After an unbeaten run which I naively thought might never end, it feels like a snap back to reality that the Los Angeles Clippers have lost three of their past five games (sorry, I know I’m a spoiled fan).
It’s not the results in isolation that have caused this episode of sad reflection, but the manner in which they have come about. Although each of the losses have taken different patterns within the games — between shooting slumps, careless turnovers, and losing the rebounding battle — it’s the latter of those patterns that worries me the most.