Game 42 | Cavaliers @ Clippers | January 16, 2010 | 10:30 EST

[theSTEREO.]

Did Simmons twitter how awful Dunleavy is?

He was at the game I see. I'm guessing we'll see an entire article devoted to Dunleavy tomorrow.

This is all I've seen from Simmons tonight:

@sportsguy33 I'm at the Clips-Cavs game. In his warmup suit, Shaq looks like a fat bouncer checking ID's outside a sleazy strip club.

:chuckles:

 

[kovanovich]

DeJuan Blair

And we came so close, just $250K...at least we got Eyenga

 

[stoike]

Crap ball by Cle, meaningless win, Mo is becoming deadweight more than he's been useful.

/debbie downer

Blah blah blah ignorant jackass

 

[fat_jed]

Dunleavy before the last shot....

Baron you have struggled all night

Eric you have been great, your jumper and driving game has been excellent

Butler you can't miss tonight.

All right here is what we'll do, BaronIso for a last second jumper.

lol

Dunleavy: "We beat Boston that way a month ago. It is gonna work again!"

 

[Chris]

Will Simmons do another funny article about this game like last years?

 

[Andrew]

Dunleavy: "We beat Boston that way a month ago. It is gonna work again!"

but they do technically match, there is blue and orange in both shoe.

 

[LeShaq]

Can you guys tell me how the final possession went?

I turned off the stream..i had to mix it up from the utah game if you get what im saying..

I can't remember it exactly but I'll give the general summary.

Baron Davis got the ball. I think one of his teammates tried to run a screen for him but it didn't develop well. Davis drove to his left, I think, with his original defender still with him and he bricked a 17-footer or so. Delonte got the rebound and game over.

Davis was 3 of 9 when he took the shot.

Simmons is right: Shaq is still fat and he's got to lose that by the playoffs.

Overall, though, his energy level is increasing. He actually looked pretty spry tonight, for him.

 

[Gunther]

Excerpt from Windy's writeup:

These are the kinds of games the Cavs seemed to be getting from every opponent these days. Because of their status and making their only trip of the season into several arenas out west, the sellouts are feeding the home teams' energy and they are smelling upset.

All the Clippers did in this one was shoot 60 percent, easily the highest the Cavs have allowed this season and one of the highest allowed in the five years of defense-first coach Mike Brown's tenure.

Much of it could be traced to the Cavs, who weren't exactly playing their textbook defense. Some early sluggish strategy in handling the Clippers' pick-and-roll ended up providing the sort of dangerous momentum that can come back to bite.

SOURCE

 

[mrbeaks]

In the post-game interview, Gordon had this great 1,000-yard stare going. "Baron's hit a game winner before." But, yeah, the play was basically, "Give the ball to Baron because... wow, was he good in that Mavs series a few years ago."

Adande asked LeBron if he'd like to play with the Clippers. Easily one of the worst sportswriters out there.

 

[Chris]

Adande asked LeBron if he'd like to play with the Clippers. Easily one of the worst sportswriters out there.

...and he said.......?

 

[mrbeaks]

...and he said.......?

"Nah. No thoughts."

 

[kovanovich]

I can't remember it exactly but I'll give the general summary.

Baron Davis got the ball. I think one of his teammates tried to run a screen for him but it didn't develop well. Davis drove to his left, I think, with his original defender still with him and he bricked a 17-footer or so. Delonte got the rebound and game over.

Davis was 3 of 9 when he took the shot.

Simmons is right: Shaq is still fat and he's got to lose that by the playoffs.

Overall, though, his energy level is increasing. He actually looked pretty spry tonight, for him.

Cavs had a foul to give, and the Clips announcers thought that Baron appeared to be expecting a foul, which caused him to delay a couple of seconds, he then hurriedly tried to drive right and missed a shot just across the 3 point line. Haven't looked at the replay, but ESPN says it was a 21 footer. It was contested, but Rasual Butler made much more difficult shots, so it was a relief that it missed and missed badly.

 

[blank964]

He does that with ever top player on the opposing team...I could see "good game, get at me next time" be he be giving em whole lectures n shit....Think it's a way to stay ahead of them or something...Like he's the big man giving them advice....He's daddy...Hell idk

I think it's sort of like a mental game similar to

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Befriend people and then kill them on the court

 

[Gimme Some Mo]

A lot of us mentioned them after the Utah game, saying why LeBron had to inbound, but no, people decided they had to blame Mike Brown's decision making in having LeBron inbounding the ball.

In reality, if it isn't LeBron, that's what happens.

I think it is a mix of the inbounder and the rest of the guys though, not just the inbounder. I put a lot of blame on the other guys because they may make one move and if they don't get the ball, they just stand there for the rest of the 5 seconds not even attempting to get open.

 

[mrbeaks]

Cavs had a foul to give, and the Clips announcers thought that Baron appeared to be expecting a foul, which caused him to delay a couple of seconds, he then hurriedly tried to drive right and missed a shot just across the 3 point line. Haven't looked at the replay, but ESPN says it was a 21 footer. It was contested, but Rasual Butler made much more difficult shots, so it was a relief that it missed and missed badly.

But by the time Baron (halfheartedly) tried to drive, several seconds had run off the clock. The whole thing looked like he was setting up for the final shot. Obviously, I'm not complaining.