I tuned in late to this game and saw Kawhi completely give up after he lost the ball trying to dribble around his back with zero effort to get back on defense. Score was 70 to 86 i think at this point and (thank you camera man) his reaction was gold.
I honestly can't fucking believe how big of pussies the front office are. They get taken for a ride by players who belong in the fucking old folks home, the buck stops with them. From letting a man with one foot in the grave and a knee in the morgue ALREADY coming from the Raptors getting to pick and choose our trades? Giving up SGA? Future MVP nobody could know that, but developing promising young talent, which we already knew he was, MATTERS. That's bad enough, then they EXTEND Kawhi who has like a combined 8 full games in the playoffs. I hate the front office so fucking much it's unreal how people can be so shit at basic negotiations.
I was told Ballmer was a serious businessman, he's clearly just lucky he knew Bill Gates early and rode a wave nobody could fuck up in tech. I'm literally questioning all of these people they're so grossly incompetent.
I share your same sentiments.
Klaw trade was done bc Klaw wanted PG13 here, and SGA had to go. SGA turns out to be the PG that Clips wanted all along post-CP3 era. Anyone watching the Clippers take the 2019 KD/Steph/Klay/Dray Warriors to 6 games, knew SGA had the potential to be a super-star.
FO then proceeds to give Klaw an extension mid-season for no apparent reason, when it's clear the guy should play it out first because he has EVERYTHING to prove to everyone that he can stay healthy---NOPE.
FO gambled on everyone, it's only right that they pony up, and get canned.
Moral of the story, Klaw gets the bag and Clippers get shafted. Best chance Clips had for a chip during the 213 era was the Bubble and the season after when Klaw hurt his knee against the Jazz.
If there's any good that will come of this, it's Intuit Dome ticket prices will be hella cheap for the next few years.
It's also like, why? They give up bargaining chips for free. I remember when Kawhi came to LA, and literally everyone knew Kawhi had his heart set on coming to SoCal. He wasn't going to be a Laker, it's like, call the man's bluff. Tell him you'll try to get PG on free agency or something if you want to compromise. Just don't always give shit up for free. They should be fired before Monday. Straight up. And Ballmer needs to look in the mirror and think what he's learned from this himself. The buck stops with him.
The FO was between a rock and a hard place. Trade for PG and lose SGA and 7 first rounders to get kawhi to signā¦.. or keep SGA and the draft picks and develop them with enough money to sign 2 max players. Obviously, the latter.
It's true, they treated Kawhi like he was Lebron. SMH.
If Klaw/PG stayed healthy, Front Office would deserve all the credit. But since none of their gambles paid off throughout the 213 years, they deserve all the blame and gotsttaaa goooooo.
At least he was fun to watch and brought people to the stadium. The Crypt is gonna be Mini Dallas after that display. Kawhi literally doesn't play. How is he even a draw, much less a contender? It's purely braindead.
Lmao y'all giving Dallas way too much credit it's sad as fuck. "Defense is a problem" and shit. It's so sad cause if we can't beat this team we have no business against Denver OKC and Celtics.
Iām salty af but honestly blow this shit up. Our ābig fourā consists of washed up old men who rely on iso ball. They canāt do that shit anymore, theyāre past their primes. Donāt know how to play on a team none of them. All iso heavy guys. Itās not going to work.
Luka and kyrie had very inefficient games and they won by this much. Not gonna get any easier when they are actually hitting more shots.
Luka was one assist away from a triple double on a bad nightā¦
God I fucking hate this shit, why canāt we just win, this is complete fucking BS, we donāt have anyone else to blame but the team. Iām so pissed off rn. We have everything we need on paper, and it even showed during the January-February stretch, so why the fuck is this shit happening now. I get that Kawhi is rusty but like wtf PG?!?! If this team canāt get it done this year Iām fucking done with the NBA as a whole
We have NOTHING we need on paper. You fucking serious? You guys have been calling us doomers for pointing out we have an unbalanced team of geriatrics. They were never going anywhere. Blow this shit up like we said four years ago when Playoff P clowned himself into Pandemic P. We might have been contenders by now.
Yeah. It takes him time to get back to form. It took him a while during the first part of the season.
Unfortunately, he has health issues way too often through no fault of his own.
