Please post your predictions for the game against the Magic. The guys must do what well to get the W? Which opposing player(s) should Clips be wary of? Will the game be bombs away by both teams or first to 100 gets the W? Who will step up?
Please post your predictions for the game against the Magic. The guys must do what well to get the W? Which opposing player(s) should Clips be wary of? Will the game be bombs away by both teams or first to 100 gets the W? Who will step up?
Clippers need to avoid these live ball turnovers. Timely bingo by Batum to slice it to 5.
Zu what a job on the boards- that's *10* already with 6 minutes left in the half. But the Clippers fall asleep again on the inbounds- Magic with another easy one, this time a dunk on an alley oop. Bogdanovic just stood there and watched.
Harden bingo- that's 19 for him
ANOTHER turnover. Dunn had the open 3, or could've passed it to Sanders, but travelled, according to the refs. Tough when you don't even get off a shot after good ball movement.
Yup, another turnover. They pick off the pnr dish by Harden, leads to another Suggs 3. Clippers run the other way, and blow two more easy shots- a little floater missed by Dunn and a tip in missed by Zu. 61-49 Magic at the half.
Sanders needs to just elevate and shoot the floater in the lane vs trying to drive all the way. Zu the emphatic jam!
Collins now the baseline drive and power slam!
Yanic & Brown in with the Clippers down 17, 3 1/2 minutes left in the 3rd
Bane tries a soft layup vs Yanic who rejects it
Nice looking floater by Yanic after they doubled Harden
The Beard yo-yos Bane, then drains the floater. But the Clippers simple not hitting enough 3's to be able to make inroads. 10-27 is solid but Orlando is 11 of 23. Not to mention 29 fastbreak points by the Magic. Clips down 17 going into the 4th.
This is getting ugly as the Magic keeps drilling 3's, and the Clippers are just 1 of 4 or 5 from downtown to start the Q.
CP3 playing some hard-nosed D there
Lol Cam Christie banks in the 3 from the corner, and jut raises his arms
Not pretty but Zu's spin move cuts it to 18
How about Kobe Brown- drills 2 bingos in a row after a rough sequence inside. Slices it to 18
Clippers lose emphatically 129-101. What's disturbing is the awful transition defense, even with the unit with young legs. But Magic hit an unusually high percentage of 3's- 18 of 34, and that type of shooting would take down most other teams in the NBA in a given game.
Harden, Sanders, and CP3 combine for 14 turnovers.
Highlights:
At least USC won lol- a crazy finish if you guys haven't seen it: