Thursday, December 22, 2011

Lakers-Clippers Preseason Finale

So after watching watching the second to last day of preseason basketball featuring the Lakers "at" the Clippers (they share the same court), I am sold on the Clippers starting lineup. They all play hard and play together (one stat that comes to mind was that they had 20 assists on their first 24 field goals), and if someone slips through their defense, Blake Griffin and DeAndre Jordan can leap from across and pick up a block. Don't believe me? Watch Metta World-Peace's attempted lay-up at the end of the game...he has a great spin and what seems to be an open lay-up. Out of nowhere comes DeAndre to block it and, of course, keep it in bounds to secure the turnover.

The Lakers didn't look too bad at times, and at other times looked terrible. Given they were without some guy called Kobe Bryant who I think is pretty good, but the only way they will go far in the playoffs this year is if the whole team can help out the aging Bryant. Andrew Bynum was a beast in the first half, but we have seen this before. Can he keep it up for a whole game?? Or even more important, a whole season?? (or even a shortened 66 game season). Only time can tell...

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