Bench play Monday was off the charts for Clippers in 40-point romp

The Clippers scored only 26 points off the bench in their 109-105 loss to Golden State on Saturday in the first game of their Western Conference first-round playoff series.

It was much different Monday when the bench came through with a whopping 58 points in the Clippers’ 138-98 rout of the Warriors at Staples Center. Leading the way was Danny Granger with 15 points, Hedo Turkoglu had 13 and Darren Collison 12. Jamal Crawford started slowly, but he finished with nine points on 4 of 8 from the field.

“I thought our bench tonight was fantastic,” coach Doc Rivers said in the post-game news conference. “Great in the second quarter, obviously great in the fourth quarter. They shot the ball well, they defended. And that’s what we need our bench to do. That’s what that was about, just no let-up.”