Clippers train Tyronn Lue has actually missed out on 4 of the last 6 video games due to back concerns. It’s uncertain if he’ll return for the video game versus Memphis on Friday evening. (Wally Skalij/ Los Angeles Times)
With or without train Tyronn Lue patrolling the sideline, the Clippers will certainly play yet one more purposeful video game versus one more difficult Western Meeting opponent in the Memphis Grizzlies on Friday evening at the Intuit Dome.
They are currently the 7th seed in the West, which would certainly place them in the play-in competition. Yet they are just 3 1/2 video games behind the fifth-seeded Grizzlies and got in Thursday one video game behind the sixth-seeded Golden State Warriors. The Clippers (39-30) have the neck and neck sudden death over the Grizzlies (2-0) and Warriors (3-0).
The Clippers additionally play Oklahoma City in the house on Sunday. The Rumbling (57-12) have the very best document in the NBA. The Clippers are wanting to decide in these video games, understanding exactly how crucial each win is to their opportunities of inching up in the uber-tough West and protecting a playoff place.
” All 3 groups that we have today lead us as for with much better documents, 2 of them in the Western Meeting. They were declaration video games,” guard Norman Powell claimed. “You intend to head out there and play and reveal that we can complete and defeat these groups. This is playoff time. I assume we have actually 12 video games left. …
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” So it’s everything about placing and playing your finest brand name of basketball. Down the stretch of video games and preparing for the playoffs, it’s constantly excellent to have the leading groups that have type of strengthened their one, 2, 3 areas in the postseason, to drop in where we go to and see where we can enhance to head out there and be the group that we require to be dropping this last stretch.”
Lue has actually missed out on 4 of the last 6 video games due to back concerns, the last versus Cleveland on Tuesday evening, and aide Brian Shaw has actually gone to the helm in his location. The Clippers claim Lue’s condition for the video game versus the Grizzlies is to be figured out Friday.
Shaw, a previous train of the Denver Nuggets, has actually led …
