Tuesday, December 20th, 2011 at 10:00 am  |  89 responses

Videos: DeAndre Jordan Dunks All Over the Lakers

The new-look Clippers have arrived.


It may have just been a meaningless preseason game last night, but DeAndre Jordan took to the skies in terrifying fashion, serving notice to the Lakers that they should stop trying to foolishly jump with him and his wildly athletic Clipper teammates.

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  • http://www.basketball-reference.com/players/h/hamilri01.html Allenp

    Bynum has great touch.
    His problem is conditioning.

  • http://slamonline.com nbk

    And bone structure

  • http://cnbc.com JTaylor21

    I should have said “he struggles to score away from the basket”. The majority of his points are around the basket (shot 73% at the rim last season and 41.5% from 3-9 feet)

  • http://juan.garcia@computershare.com Marcelus Wallace

    To many kids on here who don’t know that pre-season games are meant to get back in to the flow of things. Like getting your shot back around the rim or outside shooting. For someone here to say Bynum has no touch after one pre-season game is some one who know very little about basketball.

  • http://cnbc.com JTaylor21

    numbers don’t lie.

  • http://www.basketball-reference.com/players/h/hamilri01.html Allenp

    “Lies, damn lies and statistics.”

  • http://www.laumol.nl/weblog Laumol

    Never mind. Phil Jackson’s teams always loose a lot of preseason games. … Oh shoot!

  • http://cnbc.com JTaylor21

    “men lie, women lie, numbers don’t”

  • http://slamonline.com nbk

    me and women invented numbers

  • http://slamonline.com nbk

    I was gonna fix that too say men. but Me is better

  • GC6

    Showtime Clippers lol

  • http://thetroyblog.com Teddy-the-Bear

    The Clippers seriously have the best starting line-up in the NBA. Miami is the only team that comes close… Chauncey looks like a GREAT fit at the 2 guard spot, and they’re stacked at every position. Seriously the coolest f*cking team in the league right now.

  • http://www.nba.com VanCityBBall

    keep hands and feet inside the ride and tuck yourself in ladies and gentlemen, the clippers bandwagon is gunna fall over eventually this season! (still i like Clip’s > Lake show tho)

  • http://thetroyblog.com Teddy-the-Bear

    They have the best passer in the league, the best dunker, a center who rivals that dunker, and a kick@ss wing duo in Billups and Butler. Man, if you’re a fan of basketball you’d have to be crazy NOT to be on the Clipshow bandwagon.

  • http://thetroyblog.com Teddy-the-Bear

    Clippers need their own stadium. Los Angeles Lakers fans don’t deserve this awesomeness.

  • ryan

    it would be funny if dj mbenga was there.lmao

  • eZ

    Ahhh that game was like a gulp of water after a walk in the dessert.
    As a general fan of the game and non-us resident I completely and unashamedly jump on that Clipper bandwagon. Good times… ^_^

  • http://www.slamonline.com Max

    Talking bout Mbenga, the Lakers can’t win ish without him!

  • http://slamonline.com nbk

    I think Chicago has the best starting lineup in the league.

  • http://thetroyblog.com Teddy-the-Bear

    Paul > Rose, Billups ≥ Hamilton, Butler > Deng, Griffin > Boozer, Jordan = Noah (sort of).

  • http://slamonline.com nbk

    Billups and Hamilton are a wash as 2-guards. Deng is better than Butler, saying otherwise is pretty absurd man. And Noah is clearly a much better player than Jordan.

  • http://thetroyblog.com Teddy-the-Bear

    Noah is not much better than Jordan–not while Chris Paul is his point guard. You’re underrating the impact Chris Paul has on his teammates. Having a point guard like Chris Paul automatically means DeAndre Jordan, an athletic freak, will be better than normal. Derrick Rose can’t touch him that respect.
    And Luol Deng ain’t better than (a healthy) Caron Butler.

  • http://thetroyblog.com Teddy-the-Bear

    Also, Billups is a much better defender than Hamilton, and can shoot the 3-ball better as well (they both have equally great 3pt%, but Chauncey takes way more attempts, which means more 3′s made).

  • http://slamonline.com nbk

    Joakim Noah is far and away a better defender, and offensive player than DeAndre Jordan. Chris Paul doesn’t increase Jordan’s actual skill level. And Caron Butler is completely overrated if you think he is as good as Luol Deng. That’s absolutely crazy man.

  • http://slamonline.com nbk

    Billups is a much better defender than Hamilton against SG’s? Since when? He has never, ever, in his career defended 2-guards better than Hamilton.

  • http://slamonline.com nbk

    Chicago has a well rounded, not undersized, skilled at all 5 positions and decent on both ends of the court starting lineup. The Clippers have 2 undersized guards, starting. An inefficient, overrated defender at the 3 (if you actually look at his production, Butler is clearly over-paid, and overrated if you think he is as good let alone better than Luol Deng). Blake Griffin plays ZERO defense. None. He actually makes Boozer look like a good defender. And offensively he isn’t much better than Boozer at all. He’s flashier, but not really that much better. And Joakim Noah and Deandre Jordan shouldn’t even be compared. Chris Paul doesn’t change the FACT that Noah is a much much much much better offensive player (you can actually pass him the ball when he isn’t within arms reach of the hoop and he can make a play, being one of the best passing bigs in the league, which is the polar opposite of Jordan who should, and only does, touch the ball within arms reach of the rim). Defensive and on the boards there isn’t even worth talking about, if you watch both Noah and Jordan play with your eyes open, you can tell who the better player is.

