There are three things you simply cannot do when playing the Clippers: Shoot 3s poorly, turn the ball over too much, and fail to sufficiently execute transition defense. San Antonio landed that trifecta of terribleness late Sunday night, and Los Angeles completed a 107-92 Game 1 mauling that’s set an unexpected tone in the Spurs’ run at defending their title.
Let’s go down the list, shall we? San Antonio hit just 10 of its 33 3-point attempts. That’s only the third time in the franchise’s history the Spurs have taken at least 33 shots from deep and made no more than 10 of them.