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Patrick Beverley Taking Credit for Clippers Almost Beating Warriors is Weak Stuff

By Ryan Flores

Golden State Warriors v Los Angeles Clippers - Game Four
Golden State Warriors v Los Angeles Clippers - Game Four / Harry How

The Los Angeles Clippers' season may be over, but that does not mean that Patrick Beverley won't still talk trash.

Not even 24 hours after the Golden State Warriors swept the Portland Trail Blazers, Beverley took to twitter to voice his opinion on the series.

Is Beverley wrong for saying that the Clippers were a tougher challenge for the Warriors? Perhaps not. The Trail Blazers, in Games 2 through 4, led the Warriors at halftime by significant margins, and blew all three games. Despite Damian Lillard and CJ McCollum putting up 22 points per game apiece in this series, they both struggled from the field, as they shot 37% and 39% respectively.

What's sad is that the Trail Blazers simply weren't able to make it a competitive series, even without Kevin Durant playing the whole way. The Clippers had to face both Durant and DeMarcus Cousins (albeit just two games for Cousins), and played them incredibly hard, in spurts, for six games. That seemed to be the story of the Clippers' season; they played with passion night in and night out, and made the playoffs despite not having a star, after trading their best player in Tobias Harris.

But of the four Warriors wins, three were absolute blowouts; the Clips' Game 2 comeback triumph at Oracle will live on forever, but it's not worth giving a silver medal in the West to, if you know what we mean.

To earnestly say that the Clippers played the Warriors better than anybody is not true. Houston Rockets guard James Harden suffered bleeding in both eyes at the hands of Draymond Green, and he still managed to play hard in a tough six-game series that hinged on a single late-game closeout in Game 5.

Beverley has a point, but only to an extent. The Clippers definitely played the Warriors tougher than the Trail Blazers, but the Rockets were a better matchup. None of this really matters at the end of the day, however, as they all lost. Does anybody really care about who lost better than someone else? Come on, Patrick Beverley, you're better than that.