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The Trade Deadline: Both the Clippers and QuakeGriffin.com Get Busy
Well you’ve all heard by now that our beloved Beard&Blake combo is no more.
We’re sad to see both Baron and the resurrection of his career have been shipped off to die in Cleveland. We are excited to see Mo Williams, along with the return of Eric Gordon hopefully soon, spread the floor out even more for Blake. Not to mention Eric Bledsoe seems to have learned just enough from Baron before he was traded away.
@robinlundberg – Robin Lundberg:
I bet Baron Davis never thought his last pass to Blake Griffin would be through a sunroof #wontneedasunroofincleveland
In other news we have our own “trade” to announce here at QuakeGriffin.com.
On his way out is Mike Robinson aka @MrKnowledgeBomb who unfortunately has to move on due to the good old “real world” covering to much of his plate. He’s been great to have on board for the past month or so and a number of the cool Quake T-Shirts were from his creative mind. Hopefully he’ll find his way back here someday down the road. His new Twitter handle is @TheMikeRobinson and you’ll find him tweeting about his beloved Blazers most of the time.
On his way in, we are excited to announce that video editing wizard Maxamillion711, who you more likely know for his excellent work recently running TheBlakeGriffinShow Youtube page, is coming aboard as the official QuakeGriffin.com video editor. We’ll be launching a new QuakeGriffin youtube page sometime next week, which will be the place to go as soon as Blake throws down another “Quake.”
Lastly if any of you QuakeGriffin.com fans out there have an interest in joining the team here as a “highlight blogger” shoot me an e-mail at quakegriffin[at]gmail[dot]com or drop me a line in the comments.
The Quake: Shaking up L.A. (2/20/11)
Blake made his All-Star game debut and didn’t disappoint in his limited 15 minutes of playing time with 8 points, 5 rebounds, and 5 assists. We found out afterwards that Kobe was making a statement to the next generation of All-Stars in Blake and Kevin Love.
For those of you that didn’t see, Dime Magazine had close-ups of the debut of Blake’s new Nike Hyperdunk shoes that are being called the “10.0’s”. As in “Ten-point oh” on the richter scale. I like to think of them as the new Nike “Quake Griffin’s”.
First up are his pre-game interviews:
With Maria Menounos:
With Craig Sager and Kobe Bryant:
And on to the good stuff:
“His first of many All-Star buckets…”
Next Blake hooks up with Deron Williams for a nifty give and go alley-oop:
And his 4th-quarter fastbreak throw-down:
All Videos H/T TheBlakeGriffinShow
All in all it was definitely a great weekend to be a Blake “Quake” Griffin fan. The best news is there will be more to come!
The Quake: Shaking up Miami (2/6/11)
Celebrating his all-star game bid Quake did not disappoint against the Heat and finished with 21+16 in the Clipper’s loss.
To kick things off his first field goal of the game was this nasty one-hand put back off of the Randy Foye miss:
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RaP2LLSOcU4&hd=1]
H/T TheBlakeGriffinShow (who is quickly becoming my favorite Blake video editor, check out his other great stuff under the name Maxamillion711 too.)
Another wide open breakaway, another Blake “Quake” Griffin windmill dunk:
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cIwMuM5grkY&hd=1]
H/T @Jose3030
And yet another, “Oh what could have been…” (We might need to start a separate page for these “almost” highlights):
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w4TxyeZupx4&hd=1]
H/T @Jose3030
Finally here’s Eddie House’s forearm shiver to prevent and Beard&Blake alley-oop. Absolutely unacceptable. It’s one thing to foul him hard when he takes it to the hoop and another to just shove him out of bounds to prevent a highlight.
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bZQ0BZBw0Y0&hd=1]
Make sure to watch all the way to the end of the clip and here the always badly biased Miami Heat announcing team (trust me I was a Heat season ticket holder in college in FL and watched many a Sun Sports broadcast) call it “almost inadvertent.” Get real guys.
Tremor: Thanks to @SI_LeeJenkins for the mention
Most of you visiting the site today are coming by way of Lee Jenkins’ most recent article on Blake Griffin’s rising stardom which mentioned our work here at QuakeGriffin.com and I hope all of you finding us for the first time enjoy the site.
As a welcome here are some of the great things you can check out here at QuakeGriffin.com:
You can see highlights from Blake’s last game against Chicago, including his nasty allery-oop over Kyle Korver and classic reaction from Bill Simmons (aka @Sportsguy33) here.
You can check out the current Blake Griffin Top 10 Highlights here. Think we’re missing one of the best? Let us know in the comments here.
Do you want to be featured in the next post in our “I saw it with my own two eyes…” series? Send us your personal recap of exactly what it was like seeing Blake play in person this season.
As always, we love to hear your feedback and any ideas you might have to improve the site so don’t be shy and tell us what you think in the comments below.
Ladies and Gentlemen…Your 2011 NBA All-Star
Written by As announced on TNT and ESPN Blake “Quake” Griffin has made the Western Conference reserves in his first full-season in the NBA. The Clippers recently posted an official press release and the world is buzzing for what this man is going to bring to rejuvenate the All-Star weekend as a whole.
Looks like we have an All-Star on the cover of our All-Star issue…
Western Conference @NBAAllStar #Reserves M. Ginobili, D. Nowitzki, P. Gasol, D. Williams, R. Westbrook, B. Griffin, T. Duncan
Welcome to Mike Robinson aka @MrKnowledgeBomb!
Some of you may have seen the announcement over here or on Twitter over the weekend, that we’ve recruited some new talent over here at QuakeGriffin.com to make it an even better place to come satisfy your Blake Griffin highlight needs. Mike Robinson, who you can find on Twitter @MrKnowledgeBomb, will be joining the team with me and along with Conrad our design expert will make a nice little three-man weave of Blake Griffin highlight awesomeness. Mike will be running the Quake Griffin Facebook page (which you should go fan now!) and splitting game highlight and news update duties with me.
