Clippers Take Down Suns | LA Clippers
Shooting well from Beyond The Arc this season Clippers out in front they hit 18 threes last week in Phoenix now they’re just going to destroy the rim with a beza zubba only 31% from three that will go up he is a terrific shooter great score lob to Leonard inside free himself
And lays it in Westbrook pretends to shoot the three now backs down on Booker spins to the rim and lays it in a clever play by Russell West Come a Little Closer when you read that come and bruss Zoo give it to the cash cow here Westbrook now tries
To attack on Allen dumps it inside to Zoo for the right handed punch that’s three possessions that Westbrook has either scored or assisted on he’s able to get to his spots post up and as soon as you help Kawai back to Westbrook around Allen the lock to zoo again my goodness
Russell Westbrook Four Points three assists couple basket he makes an assist turns down the three another lob to zoo inside Ki I thought made some great plays last week in Phoenix Harden gets downhill crashes into Eubanks counted on a foul James feels so comfortable going to
His right hand you know why he said but the ball goes right back to him bounces it nicely to Ty after he Tangles up with Gordon what a feed by Kawai Leonard kaai here look at a CO Josh that is on the other side he’s kind
Of playing in between do I come in and get Tyce or do I stay where my man is at you don’t see a lot of that coming from Phoenix Powell bluffing the three steps inside the mid-range is true for Norman Powell Booker Durant met by great defense there
Torn Away by Leonard Booker in a foot race and Kawai with the flush and book said you know what I’m not even no as soon as Kawai kind of beered to the right towards book book was like no I’m not I’m going to be smart here play pick
Up a foul you got me on this one he showed the hustle here for the Clippers Westbrook takes the seat Durant deflection picked off by tyon arcing pass down Court to Leonard not there power right place right TI for the flush and that’s why you follow it up it the
Line here for a couple deflections you don’t have to to steal a lot of time yourself but the deflection and active Hands by Kawai led to the quick fast break and KD did a great job of getting back fortunately centers it to Haren Kawai free for three oh what a
Follow by Ty of activity leads to an opportunity nobody’s on Daniel Ty he’s able to flush that back through and well a game last night in which the Clippers were completely out of rhythm they found it quickly good grief Kawai Leonard with 17 and the Clippers have opened up the floodgates 116 to
96 is working there’s nothing you can do about in Kawai digging into his bag right Here well the challenge is too I mean when it comes easy easy being like being able to get open Shots Coffee oh what a break from Harden that pass to Ty was crazy able to take advantage of this the outstanding Hustle by Ty one hand pass to Coffee put a
Little swirl on that double espresso right there it really together by then one would expect if they can have continued Health going [Applause] forward good hands Time by Kobe plumbley underhanded pass to Boston to the rim hangs and hits something that last year it was such a rough season and
Admittedly I think anybody that followed the team Yours Truly included it was the most frustrating team to watch there was never any cottonage with substance with defense with offense with benching it’s it’s amazing what has happened here and it’s been a lot of fun to watch oh
Terence man put the candles on the cake Hardon draws a double looks inside the zoo picked up by Allen Terrence man catch and shoot three I’ll tell you what that is going to be something else Daniel Ty checks into the lineup here for the Clippers Westbrook takes
The seat Durant deflection picked off by Ty arcing pass down Court to Leonard not there Powell right place right time for the flush win that they win the tiebreaker period by winning the division it’s not a goal to win the Pacific Division as Harden flings up a three and knocks it down
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It’s the dawn of a new Sun. ☀️
LESSSGO CLIPPERS 🔥🫡
Zu’s heating up 👍🏼 everyone getting lots of steals 👍🏼 Russ, you’re my boy, but you gotta throw passes that these guys can catch, too much heat from too close in
Why is the editing out of sequence? What amateur put this together for a professional organization?
Lol. They didn't include any PG highlight.
Way to bounce back after tough loss last night , Let's Keep it going Clippers 💯🛐💚🔯💛☪️❤️🕉️🔥🔥💪💪🔥🔥
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Am not impressed u all afraid of the Lakers
Beat Celtics
Been a clippers fan since 2008 best team I’ve ever seen. Good points about wins with Kawhi not scorning 20+
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Daniel Tyson has been a great pick up.
He's been ballin
Needs to get back in the wind calm after the loss
Harden has also impressed me. I would like him to clean up the turnover's a little bit he's been balling
That spinning from the Klaw is so damn smoooooth!!
I have a question mark why Clippers lose to Lakers. Is this REFS helps them to win?
Suns does not have good defense. Beal and Bookers are not Harden, they dont know how to give assists to bring the team. Once they face a strong defence team, Suns is easy to lose. Lakers has strong defense, Clippers can try to use Tucker to guard Leborn if they are not able to trade him to get back good players.
