NBA
Regular Season Round 156: Phoenix Suns - LA Clippers 101-112
Date: April 14, 2015
Chris Paul and the Los Angeles Clippers did their job. Now they can sit back and wait to see what shakes out on the final day of the NBA regular season. The Clippers' star point guard scored 22 points, including a career-high six 3-pointers, to lead his team to a 112-101 win over the injury-depleted Phoenix Suns in the Clippers' final regular-season game before the NBA playoffs. Los Angeles clinched the West's No. 3 seed with the victory. "It's a good feeling. I don't think I've ever not played on the last day of the season, so it's cool that we got that solidified," Paul said. Blake Griffin hit his first six shots on his way to 20 points as Clippers coach Doc Rivers played his starters major minutes with a higher playoff seeding on the line. DeAndre Jordan had 13 points and 14 rebounds, setting the Clippers' single-season record for rebounds. Los Angeles (56-26) can finish with the No. 2 seed if the San Antonio Spurs and Houston Rockets lose their final games Wednesday. "We are ready as we can be," Rivers said. "We are healthy, we finished the season on a nice run, 14 of 15 (wins). That is... all you can ask for but I know like everyone else knows, even though it ended that way, Game 1 is new. Now it starts all over again." The Suns were down to eight available players, Archie Goodwin leading Phoenix with a season high 18 points and P.J. Tucker adding 17 with nine rebounds. The Suns finished 39-43 and lost 10 of their final 11 games, the worst end to a regular season since the team's first as a franchise, 1968-69, when it dropped 11 of the final 12. The Clippers led 32-26 at the end of the first quarter and surged even further ahead by going 6 of 9 from 3-point range in the second period. Paul hit two 3s to make the score 58-41 and J.J. Redick back-to-back 3s for a 66-41 lead. Jordan grabbed his fifth rebound with 3:50 left in the first quarter, and in so doing passed former San Diego Clipper Swen Nater for the most rebounds in a single season in franchise history with 1,217. Nater had 1,216 in 1979-80. Jordan finished with 1,226, the Clippers completed the first season series sweep of the Suns in franchise history with their seventh straight win over Phoenix and Rivers won his 700th career game as a head coach. "I had no idea. I didn't even know I was near that," Rivers said. "That is nice. It's nice to have it over with, I guess. What it really says is that I have been really lucky with good players." The Clippers led by as many as 30 in the second half, but the Suns cut it to 14 on a 3-pointer from Gerald Green. The lead was down to 10, 109-99, with three minutes left, but Phoenix got no closer. "They made a stretch of threes that really blew the game open there in the second quarter," Suns coach Jeff Hornacek said. "The guys kept playing, which we were happy about." Courtesy of: myfoxtampabay.com
Terms:
Field Goals : 2PM-A (2 point Field Goal made-attempts) 3PM-A (3 point Field Goal made-attempts) FTM-A (free throws made-attempt)
Rebounds : OFF (Offensive) DEF (Defensive) TOT (total)
Fouls : CM (Committed) RV (received)
Blocks : FV (In Favor) AG (Against)
Other terms : MIN (minutes) AST (assists) ST (steals) TO (Turnovers) PTS (points) RNK (ranking)
Regular Season Round 156: Phoenix Suns - LA Clippers 101-112
