LAKE BUENA VISTA, Fla. – Sometimes the Clippers look like the best team in the NBA and sometimes they look like the Clippers. There is something subtly wrong with this team. It is not a big problem like roster construction or selfish stars or lousy coaching, but it’s clear enough that you can see it, the way coach Doc Rivers did Sunday, when he turned to assistant Ty Lue and said, “We’ve lost our pace.”
They never got it back. For the second straight game, the Clippers blew a large second-half lead to the rising and confident Nuggets, and Game 6 was somehow more incredible than what happened in Game 5.