At the beginning of the season the Clippers showed the league that they had truly put together the defensive juggernaut analysts believed they would be over the summer. Per NBA.com’s stats page in November, the Clippers posted a top-three defense allowing only 102.2 points per game. The most impressive part of this stifling defense the team put on display is that superstar Paul George was missing for the first half of the month.
During that span, however, the team was only posting the seventeenth best offense. With offensively gifted players like Lou Williams, Kawhi Leonard, Paul George, and Montrezl Harrell it was bizarre to see the Clippers in the bottom half of the league in offensive rating.