Comments on: Clippers vs. Kings Game Preview https://213hoops.com/clippers-vs-kings-game-preview-4/ L.A. Clippers News and Analysis Sat, 25 Feb 2023 16:44:46 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.3.20 By: Dave Rosa https://213hoops.com/clippers-vs-kings-game-preview-4/#comment-40946 Sat, 25 Feb 2023 16:44:46 +0000 https://213hoops.com/?p=18181#comment-40946 I went to Hoopshype and read the comments. It just infuriates me more. What did Westbrook do that entitled him to displace Mann in the starting lineup? 1 practice is enough to do it. Mann is not a rookie. He’s a veteran. Lue needs to stop treating him like a stepchild. Mann was 10 for 12 I think in the previous game. The team won the last 2. The Clips have been playing well since Mann was inserted into the starting lineup.

Mann is a fan favorite for a reason. is Mann’s presence threatening to some of our elder players? Time to re-tool as the KL/PG experiment has run its course.

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By: Dave Rosa https://213hoops.com/clippers-vs-kings-game-preview-4/#comment-40944 Sat, 25 Feb 2023 16:19:35 +0000 https://213hoops.com/?p=18181#comment-40944 WTF does Lue have against Mann? No matter what Mann does to help these Clips, Lue sabotages him. Mann is our 2nd best player. Mann supersedes George. Monk is going crazy and Lue has Mann on the bench.

WTF does Lue have against Covington? I believe the FO saw the deterioration of Morris and that’s why Covington is here. Unfortunately, Lue refuses to move off of Morris.

KL is having a career night and then doesn’t touch the ball. Your best player who is “on” doesn’t even “whiff” the ball. That’s on Lue, George, and KL. You wanted Westbrook. Now you have the “potted plant” standing in the corner.

PG should never bring the ball up. NEVER!!!! it’s the same story. PG dribbles up and is met with resistance and then quickly a double comes. He never quickly beats the double with a pass. He tries to dribble out of trouble. 9 times out of 10 it doesn’t work. And if PG is near a sideline it’s even worse.

Westbrook was exactly what we thought he would be. A turnover waiting to happen. How many was it? 6? That’s 12 to 18 points given away. Momentum is lost. Leads lost.

Lue is really sucking at coaching this year.
I hope they trade PG for a couple of very good players and a couple of 1st rounders. The PG and KL duo will not bring us a championship.
Mann is our “point guard.” Period.
Last night’s game was perfect for Bones Hyland. If you’re gonna be in a shoot-out, bring in the gunslinger. But, alas, No Bones.
I want to thank Morris for his service and it’s time to put Covington in.

If the Westbrook experiment continues, the Clips will be battling for a play-in game.

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By: KingAlfonse https://213hoops.com/clippers-vs-kings-game-preview-4/#comment-40934 Sat, 25 Feb 2023 14:57:59 +0000 https://213hoops.com/?p=18181#comment-40934 You’re absolutely right. Ty is an abomination. And we win this game if we don’t make the stupid Westbrook move. The trades worked and the jazz have yet again sabotaged our season/this era by agreeing to the Westbrook trade.

I’m still so damn furious with Lue. He’s Doc level atrocious at this point. And PG is a total bum. Wish he had never been on my team.

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By: Greek_Clippers_Fan https://213hoops.com/clippers-vs-kings-game-preview-4/#comment-40932 Sat, 25 Feb 2023 14:18:28 +0000 https://213hoops.com/?p=18181#comment-40932 PG and Russ lost this at the end of the 4th, too many turnovers.

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By: Pascal https://213hoops.com/clippers-vs-kings-game-preview-4/#comment-40931 Sat, 25 Feb 2023 13:53:39 +0000 https://213hoops.com/?p=18181#comment-40931 ) Fire the coach! Restore order win the ring💪]]> Well as I mentioned 2 month ago… Ty Lue is not the boss in he house. Someone eise is…?
PG two stupid TO in the last 3 min.
RW sitting on the 3 spot in the corner while PG brings up the ball(dixitPG13 : We need a real PGuard! 😂)
Fire the coach! Restore order win the ring💪

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By: Greek_Clippers_Fan https://213hoops.com/clippers-vs-kings-game-preview-4/#comment-40929 Sat, 25 Feb 2023 13:31:46 +0000 https://213hoops.com/?p=18181#comment-40929 Seriously, two games with nice healthy rotations and now this? 176 points??

