Los Angeles Clippers vs. Portland Trailblazers, Start Time, Preview, TV
- Updated: November 8, 2014
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The Los Angeles Clippers will host the Portland Trailblazers in Staples Center, in LA. The Clippers are coming off a loss over the Portland Trailblazers earlier in the week.
Coach Doc Rivers is growing frustrated with his team, he told ESPN:
“Why are we complacent?” Rivers said. “What have we done? If that’s the issue, that’s really alarming. I don’t know if that is or isn’t [the issue] but there’s a reason why we’re not playing as hard as we should and we’re not as focused. I don’t know the reason and as a coach that’s troubling and I want to find out the reason. Sometimes the coach never finds out, the players find it, and you hope that’s the case.”
To read the full recap of their game, click here.
“We’re not playing well and we’re just not playing hard enough for me,” Rivers said. “That’s on me. That’s my job. Obviously the players have to do it, but I’m the coach of the team and I have to get them to do it and get them to see the value in it and so far I haven’t. At the end of the day we have to get to work.
The Portland Trailblazers have scored 104.5 per game in back-to-back wins after averaging 92.0 in dropping its previous two. D.Lillard has also turned things around with 45 points in the past two games after averaging 13.7 and shooting 26.8 percent in the first three.
The Clippers will need to find it in them to start aggressive and end aggressive, because the inconsistency is killer. Lillard will be matched up with Chris Paul, who is out to collect his fifth straight double-double after ending the last game with with 15 points and 12 assists. Paul had a combined 54 points and 28 assists in two matchups with Portland last season.
Doc Rivers finished talking to the media with this:
“When you care more about winning you tend to play harder,” Rivers said. “When you know going into certain games that it may have more meaning than others, you play harder. Clearly, for whatever reason, we didn’t know that.”
Los Angeles Clippers Vs. Portland Trailblazers Information
Date: November 8th
Time: 12:30 p.m.
Location: Staples Center, Los Angeles, California
TV: CSNNWHD, NBA League Pass
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