Looking forward
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The Clippers have one of the best starting units in the NBA, and in earlier years it has been the bench who has lost leads. This year’s bench has shown flashes (especially early on) of being one of the best reserve groups in the league. The addition of Marreese Speights and Raymond Felton in the offseason have only made the team better, because those pieces fit into the puzzle so well and have contributed right away without needing ages to figure out their role.
There are still almost four months of regular season basketball left and that leaves plenty of time to tweak defensive assignments as well as rotations once everyone comes back healthy.
Speights is what the Clippers wanted in a stretch big and more, and is part of the reason the team got out to such a fast start and gave fans hope their beloved franchise will make it past the second round for the first time.
Seems like a lot of praise of a role player, right?
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Well, it’s the role players that help win playoff series and are especially relevant to taking the typically shallow LA Clippers to a new level, so I have high expectations for Speights in this year’s campaign. Get your popcorn ready and wait to see some fireworks.