LA beat San Antonio 107-92 in a game they never really trailed. Blake Griffin and Chris Paul had monster games to put away the Spurs down the stretch.

Behind confident defense, the Clippers led 30-18 after one quarter. However, our bench put us behind on a quick 10-0 Spurs run to start the 2nd. We leaned pretty heavily on the starters, who put us back up six at the break.

Jamal Crawford was a source of spark off the bench, pouring in 17 along the way. The desperate Poppovich resorted to Hack-A-DeAndre right before halftime. They showed this graphic that we’re undefeated when Jordan shoots that many free throws – it ends up slowing the game down and we get set on defense every time, plus it puts the other team in foul trouble. He drained his both by the last time he attempted.

Griffin put some Spurs on a poster in the third quarter. We used a strong performance from him and sustained second half energy to ride a lead up to 15 after three. One dunk was a snapback catapult, then he essentially repeated the stunt a few minutes later. It’s one way to rile up STAPLES.

You knew San Antonio was going to come out firing threes in the 4th. They cut it to 90-81, and Doc Rivers took timeout. We played much better perimeter d after that, and Paul finished them off. He scored 13 in the 4th.