Hollywood Blvd. News – Los Angeles Clippers Edition
- Updated: December 7, 2014
Los Angeles Clippers’ Blake Griffin during the first half of an NBA basketball game against the Orlando Magic Wednesday, Dec. 3, 2014, in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong)
We like to start our day searching the web and reading articles about our beloved LA sports teams. It’s easy to get lost in the depth of the inter web, but luckily for you we have compiled a list of the most interesting and pertinent news stories for your morning reading pleasure. For this edition, let’s dive into the news surrounding the Los Angeles Clippers.
The Los Angeles Clippers are still falling in love with the process:
“The Los Angeles Clippers are rolling — winners of six straight and eight of their last nine games after a dominant 114-86 win over the Orlando Magic — but they’re not satisfied. Not even close.
They know their recent stretch of games has been soft, and that the one contender they played recently, the Memphis Grizzlies, dominated them from start to finish.
The Clippers (13-5) also know that while blowout wins over sub-.500 teams are nice, it’s more important to use the game time to iron out the details of their schemes on both sides of the floor.
“From a coaching standpoint, there’s always something you can improve — [your] execution,” coach Doc Rivers said. “Once you get one thing done, you start working on something else and you start slipping in the thing that you were doing well.”
Despite back-to-back wins of a combined 54 points, the Clips aren’t playing at the level they’d like to be at. They’re close, but just not there yet. They don’t have time to dwell on their deficiencies, however, because the West is too grueling and all that matters is keeping up with the pack.
“You have to win games, period, while you’re getting better,” Rivers said. “But if we are the best we’re going to be right now, then game 82 we’re in trouble.”
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The Los Angeles Times discusses the “runaway train” that is the Los Angeles Clippers:
“It is the holiday season of gift-giving. So it was fitting that Wednesday night at Staples Center, the Clippers got a nicely wrapped package from the NBA.
Going into the game, the Clippers had won five in a row, four of them on a recent trip in which they went 6-1.
It’s probably too early in the season to talk about such things — and Coach Doc Rivers wanted no part of it — but it was two seasons ago when these same Clippers opened eyes all over the league with a 17-game winning streak. It was almost from that point forward that they entered the conversation about NBA title contenders, and they still haven’t left it.
“I don’t even want to think about that. I don’t think about it,” a laughing Rivers said before the game.
That prompted a discussion about the psychology involved in coaching in the NBA, in which the season doesn’t just seem to go on forever. It does.
“You keep fixing yourself all season,” Rivers said. “We need to be better every game. If we are the same in Game 82 [end of the regular season] as we are now, we are in trouble.
“With the players, even when you are winning, you want them to feel they are great, but that they can be greater.”
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