Pau Gasol Calls Out Clippers

[Sħãlïq™]

Pau Gasol: Clippers Were ‘Flopping a Little Too Much’

 

For the second consecutive preseason game, the Clippers beat the Lakers, and continued to get under their skin. According to Pau Gasol, the Lakers were mostly upset that their Staples Center neighbors were getting away with flops (*cough* Blake Griffin *cough*). From ESPN: “It was just a preseason game, so the result of the Los Angeles Clippers’ 108-103 win on Wednesday hardly mattered. Yet the Staples Center co-tenants renewed their rivalry with all the contentiousness of a playoff game. Things got a little chippy like they almost always seem to do when these teams meet. The physical play boiled over when Matt Barnes was called for a flagrant 1 foul for pushing Blake Griffin to the floor with 6:48 remaining in the third quarter. ‘I thought we had some pretty good fouls. I don’t know about the [flagrant], I got to go back and watch the replay,’ said Lakers coach Mike Brown. ‘Hopefully we won’t get flagrant fouls. What that does is gives them free shots and the ball back, but I thought we had some good, solid, hard fouls which is what we should do because we’re deep. So, if a guy fouls out, we got another guy that can step in and play.’ Barnes left the locker room before speaking to the media and declined an interview request as he was walking out of the arena, but Lakers forward Pau Gasol offered an explanation for all the hard fouls. ‘I think we were upset that they were flopping a little too much,’ said Gasol. Griffin seemed to draw the ire of the most Lakers as he received hard contact from Barnes, Gasol and Josh McRoberts on different occasions.”

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Edited December 24, 2011 by Šhãłïq

[TheNotoriousBANG]

Nah he got mad Blake was embarrassing em

and lob city decuded to use the lakers to get thier share of sportceneter top 10

 

anyone see the crossover move blake hit pau gasol with

 

oooooo wow didn't know boy got handles like that.

 

Lakers still might be the better team, but the Clippers are the most exiting team to watch iin town now.

[Guru]

Oh the irony.

[Art]

Something rubs me wrong about Pau.

[Warren2ThaG]

cmon Pau, just relax sweetie. I'll be home soon to give u a massage in the spa with ur cocktail

[Sħãlïq™]

Only one word - excuses.

[Lkr]

Only one word - excuses.

its preseason, don't get too ahead of yourself

[Legacy]

LOL he's one to talk..

[Flash]

LMAO not sure if serious.

[Sħãlïq™]

its preseason, don't get too ahead of yourself

I ain't getting ahead of myself.

[Sħãlïq™]

Barnes crying because the Clippers dunk too much (Only part of the article/video is about the dunking part):

 

http://lakersblog.latimes.com/lakersblog/2011/12/matt-barnes-accuses-blake-griffin-of-flopping.html

 

Can't blame the clippers for playing with such passion even though it was just a preseason game. Whether it is a preseason game or the last few minutes of a game that is already won (the Odom incident last season), the Clippers will play their hearts out until the very end. It's very easy to see this and it's also why many people across the league is rooting for the Clippers to win (aside from all the dunking from Blake the Great). The Clippers are maturing quickly. The Lakers are going the opposite direction, thanks in part to incidents like these and following up with continual complaints after the facts.

It's funny coming from an ex-Clipper. And the fact that he's complaining that the Clippers celebrate too much after dunks means that the Clippers are dunking way to much, which means the Lakers needs to stop crying and play some D. This is too good.