This team is just not good on defense, period, and while the offense also sucked Saturday the offense will improve with time and rest while the defense is not even close to being anything but bad.

Landry looked fine on offense, save the three turnovers, each a travel, each frantic. (Evans' four turnovers — travels, a carry, a double dribble — were mostly just off-balance. I thought the Clippers did solid work bottling up Evans. He still made it to the rim fairly frequently, but that's Tyreke Evans for you.) I'm not sure anything can be blamed on discomfort, but in his post-game quotes Landry did mention nerves, so that's actually reassuring, both in that he got nerves making his debut for an admittedly bad team, and in that nerves will subside quickly. Defensively, there were only two plays in which I gasped in horror (well, "consternation") at what a Clipper did to Landry, and his rebounding worked for me (a team-high seven defensive boards; the Clips did, however, get too many second chances).

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I won't bludgeon you with sarcasm expect to say that Kevin Martin was just completely invisible out there.

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Joey Dorsey wore a hilarious sweater to the arena. I feel bad commenting on it. If you have the game recorded, take a look at the Jack Daniels Images of the Game in the late fourth quarter. You can't miss it. Heck, the only person who misses it is the Hamburglar, who is from whom Dorsey stole the sweater.