Two months ago, Tyronn Lue assured us that the sky wasn't falling on his Los Angeles Clippers — a team tipped as a championship contender (and maybe even the favorite) before the season began, but that had muddled through injuries and offensive inconsistency in an up-and-down start to the 2022-23 campaign. And, for what it's worth, he was mostly right.
when he and George shared the court. Maybe, at long last, the Clips that were promised had finally arrived?later, though, and maybe it wasn't the sky, but something extremely large and impossibly heavy sure as hell fell on the Clippers in Denver on Thursday:
What looked like a towering tilt between title hopefuls with long-simmering postseason beef — both of whom, in something of a miraculous turn of events,— quickly turned into, um, not that. The Clippers came out of the gate with six straight misses, clanged 10 of their first 11 3-point attempts, were down double-figures after just over eight minutes, and were doubled up by halftime. L.A. never led, trailing by as many as 43 in what settled as a 122-91 annihilation.
; Lue, fed up by the total lack of competitive mettle shown by his starters, sat them for the entirety of the second half.Your standard caveats about not assigning too much meaning to an early January affair apply. Given the talent on L.A.’s roster and Lue’s steady hand at the tiller, nobody would be all that surprised to see the Clippers rip off a big run and enter springtime as precisely the powerhouse so many projected.
It was too early to really consider the game *over*, but this is where I figured DEN-LAC might be a wrap. Clips need Full Power Kawhi; the drive+kick is great, but against elite opponents, the version who looks like he ran out of turbo getting back on D probably won't be enough.
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