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Issue: Free-throw shooting

Free-throw shooting is a fairly minute issue in the grand scheme of things, but it happens to be one of the Los Angeles Clippers' few faults.
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The Clippers have struggled a fair bit from the stripe this season, ranking 26th in the NBA with a collective free-throw percentage of 70.8.

Blake Griffin and DeAndre Jordan are both to blame here, as the two account for 8.7 of the team's free-throw attempts on a game-to-game basis.

Griffin's conversion rate of 66.3 percent is slightly below the team average, while Jordan continues to struggle mightily from the line, hitting on just 41.6 percent of his attempts (down from a mark of 52.5 percent in 2011-12).


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Issue: Winning on the road
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There's no team in the NBA that has a better home-court advantage than the Denver Nuggets.

With a record of 29-3 at the Pepsi Center, the Nuggets are helped by the fact that they're playing a mile high.

The flip side to the Nuggets' impressive home record is that they're 15-19 away from home this season, a legitimate cause for concern entering the postseason.

Should the Nuggets end up with the West's fifth seed, they won't have the luxury of home-court advantage, which will force them into an uncomfortable situation.

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If the playoffs were to begin today the Nuggets would find themselves matched up against the Los Angeles Clippers, a team whom they failed to beat in their one trip to Staples Center this season.
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With the playoffs looming, it must be emphasized that the Nuggets are more dependent on home-court advantage than any other team throughout the NBA.