal.
That was in before the clock expired, but seriously?
the refs didn't call a lane violation on nene when reggie was shooting..not sure if anyone else caught that..it was quick.
Yeah

That just happened.

Fuck me.

I’m waiting for them to prove me wrong on this one…. but it’s looking like another frustrating loss. This seems to be a theme with VDN.

Didn't Fernandez play for the Blazers last season?
Im so glad Im watching the game with Ralph and Mike

The Nuggets announcers are probably having an orgasm right now

What lucky shot by the McDonald's Nuggets?
we need to pull this one out
Not without defense, we won't.
that's what she said.
they are just picking apart our defense like crazy
Denver is about t have a 10 point lead
Wow Foye

Got to make those

Can we please trade Foye, Gomes, and Cook for, well, anything?

At this point, I’ll take a bag of basketballs over them… at least those are useful.

we need a bench
you mean, we need a good bench
WTF ARE THOSE UGLY LINES ON HARRINGTON'S HEAD?!?!
I share the same concern.

I believe Battier has something similar :<

I'm sick to my stomach at this garbage.
denver looks legitimate. they are a well-coached team
Down 10. Weren't we just ahead?
And yet, I'm an "annoying pessimist"...

for pointing out why we’ll lose this game.

You are just misunderstood and need a hug.
and again we are making a run

the third quarter is too early to call a game

Ur so lucky cp3 made that foye
Basketball is such a game of runs.

Did you guys know that?

hell yeah, thats what I am talking about
VDN needs to play Cp3 and Blake till the end of game
Just looked at the schedule...

I see maybe 10 winnable road games at the most. We won’t beat a good team on the road without playing defense.

god damn it blake! make the fucking FTs!

they are free!

and they are throws!
You gotta be kidding me

Jumpball

put some of the starters back in..and we're back in the game.
Paul is so good
Thats what she said
cp3 i love u!
thats what he said
How about a flagrant foul?
I was about to type that
that's flagrant
Paulie Shore eat your heart out.
WOWWWWWWW

CP3!

BG ignoring Al hahaha
Who was saying that CP3 sucks?
A damn Faker fan that got on this blog
"Washed-up"... yeah right.
I believe that he has left the building

however, at that point, Paul was underwhelming

He was just waiting for his opprtunity to strike
who just said "get the F@@@ out"

I believe it was Blake. Pretty sure

was that to the ref?
Well, he was looking in that direction...
We need to improve our bench
How many free throws do you think Griffin will make?

I’ll say one.

Will raise you and 0
Billups has played well

But I think that Mo and Cp3 are the best backcourt duo we have.

gotta love it when our 3 balls are falling in
you have 3 balls?
lol u know wat i mean
shouldn't that come with a wink face?
just for u LJ ;)
Who did blake just yell at?

Get the F*** out of here “rollin”?

that has to be a flagorant
gotta be

Harrington just pushed him in the chest.

Maybe running to hep him up helped his case

Blake is eithe hurt or tired
Blake got dinged up
looks like it

they are just hacking BG every chance. the refs should take notice instead of calling tic tac fouls on guards

Whats up with Blake?
Blake Griffin is hurt and out for the season.

Just great.

C'mon dude
Have you seen our training staff?
Did anyone else nearly get a heart palpatation from that comment?

LOL.

I did.

I’m watching online and there’s a time lag. My heart dropped in my pants, literally

whatever

we have Reggie

All tied up...

take back the lead!

Reggie can't guard Harrington
Miller got owned!! haha
Mo has 7

caron has 9.

I have 11
do you give lessons?
No, but I can teach you how to Dougie
He broke Miller's ankles
cp3 killed miller!!!!!!!!!!!
HAHAHAHAHA

How’s that taste, Andre?

A four guard lineup?

WTF

Sigh...

I feel like VDN lives to create new ways to try our patience.

4 guard lineup

no Bledsoe

oh wow that was awesome
OMG!

Crossing my fingers this works!

Blake looks fine there
this is funny..4 guards..
I hate to say this, but I think Denver is toying with us.

Bastards are giving us false hope.

Travel! That should have counted as three fouls
Bingo!!

That was all luck

ooooo mo! that was sick
Mo Money Mo Problems!
That was the greatest shot in the history of the NBA.
DJ wanted a jump ball
he wanted help
thats on all three guards
yup

a SF can help over there. Even a guard should give some effort

Butler is an awful rebounder though
career 6 a game
DJ looks pissed
Wow the refs missed a clear offensive foul
second look may have been a flop
Yeah Nene just rammed Mo off the screen
So are we ever going to take the lead?
We have but let it slip away every time
rudy "spanish fly" fernandez.
Time to put in Juice
Nah, he has sucked tonight

While our guards have been beast. Gallinari has been torching him off the dribble.

