The Clippers forgot that the NBA season started...

scissors To start their season, Clippers they were going to Salt Lake City to challenge the young jazz team. A priori, the duel was within their reach, but nothing happened as planned. The team from Los Angeles was thus surprised by the defensive intensity of the Jazz from the very beginning, and James Harden and his partners continued to lose the ball with nine “misses” during the first twelve minutes of the game with only eight points scored.

“We lost the ball a lot of times and that was a big problem for us” Admit John Collins after the meeting. “We gave them a lot of extra possession. If we had stopped losing the ball, we could have stopped the bleeding. That’s something we can fix.”

At the end of the first quarter, the Clippers trailed 43-19 and trailed by 31 points when they returned to the locker room. And Los Angeles was never able to catch up, ending up losing by 21 points to the worst team in the West last season.

“Approach is as important as execution” reminds John Collins. “We have to start the matches with the right energy and attack the opponents. Tonight we were a little too relaxed, but we still have 81 games.”

A racket that is too crumbly

If turnovers were a problem on offense, the interior defense was just as disastrous in this loss for the Clippers. The Angelinos were unable to contain themselves Walker Kesslerwho had a perfect game with 22 points on 7/7 shooting and 2/2 3-pointers.

In a broader sense, the Jazz lost in the racket of the Clippers, especially at the beginning of the match where Salt Lake City franchise he made his first 19 shots in Los Angeles color.

“When you concede 43 points in the first quarter and 35 in the second, it’s hard to bridge that gap”explains the Clippers coach, Tyronn Lue. “We didn’t have the right mindset defensively, and it was the same offensively. We didn’t take care of the ball and we weren’t organized. I take responsibility for this loss. We got kicked in the ass tonight.”

			Shots			Rebounds
Players	MJ	Min	Shots	3pts	LF	Off	Def	That	Pd	Bp	Int	Ct	Ft	Pts
James Harden	79	35.3	41.0	35.2	87.4	0.7	5.1	5.8	8.7	4.3	1.5	0.7	2.1	22.8
Norman Powell	60	32.6	48.4	41.8	80.4	0.4	2.8	3.2	2.1	1.8	1.2	0.2	1.9	21.8
Kawhi Leonard	37	31.9	49.8	41.1	81.0	0.9	5.0	5.9	3.1	1.9	1.6	0.5	1.5	21.5
Ivica Zubac	80	32.8	62.8	0.0	66.1	3.8	8.9	12.6	2.7	1.6	0.7	1.1	2.1	16.8
Bogdan Bogdanović	30	25.0	47.4	42.7	87.5	0.4	2.7	3.1	3.2	1.2	0.7	0.2	2.3	11.4
Derrick Jones	77	24.3	52.6	35.6	70.3	1.2	2.2	3.4	0.8	0.9	1.0	0.4	2.0	10.1
Amir Coffey	72	24.3	47.1	40.9	89.1	0.4	1.8	2.2	1.1	0.6	0.6	0.1	1.7	9.7
Kevin Porter, Jr.	45	19.6	42.3	24.5	64.5	0.6	2.9	3.6	3.2	1.9	1.0	0.2	1.6	9.3
Bones Hyland	20	11.1	39.1	38.8	88.5	0.3	1.0	1.2	1.4	1.2	0.9	0.2	1.3	7.2
Chris Dunn	74	24.1	43.9	33.5	68.2	0.7	2.7	3.4	2.8	1.0	1.7	0.4	2.7	6.4
Terrance Mann	37	19.8	44.6	34.7	71.9	0.9	2.0	2.9	1.6	0.7	0.8	0.3	1.8	6.0
Mo Bamba	28	12.6	46.6	30.0	68.0	0.9	3.4	4.3	0.6	0.7	0.3	1.0	1.8	4.6
Jordan Miller	37	11.4	43.3	21.1	80.0	0.6	0.9	1.6	0.9	0.7	0.5	0.1	0.7	4.1
Nicholas Batum	78	17.5	43.7	43.3	81.0	0.6	2.2	2.8	1.1	0.4	0.7	0.5	1.4	4.0
Marion Beauchamp	3	5.7	57.1	66.7	50.0	0.7	0.3	1.0	0.7	0.3	0.0	0.0	0.7	4.0
Patty Mills	12	5.0	50.0	50.0	88.9	0.1	0.0	0.1	0.4	0.1	0.1	0.0	1.0	3.1
Patrick Baldwin, Jr	2	3.1	100.0	100.0	0.0	0.0	1.5	1.5	0.5	0.0	0.0	0.0	1.0	3.0
Ben Simmons	18	16.4	43.4	0.0	85.7	0.9	2.9	3.8	3.1	0.8	0.7	0.4	1.4	2.9
Drew Eubanks	24	7.4	55.1	0.0	78.6	0.8	1.6	2.4	0.4	0.4	0.1	0.3	0.7	2.7
Kai Jones	28	7.4	72.2	0.0	75.0	0.5	1.1	1.6	0.4	0.4	0.2	0.5	0.8	2.2
Kobe Brown	40	6.8	45.8	23.1	71.4	0.5	1.2	1.6	0.6	0.3	0.2	0.1	0.6	1.9
Trentin Flowers	6	4.4	36.4	0.0	100.0	0.2	0.5	0.7	0.0	0.2	0.0	0.0	0.7	1.8
Cameron Christie	13	4.5	29.2	15.4	50.0	0.2	0.7	0.9	0.5	0.2	0.4	0.1	0.3	1.4