Friday, February 22, 2013

NBA 2013 Preview & Results

The Clippers are in the championship chat

Imagine adage that

But it s accurate

The Clippers NBA 2013 Preview & Results the third best almanac in the Western Conference at 39 17  4 1/2 amateur behind appointment leader San Antonio  43 12  and one bold behind Oklahoma City  39 15 

The Clippers accept the best point bouncer in the NBA in Chris Paul and a ascent star in ability forward Blake Griffin

They accept the adept presence of Chauncey Billups and the centermost team in the NBA  led by assets guard Jamal Crawford

So with 26 approved season amateur left for the Clippers  it s time for them to accomplish their advance toward the playoffs

Here are eight questions we charge to acknowledgment about the Clippers:

How important is Chris Paul to the Clippers  championship hopes

Really  you asked that catechism

We ve already said Paul is the best point bouncer in the NBA  He s one of the best closers  best leaders  best tacticians and best players in the alliance  He ll be mentioned as one of the a lot of valuable amateur candidates abaft LeBron James and Kevin Durant  Paul was just named the MVP of the All Star bold  which showed how abundant he is  The Clippers were 6 6 if Paul didn t play because of a aching right kneecap

So  to use a cliche: As Chris Paul goes  so go the Clippers

Should the Clippers angle pat or accomplish a move

That s a boxy question

It comes down to whether the Clippers wish to action and go all in for the accident of acquisitive to win an NBA appellation right now with an crumbling player like Kevin Garnett  36  or angle pat and try to win in the approaching with DeAndre Jordan  24  and Eric Bledsoe  23 

Clippers Coach Vinny Del Negro is in the endure year of his arrangement and would like to advance the envelope and go for it this division

The Clippers  foreground office has to eye the approaching of the authorization and do what s best strategically and financially

Garnett  who has been accounted to be in a accord between the Clippers and Celtics  would accomplish L A  bigger but aswell older and slower  Though Garnett has courage and championship acquaintance  he doesn t accommodate the athleticism  acceleration and adolescence that Jordan and Bledsoe accord the Clippers  And that s what separates the Clippers from a lot of teams

If it were up to me  I d angle pat  Here s why: The Clippers consistently talk about the action  the accomplish it takes to become a adversary  Consider a adolescent team like Oklahoma City  The Thunder absent to the Lakers in the aboriginal round of the 2010 playoffs  absent to the Dallas Mavericks in the 2011 Western Conference finals and again reached the NBA Finals in 2012 but absent to Miami

The Clippers can t and shouldn t brim the action

But  hey  what do I apperceive  On Thursday we ll acquisition out what the Clippers will or won t do

Can the Clippers still accomplishment in the top four in the Western Conference

Yes  and they should

The Clippers are bigger than the teams beneath them  They accept a 2 1/2 bold lead over fourth abode Memphis in the West  It s important for the Clippers to accomplishment at atomic in the top four so they can get home cloister advantage in the aboriginal round of the playoffs

What role will bloom play for the Clippers the blow of the division

A actual big role

We ve apparent what it has done to the aggregation already  Bledsoe  Jordan and Lamar Odom are the alone players to accept played in anniversary of the aboriginal 56 amateur  The Clippers accept had their 13 man agenda completely advantageous for alone four amateur this division

How can Clippers Coach Vinny Del Negro accumulate everyone blessed on such a abysmal team

Del Negro has a difficult job because all of his players wish to play  Communication is the key actuality  Players just want to apperceive why they aren t arena or don t play as abundant

As continued as Del Negro talks to his players  the Clippers shouldn t accept a botheration playing bound minutes

Are the Clippers acceptable enough to win the NBA championship

This is an alignment that has been to the playoffs alone five times back Donald Sterling purchased the aggregation in 1981

The Clippers accept had after postseason appearances alone once — in 1992 and  93 — beneath Sterling  When the Clippers were the Buffalo Braves  that aggregation went to the playoffs three after years

The ambition for these Clippers is and should be to win the NBA championship

But  realistically  it would be a big move in the appropriate direction if the Clippers accomplished the appointment finals for the aboriginal time in authorization history

How big will Chauncey Billups be for the Clippers

Very

Billups absent the playoffs endure year because he was out because of a broken left Achilles  bond  Billups won an NBA appellation with the Detroit Pistons in 2004 and he was the Finals MVP

Billups is accepted as  Mr  Big Shot  for a acumen

Who will yield care of the trainer who has taken affliction of all the afflicted Clippers

Jasen Powell and his agents have done an absurd job befitting the Clippers as advantageous as accessible and alive to adjust the afflicted players

Powell took one for the aggregation in Orlando  Fla   this ages when he played three on three because the Clippers didn t accept enough advantageous bodies  So what happened  Powell suffered a broken right Achilles  bond  Powell had anaplasty Friday  His wife  Mia  is demography care of her bedfast husband.

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