Official Clipps/Rockets Game 7 Thread

HeretoBeatmyChest

Clipps complete collapse or ???

Gladstone

Clips win by 8

allpurpleallgold

Houston at least came to play early. Seems like a given in a game 7 but nothing is a given with the Rockets.

RoadDawg55

This game was over before it started.

RoadDawg55

If Josh Smith wasn't so high and going through the motions 90% of the time, he would be a very good player.

RaceBannon

Who are the Lakers going to draft?

greenblood

RaceBannon said:

Who are the Lakers going to draft?

Trick question: they're going to trade it for an old, overrated, high maintenance star

dnc

Clips gonna clip

RoadDawg55

Warriors/LAC would have been a better series. The Rockets might get swept by the Warriors.

allpurpleallgold

RoadDawg55 said:

Warriors/LAC would have been a better series. The Rockets might get swept by the Warriors.

Yup. It's a shame Beverly isn't healthy because he might have been able to wear Curry down. Prigioni and Terry are going to get destroyed.

HeretoBeatmyChest

Rockets will be lucky to win more than 1 game. Warriors in 5.

dnc

Tequilla

One of the more ridiculous collapses in the history of the NBA.

I don't see how there are not massive changes made to the Clippers in the offseason. They need to do something to shake some things up. One thing they desperately need is an improved bench. Crawford is aging and it less and less reliable. Rivers looked like he took a step forward this playoffs. Nobody else on their bench contributes anything. Getting better bench play would lead to not wearing out the starters as much ... and you could argue that the Rockets started wearing them down in the series.

SteveInShelton

Fuck Steve Ballmer

TierbsHsotBoobs

Tequilla said:

One of the more ridiculous collapses in the history of the NBA.

I don't see how there are not massive changes made to the Clippers in the offseason. They need to do something to shake some things up. One thing they desperately need is an improved bench. Crawford is aging and it less and less reliable. Rivers looked like he took a step forward this playoffs. Nobody else on their bench contributes anything. Getting better bench play would lead to not wearing out the starters as much ... and you could argue that the Rockets started wearing them down in the series.

Start by firing the coach who blew a 3-1 lead for the second time in his career.

dnc

TierbsHsotBoobs said:

Tequilla said:

One of the more ridiculous collapses in the history of the NBA.

I don't see how there are not massive changes made to the Clippers in the offseason. They need to do something to shake some things up. One thing they desperately need is an improved bench. Crawford is aging and it less and less reliable. Rivers looked like he took a step forward this playoffs. Nobody else on their bench contributes anything. Getting better bench play would lead to not wearing out the starters as much ... and you could argue that the Rockets started wearing them down in the series.

Start by firing the coach who blew a 3-1 lead for the second time in his career.

I know you said no racist crap, but Doc is quite possibly the most overrated coach the NBA as ever seen.

RoadDawg55

Tequilla said:

One of the more ridiculous collapses in the history of the NBA.

I don't see how there are not massive changes made to the Clippers in the offseason. They need to do something to shake some things up. One thing they desperately need is an improved bench. Crawford is aging and it less and less reliable. Rivers looked like he took a step forward this playoffs. Nobody else on their bench contributes anything. Getting better bench play would lead to not wearing out the starters as much ... and you could argue that the Rockets started wearing them down in the series.

They should make changes, but ultimately nothing will change.

BallSacked

RoadDawg55 said:

Tequilla said:

One of the more ridiculous collapses in the history of the NBA.

I don't see how there are not massive changes made to the Clippers in the offseason. They need to do something to shake some things up. One thing they desperately need is an improved bench. Crawford is aging and it less and less reliable. Rivers looked like he took a step forward this playoffs. Nobody else on their bench contributes anything. Getting better bench play would lead to not wearing out the starters as much ... and you could argue that the Rockets started wearing them down in the series.

They should make changes, but ultimately nothing will change.

The most pressing change is to demote Doc from GM duty. He traded a first Rd rookie and a second rd pick to take his failing son off the NBDL trash heap for fucks sake.

Tequilla

BallSacked said:

RoadDawg55 said:

Tequilla said:

One of the more ridiculous collapses in the history of the NBA.

I don't see how there are not massive changes made to the Clippers in the offseason. They need to do something to shake some things up. One thing they desperately need is an improved bench. Crawford is aging and it less and less reliable. Rivers looked like he took a step forward this playoffs. Nobody else on their bench contributes anything. Getting better bench play would lead to not wearing out the starters as much ... and you could argue that the Rockets started wearing them down in the series.

They should make changes, but ultimately nothing will change.

The most pressing change is to demote Doc from GM duty. He traded a first Rd rookie and a second rd pick to take his failing son off the NBDL trash heap for fucks sake.

I disagree with the Rivers comment. In many ways, that may turn out to be one of his finest moments as a GM. I've seen enough of Austin Rivers in the playoffs this to believe that he can be at worst be a valuable rotational scorer off the bench. There's still plenty of room for him to grow as a player, and he still needs a lot of minutes to learn and develop in the league, but he's also just 22 years old and put up 6 double digit scoring games in the postseason while playing 16-18 minutes per game on average. That's not too bad for a rotational player.

I don't necessarily think that Doc needs to step down as GM, but Doc would probably be better served to get a trusted advisor in that runs most of the day to day items that he has a strong enough relationship with to allow him to have the critical input that Doc wants in his team while not needing to do both jobs and probably not do either of them to the best of his ability. Think of what Pop has done with the Spurs, Petey with the Hawks, etc. for what the ideal relationship should be between Coach and GM.

RoadDawg55

Doc hasn't made one good move as a GM. Hawes was the worst signing by any NBA team last Summer.

Austin Rivers is terrible. A couple good games doesn't change that. He can't shoot and he's not a PG. On a good team, he's nothing more than a 9th or 10th man. The last three games he scored 8, 5, and 2 points. +/- was -15, -12, and -18.

HeretoBeatmyChest

Doc isn't a great coach and thus far has been a terrible GM. Their bench is awful and the bad moves finally caught up with them.

The Clippers are basically the Sonics of the 90s. A legit title contender that underachieves regularly in the playoffs and doesn't have the management to get them over the hump.