This article talks about extension to Gordon and Jordan

And the Clippers organization willing to pursue the best SF available in the market.

This article basically back it up what I wrote before. And more than that, it shows some commitment with the group which is important to keep Griffin. If he feels that there are no commitment by the organization he’ll go somewhere else. I think he kind of like there, but win championship are certainly more important.

And there are also rumors that the Clippers are one of the teams that CP3 is considering together with NY and Atlanta. I think that NY is #1 for him. Anyway, I think that a good PG is much more interesting than a C for the Clippers, even more with a high flying guy like Griffin, although Mo Williams is not that bad.

Anyway, first things first, get the SF.

Only people that only watched Griffin HL really think that he can’t shoot, that’s a fact. People that watched actual games know better. That game that he made 47pts, only ONE dunk, he made some bank shots, jump shots and even FT. HE even has some buzzle beater 3 pts and he had a practically game winning 3pt too. His shooting is not awesome, but I’m certain that this season he will be good at least. Why he don’t shoot so much? If you have better and more efficient weapons why would you use shooting? But if you let him open, he shoots. Actually seeing him shooting those 3pt I realized that when he needs to, he shoots without hesitation and he is a rookie only. But yeah, that’s not his main game.

That said, what concerns me is that there are good part of their games that are around the rim, they would overlay themselves. And it would not be smart to force Griffin away from the basket when that’s clearly one of his major weapons. Griffin’s spin moves around the basket and his post moves are more creative than Howard’s that barely learned post moves – why didn’t he do that soon after the 2009 Finals?! He would be a monster by now.

And at Gordon’s cost it wouldn’t worth it. Gordon is much more important than most people realize, he is very underrated. He is the scorer of the Clippers, he was a TOP5 scorer in the league until he got injured – twice! Actually he aggravated his wrist injury. Foye can’t replace him, what would the Clippers do? Gordon shoots from everywhere, he can create his own shot, he can slash. Without him and with Howard and Griffin competing under the basket, I’m not really sure about this one.

A good PG would be welcomed but what the Clippers need the most right now is a veteran SF that can defend. IF healthy – with that SF -, the Clippers would have a nice roster and I think that they would be able to get something near 40 wins in this crippled season – I actually recon more than 40 wins, IF healthy.

They had a very slow and cold start last season but they manage to beat Lakers, Hornets, Nuggets, Celtics, Heat, Bulls, OKC (2x), Spurs, etc. In December they were 7-3 including victories against Lakers and Heat. Until Gordon got injured. It took a while until they could adjust themselves to his absence even more because opponents were constantly DT and sometimes even Triple-teaming Griffin, since he became practically the only scoring force. Besides Gordon, Kaman and Cook weren’t healthy most of the times too. The Clippers record numbers last season is quite deceiving, even more when people just look at it and say that Griffin didn’t add much since their record didn’t improve much over the season before. I know that every team has injuries, but at least you can see that this team has quality to be there in the playoffs. Even with Gordon’s injury – the primary scorer – if wasn’t for the cold start, they would at least have a positive season.

More than Griffin’s HL and dunks, I like his work ethic, his effort, his intensity and will to dive for every loose ball. He is mature and hardworker enough to go very far, he is committed to get better and that’s really exciting to see in a young rookie. You don’t see him fooling around, playing practical jokes and pretending to be taking pictures when he is on the court, when he is there, he is in game mode. This combo of intangibles makes what I call “heart of a champ” and that’s something that I see in very few players, that’s not something that can be trained or something that you can teach someone, or you have it and you achieve your potential or you don’t and you don’t live up to the hype.

Hey man, no need to go on the defensive. Simply put, if you have an inside game, it’s nice to have another big man that can draw his man out of the lane with the threat of an outside shot. Griffin has only played one year, so he can certainly develope an outside shot. But, that’s not his game, and a defender is going to give Blake a 15 foot jump shot over an inside move everytime. It’s not rocket science. Gasol and Bynum are not the same as Dwight and Griffin. Gasol can hit the outside shot…it helps to give Bynum single coverage in the post.

Again, i’m not saying this can’t work. I’m just saying that there are other options out there that would compliment his skill set more. Wade and LeBron got to the finals on similar skill sets, but if one of them was a much better spot up shooter, then i dare say they would have had a better shot against Dallas. Obviously Wade/LeBron worked, but you also saw its limitations.

For the post below me, Marc Gasol and especially Z-bo, both have post AND outside shots. So again, this doesn’t really apply to a Dwight/Griffin comparison. Also, Z-bo is unstoppable on offense, but he’s not exactly a defensive stopper, which is why Gasol was so important to that combo.

Donald Sterling however, is a toootally different animal….

God, the future is bleak for Orlando!

Once Dallas made Wade and LeBron outside shooters in the Finals, they weren’t as effective all of a sudden because that was not their game (lane penetration dish/go to the hoop).

look at my knicks we been horrible for 10 yrs……… now we have melo,amare and were going to get cp3

Reason: Donald Sterling