CLIPPERS NOTEBOOK : ROGERS COULD GIVE TEAMMATES ADVICE ON BEING SEEDED EIGHTH.Byline: Gary Washburn Daily News Staff Writer The Clippers are trying to remain a confident bunch heading into their first-round playoff series at Utah. Well, as confident as an eighth seed can be. However, one Clipper clipper, type of sailing ship, designed for speed. Long and narrow, the clipper had the greatest beam aft of the center; the bow cleaved the waves; and the ship carried, besides topgallant and royal sails, skysails and moonrakers—a veritable cloud of sails. knows all about this situation. Rodney Rogers Rodney Ray Rogers (born June 20, 1971, in Durham, North Carolina) is a retired American basketball player who last played power forward for the NBA's Philadelphia 76ers. Rogers played college basketball at Wake Forest University from 1990 until 1993. , only 25, was a member of the Denver team that beat Seattle in 1994. It was the first-ever eighth seed to beat a No. 1 seed in the first round. ``Maybe after all the preparation is over, I'll talk to the guys about what it takes,'' said Rogers, who is averaging 16.7 points over the past 25 games. ``It takes a real strong effort. We even lost the first two games and still pulled it off.'' Rogers doesn't suggest that method. ``We really need to get a win in Salt Lake (City),'' Rogers said. ``That would be really big.'' A matchup that favorsthe Clippers is Rogers vs. Utah's Bryon Russell Bryon Demetrise Russell (born December 31, 1970 in San Bernardino, California), is a former basketball player in the NBA. During a 12 season NBA career that spanned most of the 1990s and into 2005, he played for the Denver Nuggets, Washington Wizards and Los Angeles Lakers and was . Rogers will likely post up Russell to create a double-team situation. That could create scoring opportunities for Loy Vaught Loy Stephen Vaught (born February 27, 1968 in Grand Rapids, Michigan) is a retired American basketball player who spent ten seasons in the NBA, primarily with the Los Angeles Clippers. and Lorenzen Wright Lorenzen Vern-Gagne Wright (born November 4 1975) is an American professional basketball player for the NBA's Atlanta Hawks. After being selected seventh overall by the Los Angeles Clippers in the 1996 NBA Draft out of the University of Memphis, the 6'11" (2. . That's if Rogers can pass over or through the double-team. |
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