Practical Magic: Clips 107 Magic 102
Here’s what we know as Clips fans:
1. The Clips beat one of the best teams in the East
2. CP3 might be the best 4th quarter player in the NBA
3. Chauncey Billups is hurt BAD.
-Ok, Here’s the part when I call for the Grim Reaper…
The one position where we could possibly stand to deal with an injury or 2 we suffered. BUT: somehow I don’t feel good. I feel like this was my fault. I feel guilty. I feel BAD. We’re the Clippers, we’re jinxed, but now we have the team to do better. I still believe we have a chance to win the Championship, but my false pride was bullshit. The minute I posted a confident post after the last game, I knew I was fucked.
Caron Butler made some late shots, and CP3 proved he’s worth every dollar, but without, Chauncey we’re another team looking for an identity. Sure, I can make the argument that we make more sense with 4 PGs and we will be more balanced with K-mart; but I’m never a balanced guy.
The end of the world is at hand, abandon all hope ye who enter here, repent for the end is nigh, and scientology blah blah blah. I’d like to say that the best Champions in the NBA have to face adversity then then overcome it. But in a short season, the lucky team will come out on top. The old saying that in the land of the blind the one eyed man is king is true, but in this case we need to find out if the 4 PG’d team is king.
Cuban Exiled From Los Angeles! Clippers 91 Mavs 89
5 seconds to go, Mavs down by two, Jason Terry gets wide open following a pick and roll…SWISH. Same old Clippers. The collective heart of Clipper Nation was broken…again. There have been many Jason Terry’s over the years who find the Karmic shooting touch just in time to drill a stake through the heart of the Clippers faithful. Just as I sat in front of my television in the inevitable disbelief, Ralph Lawler began pleading with me to fasten my seatbelt. “Fasten my seatbelt?!?” This is the Clippers! They don’t win games like this; they only exist to make me feel bad and get mocked by my Laker fan friends! Then I thought for a quick moment, “This year is different, we have good players, good chemistry, a GOOD TEAM; we can DO this.”
Following the time out, Billups has the ball and attempts to inbound the ball to Mo Williams…he fumbles it out of bounds. Same old Clippers. I scream at the top of my lungs in my cramped bedroom. Everyone in the apartment building probably heard me, but I’m sure no one could’ve believed the painful scream came from that of a Clipper fan. This year wasn’t different. The only difference was that my pain was on national TV for the whole world to become witnesses to my destruction.
After a long discussion and replay review the referees declare…Clipper ball!
4 seconds to play. Chauncey inbounds to Blake Griffin. Blake dished the ball back to Chaucey and sets a brick wall of a pick on Jason Kidd. Chauncey is wide open, but this is the Clippers. He rises and lets the ball go. The net barely moves. My paralysis in front of my television is only broken by the jubilant celebration erupting in Staples Center. It went in? Yup, it went IN! This is a NEW Clippers team. This is a NEW year. The defending NBA champions came into Staples Center and LOST to the not-so-lowly Clippers. Yeah there were 3 and 7/8ths other quarters of basketball but that was all that mattered. Last night Chauncey made the shot that changed everything. Last night was the night that the Clippers washed the smell of shit from their jerseys. But all that can change if they lose to Minnesota on Friday.