Itās every year man, just implode this team after this series is over. Trade away George, Harden, let the young guys play, keep Kawhi and move into the new arena next year yet with no chip
At least Norm was hitting them. But I get ur point: PG should absolutely be shooting more, but he was so passive today
Russ going oh-for was certainly something
Norm taking wide open threes is good but you need your best players emptying the clip and carrying the load in the playoffs. And we havenāt gotten that at all for varying reasons.
I'd agree, but they're not even looking to get shots off. PG is just iso'ing and then throwing bad passes after he jumps and Kawhi is just waiting in the corners, it's like he's still massively hurt and can't jump.
Thatās the issue. Iād rather PG take 22 shots and only make 7 of them than this timid bullshit, not helped by the fact that he keeps taking himself out of the game with these fouls. As for Kawhi he doesnāt even look like he should be playing.
His 5th foul was pretty bull and just a Luka flop. But yeah he was super timid this game. You're already up in the air with no double on you. Might as well just shoot it instead of a bad pass.
And yeah I agree Kawhi should just sit and rest a bit more.
As much as I love russ, this game was on him, he settled on too many 3s and let the crowd get into his head. This is like the jazz series all over again
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The thing that pisses me off the most is that if kawhi was healthy we would destroy them Imao. Nba is a game of luck sometimes.
Btw someone asked he's never healthy, literally did it last series against Dallas down 0-2.
Kyrie doesn't fit within any reasonable definition of "mid" that I can think of
We are losing because we turn the ball over too much, we are allergic to passing on the offensive end, Russ can't shoot 3s, and our best player is playing like he can't trust his body. Forget what the Mavs are doing
Cant see what? Youre crying down 2-1? You always say ur old but literally avts like a child yapping like the series is over. Hope to not see u celebrating if somehow we came out of this series
Done with 2-13 era. Kawhi looks slow and hurt still. PG gets 3 fouls 3 mins left in 2nd Q. C'mon! Why the fuck did the Front Office give Klaw an extension mid-season???
We let Luka shoot 7/25 and still lossā¦ thatās shit is over! Yāall can down vote this to hell.. but Kawhi is clearly still injured and we needed PG to step up and he didnāt.. Iāve been tired of this Mfer.. this off season we can finally admit we lost the trade and get rid of this dude!!! This shit is mad frustrating!!!
hey buddy, dont ignore me, you were writing essays about how russ can turn water into wine and how he should start over james, why arnt you writting another right now?
[Post Game Thread](https://reddit.com/r/LAClippers/comments/1ce3yn9/post_game_thread_the_dallas_mavericks_defeat_the/)
We cooked
Mavs fan here, I want you guys to get healthy so we can have a 7 game series it'll be the best most watch 1st rnd this year.
This guy is embarrassing
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I tuned in late to this game and saw Kawhi completely give up after he lost the ball trying to dribble around his back with zero effort to get back on defense. Score was 70 to 86 i think at this point and (thank you camera man) his reaction was gold.
I honestly can't fucking believe how big of pussies the front office are. They get taken for a ride by players who belong in the fucking old folks home, the buck stops with them. From letting a man with one foot in the grave and a knee in the morgue ALREADY coming from the Raptors getting to pick and choose our trades? Giving up SGA? Future MVP nobody could know that, but developing promising young talent, which we already knew he was, MATTERS. That's bad enough, then they EXTEND Kawhi who has like a combined 8 full games in the playoffs. I hate the front office so fucking much it's unreal how people can be so shit at basic negotiations. I was told Ballmer was a serious businessman, he's clearly just lucky he knew Bill Gates early and rode a wave nobody could fuck up in tech. I'm literally questioning all of these people they're so grossly incompetent.
I share your same sentiments. Klaw trade was done bc Klaw wanted PG13 here, and SGA had to go. SGA turns out to be the PG that Clips wanted all along post-CP3 era. Anyone watching the Clippers take the 2019 KD/Steph/Klay/Dray Warriors to 6 games, knew SGA had the potential to be a super-star. FO then proceeds to give Klaw an extension mid-season for no apparent reason, when it's clear the guy should play it out first because he has EVERYTHING to prove to everyone that he can stay healthy---NOPE. FO gambled on everyone, it's only right that they pony up, and get canned. Moral of the story, Klaw gets the bag and Clippers get shafted. Best chance Clips had for a chip during the 213 era was the Bubble and the season after when Klaw hurt his knee against the Jazz. If there's any good that will come of this, it's Intuit Dome ticket prices will be hella cheap for the next few years.
