Game 80: Warriors 122 - Clippers 116
April 13th 2008 11:01 pm
On Stephen Jackson’s Day, Stephen Jackson scored 28 points to lead the Golden State Warriors to a 122-116 win over the Los Angeles Clippers and pulled the team into an 8th place tie with the Denver Nuggets for the final playoff spot in the Western Conference.
Unfortunately for all the good done in the game, the implications amounted to nothing more than a little bit of pressure on the Denver Nuggets to beat a Houston Rocket team on the 2nd half of a back-to-back in Denver. With the Rockets loss, the Nuggets now only have to beat the Memphis Grizzlies in the last game of their season to get into the playoffs.
The only thing the Warriors can do is try for the empty consolation prize of becoming the only team to have 50 wins in a season and not make the playoffs. Hopefully, the Coach plays some of the young guys in the final two games so fans could see how the future will turn out.
In the Clippers game, Jackson’s defense was actually decent in the 2nd half of the game; most likely due to the rest he received in the 2nd quarter after getting chopped in the back of the neck. He played pressure defense on his man and was at times able to disrupt the offensive player’s dribbling. We can only second guess how the team would have responded in the later half of this year if the starters had received some type of rest in each game.
Stephen Jackson’s Line:
| PTS | REB | AST | STL | BLK | TO |
| 28 | 3 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| FG | FG% | 3PT | 3PT% | FT | FT% |
| 8-17 | .471 | 2-8 | .250 | 10-12 | .833 |
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