After watching him step up without Chris Paul and looking at his efficiency this year as much as I want to call him a one trick pony the dude's game has evolved. So right now I have to admit Blake Griffin is the NBA's best PF followed closely by LA, with Love a comfortable third. Say what you want but 54% shooting is a lot more efficient than 46.6%. Thoughts?
LA's shot chart last night was disgusting. I don't know if this is by design but he has stopped going to the paint altogether if a center is guarding him.
i don't know what would be worse, if he is breaking the offense by doing that or if Stotts is telling him to. Either way it needs to stop.
LMA should be embarrassed after last night. That first quarter was uncontested dunk after uncontested dunk it felt like
There is no question that Blake is a superior basketball player. I would say that Dirk, Z-Bo, and Love are also better. Ask yourself this: Could LMA beat any other PF in the skills challenge? I don't see it happening.
Yes. Griffin is a better player and has been for around a year now. I would trade LMA for Griffin in a second and not look back. It's not even close IMO. LMA has the ability to make it close (as shown in his run in early December), however he just doesn't want to do the "dirty work". It's more his mindset than physical skills. I would also say that Anthony Davis is (or will be very soon) a better player. LMA is in a second tier group with Love & Dirk (age). Bosh, Ibaka, Nene, Duncan (age), and Z-Bo are third tier PF.
I wouldn't trade Meyers Leonard for Griffin. He's in the same category as Kobe IMO. Not matter how good I would never want him on my team, simply despise his character too much to ever be able to root for him.
If that was that case that would be why this team would never sniff another championship. You can't base everything off of character and you can't fall in love with players.
OK if we could go back in time and if this was possible I bet most Blazers fans wouldn't trade Porter and Duckworth for Bill Laimbeer and Isaiah Thomas because we didn't like there character.
I think its that fans as passionate as Trailblazer fans get so into it that they feel protective of their guys and are so eager to only see the good things in their own players that they can villainize the rest of the league and the players that aren't Blazers.
Griffin is a flop artist and a cheat. He travels on many dunks and no calls are made, he also clears out with the left arm on just about every contested dunk. he's getting the Michael Jordan treatment because he does kia commercials and kia is a huge NBA sponsor.
This thread is OT. The Clippers fan site is down the hall, second door on the right. Blake played a better game than LA last night on 3 days rest as opposed to LAs back to back Thunder, Clippers games. When our 3 time allstar has a mini slump, no need to dis the guy. Blake also got a ton of calls and LA just doesn't get superstar calls. for 2 games before last night LA got 1 freethrow call.
