Milwaukee, the Clippers’ road opponent tonite, is 2-0 under new coach Larry Krystkowiak. You may remember Larry from his playing career (9 years, most notably a stint with the Bucks from 87-92), or more recently as the hometown hero (he was born & raised in Missoula) University of Montana coach that shocked Nevada in the NCAA tourney last year. Well, after that season, he resigned and hooked on as an assistant with the Bucks, and here he is, head coach in the NBA. Is this like one of those conspiracy theory things where a mole gets in as the vice president cuz he knows that the president is gonna get shot by a guy dressed up like the Ace of Spades? Forget I said that. In any event, the writing was on the wall for Terry Stotts, and if Larry can keep it up you’d think he’d be the logical choice, especially as a former big time Buck, to continue on next season. But who knows anything about Milwaukee, besides the fact that Ronnie Cunningham and Laverne and Shirley lived there. Certainly not me. Oh, and beer. Lots of beer. Doesn’t sound all bad.

Amazing what a little research can do. Mr. Krystkowiak did in fact sign a contract not just for the remainder of this season, but for the next 2 seasons as well. The Grizzoulian is convinced, and elaborates for us unknowing and unwashed (I’ll speak for myself) the extent of the man’s qualifications and reasons to assume he’ll bring nothing but success and coronations and big baskets of rose petals to Bradley Arena. Time will tell, and I wish the guy all the best, just after tonite, and the hopefully inevitable asshanders award he’ll receive at clipper hands before going on to years and years of beard scratching distinction.

Anyway, that is the scene in which we are placed for the matchup of apparent yet possibly ephemeral antithesis of doom for the clippers tonite, a polar opposite expectation wise to last night’s supposedly dominant at home bulls, so don’t step in dog crap, fair clippers, avoid land mines laced in Schlitz malt liquor, any other cliché you can think up, sidestep those with care as well, because if there was ever a trap game, this is it, not that the Clips can stand to take ANY game, especially on the road, lightly, but they should definitely be able to win tonite, but keep that urgency that was on display last night (along with actual strategy and good play), and throw out at least half of those turnovers (you can’t always count on the other team’s best shooter to put up an abysmal brick yard display, God knows Michael Redd won’t look as horrible tonite as Ben Gordon did against LA last nite), and you might just be able to come back to LA having batted .500 on a 6 game road trip, and that ain’t bad, LA, that ain’t bad at all.