Game #29, SAS @ LAC 103-100 F/OT, (19-10, 3rd West) Griffin's First Career 20-20 Game http://www.otrbasketball.com/forums/public/style_images/clean/team_reps/sas.png @ http://www.otrbasketball.com/forums/public/style_images/clean/team_reps/lac.png http://i39.tinypic.com/1e80mu.png In an epic showdown the Clippers fell 103-100 in overtime to the Spurs on Saturday afternoon. Griffin led LA with 22 points and 20 rebounds. Chris Paul and Randy Foye scored 21 points apiece. Paul made all eight of his foul shots and handed out six assists. Griffin Goes for First Career 20-20 Game Eric Patten @ericpatten | 2/18/12 LOS ANGELES–Blake Griffin certainly would have preferred the win-loss column next to his first career 20-point, 20-rebound game to be etched with a W. It’s telling that despite being asked a number of questions after the Clippers’ wild three-point loss to the San Antonio Spurs, no one asked Griffin about his stats, career day or not. That’s because everyone knew the answer: his 22 points and 20 rebounds mattered none without a win. In Griffin’s 111 career games, the two-time All-Star has never wavered from his obsessive desire to win. You can see it in the near compulsiveness in which he works on jumpers from the perimeter or his sometimes wayward free throw shooting or when he walked to bench after fouling out Saturday, stewing with frustration as his team was eight seconds away from its tenth loss. “It’s tough. You don’t want to lose at all, but to lose like that hurts,” Griffin said. “On the positive side we should’ve won. In our eyes we should have won.” Prior to the game Spurs head coach Greg Popovich was asked about how to defend Griffin. The four-time NBA champion coach paused and grinned, almost acknowledging that stopping an athlete like Griffin can be tenuous. “Given a choice you’d rather have him shooting a 20-footer than taking it the hole and you don’t have to be a genius to figure that out,” Popovich said. “And he knows that and that’s why he works on his shot. Once he gets that down, he’ll be impossible. He’s ridiculous now, but he’ll be impossible.” Griffin took another step towards exceeding ridiculous against San Antonio. Read More