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By: Greek_Clippers_Fan https://213hoops.com/clippers-vs-kings-game-preview-4/#comment-40928 Sat, 25 Feb 2023 13:30:59 +0000 https://213hoops.com/?p=18181#comment-40928 And the Russell Westbrook era starts like so…

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By: John Maclean https://213hoops.com/clippers-vs-kings-game-preview-4/#comment-40921 Sat, 25 Feb 2023 08:46:43 +0000 https://213hoops.com/?p=18181#comment-40921 All of your instincts are spot on. Although the window may not be closed it is closing and it’s very unlikely this iteration gets to the chip now. This was probably the last year we could have but for whatever reason the front office chose to do nothing about getting a backup center and TL was an idiot about not trying Mann in particular at the point. If those two–VERY EASY—lifts had been made we would be comfortably in the 2 or 3 slot. As it stands now we are fighting for our lives to where what would normally be a disappointing but not devastating loss becomes… well… DEVASTATING.

I actually love this roster now. Russ really brings something and it allows us to have Mann come off the bench so that energy sustains (provided our dumb ass coach has enough sense to balance their minutes correctly). We got two really good Bigs, tons of shooting and overall depth and a mega star to close out big games but there’s probably just not enough runway left this season to really get cooking.

Both the Warriors and Lakers have been calculating to just get in the tournament healthy believing that they can win one road game to take any series with their experience. Maybe at this juncture that’s our best course of action as well.

I think we would all do much better if we just ride this out until April with the confidence that we should fall no lower than 6 and just see what happens one series at a time.

The new arena can’t come quickly enough.

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By: chogokin https://213hoops.com/clippers-vs-kings-game-preview-4/#comment-40920 Sat, 25 Feb 2023 08:07:02 +0000 https://213hoops.com/?p=18181#comment-40920 We were actually up 14 w/ about 4 min left. We’ve been finding new, creative ways to go completely braindead and choke away games all year.

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By: chogokin https://213hoops.com/clippers-vs-kings-game-preview-4/#comment-40919 Sat, 25 Feb 2023 07:58:52 +0000 https://213hoops.com/?p=18181#comment-40919 I’m honestly still pretty pissed off right now, so I may not be in the right mindset to continue commenting, but hey, hopefully the team shuts me up and makes me cringe when I look back at this comment by winning a title…but, well, here’s my hot take: fire Ty now. Not in the offseason. Now. Promote Dan Craig, or hell, just fucking coach the team yourself, L. Frank. Or I guess if we’re cool w/ a 1st round exit and then just making big changes this summer, then ok, fine, by all means stay the course. But this was a must win game and we gave up 176 points because our coach doesn’t know who his best defenders are and/or doesn’t care.

I’m not saying this just because of tonight, though admittedly this was a really, really bad loss. I’m saying this because we’ve seen Ty making the same mistakes the whole year – Ty keeps saying that he’s “learning,” but no, he’s not. Or if he is, he’s not applying the lessons he’s supposedly been learning. Literally the only “adjustment” that Ty has made that actually been a positive is playing MM less, and he still played him too much tonight because his legs are completely gone.

“Mann should’ve played more minutes”? You’re the fucking COACH. PLAY HIM. “We need to be better defensively”? Then why the hell are you playing MM at C early on, why are you riding Norm and Russ for so long when Malik Monk is torching them, and why is RoCo, one of our best defenders, continuing to get DNPs? Why were you DNP-ing Mann and RoCo earlier in the season when we needed those easy wins? Why have you been trotting out an 8-9 player rotation in the regular season when you have the “deepest roster in the league” but also the oldest team in the league?

If we want any shot of actually making a deep playoff run (I’m not gonna say “contend” because we are so far from that right now), then we don’t have time to wait and hope for Ty to re-learn how to coach.

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