LA Clippers Must Overcome Golden State

If the championship threat is still real and relevant, the LA Clippers will have to take down the Warriors.

Last season, the LA Clippers were probably the one team in the Western Conference that could’ve honestly taken it all to the Golden State Warriors.

The team seems to really be putting all of that behind them, as they’ve opened up to a 4-0 start in 2015-16.

But the bad news?

So have the Warriors.

Tonight the Pacific’s unbeaten take to each other by the bay.

What we learned from Golden State’s championship run last season was that home court really did factor in to their success late in games or in situations with great significance.

If the Clippers can take that away from them, especially this early in the season, there’s no telling what kind of playoff implications it could have.

Yes, it is just one game — but did we say that when Game 7 was about to go down between the Clippers and Rockets?

No, of course not.

Instead, we based the entire playoff series and the future of the Clippers on just one night.

There’s no reason to not look at tonight in the same respect, at least with regard to the fact that it’s of high importance.

Steph Curry has been lights out and consistent for the defending champs, and it’s not too certain if he’ll have a sort of cool-off period anytime soon.

Getting DeAndre Jordan back over the off-season was obviously the biggest step the Clippers took in trying to stay in championship form — Jordan’s play tonight could very well tell us if it was worth the move.

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If Jordan had gone to Dallas as all indicators pointed to, Los Angeles would’ve been without a big threat down low other than Blake Griffin.

But even Griffin is human — and LA couldn’t handle to learn that the hard way.

This will be only the second game that the Clippers have played on the road thus far, but for obvious reasons this may be the best way to go about it.

I say that because it would be rather concerning for them to play the Warriors for the first time in Golden State later on in the season, because by then they’ll have much more chemistry to deal with.

And if all fell apart, that’s a big mess to try and sort out.

Also, it feels as if Chris Paul is still trying to find his most effective identity with the Clippers.

Since coming from New Orleans back in 2011 around Christmas time, Paul has had good memories with the Clippers, but it’s an understatement to say that things could have or could be going better.

Bottom Line: The Clippers can’t afford to crawl.

Now that he’s got more supporting pieces around him, it’s hard to imagine the media giving him any breathing room this year if they don’t win it all.

Or at the very least get closer to last year.

But like any long journey, this one starts with a single step.

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