
"I mean, you got the best player, you look down sometimes the game's going for so long you forget and then B Shaw come and tap you on your shoulder, you know, six, seven minutes to go in the second quarter and you be like, 'Oh, Kawhi's ready. "That was too nasty," Lue said last week when he looked back on the questionable but Leonard-preferred strategy of sitting until midway through the second quarter as he returned from 16 months away. It even seems to sometimes press coach Ty Lue to the edge, too.
#Pot committed plus#
It's fodder for media members who want to re-litigate the 2019 trade that sent what now looks like a potential superstar in Shai Gilgeous-Alexander to the Oklahoma City Thunder plus a treasure trove of draft picks and pick swaps.

This is maddening to many of the franchise's fans. George didn't play Sunday and will miss at least the next two games, making him inactive for 57 of 80 Clippers games.

When LA played Sunday, a 114-100 win against the Indiana Pacers, Leonard was inactive for the 106th time in the last 111 Clippers games. The Clippers feel it every day and every time they turn in an injury report with Kawhi Leonard and Paul George on it. Not just because they were peeling what became Microsoft startup money from trust fund kids, but because they loved the strategy, acquiring and applying information.īallmer's franchise is pot committed. He and Bill Gates used to have late-night card sessions in their Harvard dorm. The LA Clippers are owned by a poker player, Steve Ballmer. The $400,000 pot ended up with Farha, aces beating kings.

Gold was "pot committed." He had so much invested he couldn't allow himself to give up despite facing poor odds.
