PORTLAND, Ore. – While Doc Rivers didn’t want to tip his hand for his opening night starting lineup for some reason, that the Clippers ended up going with Luc Mbah a Moute wasn’t too surprising. After all, he started 61 games for the team last season.
While things in the team’s first five aren’t different this year – save for a healthy Blake Griffin – the second unit definitely could look different.
The Clippers re-signed Jamal Crawford, Austin Rivers and Wesley Johnson this summer, giving the unit some continuity. But newcomers Raymond Felton, Alan Anderson, Brandon Bass, and perhaps most importantly, Marreese Speights, could give the bench new dimensions and new weapons for Doc Rivers to play with.