reason 1. Sam cassell has been hurt. No sam or half sam = craptitude for clippers. sam is like a gilbert arenas (as long as others like caron butler, elton brand do dirty work stuff, sam and gil can convince their teammates that they’re going to win the game with 0.00001 seconds left).

reason 2. Dunleavy’s treatment of maggette is sickening. If he played anywhere else, especially the east, he’d probably get serious consideration for the all star team. For all those people that cringe when kobe puts up 30 points on 30 shot attempts, Maggette’s the guy that puts up 25 points on 2.2 shots.

Dunleavy’s gone power mad perhaps, becuase he starts quinton ross and gives tim thomas minutes that should go to maggette. The irony is that dunleavy says Maggette’s poor defense is why he comes off the bench, but then replaces him with Tim Thomas who couldn’t guard quinton ross. Quinton ross appropriately enough, is the worst offensive player in the nba.

reason 2, number 2. Not enough applesauce.

The kids like meatballs on their spaghetti,
They wouldn’t trade that for Corey Maggette.