RollWithEm

Can the Clippers ever contend for a championship with Vinny Del Negro as their head coach?

What are your feelings on the Chris Paul/Blake Griffin pairing after one season?

Who would you consider the Clippers' core players at this time?

Did you like the two moves that basically became a Lamar Odom-for-Mo Williams swap?

Would you consider trading Blake Griffin and DeAndre Jordan for Dwight Howard if he agrees to resign?

Rumors have the Clippers interested in Jamal Crawford, Ryan Hollins, Ray Allen, and more. Which guy(s) would you sign?

Which of your own free agents (Chauncey Billups, Kenyon Martin, Nick Young, Randy Foye, Bobby Simmons) would you keep?

Do you like the idea of sign-and-trading Reggie Evans for a 2nd Round Pick?

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Ben

Can the Clippers ever contend for a championship with Vinny Del Negro as their head coach?
I doubt it.

What are your feelings on the Chris Paul/Blake Griffin pairing after one season?
Blake needs to learn the pick and roll much better.

Who would you consider the Clippers' core players at this time?
CP3 and Blake. They have good pieces but I wouldn't consider them as 'core' players.

Did you like the two moves that basically became a Lamar Odom-for-Mo Williams swap?
It depends if Lamar's going to get his game back in LA. Theoretically, it fills a need: bench 3/stretch 4 who offers playmaking. However, we all know what happened to Lamar last year in Dallas, so I'll wait and see.

Would you consider trading Blake Griffin and DeAndre Jordan for Dwight Howard if he agrees to resign?
Yeah. The gap between Dwight and Blake's defense is far bigger than the gap in offense.

Rumors have the Clippers interested in Jamal Crawford, Ryan Hollins, Ray Allen, and more. Which guy(s) would you sign?
It looks like they all but have Crawford now. I'd leave Ray Allen for the Heat to get.

Which of your own free agents (Chauncey Billups, Kenyon Martin, Nick Young, Randy Foye, Bobby Simmons) would you keep?
Billups, Martin and Young. Some experience and then a nice, young 2.

Do you like the idea of sign-and-trading Reggie Evans for a 2nd Round Pick?
I respect Reggie's hustle, but they can sign a player to give them exactly the same thing with ease.

BlakeJesus

Excited for this one, and the Hawks one. Very busy day for me, will likely get a chance to weigh in sometime this weekend.

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Luke

Can the Clippers ever contend for a championship with Vinny Del Negro as their head coach?

No.

What are your feelings on the Chris Paul/Blake Griffin pairing after one season?

Two overrated players that are still good enough to be the best two guys on a 50 win squad. Blake needs to be able to run a pick 'n roll better, Paul needs to stop getting injured once a month.

Who would you consider the Clippers' core players at this time?

Paul and Blake

Did you like the two moves that basically became a Lamar Odom-for-Mo Williams swap?

Retarded. Mo Williams was one of the best 6th men in the league last year, and Lamar Odom was one of the worst players in the world last year. I love Lamar, but he's done.

Would you consider trading Blake Griffin and DeAndre Jordan for Dwight Howard if he agrees to resign?

Absolutely.

Rumors have the Clippers interested in Jamal Crawford, Ryan Hollins, Ray Allen, and more. Which guy(s) would you sign?

They have them all but Allen. I doubt they get Ray Ray but he'd be nice.

Which of your own free agents (Chauncey Billups, Kenyon Martin, Nick Young, Randy Foye, Bobby Simmons) would you keep?

Billups, Martin, and Young.

Do you like the idea of sign-and-trading Reggie Evans for a 2nd Round Pick?

No.

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RollWithEm

So signing Jamal Crawford and Chauncey Billups has officially ended the Clippers' pursuit of Ray Allen according to the LA Times: http://www.latimes.com/sports/sports...,1951283.story

Which domino will fall next?

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NOFX22

Resign young and camby and we will be good

BlakeJesus

Can the Clippers ever contend for a championship with Vinny Del Negro as their head coach?

Chris Paul will do a lot of things in terms of masking issues that stem from this, so even though I do not think VDN is anything close to the ideal as a head coach, I could see a scenario where this team can compete for a title in spite of him.

What are your feelings on the Chris Paul/Blake Griffin pairing after one season?

I think it will look much better this next season. Blake seemed to really respect Paul, and Paul seemed sincerely interested in wanting to help develop Blake. I do think BG has the ability to improve that midrange shot, and considering they will have the experience of playing together as well as a full training camp together I see them improving on last seasons product. Last year the whole team was sort of a makeshift contender, seems like now they should have a more complimentary cast with these guys (not to mention everybody will be healthy again unlike in the playoffs).

Who would you consider the Clippers' core players at this time?

Chris Paul, Blake Griffin, and as assets Eric Bledsoe and DeAndre Jordan.

Did you like the two moves that basically became a Lamar Odom-for-Mo Williams swap?

Definitely really liked it, Mo Williams was entirely too redundant to be in the rotation again next season.

Would you consider trading Blake Griffin and DeAndre Jordan for Dwight Howard if he agrees to resign?

I definitely would, and I really like Blake Griffin. Value would be too great not to, CP3/Howard is a championship winning combination.

Rumors have the Clippers interested in Jamal Crawford, Ryan Hollins, Ray Allen, and more. Which guy(s) would you sign?

Jamal Crawford has been signed and I think it's a great fit. He'll be a versatile force off the bench, and he gives us a shooter who can also double up as a secondary ballhandler so that Chris has a little more flexibility in terms of being on ball or off ball when the situation calls for it.

Which of your own free agents (Chauncey Billups, Kenyon Martin, Nick Young, Randy Foye, Bobby Simmons) would you keep?

Chauncey has been brought back, wouldn't be opposed to bring back Kenyon Martin either (LO has made this slightly more unnecessary). Foye has to go though, absolutely has to go.

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BlakeJesus

Would love it if this team was able to bring Marcus Camby on, I think he would be another welcomed addition. Though I'm not sure how realistic that is.

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RollWithEm

Camby is probably better than DeAndre at this point. I wonder how VDN would juggle that situation.

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LA68

Replaced Mo with Crawford
Replaced Evans with Odom
Might replace Young with Marshon

Looks to me there are well on their way to improving themselves. New thing for the Clips. Bravo !

NOFX22

Quick question next season, with Paul, billups, Odom, and Gomes expiring can the clippers sign a max player like harden and still use the bird right to resign Paul?

LA68

Paul is a max player. Blake is a max player. How many max players do you need ?

NOFX22

It takes a big three to win a championship

LA68

And who was Dallas' big three ? Or Miami's in 2006 ?

Championship ? How about make the playoffs two years in a row.

NOFX22

Magic, Kareem, and worthy in the 80s, Duncan, manu, and Parker! Allen, Peirce, and Garnett! Jordan, pippen,and kukoc! And must recently James, wade, and bosh. which brings up original topic question how to fix the clippers! If you can add another star to Paul and Griffin you do it! Why be content in just making playoffs? Cp3 not having any of that. Adding someone like harden would not only make the clippers title contenders but downgrade the west champs thunder