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Dynasty Raider · 12-23-2005, 01:02 PM

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Originally Posted by Aphasia

It isn't even Christmas yet and people are making statements about May. If Corey, Elton and Shaun play the rest of the year this is a playoff team. You all need to ease up on Corey and his injury, it is more severe than they thought, that's all. The man played with a torn ligament and hairline fracture in his wrist the last month of last season, when the Clippers were out of the playoffs and he wasn't playing for a contract. He loves the game and gets the sh*t beat out of him playing as hard as he does and still he gets criticized for all his injuries. Of course all of us, all his teammates, coaches and more importantly Corey himself wants to play every game but if he can't run and jump what else can he do but sit?

Manu has the same exact injury and will be out just as long, do you think Spurs fans are calling him weak or fragile? He goes all out just like Corey does and if you play that way you have injuries. The real difference is they have Michael Finey backing up Manu and the Clippers have Q Ross and Walter McCarty and that is weak, not Corey.

This is a game they should win and must win to get their confidence back and in that way it's a must win.

Hey Aphasia:

I agree with you 1000% about Corey. I just got so tired of battling for Corey; and frankly, I don't even understand WHY he gets criticized here.

Good to know that I now have someone here that can help me to battle Corey's position here. It is also good that apparently Clipper management understands his value, since Dunleavy made it clear that Corey is untouchable.

**Weasel** · 12-23-2005, 02:20 PM

Bet on the game here:
http://www.basketballboards.net/foru...d.php?t=227372

air_nitta · 12-23-2005, 03:40 PM

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Originally Posted by arenas809

Get a grip, there are still 57 games left in the season, book that.

lol

**qross1fan** · 12-23-2005, 03:53 PM

anyone remember the link to ktlk am 1150's stream? I lost it and my radio isn't working

Aphasia · 12-23-2005, 03:54 PM

I am not a Corey apologist, though it may certainly seem that way at times. I've been a fan of his since he and EB were at Duke. I just loved the way Duke played that year and it was because of Corey and Elton. I was a Clippers fan for a few years before they entered the League and was disappointed they weren't in a position to draft either one. Two of the best and most memorable moments in my time as a Clippers fan were the draft nights they traded for Corey and the next year traded for Elton.

While almost everyone else was talking up LO, D. Miles, Q Rich and Keyon, I was running my mouth about how great the Maggette trade was and how in the end he'd end up being the best player out of that group and I was laughed off. I loved the way he played the game with effort and aggression, speed and strength and he seemed like he wanted it more than the rest.

The next year, out of the blue, they traded for Elton and the expectations were at an all time high. I knew Brand and Maggette were the future of the team and during the next two years Corey kept dramatically improving yet he was always the odd man out, always the one who got criticized, always the one who was rumored to be traded. Although he started many of those games he rarely ever finished them and was always the fifth or sixth option on those teams, even below Olowo and McInnis.

If any of you have been Clippers fans for quite some time you know that the more people tell you how useless a team they are, the more you argue for them, the more you want them to win and prove to everyone in the end you were right and they were all blind to it. Yes, they aren't the best team in the League but f*ck you, they are to me, etc. And for me that is always the way I felt about Corey, it was always kind of an argument inside of an argument so in this way he became the Clipper I was the biggest fan of.

And to this day I feel the same. I was a Clippers fan before most of the players on this team were in the League but I am more of a fan now and have more blind faith because of guys like Corey, Elton and Shaun. So I get really defensive when they are criticized or talked about in trades. And I just think Clipper fans don't appreciate Corey for what he's meant to this team for the last 6 years, when he should be one of the finest examples for us as fans to point to and tell everyone else who doesn't believe in the Show to f*ck off. How many other Clippers in the last twenty years were worth sticking up for, were worth making an *** out of yourself for?

So that is why I appear to be a Maggette whore and defend him like I do. Sorry for the long post.

Dynasty Raider · 12-23-2005, 04:00 PM

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Originally Posted by qrich1fan

anyone remember the link to ktlk am 1150's stream? I lost it and my radio isn't working

What do you mean, your radio isn't working??????? What are we going to do? I don't know the link ... someone please help q.

**qross1fan** · 12-23-2005, 04:04 PM

Kaman's biggest XMax memory: Him and his brother wanted a nintendo, but they didn't get it in the presents they opened. Ended up being there parents were hiding the Nintendo.

Sam Cassell's Biggest XMas Memory: When he was 8, Santa brought him a "Green Machine" Hot Wheel car.

Daniel Ewing's Biggest XMas Memory: 11 Year old and got his first basketball hoop.

