INGLEWOOD — Clippers coach Tyronn Lue had less than 24 hours to figure out how to avoid turnovers, the kind of mistakes that led to a disheartening loss the previous night.
His solution was, in theory, simple. He said the Clippers needed to “make the easy pass, the easy play. Instead of making the home run play, take what the defense gives us.” Simple.
And for the first 12 minutes Tuesday night, the game was tantalizingly easy for the Clippers. Then it got hard as the Oklahoma