The suns are absolutely terrible. They can't defend to save their lives. Folks actually thought this team was gonna be a contender 😂😂. I knew they were gonna struggle and no it's not due to injuries. They SUCK when they are healthy. They have no defense
Feels like every game russ has the play of the game
Look at Russ man, he's locked in this year
The Lakers aren't a better team then the clippers. I said it come playoffs be aware , they gonna hurt alot of feelings
The Migos strike again!!☝🏼🏆
F*ck the lakers
The younger lads can learn a whole lot from the seniors. We even finished the match with them playing with in all honesty is a beautiful thing to see… like the fact that we didn’t go the distance with or (quote on quote top players) to finish off the game is a hard flex.
He got clowned on for calling himself one of the most unselfish players ever. But Beardman's been sacrificing his talents his whole career with very little pouting.
In OKC, Scott Brooks played him as 6th man for 3 years in, despite being one of the most talented players on the team.
In Houston, Tim Fertitta refused to go over the luxury tax and surround him with better players, despite being one game away from an NBA finals in 2018. (The next year he averaged 36ppg 7rpg 8apg)
In Brooklyn, Kyrie Irving played less games then Harden, despite Harden being injured.
In Philadelphia, he took a pay cut so the Doc Rivers could sign more depth, despite being owed $15million more.
Generational talent that's been adapting and being unselfish since he entered the league
when the 2019 rockets are down 0-2 and he averages 40/10/5 the next 2 games to tie it up, it doesn't count. when he puts up 35/8/5 and has more points/rebounds/assists/steals than steph in game 6, he sucked and steph was legendary to win without KD.
in the bubble he put up 30 ppg on 67 TS% against an elite lakers defense that was just doubling him near halfcourt and leaving russ wide open. but he sucked.
he also tends to have his best games end in near losses, which unless he has a time machine, i'm not sure what he can do about. putting up 39/10/9 on 62% shooting (field goal, not TS%) against the #1 defense 2015 warriors and being +12 in 41 minutes, only for the rockets to be -13 in his 7 minutes off so he loses by 1 gets forgotten. still a great game.
he goes up 3-2 on the most talented team ever but cp3 gets injured so no credit for harden. he's had some disappointing playoff moments, but people way overplay it.
I mean Harden does have 9 playoff games where he scored 40+ points, including 3 in the 2018 playoff run alone.
Curry has 7 such games in his career.
Butler has 6.
Melo had 4.
Harden certainly deserves plenty of criticism. But this idea that he’s never gone off in the playoffs is ridiculous. He generally had just kind of ok supporting casts and regularly made some decent playoff runs.
His Rockets were also the only team to really give a healthy KD Warriors any real trouble. Cavs got swept and lost in 5.
I think if you take "Most Valuable Player" literally, Harden should have won. Take Steph Curry off of that Warriors team, and that's still a good team. Take James Harden off of that Rockets team (keep in mind that Dwight was also missing for most of the season), and that team is very close to the very bottom of the West.
Steph Curry had a phenomenal season, but I'm tired of team performance being taken into account so heavily in individual accolades.
Harden 2014-15. With out Harden the Rockets probably dont make the playoffs. With out Curry the Warriors still make the playoffs, just not as the first seed. I feel like considering that Dwight was injured most of the season and Harden fucking went ham to keep his team a float, that the MVP should have gone to him. The only knock on Harden was his percentages, but Harden still averaged 27.4 points, 7 assists, 5.7 rebounds and 1.9 steals for the season. Dem be MVP numbuhs.
James Harden is an underrated defender and I will argue that to the grave
The only reason mainstream media views harden as a bad defensive player is because of lowlight tapes where harden doesn’t sprint across the court to guard a speedy fast break but when Lebron sags on defense it’s considered conserving energy.
Efficiency wise if a player is a huge plus on offense it makes sense to have them expend the majority of their energy getting points instead of making high energy cost/low return defensive plays. Especially when that player is by far the most effective offensive player on the team.
Lebrons famous 48 minute playoff games utilize this strategy and Harden is the highest usage player in league history so it’s less about defensive skill as opposed to a strategic decision.
This is why Harden prefers to guard bigs in the post where his style is more about stealing low rather than jumping to block. And when looking at his defensive efficiency in the post it’s up there with the best in the league.
Defense isn’t necessarily about the flashy blocks of a Giannis or the scrappy pestering of a Pat Beverly. It’s about not letting the other team score the ball and Harden does a good not great job at that. I rest my case.
At their peaks, Harden IS a better offensive player than Jordan (and Kobe) by every imaginable metric.
Harden is a better offensive player at his peak than Jordan. Some of this is going to sound repetitive but follow along.
