Rowan Kavner
LOS ANGELES – Months ago, the words “perseverance” and “resolve” were nothing more than hopes, talk of “cerebral play” down the stretch nothing more than fiction.
That changed Monday.
Those words and phrases buzzed throughout the Clippers’ postgame locker room, getting thrown around multiple times by multiple players in reference to what they had just demonstrated in Detroit and on the five-game road trip.
It’s often to hear a team dismiss a win as nothing more than one game. But this Clippers group, unaccustomed in recent years to having to search for answers the way they’ve had to early this year, didn’t sugarcoat the importance of winning the fourth of five games and battling back to do so.