Oklahoma City guard Shai Gilgeous-Alexander drives in between Clippers protectors throughout the Rumbling’s 103-101 win at the Intuit Dome on Sunday. (Wally Skalij/ Associated Press)
Dealing with the NBA’s leading group and among the organization’s elite gamers, the Clippers required to be at their finest Sunday if they were to expand their winning touch to 6 video games.
Yet they stopped working to supply in the last secs versus the Oklahoma City Rumbling and Shai Gilgeous-Alexander, shedding 103-101 in a strained fight at the Intuit Dome.
” A great deal of turn overs. Also at the end of the 4th, we had 2 or 3 turn overs at the end,” Kawhi Leonard claimed. “Yeah, we dealt with hard. We remained in the video game the entire video game. Simply calls might have gone regardless. Yet salute to them. They have actually been the most effective group in the organization.”
The Clippers missed out on a possibility to link the video game when Derrick Jones Jr. made just one of 2 totally free tosses with 1:22 left, leaving the Clippers down 101-100 prior to points actually began to untangle.
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2 pricey turn overs, consisting of one by Ivica Zubac after he messed up the round out of bounds with 1:01 left, finished one opportunity to take the lead. After that, with 21 secs left, Norman Powell missed out on a shot, and after Zubac obtained the offending rebound, Kawhi Leonard missed out on a fired with 4 secs continuing to be.
The loss went down the Clippers (40-31) to 8th in a significantly limited Western Seminar postseason race. They are one video game out of 6th location for the last automated playoff berth with 11 video games left.
” I currently played in the play-in and I ain’t attempting to do that once more,” claimed Powell, that do with 9 factors. “So, you’re seeing carefully on placing, desiring groups to shed, wish to maintain the method we’re playing going. Get better on this journey. Yet, yeah, most definitely, everyone is attempting to stay clear of that play-in today.”
Gilgeous-Alexander, held to seven-for-29 capturing from the flooring, do with 26 factors. He made all 11 of his free-throw efforts, consisting of 2 in the last secs.
Leonard had 25 factors and 10 rebounds. James Harden, that ended up …