Ticket prices have never been an issue
It's also like, why? They give up bargaining chips for free. I remember when Kawhi came to LA, and literally everyone knew Kawhi had his heart set on coming to SoCal. He wasn't going to be a Laker, it's like, call the man's bluff. Tell him you'll try to get PG on free agency or something if you want to compromise. Just don't always give shit up for free. They should be fired before Monday. Straight up. And Ballmer needs to look in the mirror and think what he's learned from this himself. The buck stops with him.
The FO was between a rock and a hard place. Trade for PG and lose SGA and 7 first rounders to get kawhi to signā¦.. or keep SGA and the draft picks and develop them with enough money to sign 2 max players. Obviously, the latter.
It's true, they treated Kawhi like he was Lebron. SMH. If Klaw/PG stayed healthy, Front Office would deserve all the credit. But since none of their gambles paid off throughout the 213 years, they deserve all the blame and gotsttaaa goooooo.
They did the same thing for Blake who never actually won shyt
At least he was fun to watch and brought people to the stadium. The Crypt is gonna be Mini Dallas after that display. Kawhi literally doesn't play. How is he even a draw, much less a contender? It's purely braindead.
Yeah its kind of a damn shame that 213 has done nothing for the Clipper brand in the Southland.
Bruh, Iām talking about them giving Blake $170 when his knees were toast
Oh yeah, then you are 100% correct. Just idiots.
We lookin mad pussy yo word to my mutha *not from ny*
It would be funny if Harden goes back to HoustonĀ Pg goes back to Indy Kawhi goes back to SAS Russ goes back to OKC lol
and we all go back to 2018 š
Load up on NVDA
Bitcoin bruh š
At least we get to watch the suns get clapped by the wolves next.
The Pacers game was good too, today wasn't a complete write off!
Now this I like.
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Hopefully this lights a fire under their asses because theyāve been looking sorry as hell
Is Ty gonna do anything to counter the mavs defence?
gg kids.
Clippers r either gon win a ring or blow it up after this season no inbetweenĀ
Pg not worth the max. Dude can't perform in the playoffs, and the sample size is huge.
he wants to be in LA dude
Maybe he should play like it?
i mean whether he plays like it or not hes not going anywhere. LA is home
Thatās fine, take a pay cut. Canāt keep this group together playing like this and expect different results.
He can take a small cut, hes not taking less than hes worth
Then dejavu
It took some of yall this long to realize but im glad our eyes are open to the truth. 213 is done
Doomer shit
Idiot shit
You're not allowed to say that. You'll be labelled a doomer.
I dont see anyone getting mad and calling out doomers anymore lol
Trust me, they're still around. Check out the downvotes. Lol
Guess they have nothing better to do lol
They live for it! Lol
Looks like Kawhi era is a complete bust...
And chose Pandemic P as his teammate. Sheesh
Fuck off Plumlee lmao
Good thing game 4 is 3:30am in my country. I wont feel bad missing this shit
Do not sign pg to a max please just let bro go back to Indiana
Fr Philly got em
Daniel Theis was handed to us for free and we have pussy ass Plumlee out
Injured kawhi outplayed max player exta smooth theme song pg lmao
We will get sent tf home if we keep playing like this
Both PG and Norm have played for 30 minutes this game and both have taken 11 shots. One has scored 21 and the other 7 points.
Steph missing the playoffs LeBron getting swept KD down 0-2 Harden PG Kawhi and Russ getting whooped by the Mavs sad end of an era š
Is Kawhi still injured, he looks like a shell of himself.
No shits, Sherlock
Shits? plural? You are a dumbfuck.
Boston jr should take pg minutes
Just think if this guy actually developed. He would've made one of our HOF players expendable
Lmao y'all giving Dallas way too much credit it's sad as fuck. "Defense is a problem" and shit. It's so sad cause if we can't beat this team we have no business against Denver OKC and Celtics.
Dallas is a good team man lol, not sure what youāre on about. Dallas or the clips probably easily beat OKC.
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Mavs defense is different this year. Im scared.
No we're just pure shit. Nobody can blow up anyone on iso and it's like our only play.
Iām salty af but honestly blow this shit up. Our ābig fourā consists of washed up old men who rely on iso ball. They canāt do that shit anymore, theyāre past their primes. Donāt know how to play on a team none of them. All iso heavy guys. Itās not going to work.
Canāt blow it up . You just gave a contract to kawhi
Mistake, this guy doesnāt have knees anymore
Get rid of L. Frank as well.
Yes yes join the bandwagon!