Oh, I havent been watching this game

Had trouble with getting a working feed. Now its all good.

when flopping goes wrong

Smh

DJ has 7/12/5

I’ll take 2 more points, 2 more rebounds, and 1 bock please

bledsoe can come in if we put out 5 guards on the floor.
Wouldn't put it past vinny
Which I'm fully expecting VDN to do at some point.

His lineups are either the result of idiocy or epic trolling.

i said in the preview post

if clippers go 4-0 in the next 4 games starting tonight, Clippers are title contenders this year.

please get some defensive stops
good job by chauncey
Come on CP3! do your thing in 4th quarter
Denver has 40 bench points??? WTF
They're the epitome of a deep team.

We aren’t.

Denver+ Portland

opposites of Clippers+Lakers

Yes Billups!!!!!
Tie game, bitches.
B B B B Billups!
DJ has butter fingers when it comes to rebounding.
B-B-B-B-BIG SHOT BILLUPS!!!!!
Yes Billups and 1!!!!!!!
Billups is looking like the signing of the year
Not really

He has not played well up till this game. Hopefully this turns him around.

I was purposefully overreacting

to emphasize how great he has been tonight

lawler's law biatches!

this game is in the bag

Don't jinx it!
+1000000000000000000000
billups and 1!!!!!!!!!
blake has 4 block shots..i think that's a career high
Chauncey Billups, what else can you do????
AND 1 LAWLERS LAW WE WIN!!!!
Billupsssssss billupsss
came back to watch the game at the perfect time!

mr. big shot!

If we win can we write that one down as a game winner
Lawler's Law guys!
Its the Mothaf*ckin law!!!
This game is giving me a boner.
I'm sure there is a more appropriate thread for that topic
Billups has no steals or blocks

he is invisible tonight

Let's not jinx anything, guys. Please!!!
You cant jinx a law
I like this 3 guard lineup!
we're now +1 in rebounding, what a turn around.
Big shot!
guys need any more proof Blake can guard the SF position?
I give probs to Blake for his defense

two big stops

31 points for Chauncey!

What a night for him!

CP who? Chauncey with 31 pts right now.
Stop saying 'jinx' people!

CLUB O in effect!

Old Clipper habits die hard.
Mr. Big Shot!

He’s on fire tonight.
Also, Blake Griffin has improved his blocking, he’s been really active the last couple of games. I like it, he’s taking advantage of his athleticism.

Great D by Blake on the last couple of posessions as well
Lets get crazy peeps

Michael Eaves " Tonight, he (Billups) has been exceptional."

He’s been amazing!!

stop the early celebrating..too much time.
That was terrible!! Screw you refs
Blake never get any calls.
that's a rulebook foul
wheres the call?
Really, no foul?
OMG that was luck
We need a bucket
Chris paul time
Wow...

this game is nerve wracking. These refs SUCK.

And people wonder why Blake flops.

Andre Miller is pretty crafty.
chis is automatic from mid range..all day!
CP3

i blame this if we lose
I blame our utter lack of defense or depth if we lose.
Nene is dunking all over us!! WTF
Wasn't that traveling?
CP3 with a rare late game turnover
SEE!

Don’t say “jinx!”

we still have the game...
wow refs missed a clear travel

might cost us the game

I know refs favor the home team but this is getting ridiculous
Except for when we're at home...

then they favor the road team.

Yeah they are practically giving the Nuggets the game
the pass to self wasn't traveling

it hit the ground (I believe) and he didn’t dribble otherwise.

yeah, harrington..3 refs missed that
I think we started the celebration too early

haha

If only that pass had gone through
This game is giving me heartburn now
#3 and #2 in the conference

shouldn’t end any other way than down the wire

DJ Knock Him On His Arse Man

don’t let him waltz in there

remember the law..we got this..come on.
Could have been an and 1
Paul is so crafty at drawing fouls
Man too bad that didn' bounce in
PLZ CP3 MAKE BOTH OF THEM
ICE IT CP3!!!
We need a stop!! we need a stop
all right get a stop!
Blake has 4 blocks tonight
good. he needs to keep doing that
If this comes down to one shot, I want Ryan Gomes taking it.