The Quake: Shaking Up Charlotte (1/29/11)
Well with that last couple of games coming without a Blake “Super-Highlight” you may have thought he was done out doing himself. You were wrong.
You know Blake had a good one when you have 3 highlights to choose from and don’t know which is the best or where to start.
First up is what Ralph Lawler says on the play-by-play is a 50-ft. alley-oop from Rnady Foye. It’s really more like 60-ft.
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qzteG9-a_AA&hd=1]
H/T @Wegobomber31
Next up we have what I think is an even better alley-oop off of a move that needs its own nickname, the Blake spin out of the post alley-oop. Since we here at Quake Griffin like our forces of nature nicknames, I propose the “Category 32″ or the “Blornado” (which someone said on Twitter last night but I can’t remember who for the H/T). Anyway on to the highlight:
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lAzVixXQwic]
H/T GetBangedOn
And last but certainly not least is the Lawler called “Whirling Dervish” 360-lay up. This guys is just crazy:
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GFNPQSrG09A]
H/T JayWest909
Bonus: Oh what could have been…
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BJgUCmrTqMQ]
H/T JayWest909
"I saw it with my own two eyes…" #1: @Sportsguy33
I’d like to start a new feature hear at Quake Griffin where we highlight reactions from fans who attended the game and saw Blake’s highlights in action. I’m going to call it the “I saw it with my own two eyes…” series. If you’ve been to a game recently featuring the one and only Blake “Quake” Griffin and would like to be part of this series, send me an e-mail or a dm on twitter with a paragraph or two on what it was like to see him with your own two eyes.
Since there is maybe no more famous Clipper fan than ESPN’s the Sports Guy, Bill Simmons, (other than maybe Clipper Darrell, but only die-hard NBA fans know him) and he just so happens to have a new article up today about the Clippers that includes a section about what it’s like to watch Blake in person, I thought it was a good place to start.
@Sportsguy33 from this article:
Against Denver last week, Blake stole the ball and dribbled down the right wing, with Baron Davis trailing to his left and one defender back. As Blake crossed the foul line extended, headed for a seemingly easy layup, he threw the ball back for Baron. To the uninitiated, the pass seemed idiotic. You’re giving up a possible layup? Really? But Clippers fans had been properly trained by this point. They knew. They got it. Blake wanted the Return Oop. Even as Blake was throwing the pass, the buzz started, like a low rumble of a “Whoooaaaaa.” Baron deftly took the pass and lobbed it back (“WHOOOOOOOOOOOOAAAAAAAA!”), but Blake was already jumping (“WHOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOAAAAAAAAAAAA!”) and climbing and climbing and climbing (here’s where the “Oh God, don’t let him get hurt” sound comes in, which I can’t even spell properly), then the slam (“HARRRRRRRRRRRRRRRAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!”) We lost our minds, basically. At halftime, I was still so wired that J.A. Adande teased me, “Look at you, you can’t stop hopping up and down, you’re like a little kid.”
The Quake: Shaking up Golden State (1/9/10)
So they weren’t the most spectacular dunks we’ve seen from Blake Griffin this season, but they were highlights from his 23rd straight double-double performance that led to the Clippers to a 105-91 win over the Golden State Warriors
Here’s Blake’s alley-oop from Baron Davis that was simply that, an alley-oop with a simple two handed finish:
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hoJcmizySmE]
H/T @outsidethenba
The biggest highlight from last night had to be Blake skying for his 10th rebound of the night:
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FRIqnhhQ7nY]
H/T @outsidethenba
Wow. Just wow.
Last but not least, his put-back dunk in transition can be seen in this video of last night’s game highlights at the 2:20 mark.
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gzmu6EGhaxg]
More important to note though is Baron Davis’ INSANE decision to throw the oop to Eric Gordon at the 0:33 mark!!! Blake was right there and calling for it! Instead we got a boring Gordon lay-up in place of what was sure to be a thunderous throwdown from Blake.
Game Recaps:
ESPN:
“The best part about all of it is we’ve played consistently and played well during this stretch,” Griffin said. “It’s changed from the beginning of the season, where it seemed like we were losing every night for a different reason. Now we’re winning a different way every time. It’s a great feeling.”
Griffin talking about their recent stretch of good play in which the Clippers are 7-3 in their last 10 games since December 17th, good for second in the West in that time.
ClipperBlog – Charlie Widdoes:
In achieving his 12th consecutive 20-10 game, we saw again just how overpowering Grffin can be on a basketball court. It’s not simply that he produced another nice scoring and rebounding total, because, let’s be honest, he is a terrible mismatch for David Lee and the Warriors and we would expect him to dominate. But the way he makes the game so much easier for his teammates is what should truly inspire hope for sustained team success. His presence allows shooters to have space along the perimeter and opens up lanes to penetrate because defenders can’t afford to help off of him.
Clips Nation – Steve Perrin:
[Blake] was 9 for 11 from the line, which was nice to see. He looks more comfortable at the stripe to me right now, and I wouldn’t be surprised if he shoots around 70% the rest of the season. He also almost single handedly got the Warriors bigs into foul trouble. In addition to Lee fouling out, Andres Biedrins was also disqualified with six fouls, and Dorell Wright and Vladimir Radmanovic each picked up 5.
ESPN Los Angeles – Pedro Moura:
Griffin broke the franchise record with his 23rd consecutive double-double Sunday after posting a 23-point, 12-rebound line. It was announced to cheers from the crowd after the final buzzer.