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Weasel, dont encourage his crazy remarks by acknowledging them. He will find a conspiricy in every injury in the leauge before you know it.
Anyway, as the LA times stated, this is almost a must win for the clippers, as with their top players out, they have a good chance at going on a 6-8 game loosing streak after this game since they play twice with seattle, and then miami, phoenix, and san Antonio.
With kaman playing a little better, if ratliff played, i think they would put him on kaman, thus he wouldnt get so many blocks like he did against brand and the other smaller guys. But of course, thers no doubt clippers are better off whenever a starter from the other team cannot make the game.
Keys to winning the game:
1. Simmons needs to break out of his shooting funk.
2. Cilppers need to limit the Portland point guards to under 20 points
3. Kaman/Rebraca/Moore need to have a combined 20 points, unless brand/magette go over their averages.
4. Clippers need to limit the fast breaks and offensive rebounds of portland.
With the injuries, the clippers depth chart will look like this:
Center - Kaman, Rebraca
PF - Brand, Moore
SF - Simmons
SG - Magette, Ross
PG - Brunson, Chalmers
Unless Im forgetting someone, the clippers will only suit up 9 players. 10 if they sign a last minute Point guard.
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