When the Clippers left San Antonio the night before Thanksgiving, they had won three consecutive games and looked to be, as wing Paul George said, “in good shape.”
“We’re playing well, we liked how we looked offensively and defensively and it’s time to test it,” George said then.
The test was how they would fare in what came next — their season’s first stretch of five games in seven days, all against teams who would figure in the Western Conference’s playoff race.
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The result, a 2-3 record, was a microcosm of an up-and-down season that is nearly one-quarter over.