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DeeezNuuuts83:
It depends on what you mean by "championship contender."  Personally I don't view today's Clippers as being real contenders (assuming you meant that they had a decent chance at making it to the finals) in 2010 or earlier either.

Sccit:

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--- Quote from: Chamillitary Click on May 03, 2017, 05:09:18 PM ---It's hard to blame the current Clippers. It's really the landscape of the NBA today. Forget the Cavs because it's a different conference, but let's say the Warriors weren't as dominate as they; like dominate to the point I wouldn't be shocked if they beat the Cavs in 5 games this year & they were about as good a the Rockets.

For an example let's just call the Warriors "Rockets II". You tell me the Western conference reads as Spurs, Rockets, "Rockets II", Utah & Russ? Now give me the Clippers at full strength. That's a crapshoot to me every single year. Wouldn't shock me outside of Russ if any of those teams made it to the Finals if that's how the conference looked. Utah is a good team. I would give them a shot against San Antonio. They'd be underdogs, but it wouldn't blow me away if Utah could hang in a 7 game series with them this year.

So long explanation short. It's hard to say the obviously move is to blow up the Clippers when at full strength, in a more balanced league, they're as good as anyone in the West. Tough breaks & bad beats over the years. & for the last three years, it hasn't even been fair.

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FORGET THE WARRIORS..CLIPPERS, EVEN AT FULL STRENGTH, STAND NO CHANCE AGAIN SPURS AND ROCKETS..THE INJURY SHIT IS NOT AN EXCUSE. GOBERT WAS INJURED FOR JUST AS MANY GAMES AS BLAKE. NOBODY LIKES PLAYING WITH CHRIS PAUL.

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Na, they could compete with them. That's how the NBA should be. Like a 5 year stretch should be like "Spurs, Spurs, Clippers, Spurs, Rockets" & that would happen if they top was 5x times better than those teams.

The league is way too top heavy where 27 teams don't have a chance from the preseason. The Clippers at full strength vs. teams pre-2010 would of been a championship contender. Bias aside probably would've beaten the shit out of those Laker teams & most of the league. Nothing even against those Kobe teams. That was the best roster in the league besides the Celtics during that three year period, but today's Clippers would ride on them.

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lmfao

Sccit:

--- Quote from: DeeezNuuuts83 on May 07, 2017, 10:12:49 AM ---It depends on what you mean by "championship contender."  Personally I don't view today's Clippers as being real contenders (assuming you meant that they had a decent chance at making it to the finals) in 2010 or earlier either.

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he said they would ride on the 2010 lakers lmfao .. the same team that couldn't beat the jazz and lost a 3-1 lead to the rockets that was barely makin playoffs. at this point, he will say anything.

DeeezNuuuts83:
I'll admit that the Western Conference has been more competitive within itself over the past several years than it has been for a while -- just look at the season records and compare them to the East's -- but it's not like it was lacking on competition from 2010 and earlier.

I hate to make this analogy since I'm a UCLA football fan, but I feel like the Lakers and Clippers over the past few years are like USC and UCLA in football over the past few years.  UCLA football has always had a lot of talent under the current Jim Mora regime, they always seem to fall short of expectations, especially when UCLA fans as well as the media tend to think they'll do pretty well.  Going into last season (which obviously ended in disaster for UCLA, but that's what happens when your starting quarterback goes down early in the season and your backup isn't serviceable), a lot of ESPN writers picked UCLA to win the Pac-12 South (and I remember one even picked them as making the playoffs).  Same thing with a lot of the previous seasons.  In 2014, Brett Hundley was touted as being a Heisman candidate and controlled their own destiny but lost to a 6-5 Stanford team.  At home.  And also to a mediocre Utah team earlier in the season.  And they haven't been in the Pac-12 championship since Mora's first year.  Meanwhile, prior to USC winning this past Rose Bowl, perhaps they weren't doing better than UCLA was, but they still have all those previous national championships.  Just like how the Lakers fans (myself included) can always fall back on the Lakers' championship banners.

And that's how I feel about the Clippers.  Lots of talent, definitely more than the current Lakers, but they ALWAYS fall short for some reason, and don't even get the chance to taste a win of of high stakes.

Hack Wilson - real:
Clippers were still a lot more exciting than the Lakers this year

who knows what happens in the off season but Steve Balmer has all that Microsoft $$$

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