Clippers extend win streak to 4 games with rout of Spurs

The last time the Clippers played the San Antonio Spurs, they were mired in a slump, having lost nine of 11 games. This time?

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The Clippers (27-24) are enjoying a winning streak, extending it to a season-high four games with a 138-100 victory against the same Spurs team they struggled to beat six days earlier.

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“Yeah, things feel different. We still got a long way to go, but things do feel different,” Coach Tyronn Lue said.

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“When you win, it changes a lot of things, but we are getting better in certain areas, especially offensively. I think we’re turning the corner in that regard.”

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Offensively, the Clippers again got solid production from Paul George and Kawhi Leonard, who did the bulk of the scoring.

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George had a game-high 35 points on 14-of-19 shooting (5 for 8 from 3-point range), seven assists and four rebounds, while Leonard finished with 27 points on 10-for-16 shooting and seven assists.

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“Offensively, I thought we took advantage of them double-teaming, got to our spacing, our right spacing, moved the basketball,

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and took care of the basketball which has been one of our problems this season,” said Lue, pointing to their low number of turnovers.

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“Only having five turnovers is huge for us, so PG and Kawhi having 14 assists and no turnovers is big when you’re playing through your two big guys like that.

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Like I said, we’re trending upwards but we still got a long way to go, we got to continue to work to get where we want to get to but I like where we’re at right now.”

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