Date: April 14, 2015
Chris Paul and the Los Angeles Clippers did their job. Now they can sit back and wait to see what shakes out on the final day of the NBA regular season. The Clippers' star point guard scored 22 points, including a career-high six 3-pointers, to lead his team to a 112-101 win over the injury-depleted Phoenix Suns in the Clippers' final regular-season game before the NBA playoffs. Los Angeles clinched the West's No. 3 seed with the victory. "It's a good feeling. I don't think I've ever not played on the last day of the season, so it's cool that we got that solidified," Paul said. Blake Griffin hit his first six shots on his way to 20 points as Clippers coach Doc Rivers played his starters major minutes with a higher playoff seeding on the line. DeAndre Jordan had 13 points and 14 rebounds, setting the Clippers' single-season record for rebounds. Los Angeles (56-26) can finish with the No. 2 seed if the San Antonio Spurs and Houston Rockets lose their final games Wednesday. "We are ready as we can be," Rivers said. "We are healthy, we finished the season on a nice run, 14 of 15 (wins). That is... all you can ask for but I know like everyone else knows, even though it ended that way, Game 1 is new. Now it starts all over again." The Suns were down to eight available players, Archie Goodwin leading Phoenix with a season high 18 points and P.J. Tucker adding 17 with nine rebounds. The Suns finished 39-43 and lost 10 of their final 11 games, the worst end to a regular season since the team's first as a franchise, 1968-69, when it dropped 11 of the final 12. The Clippers led 32-26 at the end of the first quarter and surged even further ahead by going 6 of 9 from 3-point range in the second period. Paul hit two 3s to make the score 58-41 and J.J. Redick back-to-back 3s for a 66-41 lead. Jordan grabbed his fifth rebound with 3:50 left in the first quarter, and in so doing passed former San Diego Clipper Swen Nater for the most rebounds in a single season in franchise history with 1,217. Nater had 1,216 in 1979-80. Jordan finished with 1,226, the Clippers completed the first season series sweep of the Suns in franchise history with their seventh straight win over Phoenix and Rivers won his 700th career game as a head coach. "I had no idea. I didn't even know I was near that," Rivers said. "That is nice. It's nice to have it over with, I guess. What it really says is that I have been really lucky with good players." The Clippers led by as many as 30 in the second half, but the Suns cut it to 14 on a 3-pointer from Gerald Green. The lead was down to 10, 109-99, with three minutes left, but Phoenix got no closer. "They made a stretch of threes that really blew the game open there in the second quarter," Suns coach Jeff Hornacek said. "The guys kept playing, which we were happy about." Courtesy of: myfoxtampabay.com
 LA CLIPPERS (coach: Tyronn Lue)112 |
| FIELD GOALS | REBOUNDS | FOULS | BLOCKS | |||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| # | NAME | MIN | 2PM-A | 3PM-A | FTM-A | OFF | DEF | RB | AS | F | RV | ST | FV | AG | TO | PT | RNK | +/- |
| 1 | zIQdij, gRSjdQR | 46 | 1-9 (20.9%) | 5-5 (5%) | 6-4 (44.4%) | 1 | 2 | 63 | 5 | 4 | 5 | 5 | 8 | 5 | 4 | 64 | 85 | 5 |
| 4 | Oiul, ChQas | 87 | 8-1 (44.4%) | 1-66 (03.0%) | 5-5 (5%) | 5 | 6 | 6 | 1 | 4 | 5 | 8 | 6 | 5 | 6 | 88 | 67 | 5 |
