The film session examined how the Scissors have blown double-digit leads in all of their games this season, highlighting how carelessness with the basketball has played a role in four losses.
Keep your leverage, Clippers coach Tyronn Lue begged his players during the session; stop spinning the ball at such a high frequency.
To Lue’s dismay, the Clippers got off to a bad start against the San Antonio Spurs on Monday, trailing by 26 points in the first quarter, their defense burning through seven turnovers.
But the Clippers didn’t give up. They picked up their defensive pressure in the second quarter, holding the Spurs to 16 points. They had no turnovers in the second quarter, and they scored 34 points in the period to pull within eight of the lead at the half.
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behind Norman Powell’s 23 points and Amir CoffeyThe 21 points from the bench, the Clippers increased in the fourth quarter to a 113-104 win over the Spurs on Monday to snap a three-game losing streak and give the team its first win at the Intuit Dome.
Powell has scored at least 20 points in each of the last six games.
There was also the furious shooting of Coffey, who was five for six from three-point range for the Clippers (3-4).
Ivica Zubac (17 points, 13 rebounds) had one of the biggest moments of the game when he grabbed an offensive rebound and threw a left-handed dunk over Victor Wembanyama late in the second quarter. The Clippers center submerged over Wembanyama again in the fourth quarter while being fouled.
“The film session yesterday was more about (when) we’re up 13, we’re up 15 (and) we have two or three turnovers in a row, a team makes two or three threes, now it’s a six-point game,” Lue said, whose team only had 12 turnovers against the Spurs. “That was the formula the whole time. Like, when we get up, we turn the basketball over and then we don’t even get back in transition and they get easy baskets.”
Wembanyana had 24 points, 13 rebounds and nine blocks for the Spurs (3-4), who played the game without legendary coach Gregg Popovich, 75, who is dealing with a health problem.
Notes
Asked if Kawhi Leonard, who missed all seven regular season games, played this week, Lue said, “No.” The Clippers have three more games this week: at home Wednesday night against the 76ers and Paul George; at Sacramento on Friday and back home against Toronto.
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This story originally appeared in Los Angeles Times.
