Almost too easy? Playing the Clippers with all those injuries

As best I can tell, Marcus Canby, Chris Kaman, Brian Skinner, Mike Taylor and, for sure, Zach Randolph will not play this afternoon for the Clippers.

It reminds me of my freshman year in high school when I hated breakaway layups. Nobody around, easiest shot in basketball — gulp, too easy. A guy can blow that shot. I’d rather have someone contesting it.

The Blazers have a team they should beat with ease, unless some  of those Los Angeles gunners — Baron Davis, Ricky Davis, Eric Gordon, Al Thornton — get scalding hot. And the teams who want to go small sometimes give Portland problems.

But the Blazers should punish the Clippers on the boards and in the paint and score easily. Can there be any other acceptable result? No — and a defeat here would be disastrous.

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Tags: Dwight Jaynes, Los Angeles Clippers, NBA, Portland Trail Blazers