After years of being part of the loyal and beaten few who follow the Clippers, I can tell you that Sam Cassell does not make the same shots in the second half that he does in the first. Sam has a tendency to chuck. He just thows that ball up there somewhere in the vicinity of the basket and maybe he's hoping it will go in, maybe he's doing something else. Who can say? It reminds me of Walt Frazer of the Knicks in those Golden Days of Yore. Walt would run the clock down, go one on one against, say, Earl Monroe of Baltimore while the Knicks would clear out and Walt would put that ball up there with seconds to go ... and miss. But since he was "Clyde," and made all those cool moves trying to penetrate but was forced to shoot from outside because of good "D," he was still - somehow - cool. Maybe it was because he made it look like that was what he intended to do all along, only the ball just didn't fall. He'll make it next time, his body language said as he strutted with his towel to the locker room. And he would, more often than not - at least, according to my childhood memory.
Anyway, if Cassell plays in Part II, there will be a 7th game. Count those three pointers and 17 foot jumpers sailing past the rim.
WF
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