Game Thread NBA PLAY-IN - PELICANS @ CLIPPERS - APRIL 15, 2022 - FRIDAY - 7:00 PM (PDT) TNT

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  1. Chris Craig

    Chris Craig (Blazersland) I'm Your Huckleberry Staff Member Global Moderator Moderator

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    STARTERS

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    CJ McCollum Herb Jones
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    Brandon Ingram Jaxon Hayes
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    Jonas Valanciunas



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    Reggie Jackson Paul George
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    Nic Batum Marcus Morris
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    Ivica Zubac

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    WHEN: APRIL 15, 2022 - FRIDAY - 7:00 PM (PDT)

    WHERE: CRYPTO.COM ARENA, LOS ANGELES CA

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    TV BROADCAST

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    BENCH

    CLIPPERS


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    Norman Powell Robert Covington
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    Amir Coffey Terance Mann
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    Luke Kennard Rodney Hood
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    Brandon Boston Isaiah Hartenstein
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    Kawhi Leonard Xavier Moon
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    Jason Preston Jay Scrubb

    PELICANS

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    Jose Alvarado Devonte' Graham
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    Tony Snell Larry Nance Jr
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    Jared Harper Trey Murphy
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    Willy Hernangomez Garrett Temple
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    Kira Lewis Nnaji Marshall
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    Zion Williamson Gary Clark


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    INJURIES

    CLIPPERS

    Kawhi Leonard (Knee) OUT
    Jay Scrubb (Toe) OUT
    Jason Preston (Foot) OUT
    Luke Kennard (Hamstring) QUEST.

    PELICANS

    Zion Williamson (Foot) OUT
    Kira Lewis Jr (Knee) OUT


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    COACHES

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    Tyronn Lue

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    Willie Green

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    NOTES
    • The Pelicans won the 2021-22 season series 3-1
    • Former Blazers Norman Powell, Nic Batum, Rodney Hood, and Robert Covington will face off against Former Blazers CJ McCollum, Larry Nance Jr, and Tony Snell
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  2. Wade Garrett

    Wade Garrett Exactly right.

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    An extremely important game, worthy of a thread in the TrailBlazers S2 forum.
    The entire hopes, plans, and future of the Portland TrailBlazers ride on this one game.
    If LA somehow loses, the Blazers will be destined to flounder in the cellar for decades possibly prompting an team relocation to Seattle, BECAUSE OF THE LOSS OF A POSSIBLE LOTTO PICK!
    The outcome of this one "play-in" game holds the entire legacy of Lillard, Billups, and Cronin, since a Clippers loss defines their incompetence.
    Or so I've been led to believe.
     
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  3. theprunetang

    theprunetang Shaedon "Deadly Nightshade" Sharpe is HIM

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    Strenuus Global Moderator Staff Member Global Moderator

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    Son of a bitch. Just fucking lose, New Orleans. God damn.
     
  5. BBert

    BBert Weasels Ripped My Flesh

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    This one is for all the marbles!
     
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    Go Nic! Go Norm! Sorry CJ!
     
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    Chris Craig (Blazersland) I'm Your Huckleberry Staff Member Global Moderator Moderator

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    One game to rule them all, One game to find them,One game to bring them all and in the darkness bind them.
     
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    Chris Craig (Blazersland) I'm Your Huckleberry Staff Member Global Moderator Moderator

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    The question is does 4 former Blazers Trump 3 former Blazers? Or is it, the more former Blazers on the team the worse you are?
     
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    Cugel The epitome of mediocrity

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    I totally expect the Pels to win, they are on a roll.
     
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    CJ, Nance, and Snell
    vs
    Powell, Batum, Hood, and Roco

    Seven former Blazers duking it out
     
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    ABM Happily Married In Music City, USA!

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    UGH.....
     
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    ABM Happily Married In Music City, USA!

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    Y'all should set up a watch party somewhere.
     
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    HailBlazers RipCity

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    I'll be watching in a dark room with padded walls.
     
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    "Former Blazers Norman Powell, Nic Batum, Rodney Hood, and Robert Covington will face off against Former Blazers CJ McCollum, Larry Nance Jr, and Tony Snell"

    I don't know how you'd go about researching it, but is that some sort of record? Most former players of a team (not involved) playing each other?

    Of course, play-in games account for nothing statistically, so you could look at it as, once the game is over, it never happened.
     
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    I bet you 4 guys who started the season as teammates matching up in a win or go home in the post season (either a 9/10 game in the play in, a second play in game or game seven in the playoffs) has either never happened or is extremely rare.
     
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    Definitely extremely rare, if it's ever happened. I imagine it would go way back to the days of not many teams in the league, and players being exchanged more easily. A few multi-player trades (were those a thing before '80s?) would rapidly change the landscape of rosters.
     
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    WUT?

    Pels recent record:

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    and the Clippers, since PG13 returned:

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    the Pels had gone 5-5 over their last 10, and the 5 wins had come against the Lakers (twice), Blazers (twice), & Kings. All three terrible teams

    since PG13 came back, the Clips had won 6 of 7 and 4 of their wins had come against Utah, Milwaukee, New Orleans (by 19), and Phoenix. I'd say the Clippers are 'rolling' more than the Pels
     
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    Does Baby Dame retract his Clippers hatred for this game?

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