  • http://slamonline.com nbk

    One player doesn’t make a whole starting lineup the best in the league. Saying Chris Paul makes DeAndre Jordan better than Joakim Noah is like saying having LeBron and Wade in the starting lineup in Miami makes Mario Chalmers a top 5 point guard. It’s impossibly ridiculous.

  • http://www.slamonline.com Wayno

    Chicago definitely has the most well rounded and balanced starting 5 in the league. Thier depth is up there too. Clippers have 0 front court depth, but thier starting 5 is very good offensively, but not great defensively. The Clippers starting 5 is probably the most exciting starting 5 in the league and they’re certainly going to improve this year, but lets not get carried away here.

  • http://www.slamonline.com Wayno

    Also, RIP can gaurd the 2 better than Billups. Billups isn’t going to be able to hang with Kobe, DWade, Ellis, and alot of the other 2′s in the league. RIP has gaurded those type of players his whole career.

  • http://slamonline.com nbk

    It’s not that Rip is a good defender. he’s average. But Billups has never even been average against 2′s at any point in his career.

  • http://nyill.wordpress.com Enigmatic

    OMGZ OMGZ THIS CLIPPERS TEAM ARE SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO BAD*SS!!!!
    I JUST FEEL THE SUDDEN URGE TO HYPERBOLIZE!!!!!!!!!
    Teddy – c’mon son.
    Caron Butler is not better than Luol Deng. Not anymore.
    Sorry.
    DeAndre Jordan is not better than Joakim Noah. Not yet. Possibly not ever.
    Sorry.
    Yes, Chris Paul makes other players better. But he’s not going to suddenly turn DeAndre Jordan into an elite defender among 5′s and anything more than highlight reel on offense.
    I don’t care if Caron Butler is 100% healthy or not, Deng is better than dude SO MUCH MORE defensively and he does his thing offensively too.
    Chris Paul and Derrick Rose are even.
    Same position, different games. I could easily turn around and say Paul couldn’t lead a 62-win team while averaging 25 points per but I won’t. Even though I just did.
    I ain’t seen enough of Rip w/ the Bulls but Billups will eventually be a liability on defense when he has to somehow defend the 6’8″ shooting guards of the league.
    Yes, this Clippers team will be improved and hella fun to watch, but they’re not the best starting lineup in the L. C’mon.
    Oh, and one more thing -I don’t care if Tim Tebow is their general manager and God is their owner. Their coach is still Vinny Del Negro.

  • http://www.slamonline.com Wayno

    Chris Paul wouldn’t have the same success as DRose with the Roster that DRose has and vice versa. Paul is a better true PG and a better descision maker, Rose is a better scorer and athelete. Pick your poison. They’re both great.

  • http://thetroyblog.com Teddy-the-Bear

    You don’t think Chris Paul could average 25 ppg if he wanted to? He averaged 23 and 11 in 2008-2009, which is far more impressive than 25 and 8. Its a lot harder to up your assists by 4 a game than it is to up your scoring by 2 points. Paul and Rose are not even.
    But you’re right, I am short-changing the Bulls here. We’ll see what happens.

  • http://thetroyblog.com Teddy-the-Bear

    3* a game.

  • http://slamonline.com nbk

    No Chris Paul could not average 25 PPG over the course of an entire season if he wanted to. No way, jose. — Chris Paul put up 23 and 11 before he had a bulky knee. It’s not the same guy. And he isn’t the whole starting lineup regardless.

  • http://nyill.wordpress.com Enigmatic

    I said he couldn’t score 25 a game AND lead a 62 win team.
    He can most definitely play on a 60-win team, but I don’t think he’d be the leading scorer, there’d be another superstar on the team leading in points is what I meant.

  • http://thetroyblog.com Teddy-the-Bear

    I don’t think the Bulls would have won 62 games with Chris Paul, but I do think they could have gone just as far into the playoffs. That team would EASILY beat the Pacers and the Hawks. Chicago is lucky they didn’t face the Heat or the Celtics in the second round–that’s basically the difference right there.
    Paul took the Hornets to the second round once, beating the Mavericks but losing to the Spurs. I’m pretty sure the Dallas Mavericks that year > The Pacers this year.
    On top of that, it’s ridiculous that no other player on the Bulls averages over 20 ppg besides Derrick Rose. You don’t think Chris Paul could get 20 ppg out of Carlos Boozer and Luol Deng? The man helped Davis West gain an All-Star nod.

  • http://nyill.wordpress.com Enigmatic

    Why is it ridiculous that only one player averaged more than 20 per?
    There were only four teams that I can think of that had more than one player average over 20 a game last season- Clippers, Heat, Knicks, Thunder.
    Boozer and Deng averaged 17 per each, are we really gonna criticize Rose further because they didn’t average 20 per each?
    They won 62 games!

  • http://slamonline.com nbk

    The Bulls offense wasn’t really set up to have more than Rose averaging 20. Carlos Boozer was second on the team in Field Goal Attempts at 14 per game. So unless you think he should be shooting 60% from the field, nobody on that team other than Rose should have averaged over 20. And it’s by design.

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