LA Clippers

But it is also worth remembering that the Lakers have only played really one solid team in Utah.

The Clippers are not very good, and the Warriors are not even as good as the Clippers.

And in the game that they played against the Utah Jazz, the one solid to good team of the three that they've played, they were out rebounded 52 to 31.

And it feels like a potential, one of many potential issues that may emerge in part because of the lack of size or just quality options thus far behind Walker Kessler, specifically at center.

Michael Porter Jr. was a rookie.

Like, we forget, like, Michael... was so raw and he wasn't used to playing Denver Nuggets basketball team basketball I remember the first game he ever really played with versus the Pacers uh and that was the 19 season he had 25 points off the bench I believe made a bunch of threes you know had some crazy shots that he took and I remember at the time a lot of people were really wrestling with like okay well He's really talented, but he's doing a lot of stuff that is just like kind of, it's out of the norm for what like Nuggets basketball was, right? You know, and then Porter, eventually he got to the point where, remember Clippers game five? where Michael Porter Jr.

has the ball on the right wing.

I think the Nuggets are up two in the bubble.

The Nuggets aren't shooting super well from three either.

Their effective field goal percentage right now on catch-and-shoot threes is at 46%.

You know, right now, just for context, leading the NBA is the Clippers at 69.9%.

And then the Boston Celtics are also second on that list as well.

And he left the

Clippers in disarray.

You know about

the Clippers.

Yeah,

the tree planting

thing.

Yeah, the Clippers got the harshest penalty that any professional team has ever been given by a league because of a fake tree service.

Been a couple games since you last heard from us.

Lakers sweep a pair of weekend games against Utah and the Clippers.

Dee, there were a couple of injuries around the league I know we wanted to talk about in the last segment, but let's start with those games.

Lakers move to 3-0.

On Friday night, they beat the Clippers in a game where they fell behind double digits early in the second quarter, then came storming back to tie it at halftime.

In the third quarter, they really opened things up with a flurry from Austin, just like on opening night.

Then in the fourth quarter, despite a turnover flurry, a game that had 46 turnovers combined, the Lakers are able to hold on and get the win.

Yeah, interesting to think about these games in tandem rather than individual games.

Thanks to Klay, Bogut, more minutes from Draymond, and the addition of Andre Iguodala, goalkeeper, Golden State had the fourth best defense in the league, and they finished the season with 51 wins, which was their best result since 1992 and the run TMC era.

However, the first round was a bitter pill to swallow as they lost to the Clippers in seven games, after which Mark Jackson got fired.

This was a difficult decision, but we believe he's got a bright future, and we felt it was the time to make a change.

For the 2015 season, Golden State hired Steve Kerr as their head coach, which proved to be one of the best coaching decisions of this millennium.

You know, they've got to play Portland, who's undefeated.

Which is at the Clippers Wednesday, right? And then they've got to play the Clippers on Wednesday.

And if you've been watching around the league, what coaches have been doing is just mailing in the second game of back-to-backs.

Right.

For State Impact, I'm Jillian Taylor.

The Oklahoma City Thunder are 3-0 on the new NBA season following a 108-101 victory over the Los Angeles Clippers last night.

But the win was overshadowed by a serious lower leg injury to Jalen Williams late in the game.

J-Dub was carried off on a stretcher after landing awkwardly.

on his left leg on a hard foul by the Clippers.

In a post-game interview, Coach Mark Dagnall described the state of his team following the injury.

Yeah, I don't know.

I'll have to look at that.

Against the LA Clippers.

As of right now, Neek Clifford is not a part of the rotation.

And that's with, granted there are different positions, but that's with no Maxime Reynaud and no Dylan Cardwell.

After our Crystal Ball predicted that the Sacramento Kings would defeat...

The LA Clippers, in a high-scoring affair on opening night, it drastically overcorrected.

It predicted that Friday night's Kings home opener against the Portland Trail Blazers would be an absolute blowout, where the Blazers would defeat the Kings 145-99.

Well, technically, the crystal ball gets the dub.