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Post by trapp76 on Apr 14, 2019 23:21:16 GMT -8
Yahoo Sources: Pistons star Blake Griffin likely to miss the first-round series against Bucks with left knee injury: yhoo.it/2IjXxit
Death, taxes and Blake Griffin playoff injury 🤷🏽♂️
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Post by griffin5 on Apr 15, 2019 4:08:23 GMT -8
sucks for him
I just find it weird that he said he wanted to play but did what was right for the organization. Hope he plays in the second game. They will get sweeped anyway but at least he should play.
He is still great and honestly I don't understand all the Clippers fans who talk bad about him.
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Post by v-ice on Apr 15, 2019 5:38:06 GMT -8
Off topic about Blake... has anyone heard or read if Blake has acknowledged Ralph Lawler? I’ve seen, heard and read former and current NBA players have acknowledged Ralph, but haven’t heard squat about Blake doing this??
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Post by clippers1121 on Apr 15, 2019 7:38:57 GMT -8
We talk crap about Blake because he got injured to take us out of the Portland series, he got injured to take us out of the Utah series, he got injured last year and missed the last three weeks of the season and cost the Pistons a playoff appearance, and he got injured this year and can't play in the playoffs. So four years in a row he has been unavailable with injuries when his team needed him the most. And he makes 35 million a year for this. It just sucks for a guy like him to be that unlucky and it really causes his fans a lot of pain because they want their teams to play at full strength and compete for championships.
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Post by griffin5 on Apr 15, 2019 9:48:18 GMT -8
We talk crap about Blake because he got injured to take us out of the Portland series, he got injured to take us out of the Utah series, he got injured last year and missed the last three weeks of the season and cost the Pistons a playoff appearance, and he got injured this year and can't play in the playoffs. So four years in a row he has been unavailable with injuries when his team needed him the most. And he makes 35 million a year for this. It just sucks for a guy like him to be that unlucky and it really causes his fans a lot of pain because they want their teams to play at full strength and compete for championships. Of course it is frustrating. You telling me that lol He might miss the whole playoffs too this year which sucks. I was mostly refering to some guys who really enjoy seeing him hurt again now in Detroit and talking shit too. |
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Post by hitnrun24 on Apr 15, 2019 11:51:33 GMT -8
Blake actually played 75 games this year, almost all season. The problem is they kind of needed him to and it's coming back to get them now. He probably should be rested 20 games per season ideally.
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Post by dyce on Apr 16, 2019 0:26:54 GMT -8
He probably should have done what Kawhi did and rest on back to backs.
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Post by vfhs on Apr 16, 2019 9:26:10 GMT -8
He is still great and honestly I don't understand all the Clippers fans who talk bad about him. Most Clipper fans love Blake. OP talks bad about him because he's a huge CP0 apologist/fanboy who always used Blake as the scapegoat for CP0's playoff failures. |
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Post by mistwell on Apr 16, 2019 10:23:06 GMT -8
He is still great and honestly I don't understand all the Clippers fans who talk bad about him. Most Clipper fans love Blake. OP talks bad about him because he's a huge CP0 apologist/fanboy who always used Blake as the scapegoat for CP0's playoff failures. I still love Blake. I just would not want him as a max player on my team. He, like CP3, is not reliable in the playoffs. I don't think he ever will be. In fact, historically he shows up less for the playoffs than CP3 at this point. But, they're both just unreliable for the playoffs. |
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Post by clipfan88 on Apr 16, 2019 11:17:58 GMT -8
I always loved BG. He was the start of the franchises turnaround. But, you just can't rely on him. He looks like a well built tank on the outside but with plastic parts on the inside. He has proven time and time again that you just cannot count on him when you need him the most. Based on his track record he is definitely NOT worth $35+ mil.
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Post by trapp76 on Apr 16, 2019 11:23:59 GMT -8
I always loved BG. He was the start of the franchises turnaround. But, you just can't rely on him. He looks like a well built tank on the outside but with plastic parts on the inside. He has proven time and time again that you just cannot count on him when you need him the most. Based on his track record he is definitely NOT worth $35+ mil. Exactly, some of us live in reality, and some of us live in Blake fanboy world and think all the great stuff we got back in the Blake trade was "trash" and that it's ok for Blake to stiff the best owner in the NBA and run away like a little bitch when he wants to shake hands like a man. |
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Post by samiam19 on Apr 16, 2019 12:59:51 GMT -8
Blake Griffin? Who's that?
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Post by vfhs on Apr 16, 2019 14:44:48 GMT -8
Some of us wanted to keep CP0 and pay him the supermax, either due to fear of the unknown or blind fanboyism and refusal to accept his flaws. These people also pretended it was okay for CP0 to quit on his team in Game 7 at home, then do a whole ESPN documentary trashing the Clippers organization and putting all the blame on them for his failures.
Meanwhile, those of us with actual basketball knowledge knew it was time to move on from that career choke artist and build a real team.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 17, 2019 2:20:00 GMT -8
Did you see the Rockets post-game interview where CP stormed out because the reporters were asking Harden all of the questions?
CP is a decent player but no longer an all star and should not be the third highest paid player in the league.
So glad we moved on from Lob City and that we got back assets. This is the second best rebuild after the Celtics trading Pierce and Garnett.
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Post by clipps on Apr 17, 2019 3:28:08 GMT -8
It was time to move on from both of them. Both Blake and CP provided some great memories a long the way but it was time to move on. When the nucleus fails every post season, you can’t just pin point all of the blame on one guy. Doc was a terrible GM and couldn’t focus 100% on coaching. Blake was soft and hurt at the worst times. CP was overbearing undersized and often injured. DJ was one dimensional and probably one of the most overrated players in the league. The roster was very poorly constructed. Unless DJ played all 48 minutes, we had no length.
We are much better off. 3 years ago, I talked all season about how this just won’t work anymore and we needed to retool and make changes which meant trading CP and/or Blake for assets and picks. I’m not being a revisionist, that’s exactly what I thought we needed to do before fast forwarding to that following summer and the trade deadline. The Clippers are probably in the best shape moving forward out of any team in the NBA.
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