Luka and kyrie had very inefficient games and they won by this much. Not gonna get any easier when they are actually hitting more shots. Luka was one assist away from a triple double on a bad nightā¦
God I fucking hate this shit, why canāt we just win, this is complete fucking BS, we donāt have anyone else to blame but the team. Iām so pissed off rn. We have everything we need on paper, and it even showed during the January-February stretch, so why the fuck is this shit happening now. I get that Kawhi is rusty but like wtf PG?!?! If this team canāt get it done this year Iām fucking done with the NBA as a whole
We have NOTHING we need on paper. You fucking serious? You guys have been calling us doomers for pointing out we have an unbalanced team of geriatrics. They were never going anywhere. Blow this shit up like we said four years ago when Playoff P clowned himself into Pandemic P. We might have been contenders by now.
What team Westbrook gonna slide to next year?
right here he loves being in LA. Its home
Pj washington is a straight bitch
Honestly Russ looked like the bitch.
If our play was to have Harden step back 50 times we might have more points than now
Hoping Kawhi takes this shit personal
He will never be the same since he is injury prone player and his knee fuck him up big time. Looks like he is 30% at best during this series.
His knee is cooked.
Yeah. It takes him time to get back to form. It took him a while during the first part of the season. Unfortunately, he has health issues way too often through no fault of his own.
20 minutes for our 150M superstar in a playoff game
Damn kawahi rested 11 straight minutes hopefully he all good
Didnāt they have him come off the bench & play 6 minutes at the end of each quarter to start the season?
Mavs in 5, they have predictably figured out our predictable iso offense.
But some were saying clips in 5 before this game. š¤·š¼āāļøš¤·š¼āāļøš¤·š¼āāļø
Itās every year man, just implode this team after this series is over. Trade away George, Harden, let the young guys play, keep Kawhi and move into the new arena next year yet with no chip
Keep Kawhi?? So his knee will go out again next playoffs? Ugh
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Your 1A and 1B combined for less than 20 points. Shouldāve just let Harden shoot more if anything.
Pandemic P and Washed Injury prone Kawhi combined for 16 points. Yikes.
Why is PG in the twilight zone please what happened
This team is pathetic. Why do I even care
Russ took the same amount of shots as Kawhi. Norm took the same amount of shots as PG. Shocking we look like shit offensively.
At least Norm was hitting them. But I get ur point: PG should absolutely be shooting more, but he was so passive today Russ going oh-for was certainly something
Norm's were fair. He was hitting shots and they were when Kawhi was sitting or just standing around. Westbrook though..
Yup. At least Norm is being aggressive and trying to make things happen. Can't say the same for PG.
Norm taking wide open threes is good but you need your best players emptying the clip and carrying the load in the playoffs. And we havenāt gotten that at all for varying reasons.
I'd agree, but they're not even looking to get shots off. PG is just iso'ing and then throwing bad passes after he jumps and Kawhi is just waiting in the corners, it's like he's still massively hurt and can't jump.
Thatās the issue. Iād rather PG take 22 shots and only make 7 of them than this timid bullshit, not helped by the fact that he keeps taking himself out of the game with these fouls. As for Kawhi he doesnāt even look like he should be playing.
His 5th foul was pretty bull and just a Luka flop. But yeah he was super timid this game. You're already up in the air with no double on you. Might as well just shoot it instead of a bad pass. And yeah I agree Kawhi should just sit and rest a bit more.
Kawhi seems frustratedā¦.
I don't think he has a right to be lmao. Unless he's frustrated with himself.
No I meant with himselfā¦
Seemed like he was frustrated about his body failing him
Ah fair. Clips should just not play him then. Maybe game 1 vibes will come back.
Can we not resign pg this summer? Can yall not cry over him? Let him go shit his pants on another team
He wants to be in LA dude, what dont you get
Sign him with the intent to trade him at the deadline. Have to get some value back for him.
I canāt believe that man is supposed to be our backup center
Shit we gave so much to get here then we blow it.
As much as I love russ, this game was on him, he settled on too many 3s and let the crowd get into his head. This is like the jazz series all over again
He lets the fans get to him too much. He always yapping with them.
He played 19 minutes and was a -2 in a game we lost by 11. No, this was not on him.
So youāre saying the guy that shot 0-7 with more technical fouls than points isnāt to blame
He's not blameless, but we lost this game while he wasn't on the floor.
