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Norman Powell and James Harden lead Clippers to dominant win over Portland

By Editorial Board Published December 4, 2024 5 Min Read
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Norman Powell and James Harden lead Clippers to dominant win over Portland

The Clippers have been eradicated from NBA Cup rivalry throughout Tuesday evening’s recreation towards the Portland Path Blazers on the Intuit Dome. The first purpose on this evening, nonetheless, was for the Clippers to proceed to compete at a excessive degree and play their smothering protection.

With Norman Powell scoring with effectivity and James Harden maintaining his offensive manufacturing, the Clippers pulled off a 127-105 win over the Path Blazers.

“Just offensively, I thought we did some good things,” Clippers coach Tyronn Lue mentioned. “I thought defensively we had some breakdowns. When we’re playing good offense, you just can’t let it dictate your defense and let your guard down. I thought tonight we weren’t really good defensively.”

Both means, the Clippers have received eight of their final 10 video games with sustained grit and by following the lead of their backcourt in Powell and Harden. Powell began sturdy, making his first 5 photographs en path to going 11 for 15 from the sector and 5 for seven from three-point vary in a 30-point effort.

It was simply his second recreation again after lacking the earlier six due to a hamstring damage. He’s on a minutes restriction however made essentially the most out of his 25 minutes 15 seconds towards Portland.

“Just working,” Powell mentioned. “Just staying with it. I’m doing the control workouts, just staying ready. That’s really it.”

For Harden, it was one other milestone recreation. Ending with 23 factors, Harden has scored 26,399 factors over his 16-year profession, pushing him previous Paul Pierce for seventeenth on the NBA’s all-time scoring checklist. Harden additionally had seven assists and made a three-pointer on the finish of the third quarter to cap his scoring and provides the Clippers a 13-point lead.

“Any time you can reach those kinds of milestones in this organization, it’s huge,” Lue mentioned. “We’ve been fortunate to have a lot of great players through here and James is one of them. So, just very happy for him and he’s only going to continue to move up the board.”

The Clippers took management within the third quarter, holding the Path Blazers (8-14) to twenty factors. And so they didn’t maintain again within the fourth, constructing a 26-point lead. They shot 55.3% from the sector and 51.4% from three-point vary to safe their ninth consecutive win on the Intuit Dome, their longest house profitable streak for the reason that crew received 10 straight through the 2019-20 season.

“It definitely impacts our team,” Lue mentioned concerning the lack of Mann heading into Wednesday’s recreation towards the Minnesota Timberwolves. “Tomorrow will be our first look at it without him. But the energy that T-Mann brings — and since coming off the bench, he’s really been playing well. So, after having the game he had last game and then for this to happen, it’s not good timing.”

Clippers forward Derrick Jones Jr., center, dunks over Trail Blazers guards Anfernee Simons, left, and Shaedon Sharpe.

Clippers ahead Derrick Jones Jr., heart, dunks over Path Blazers guards Anfernee Simons, left, and Shaedon Sharpe within the first half Tuesday.

(Mark J. Terrill / Related Press)

The Clippers completed NBA Cup play 2-2. However with a 14-9 total document, the Clippers have saved their give attention to giving the proper of effort in each recreation.

“We just can’t get comfortable,” Lue mentioned. “Our goal is to be a top-five defense into the season and we’re doing that so we can’t let go of the rope from doing that. And then just having the right mindset every single night. When we come in for walkthroughs and shootarounds, we have to take advantage of those times because we haven’t had time to practice all month, because we play every day, or every other day. So, just locking in, being mentally sharp, watching film, understanding what we need to do, and I think our guys have done a good job with that so far.”

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