Who agrees?

gomes cook P&R
Tom Thibodeau would agree...

since he drew up a game-winner for SCALABRINE of all people.

they cant break the law!

its..its… THE LAW!

why is every game like this..not good for the heart.
We need DEFENSE

Defense PLEASE!!!
Defense!

Block or steal would be great!

That was a clear travel
Did Denver have a foul to give?
Great stop but then DJ fouled
Dammit DJ, why couldn't you get rid of that?
DAMMIT DEANDRE PASS IT!!!
he didn't have time
Please make them DJ
Come on DJ

I have faith, i know you can make these

Be happy that DJ secured the board and didn't turn it over
DJ please make your free throws..please!
Please make this one!!
Made 1

that means we just need to not allow a 3 and we can stay alive

I'm happy with him splitting them.
Good job DJ

1 out of 2. I’ll take it!

oh boy..ok defense guys..again.
50% is bettter than 0% i guess
We need defense!!!!!!!
Defense PLEASE!
We need defense!!!!!!!
Run them off the 3
It is the law. It can't be broken
Dang--deny the 3
Offensive foul!!!!

Yes

YEEEEE take that NENE
YEAH...offensive foul.
Who drew that foul? Chauncey Billups is doing everything!
yayy!!!!!!!!! Suck it Nene!!
5 guard lineup
Big Shot playing BBBBIG on D
B-B-B-BIG STOP BILLUPS!
cp3 is money

he got this

great acting by billups

we got this now

cant wait to add KMart to that front line
kmart and chandler
Remember that time we gave up a four-point play against the Bulls?

I don’t want to talk about it.

Ralph heard me!
CP3 making fts at the end of the game

Rose and LBJ both missed 2/2 at the end earlier

They don't have that killer instinct
Oh yeah!!

premature celebration can kill you. we've learned before.
Not today! not today

(I Hope)

you really want to kill this

don’t you

No, it's going to be okay!
"It's not unusual to be loved by anyone"!
i blame our win solely on this gif
No celebrations yet

This game is nowhere near over

It's over. The over/under was 206.
congratulations :D
VDN (or anyone else)

has done some terrific coaching tonight

ok well at least less time
thats game folks!
Big win for this team
YYYYEEEEAAAAAAHHHHHH!!!!!
This is a staple victory.

We might ride this wave into the NBA finals.

Harrington

Brain freeze haha

Now we can celebrate. Awesome, but our bench sucks.
Our bench except Mo

And Foye and Evans occasionally.

The Law is a law for a reason!
Great win fellas!

lookin forward to a winning steak now!

mmmm

steak!

I'm having sirloin for dinner!

yay clips nation!

Im eating crow

LJ for president!

JUMBACO!!!!!
For the entire fam--woohooo. Celebration dinner
*blushes*

Steve might have something to say about that

YESSSSSSSSS!!!

See, I told you all we’d win this game! :P

we won the FINALS!

wooooo

Forget about the Lakers win

This is the sweetest of the season. Thanks Chauncey

winner winner chicken dinner for everyone!
I want my Jumbaco
Amazing win!

Great game by both CP3 and Mr.Big Shot

Wow--big win for our boys! Love it!
Lawler's Law is a strange thing!
how the hell did that just happen?

and to the tool that said Chris Paul sucks, suck it!

He was a lakers fan
I was the one that said Chris Paul was washed up.

I used it as a motivational tool. Sometimes he reads the thread during timeouts.

can't wait for OKC tomorrow!
Should be an amazing game

Westbrook vs Paul
Perkins vs DJ
Durant vs Butler
Harden vs Mo

Iblaka vs Blake!

Gonna be tough, I hope Griffins/DeAndre’s blocks carry over! Maybe then Westbrook realizes that he isn’t all that!

we have a good record vs OKC the past 4 years
we haven't won in denver in how many years? streaks are dying this season..good sign.
If we beat the Lakers and Utah (in Utah)

2 More streaks could be crossed off the list!

after mile high city, its time to face the Durantula!
Blake playing some SF the last 2 games

perhaps a sign to come?

No he hasnt?

There were never 2 other bigs out there with him

i meant

he guarded Gallo tonight, and Rudy Gay last game

Oh defensively

Could be, especially when Butler is out there.

Butler looked really slow tonight on defense.

yea just meant he has the quickness to do it
Mo, Chauncy, Foye

all playing multiple positions,,,, no reason why Blake can’t play some SF if we add KMart

I dont think we get K-Mart

I think he goes to ATL.

i think i want you to be wrong
I would love for him to come here

But he would start and play a lot of minutes in ATL, and they are also a very good team.

hope you're wrong

haha

ATL have the cap we do?
They can offer him the vet min compared to our small exception

1.4 vs 2.5 million dollars. I think he takes minutes and importance over money though.

