Doc Rivers will have somewhat of a reunion on Thursday when his Clippers arrive in Brooklyn to visit Paul Pierce, Kevin Garnett and the Nets. [ad-4468020]<\/p>\n
Date\/Time: 8 PM ET, Thursday, Dec. 12, 2013<\/strong> ATS Matchup Insight<\/a> | CappersPicks Insider Preview<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n The Clippers had just one day of rest for their road-weary legs before playing Boston on Wednesday, and were 2-2 during their marathon seven-game road trip after a 94-83 win at Philadelphia on Monday, in a game that saw LA continue to fight its battles shorthanded, as guards J.J. Redick and Reggie Bullock, along with forward Matt Barnes remained sidelined.<\/p>\n Los Angles’ depleted roster has prompted it to sign veteran forward Stephen Jackson, who could give the team a boost on the perimeter.<\/p>\n The Clippers entered Tuesday ranked tied for 24th in the NBA in 3-point shooting (32.8 percent) and were just 5-for-27 against the 76ers.<\/p>\n Meanwhile, center DeAndre Jordan has three straight double-doubles and is averaging 14.2 rebounds on the road. Brooklyn got a jolt as Deron Williams returned from a nine-game layoff to produce 25 points and seven assists and Brook Lopez scored 24 points the Nets topped Boston.<\/p>\n Former Celtic Garnett had 11 points to go with nine rebounds and Pierce chipped in four points and seven boards against his former team, where he spent 15 seasons.<\/p>\n Defensively, the Nets stonewalled the Celtics while the bench chimed in, led by forward Andray Blatche, with 11 points and nine rebounds.<\/p>\n Brooklyn looks good as of late, but has only strung consecutive wins together for the first time this season.<\/p>\n In the meantime, the Clippers seemed to have found the right stroke in defending the better teams in the league on the perimeter, while adding a piece to its own outside game.<\/p>\n They have also held seven of their last 10 opponents to 42 percent shooting or worse as Philadelphia managed only 35.9 percent from the field.<\/p>\n If Los Angeles can find the energy and use its deep bench to its advantage to compete in back-to -back contests, they should be able to celebrate River’s sort-of-reunion with a big win in the Bronx.<\/p>\n Clippers 102, Nets 91<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" L.A. vs Brooklyn NBA Hoops Handicapping Doc Rivers will have somewhat of a reunion on Thursday when his Clippers arrive in Brooklyn to visit Paul Pierce, Kevin Garnett and the Nets.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":978,"featured_media":68777,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[56994,56995,4219,60654,622,3091,60653,60655,4283],"class_list":["post-70315","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nba","tag-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn-nets","tag-clippers","tag-clippers-vs-nets","tag-la","tag-la-clippers","tag-la-clippers-vs-brooklyn-nets","tag-la-vs-brooklyn","tag-nets"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/capperspicks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70315","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/capperspicks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/capperspicks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capperspicks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/978"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capperspicks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=70315"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/capperspicks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70315\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":70341,"href":"https:\/\/capperspicks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70315\/revisions\/70341"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capperspicks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/68777"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/capperspicks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=70315"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capperspicks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=70315"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capperspicks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=70315"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nVenue: Barclays Center, Brooklyn, New York<\/strong>
\nBroadcast: TNT<\/strong>
\nSpread: LA -1.5<\/strong>
\nOver\/Under: 197<\/strong>
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\nThe Clippers will hope that they can us that to their advantage as they try to contain a surging Nets team that is riding a two-game win streak after a 104-96 win over Boston last time out.<\/p>\nMatt’s Prediction:<\/h3>\n