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Week 1 - 3-1

Week 1 Review 3-1

After a long wait and a somewhat tentative excitement around a return of NLL action to the city of Angels, a return that management hope produces more highlights than lowlights in 2017/18.

With a tough week scheduled and some expected teething issues a week of one win would have been considered par for the course.

To finish the week with three wins is a fantastic achievement and one that we hope can be built upon over the next 19weeks…

Game 1 matchup - Nuggets @ Clippers (Win 104-86)

A tough game to start the 2017 / 2018 NLL campaign against the Denver Nuggets, led by GM Rootsey. A team consisting of John Wall, Eric Gordon, Dwyane Wade Enes Kanter and Otto Porter was never going to be an easy task. And Enes Kanter decided he was going to make it as tough as possible leading the way with 36 what seemed to be easy points and in the process having Clint Capela’s night end in relatively quick time.

Thankfully the young clipper brigade never gave up led by late inclusion Cody Zeller with 19 points and 13 rebounds

The end result being an 18 point victory over an extremely tough Nuggets team. With player of the game honours going to Cody Zeller for his extremely efficient 19 and 13 game

Game 2 matchup - Spurs @ Clippers (Win 105 – 115 OT)

There are some games teams prepare for and then there are teams you just hope to compete against the best you can, the two headed hydra in San Antonio of Anthony Davis and Joel Embiid is a nightmare proposition and somehow someway the Clippers managed to eek out a win over the NLL champions in a dramatic overtime victory. Davis and Embiid were unstoppable

The bench play was key for the Clippers particularly in overtime which belonged to young PG Dennis Smith Jr, who finished the match with 19pts

Thankfully for the Clippers the Spurs were without starting point guard Mike Conley for week 1 and in the end was the difference between a win and loss

Game 3 matchup – Clippers @ Suns (Win 102 – 92)

In the wee hours of Monday morning the young clippers outfit travelled to Arizona to take on another historically tough challenge by way of the Penny led Phoenix Suns and a very strong line-up including Kemba Walker, Al Horford, Marcin Gortat.

The match was a tussle from opening tip with LA going to the half with a seven point buffer. LAC did just enough through the remainder of the game to eke out a 10 point victory with Dennis Smith playing another critical game off the bench with 17 points

Game 4 matchup - Clippers @ Bulls (Loss 106 – 90)

The splash brother Curry and Klay were just a little too much to handle on this occasion with the entire clippers roster struggling to maintain possession turning the rock over a total of 20 times of which Chicago scored 22 points in a 16 point loss

Curry for the bulls was exceptional again, no one on the clippers worth mentioning in this one.

Week 1 POTW

DAngelo Russell and Cody Zeller

Both players were exceptional in week 1, with Cody being a late call up to replace Tristian Thompson who sustained a severe case of Kardasy-lash.

Cody Zeller - 16.3 Pts 8.7 rebds 2.3 asts 2.0 stls 1.3 blks

DAngelo Russell - 20.3 Pts 4.3 rebds 7.7 asts 1.3 stls

Rumours

Tristan Thompson, Michael Kidd Gilchrist and Kyle Korver unsure of future with LAC

Week ahead

@Memphis

Boston

Wizards

@Magic

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