1.1 million washingtons says he signs with us!

;)

11-6 Oh Yeah
Ok JayQ, bust out the Carlton Gifs!!
sweet... snuck a look at the score during work and the Clips won!

…well, I guess I’ll have to stop watching the Clips if it means it’ll help them win.

gifs gifs gifs!

bring them!

Good usage of the 3 guard line-up tonight, VDN!

Blake +21
CP3 +19

stats

Mo had 12 points on 6 shots
DJ had 13 boards and 5 blocks
Blake had 13 boards and 4 blocks with 17 points
Clippers had onlt 11 TOs

lol old school kid n play?
Oh hell yeah--Kid n Play lol
we came back and won the rebounding fight. +3
Why is ESPN so filled with hate?... wow
What are you talking about?

They talking about us now?

They always are

They hate us so much.

they don’t want to accept that the lakers are not the best in town. the poor lakers. it’s a new era get over it ESPN.

Great WIN!!!!

haha great minds think alike
Great game tonight!

Now we have a road team!

OMG

Blake had 4 blocks!!

okay last one

time to head out, see ya’ll later!

LOL

I love this episode!!

Anybody still think we gave up too much for CP3?
Great to see us get away with a nice Road win!!

this is the best show ever
I must say--we have some very talented & disturbed citizens in this blog--love it.
Haha!!!

This is what happens when you beat the second best team in the West on the road!!

Vinny Del Negro earned his pay tonight.

I really like what he did, and I rarely say that about him. His rotations made sense; if the Nuggets love to run, put in guards and dare them to put the ball on the ground. When Butler wasn’t shooting well, he put in a younger, faster player. And although he never really went with it, he had Griffin and Butler out earlier so they could both play with their 2nd unit. Overall, good job by VDN, same to you Nuggets. They played a solid game but just couldn’t finish it off. Go Clippers!

I thought VDN's rotations were almost perfect

And he generally took correct timeouts as well.

The 3 guard lineup is deadly with the 3 we have now, and I hope we start to see it a bit more often.

you know we gotta give vdn some credit here, no doubt!

great win!

Why is the guy on the right holding his Mic like a sissy?

Not that there’s anything wrong with that…

2nd team still sucks

and this win won’t help curb the “flop city” contingent, but still feels great to get a good road win. Not getting any easier tomorrow but I can enjoy this one.

Lol

We didn’t need a wing man tonight!!!

Win tomorrow

would be a huge HUGE statement to all those who doubt the Clippers

But we don't care about them

They can just keep hating

amen to that jj!
Thanks ClipperSteve for doing such a great job

just saying… I’m just so happy

ill take our bench over the Fake show's bench
yes

better than a lot of benches in the NBA today
adding Kenyon or J.R would set us up to one of the best today.

Where do you guys find all those gif's?
I use photobucket.com
Oh man..

Clipper Nation is filled with funny people. CLIPPERS!!!

Guys at Denver stiff blog

calling Chauncey a flopper on that play with NEne’s shove… What do you guys think?

I think it was a Veteran move
you could clearly see Nene push him.

I bet they didn’t call it a flop when he was on their team.

I don't care if he flopped or not, that disrespect is terrible.

Honestly, I think he flopped a little bit, but he just made it more apparent that Nene pushed him, and you cannot deny that. The worst part about this from Denver fans is their lack of loyalty to Billups.

You know what I would call it?

Karma is a bitch. Chauncey wanted to finish his career in Denver but they shipped him off to NY anyways. Chauncey got his revenge!

hmmmm Denver fans mad vs. a win.

i’ll take the win.

i see

I personally don’t even think it was a flop… like Nene on the replay clearly showed he pushed pretty hard… I’m gonna go with Surfin on this one… Billups just made it more evident.

whoops short term memory

contradicting what I’m saying left and right haha. Regardless of what I think refs called it thats all that matters :)

Agreed!

And yeah, its hard to explain. It is somewhat a flop,but at the same time, the contact was obviously there so it wasn’t. Regardless of what happened, Billups WAS pushed and you can’t argue that. If the player doesn’t want the call to be made, I would suggest not doing anything that may call into question a foul.

All I have to say

CHUCK NORRIS APPROVES

Who's going to the game tomorrow?
let's see if VDN makes the necessary adjustments to westbrook's penetrating in this second half? it be a good indicator if we have a good coach your not.

might be too much to ask though it’s a pretty good player!

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