| 48 | GQaffaj, mliVR | 87 | 2-63 (09.6%) | 5-5 (5%) | 3-3 (655%) | 5 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 8 | 5 | 8 | 5 | 5 | 6 | 85 | 81 | 5 |
| 66 | CQiTfIQd, ziBil | 87 | 8-0 (35%) | 8-9 (82.1%) | 5-5 (5%) | 6 | 8 | 4 | 3 | 6 | 5 | 4 | 5 | 5 | 8 | 65 | 7 | 5 |
| 3 | eRdaZV, z.z. | 84 | 8-0 (35%) | 8-1 (44.4%) | 8-8 (655%) | 5 | 6 | 6 | 6 | 6 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 6 | 68 | 0 | 5 |
| 88 | miQjRs, biUU | 88 | 6-8 (05%) | 5-0 (5%) | 6-8 (05%) | 4 | 3 | 9 | 4 | 6 | 5 | 6 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 4 | 1 | 5 |
| HudsIj, vRsURQ | 86 | 6-8 (05%) | 4-4 (655%) | 5-5 (5%) | 6 | 6 | 8 | 4 | 6 | 5 | 6 | 6 | 5 | 6 | 66 | 60 | 5 | |
| 60 | wuQVIDlu, HRdI | 85 | 5-5 (5%) | 6-3 (80%) | 4-0 (15%) | 5 | 3 | 3 | 6 | 4 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 1 | 4 | 5 |
| 65 | HiTRs, ApRjZRQ | 62 | 3-0 (25%) | 6-8 (05%) | 8-8 (655%) | 5 | 6 | 6 | 6 | 4 | 5 | 5 | 6 | 5 | 6 | 64 | 65 | 5 |
| 5 | giLas, GlRj | 63 | 6-4 (44.4%) | 5-5 (5%) | 5-5 (5%) | 5 | 8 | 8 | 8 | 6 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 8 | 8 | 6 | 5 |
| HiBalUIj, zIQdij | 3 | 5-5 (5%) | 5-5 (5%) | 5-5 (5%) | 5 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 6 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 6 | 5 | |
| zIjRs, gihjUiF | 5 | 5-5 (5%) | 5-5 (5%) | 5-5 (5%) | 5 | 6 | 6 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 6 | 5 | |
| wIUil | 89-37 (00.6%) | 60-42 (47.0%) | 64-62 (98.8%) | 66 | 44 | 33 | 81 | 67 | 5 | 65 | 0 | 5 | 68 | 668 | 661 | |||
 PHOENIX SUNS (coach: Jordan Ott)101 |
| FIELD GOALS | REBOUNDS | FOULS | BLOCKS | |||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| # | NAME | MIN | 2PM-A | 3PM-A | FTM-A | OFF | DEF | RB | AS | F | RV | ST | FV | AG | TO | PT | RNK | +/- |
| WiQQRj, w.z. | 34 | 0-68 (36.9%) | 5-5 (5%) | 5-5 (5%) | 4 | 5 | 4 | 1 | 3 | 5 | 6 | 5 | 5 | 6 | 65 | 2 | 5 | |
| 69 | wuZVRQ, O.z. | 43 | 3-9 (09.6%) | 8-4 (11.9%) | 4-0 (15%) | 8 | 9 | 7 | 5 | 8 | 5 | 6 | 6 | 5 | 6 | 69 | 67 | 5 |
| 8 | mlRdsIR, qQaZ | 44 | 3-7 (33.3%) | 5-0 (5%) | 8-3 (05%) | 6 | 0 | 1 | 7 | 5 | 5 | 6 | 5 | 5 | 8 | 65 | 68 | 5 |
| GIIdTaj, SQZhaR | 48 | 3-2 (05%) | 8-4 (11.9%) | 3-9 (09.6%) | 6 | 8 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 0 | 62 | 2 | 5 | |
| 66 | bIQQas, biQVaRff | 45 | 9-65 (95%) | 5-4 (5%) | 5-5 (5%) | 8 | 9 | 7 | 0 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 6 | 5 | 6 | 63 | 85 | 5 |
| 63 | GQRRj, GRQild | 89 | 8-8 (655%) | 3-2 (05%) | 5-5 (5%) | 5 | 3 | 3 | 6 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 4 | 61 | 63 | 5 |
| miQQIj, qiQl | 80 | 6-4 (44.4%) | 8-4 (11.9%) | 6-8 (05%) | 8 | 8 | 3 | 6 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 6 | 5 | 5 | 7 | 7 | 5 | |
| bZXRil, zRQRl | 60 | 6-4 (44.4%) | 6-6 (655%) | 8-8 (655%) | 5 | 6 | 6 | 5 | 6 | 5 | 4 | 5 | 5 | 8 | 9 | 1 | 5 | |
| wIUil | 82-03 (06.7%) | 66-81 (38.4%) | 68-85 (15.5%) | 66 | 82 | 47 | 80 | 61 | 5 | 2 | 4 | 5 | 60 | 656 | 71 | |||
Terms:
Field Goals : 2PM-A (2 point Field Goal made-attempts) 3PM-A (3 point Field Goal made-attempts) FTM-A (free throws made-attempt)
Rebounds : OFF (Offensive) DEF (Defensive) TOT (total)
Fouls : CM (Committed) RV (received)
Blocks : FV (In Favor) AG (Against)
Other terms : MIN (minutes) AST (assists) ST (steals) TO (Turnovers) PTS (points) RNK (ranking)