Boniface Napos;Dong's Biggest XMAS Memory: Don't Know, he just talked about how they celebrated XMas in Senegal.

Clipper XMas Memories Are right there

**qross1fan** · 12-23-2005, 04:04 PM

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Originally Posted by Dynasty Raider

What do you mean, your radio isn't working??????? What are we going to do? I don't know the link ... someone please help q.

don't worry, I took my bro's mp3 which has radio

Dynasty Raider · 12-23-2005, 04:08 PM

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Originally Posted by Aphasia

I am not a Corey apologist, though it may certainly seem that way at times. I've been a fan of his since he and EB were at Duke. I just loved the way Duke played that year and it was because of Corey and Elton. I was a Clippers fan for a few years before they entered the League and was disappointed they weren't in a position to draft either one. Two of the best and most memorable moments in my time as a Clippers fan were the draft nights they traded for Corey and the next year traded for Elton.

While almost everyone else was talking up LO, D. Miles, Q Rich and Keyon, I was running my mouth about how great the Maggette trade was and how in the end he'd end up being the best player out of that group and I was laughed off. I loved the way he played the game with effort and aggression, speed and strength and he seemed like he wanted it more than the rest.

The next year, out of the blue, they traded for Elton and the expectations were at an all time high. I knew Brand and Maggette were the future of the team and during the next two years Corey kept dramatically improving yet he was always the odd man out, always the one who got criticized, always the one who was rumored to be traded. Although he started many of those games he rarely ever finished them and was always the fifth or sixth option on those teams, even below Olowo and McInnis.

If any of you have been Clippers fans for quite some time you know that the more people tell you how useless a team they are, the more you argue for them, the more you want them to win and prove to everyone in the end you were right and they were all blind to it. Yes, they aren't the best team in the League but f*ck you, they are to me, etc. And for me that is always the way I felt about Corey, it was always kind of an argument inside of an argument so in this way he became the Clipper I was the biggest fan of.

And to this day I feel the same. I was a Clippers fan before most of the players on this team were in the League but I am more of a fan now and have more blind faith because of guys like Corey, Elton and Shaun. So I get really defensive when they are criticized or talked about in trades. And I just think Clipper fans don't appreciate Corey for what he's meant to this team for the last 6 years, when he should be one of the finest examples for us as fans to point to and tell everyone else who doesn't believe in the Show to f*ck off. How many other Clippers in the last twenty years were worth sticking up for, were worth making an *** out of yourself for?

So that is why I appear to be a Maggette whore and defend him like I do. Sorry for the long post.

You're not the only one that is passionate about Corey and his loyalty and dedication to the Clippers. You can't name a year that he has taken off. He's had many opportunities to ask to be traded; he's still here. In our losing years ... Corey has been there playing through many injuries and pain (in a losing year). It would have been easy and understandable if he had sat, but he didn't. He's always represented the Clippers well off and on court, never giving the impression that he was embarrassed to be a Clipper.

So I get very upset when every opportunity that comes up ... Clipper "fans" throw out Corey's name. We haven't done a damn thing since he's been out and they're still throwing in his name as trade bait. I like QRoss, but could never understand why you would want to sit Corey for this 2nd year guy who is proving to be just as injury prone. And, then if that had gone down, you'd expect Corey to "fill-in" for the 2nd year man. Doesn't make a bit of sense to me.

Did you say 20 years? Ha, ha, q is 15!!!

**qross1fan** · 12-23-2005, 04:24 PM

seems like Felton is going to start at the two

Cass and Mobley better take advantage and post these two up and try to get back into sync

Dynasty Raider · 12-23-2005, 04:34 PM

Can't believe how Ralph and Mike are marveling over Kaman's last rebounding game. Rebounds that produced NOTHING.

Shaun starting at point.

**qross1fan** · 12-23-2005, 04:34 PM

Clippers Starting Unit:
PG: Shaun Livingston
SG: Sam Cassell
CE: Chris Kaman
PF: Elton Brand
SF: Cuttino Mobley

Bobcats Starting Unit:
PG: Brevin Knight
SG: Raymond Felton - Bobcats are 3-0 when he starts
CE: Primoz Brezec
PF: Melvin Ely
SF: Gerald Wallace

Dynasty Raider · 12-23-2005, 04:36 PM

I keep forgetting that Melvin Ely plays for the Bobcats. The last time I saw him on TV, he had lost too much weight (IMO), and I could hardly recognize him.

9 of our next 11 games are at home, says Ralph.

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