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The Los Angeles Clippers’ biggest concerns during the path to the Finals

By Jason Reed

BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS - FEBRUARY 13: Kawhi Leonard #2 of the LA Clippers looks on from the bench during the game against the Boston Celtics at TD Garden on February 13, 2020 in Boston, Massachusetts. The Celtics defeat the Clippers in double overtime 141-133. (Photo by Maddie Meyer/Getty Images)
BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS - FEBRUARY 13: Kawhi Leonard #2 of the LA Clippers looks on from the bench during the game against the Boston Celtics at TD Garden on February 13, 2020 in Boston, Massachusetts. The Celtics defeat the Clippers in double overtime 141-133. (Photo by Maddie Meyer/Getty Images) /
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3. Anthony Davis and the Los Angeles Lakers

If you read the exact same article that I wrote for the Los Angeles Lakers then you would see that Kawhi Leonard and the Los Angeles Clippers were concern number three. Both teams should absolutely be worried about each other because chances are they are going to have to go through one another to get to the Finals.

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I truly believe that if the Lakers and Clippers played 100 seven-game series then the results would be somewhere around a 50/50 split. However, unlike Leonard, I actually do not think that LeBron James is the concern in this series for the Clippers, it is Anthony Davis.

LeBron is going to do LeBron things and we kind of know what to expect out of him in the playoffs. The Clippers will not be able to completely stop LeBron, but I do think they will be able to limit him with a defensive tandem of Kawhi Leonard and Paul George as well as Marcus Morris, who has historically given LeBron fits.

Anthony Davis should be the big worry as the Los Angeles Clippers do not have as much size as they would want in a series against the Lakers, and while they have Montrezl Harrell, this opens the door for Anthony Davis to have his way.

Davis did not have a great game in either of the two games against the Clippers, which is a good sign, but has not given Clipper fans an idea of what these games could look like with the best version of AD.

The tempo is going to slow down in the playoffs, as it often does, and the Lakers would be foolish if they were not feeding Davis in the low post in most of their offensive possessions. Once the playoffs hit and the minutes expand and the fourth and fifth scoring options start being used less, we are going to start seeing massive games out of Anthony Davis.

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Davis is capable of a 40-10-5 game any night that he takes the court and is particularly dangerous in the playoffs as he chases his first ring. I’d be keeping a close eye on Anthony Davis the rest of the season.

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