Clipper update: Notes from the Midwest

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Auburn Hills, Mich. -- Game 2, for Eric Gordon, will hopefully go a bit better and more smoothly than Game 1 did Wednesday night at Indiana against the Pacers. His homecoming at Indianapolis also happened to be his first game back after missing eight games because of a strained left groin. He went two for seven from the field and had six points in 27-plus minutes.

‘The main thing is I’m just trying to get my legs back together,’ Gordon said here on Friday, shortly before the Clippers played the Pistons.

Said Clippers Coach Mike Dunleavy: ‘He looked really good in that one practice last week. But then he didn’t play. I was hoping we would have gotten 10 to 15 minutes out of him in the game before he got to Indiana. The other part of it is coming home, adrenaline, family and friends.’

Did Gordon feel winded in the second half? He took only two shots from the field.

‘Oh definitely,’ he said. ‘I felt a little winded in the first half. I think I should be feeling a lot better now.’

An ill-looking Baron Davis wandered by in the locker room, and Gordon asked Davis how he was feeling. Davis missed the morning shoot-around and was sick most of the day but is expected to play tonight.

‘He isn’t used to cold weather,’ said Gordon.

-- Lisa Dillman