Clipper Joe Calmsinaty all fellow long time CTB's members, I need support yall, being a long time fan since the sports arena, owner of Clipper Game Packages since 1999-2000, Quote M. Singletary 49ers Coach "Cant Do It, I need winners!!" I agree I was @ da game today also I dunno if the news of Griffin had some to do with but the arena today sucked!!! I need support yall as much as it hurts to say this I cant put my self through this anymore!! I love the Clips I really do but man how many times Do we have 2 tell our selves "next time maybe next time" 15,000 people for out home opener really??? Da atmosphere was horrible in there untill the end!!! When I tell myself oh snap its 4th quarter I know this cant be healthy. I dunno maybe im just bummed rite now but honestly this game experience left a disgusting taste in my mouth. No one defends this team more than me, co workers family members, customers @ work, proffesors & classmates all get on me 4 reppin the Clipps show I need winners at least give me 40 wins is that too much 2 ask for????

No ref is going to make that call at the end of the game. It's not happening. Nor should a player expect to get that call when it's blatantly obvious that he's trying to draw contact. Games are not won/lost on a single play and the refs are doing the right thing by not potentially changing the outcome of a game. Sometimes this unspoken guideline works for us, last night it worked against us.

its only 2 games.
and RE: that nash layup, the clippers had no fouls to give. id much rather lose the game to a created shot than automatic nash free throws. besides, nash's "layup" was ridiculously lucky and had tons of spin.

No ref is going to make that call at the end of the game. It's not happening. Nor should a player expect to get that call when it's blatantly obvious that he's trying to draw contact. Games are not won/lost on a single play and the refs are doing the right thing by not potentially changing the outcome of a game. Sometimes this unspoken guideline works for us, last night it worked against us.

Know what? I'm also very very disappointed we lost a hard fought game. I will say though they played a lot better and played hard. We are missing a 15 and 10 guy who's attitude gets everyone playing better and defensive presence helps. We can't rely on him but point is we aren't perfectly gelled or staffed yet. We lost to a game winner, that is one of those things you can't blame anyone for BUT missed freethrows earlier in the game can be blamed.

The most beautiful thing i saw was... Kaman getting pissed and manhandling Amare down low... almost knocking him down.. then putting up a reverse layup over 3 people. That's the Kaman i want to see! The pissed off Kaman! Kaman had 22 points 9 boards and 2 blocks which is great. I would love to see that nightly. On a negative note 5 turnovers is VERY bad even for Kaman. Gordon and Baron did average at best... they could of played MUCH better. Thornton had his usual poor game following a good one. We also got very little bench production.

Regardless. 2 point loss to a perennial playoff team (I'm aware of them not making it last year) on a Steve Nash game winning layup isn't the worst thing in the world. I did notice a motivated, harder working team than vs the Lakers. Maybe that pride will really slap them in the face when they realize HEY we are 0-2! I think they will turn it around and I'm far from calling this season lost. Prove me right Clippers!

Not sure why you're blaming these guys in particular. Baron had 12 points and 12 assists and he played reasonably well, despite being hurt.

Dunleavy let his shooters shoot. It's not like Dunleavy told his guys to miss their free throws.

^ I agree. I still remain optimistic. To me that last two losses have resulted from careless turnovers, poor free throw shooting, and a couple crucial defensive breakdowns but overall we have looked ok. To me, those little things can be pretty easily fixed. I'm glad it's not some huge glaring problem so much that we have to change or roster or something drastic like that. A little more focus will lower those dumb turnovers and get our FT % up. With the first couple games out of their systems, I expect a much cleaner game by the Clips against the Jazz. I think we'll be ok and I'll be expecting a W come friday.

I didn't feel like posting anything last night, but I still was wondering all night why didn't post up Nash with Baron or Gordon, that's an easy lay up or open three. We should've made Nash a liability on defense like Sam use too.

Actually we did go to the EG & Baron post up on Nash with good success, more in the second half though. The main problem there was trying to stop Nash at the end there- he just willed his team to win there like a true MVP.

you guys might laugh but honestly i think 50 percent of these 4th quarter loses are because of us fans. ive been watching a lot of nba games and all the home teams crowd is always screaming, cheering, and making loud noises but i never see that from our audience. it would be great if we made a lot of noise. i know we havent had anything to cheer up these past years but still i think if we make loud noises and get our team into the game we can do better in the 4th quarter and not have meltdowns anymore.