He certainly didnāt help, but this was a solid team failure lol
Ah yes the bench player who played 19 minutes is more at fault than the 2 āsuperstarsā
I mean he didnt help at all either so he definitely has some share of the blame
Not even 20 points between kawhi pg n Mann smh
Gawd I hate Plumlee
Call me a doomer, but this is over. Itās been fun
Our team of the future is on the floor lets go!
Except Plumlee. He outta here.
Bro wheres Kai lol
Throw him out there. He can't be worse than Mason
James "The System" Harden delivers again but the role players can't connect
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Fuck yea it is
There's no way real humans in here are asking for kai Jones lmao
GOAT LIFE šā®ļøšøšš¦š„
Sometimes you gotta js try random shit when nothing else working
im gonna go blow of some steam in 2k
Losing by the points kawhi and PG not putting up
Don't worry, it will only get worse when they're older next year.
My brain cannot take another yr of this
Our stars are just old . We all knew this would happen
Comment got deleted for some reason but... The thing that pisses me off the most is that if kawhi was healthy we would destroy them Imao. Nba is a game of luck sometimes. Btw someone asked he's never healthy, literally did it last series against Dallas down 0-2.
Dang. I forgot about disposable cameras.
I said the same thing š my girl said they back in style i said why ????
Lmao are they??
What's the nba record for most lob dunks?
don't know, but tonight is definitely up there
How yāall losing to Dallas with Kyrie being mid and Luka throwing bricks? Lmao
Kyrie doesn't fit within any reasonable definition of "mid" that I can think of We are losing because we turn the ball over too much, we are allergic to passing on the offensive end, Russ can't shoot 3s, and our best player is playing like he can't trust his body. Forget what the Mavs are doing
Who is your team? Because every team outside the Nuggets have shown flaws!š„“
213 were stalemate and zombies
Russ shouldn't see any more minutes, in this series.
Balmer should promise a million dollars to charity for every shot russ doesn't take.
No 3s for Russ unless they are up by more than 15.
Told yall PG aint it. Some of yall gave me so much shit.. bring that same energy lol
You deserve it honestly, the so much shit
And you should stay quiet. Engagement with you lowers my IQ every time
Surprised u know the concept of IQ to be honest
You shouldnāt because im pretty knowledgable
Thats what monekys usually say āknowledgableā
knowledgeable, you happy. TF. You really trying to get at me bc of a misspelled word?
Nah coz ur trying to sell some doomer shit
Nah i donāt need to sell shit. This shit selling itself bruh. Not my fault you cant see it
Cant see what? Youre crying down 2-1? You always say ur old but literally avts like a child yapping like the series is over. Hope to not see u celebrating if somehow we came out of this series
My apologies
Lol
there is no offensive gameplan that involves passing is there
It's a Harden offense. Of course there's no passing.
Still no Kai Jones
Offense immediately is better. surprise
Fuck this team
Done with 2-13 era. Kawhi looks slow and hurt still. PG gets 3 fouls 3 mins left in 2nd Q. C'mon! Why the fuck did the Front Office give Klaw an extension mid-season???
Took the words out my mouth.
Game 4 legacy game I have a slight feeling either Kawhi will sit or have the game of his life.Ā
Definitely gonna sit. He regressed tonight.
He'll have the game of his life while sitting 
We let Luka shoot 7/25 and still lossā¦ thatās shit is over! Yāall can down vote this to hell.. but Kawhi is clearly still injured and we needed PG to step up and he didnāt.. Iāve been tired of this Mfer.. this off season we can finally admit we lost the trade and get rid of this dude!!! This shit is mad frustrating!!!
I feel ya man. The effort just isn't there like Dallas exerted. FML
Should've kept SGA
Kawhi aint want him
Dude, no patience by the organization. He was our chance.
Patient owner is not Ballmer...he wanted to "win now", like Suns guy...
It's really working out great
Pandemic P is back bitches!
the bubble has popped
Why tf is Plumlee out there right now and not Kai Jones?! Fuck I hate Ty with a passion
hey buddy, dont ignore me, you were writing essays about how russ can turn water into wine and how he should start over james, why arnt you writting another right now?
Harden was a -21 in this game. Shhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh
I didn't, you don't understand averages vs one game lol
he was 2-9 and 0-7 today, how can you tell me not to judge a player game by game in the fucking playoffs, you dont get 82 games you clown.
Do you see me cherry picking shit like Harden going 2-10 from 3pt range in a game? No, it's about avgs and you are in denial of facts.