Los Angeles Clippers vs Miami Heat Game Thread

Paul, Billups, Butler, Griffin and Jordan will officially be the starters for the Clippers.

This would be stating the obvious, but who cares -- It is absolutely vital tonight more than any other that we take care of the ball and dont waste possesions with bad passes or bad shot selection... We need to be efficient in order to win this game.

According to NBA Stats Info - The Clippers are the only team LeBron James has not scored 35 or more points against. The most has been 32 which he did 3 times... Tonight might be a good night to go for 35 +

The Clippers are only NBA team that hasn't played a rookie this season. Also according to ESPN Stants and Info

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Shane Battier will in fact be the starter replacing Chris Bosh - The man crush between Shane and the coaching staff lives on... No reason to be starting him to begin with much less in a situation like tonight but I am sure as soon as CB and RA went down, they didnt think about it twice before deciding to start SB.

Chris Bosh joins Dexter Pittman on the inactive list

i blame this flu wave on Deron Williams....


all time Heat killers?

not sure of how to rank them...  but outside the obvious mike jordan, alan houston has to be high on that list

Crawford is a little Heat killer also

Continue the debate of all time Heat Killers for the game thread boys - I will have another question to discuss within the next game thread.

Another charge for the take-charge-man in Udonis Haslem that is why he is a starter - He brings it on defense... Hopefully Shane can bring it on offense  because he is going to get torched as long as he is defending Griffin or anyone else for that matter.

Shane for 3<br />

Great ball movement led to that Shane 3... I hope he doesnt fall back in love with it though

Lower Back strain for Mario Chalmers 

And as E-Reid just said Chris Bosh and Ray Allen are at home

Shane Battier was 6-of-32 on 3-pointers in January. He's 12-of-25 so far in February, 3-of-4 tonight. According to ESPN STATS AND INFO

If numbers like 6-32 in a month dont cut down on your playing time like it should you know nothing will.. proven man crush between the staff and Shane. Luckily for him, he has found his shot again but it is only a matter of time before he comes down to earth again. 

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Jamal Crawford is truly a Heat killer - He makes every damn shot

Mario Chalmers - as if he never left the game

Rashard Lewis doing his thing

Absolute domination

Absolute domination

As it should be. 6 point favorites for tonight but no reason to not win by a larger margin if we can continue to play like this for the second half and we should be able to.