Clippers rout Warriors in exhibition

“Yeah, I went to block (rookie) Branden Dawson’s layup and then (he) just elbowed me accidentally”, said Rivers, a reserve guard for the Clippers.

“I’m not going to put a timetable on when I’m going to come back”. I wouldn’t take the Warriors over the field at this point and I understand the thinking that they caught a few breaks on their way to the championship last season.

Walton added that there is no timetable for Kerr, but him being with the team lately is great and is good for the players.

“I was on that side before”, said Rivers, who won a championship coaching the Boston Celtics. How does this make sense? “You can get new ones, you know, really”.

Golden State have fought off slights all summer, defending against the notion they were lucky to avoid the Spurs and Clippers in last year’s play-offs, or were lucky to remain healthy throughout. Just play and you don’t have to do all of that. “I don’t think we are yet, but I do think we have a chance to be a really good defensive team”.

It’s probably true the Warriors are a team packaged up and ready to go.

The Clippers had a busy offseason, initially losing free agent center DeAndre Jordan to the Dallas Mavericks before the big man changed his mind and returned.

Doc Rivers is widely regarded as one of the NBA’s better head coaches, but he’s noticeably absent from several of the coaching-related questions.

Blake Griffin and Draymond Green consistently go at it when they play each other. Six Clippers finished in double-digits, with Los Angeles surpassing the 100-point mark by the end of the third quarter.

In a story published in mercurynews.com, Golden State has “toned down their rhetoric about the Clippers”. LA comes to Oracle Nov. 4, and there’s no doubt this will be as close to a playoff game as you can get in November.

Klay Thompson led the Warriors with 21 points on a night when they committed 23 turnovers.

The Warriors (2-3) played without Steph Curry and Andre Iguodala, who were rested.

Paul was ejected after asking referee Eric Lewis, a 12-year vet (one year longer than Paul) to not treat him “like a little kid”.

Yet, for whatever reason, so many of us refuse to pick the Dubs as this year’s championship victor. The Western bracket will be as hectic as ever this spring, and the Clippers are already champing at the bit to get to April, already.

It was revealed by Kerr himself that the second surgery on his back was to fix a rare spinal fluid leak that caused him headaches and discomfort, which forced him to take a leave of absence from the team two-day into training camp, as reported by Mercury News.

The Warriors expect to get a better look at their team in the preseason finale Thursday in Anaheim against the Los Angeles Lakers when Walton gives his regular starters more playing time. He engages in petty feuds, dabbles in revisionist history and is notorious for starting press conferences with “You guys know I never complain about the officiating…” when he ALWAYS complains about the officiating. The final score was 130 to 95, Clippers.

Doc Rivers said that Chris Paul, who has a broken left index finger he’s playing with, could be affected more on defense by the injury than on offense.

In other words, most of the NBA’s head honchos think that this season will feature a second Cavs vs Spurs finale, which seems like an utter disrespect for the Warriors and what they had done last season.

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