yamaneko

Interesting how ross still starts. yet, when our perimeter defense is sucking, and the other team is raining down 3's, our best perimeter defender, ross, is glued to the bench.

Anyone count how many 3's were made by maggette's man today? Wow. Part of the blame i put on the coach. When someone is getting lit up, you switch it up on defense.

People were not getting the ball well to kaman tonight, nor getting open when he was double teamed. Kaman is no vlade divac, if hes doubled, and his teammates just stand around, thats a turnover waiting to happen at times.

Games like tonight is why im happy im not jumping the thornton bandwagon yet. If he has a good game, ill give him props for that, but im still not ready to talk like hes some future star yet, nor that hes the SOLE reason to give up maggette. Hopefully he will put together a long streak of good games so that we can all say that, but hes just too incosistent now to annoint him our starting SF of the future. Honestly, as with darius miles and singleton, i like him more as an undersized PF than as our SF.

Mobley was on fire for periods tonight, as was thomas. But what killed the clippers is perimeter defense, which has been somewhat of a theme the last few years. Jaric wasnt a starting quality PG, but thats one thing we lost when we traded him away.

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