The whole injury karma is a load of crap. I could probably name 10 teams which if they switched places with the Clippers would become poster childs for Clippers karma.

Suns: Amare Stoudemire gets drafted, second year micro fracture surgery. Detached retina twice
Rockets: Yao x 1000, T-Mac. Mutombo
Lakers: Andrew Bynum x 2
Trailblazers: Oden, Priezbella
Spurs: Tim Duncan 2000 miniscus, misses playoffs and olympics
Nuggets: Nene, knee injury, Testicular cancer
Hornets: Tyson Chandler
Timberwolves: Al Jefferson the year after he gets traded there
Kings: Chris Webber knee injury, microfracture surgery
Warriors: Like half their team is injured right now, right?

There you have it, didn't have to leave the western conference either. What did we learn? Big men get injured a lot.

RowdierBob

Australia13385 Posts

March 10 2010 12:16 GMT

#1909

Those Bucks just keep winning!

x2fst

1272 Posts

March 10 2010 13:46 GMT

#1910

that was absolutely brutal, bogut just pimpslapped the perkins all game long, who is a great defensive matchup for bogut on paper. it's crazy how much better he looks this yr, helps that he's stayed healthy but he deserves credit even for that. he's a lot leaner and quicker than he has in the past and is probably a top 3 postup player in the league at this point

fun bogut fact: leads the league in non dunk/layup FGA within 10ft, takes 5.9 short shots per game, next highest FGA from that zone is duncan with 3.9. not surprising when you consider how his whole offensive game is based on mini hooks but a cool stat that kinda illuminates how unique his style is

eStoniaNBoY

Switzerland439 Posts

March 10 2010 14:04 GMT

#1911

I remember Bogut from Athens 2004 like it was yesterday.

Judicator

United States7270 Posts

March 10 2010 14:46 GMT

#1912

On March 10 2010 19:10 igotmyown wrote:

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I was referring to the article before Griffin was drafted. And going back to at least the 80s, the Clippers have had some freaky injuries and some obscene number of blown knees, there's history here not just saying any single year. It's a freaky coincidence but very abnormal.

unknown.sam

Philippines2701 Posts

March 10 2010 14:47 GMT

#1913

jesus christ the SOB did it again lol. at least this time i didn't finish the game.

funny how davis tries to keep his balance but falls on his ass anyway.

igotmyown

United States4291 Posts

March 10 2010 22:37 GMT

#1914

On March 10 2010 23:46 Judicator wrote:

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Since I'm not as familiar with the rosters in the 80's, I can't comment directly, except by saying I'm sure knee injuries were as common then as they are now.

Also, the late 1980's-early 90's Celtics had much worse luck than the clippers ever did. Again if you switched places Clippers fans would be practicing witchcraft by now. It's not coincidence, it's selective sampling.

Xeris

Iran17695 Posts

March 11 2010 09:07 GMT

#1915

Interesting read: http://espn.go.com/blog/truehoop/post/_/id/14218/new-numbers-on-kobe-bryant-in-crunch-time

This article brings up precisely why I think the people who knock Kobe for not being the best crunch time player (because his % is worse than everyone else's)... Over the past decade he's taken 89 shots, that's 20 more than the 2nd place guy (Vince Carter). I think it's unfair to really classify anyone as a better clutch shooter than Kobe until we can measure them evenly. Let's see what Carmelo's % is when he takes 89 shots. Right now he's only taken 28 (and shooting a really good 46%), but still that's more than 60 less than Kobe. These stats also suggest that Tony Parker, Pau Gasol, Chris Paul, and Shawn Marion are all better crunch time players than Kobe. Think this is true? Obviously not O_O! The only one I think who might be comparable is Carmelo (and the stats definitely support that, but again I think his sample size is not big enough to make an accurate judgement).

What I think is most interesting is this one: this year Kobe is 7/12. He's hit more game winners in one year than anyone in the last 10 years has done in a single year. Carmelo has 13 in his career, Kobe has 7 this year.

Really interesting stuff.

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KOBE IS #1 BITCHES

x2fst

1272 Posts

March 11 2010 14:56 GMT

#1916

ok i'll bite on your ridiculous trolling, way to hype up kobe's outlier year while disregarding carmelo's performance due to sample size, even though kobe has a far larger sample size suggesting that he isn't close to being #1 anyway

lebron is the best clutch player anyway and it's not close at all, and kobe is not #2

Xeris

Iran17695 Posts

March 11 2010 18:02 GMT

#1917

way to call me a troll without bringing in any actual evidence to support your claim. considering you're some random noname coming into the NBA thread and I've been discussing basketball with the other TL NBA fans for 3 years now, I'm pretty sure it's not me who is trolling.