Kobe averaged 5 rebounds and 4 assists in his 35.1ppg season. He did that on 27 FGAs, and a 56% TS
Jordan averaged 5 rebounds and 4.5 assists in his 37ppg season. He did that on 28 FGAs, and a 56% TS.
Harden averaged 7 rebounds and 8 assists in his 36.1ppg season. He's doing that on 24 FGAs and a 61% TS.
Yeah well Harden shoots too many free throws.
Harden: 11 FTA (88%)
Jordan: 11.9 FTA (85.7%)
Kobe: 10.2 FTA (85%)
Yeah well Harden shoots too many threes that's why his TS is high.
Harden: 54.1 eFG%, 52.9% from 2, 36.8% from 3
Kobe: 49.1 eFG%, 48.2% from 2, 34.7% from 3
MJ: 48.4 eFG%, 49.1% from 2, 18.2% from 3 (only on 0.8 attempts though)
Yeah well the game was much slower back then.
Per 100 Possessions:
Harden: 48.2 PPG (highest of all time)
MJ: 46.4 PPG
Kobe: 45.6 PPG
Yeah well compared to their league, Jordan stood out more.
Then let's compare to the league average.
Harden: 54.1 eFG% and 61.7 TS%, League Average: 52.4 eFG% and 55.7 TS%
Kobe: 49.1 eFG% and 55.9 TS%, League Average: 49 eFG% and 53.5 TS%
MJ: 48.4 eFG% and 56.2 TS%, League Average: 48.8 eFG% and 53.8 TS%
This isn't even factoring in seasons Harden has averaged 10+ assists, and he's done that many times.
Harden is a very capable defender when he tries. For majority of the game Harden plays defense but allows blowbys to avoid risking picking up fouls. Due to his heavy minutes, especially when he was in Houston, harden lacked in defense to avoid getting fouls, which is why he is known as a bad defender. However, in late game situations, especially in the playoffs, he locks in and is one of the better perimeter defensive players in the league. As for his post defense, he has been number one in the league statistically since 2019, and has even been second in the league in perimeter isolation points allowed per possession in 2020. In addition to all of that, he is an extremely smart player defensively. He knows when to help, where other players need to stand and is known for his defensive communication. His Houston rockets had the number one defense in the playoffs and in the bubble of 2020. Statistically James has been top 5 in steals for many seasons, number one in deflections for a few years, and has the most blocks by any guard since joining Houston. He has crucial defensive saves in important games including against Giannis, Porzingis, in game 7 of okc thunder, and even against embiid in the 2020 rockets 76ers matchup, where embiid got in a little skirmish with him after harden stopped him on back to back possessions. He may not play it the whole game, but when he tries harden is a top defender in almost every aspect, and a beneficial one to have on the court due to his intelligence.
And people talking bout his defense are idiots, hes locked up and then shit on Kawhi/PG/Beverly in a 1v3 lmaoooo he has the most points on every team too plus like 3 years of 10+ assists and the others are 8-9 assists on top of 30-36.6 points. He's the only one who even challenged the KD Era warriors and lost because of blatant ref fixing and Ariza going 0-12 on wide open threes generated by Harden along with his second best player CP3 going down and Capela getting sonned by a rookie Looney. Harden was literally dunking on draymond all day and dray got pissed and shoved him like 30 seconds into a game because he got scored on twice fast. That's not even mentioning all that happened while facing the KD warriors who had 5 star players, 2 of which were the number one and number two best shooters in the history of the league, Dpoy draymond, a top 2-3 scorer in Durant, Iggy dpoy. Then waiving off 12 of Hardens points but not making the same call if he missed the 3…blatant lmao
Harden has been a top 3 hardest working player for the past 10 years. Just because he likes strip clubs and partying doesn't mean he disregards practice and conditioning. This sub is just going with assuming narratives instead of taking 5 minutes to find out that Harden's workouts have been Kobe-levels insane for many seasons, doing HIT lifting after having played 40 minutes in an NBA game with historic usage and scoring rate for entire seasons because the durability demanded from Harden forced him to be insanely well conditioned.
There are countless stories as well as statements by his staff and teammates about it, it's just easier to shit on a player for partying instead. Literally everybody who's ever played with Harden attests to his one-of-a-kind work ethic. The reason Harden has been struggling are injuries and playing through them as well as the miles on his body but it's 10000% not because he's lazy. He ONCE forced Houstons hand for 3 weeks because they wouldn't trade him despite his demands many months before the situation escalated. Other than that he's been more than textbook when it comes to work ethic, you don't become such a legendary offensive Superstar without working your ass off every day for many years. And yes Harden can come back, he's one of the most skilled players ever and he works out like a madman
we shouldnt have lost to the lakers??
Did the Clippers beat a pro team or a college team?
The Suns defense is almost non-existent.
Heck yeh Boston Jr!!