Five things to take from Clippers’ 119-115 victory over the San Antonio Spurs

DeAndre Jordan, left, did not let San Antonio’s hack-a-DJ ploy stop him from helping the Clippers defeat the Spurs 119-115 on Thursday at Staples Center/Staff photo by Scott Varley

 

DeAndre Jordan’s season free-throw percentage is down to 40.8 after he made just 10 of 28 in this one while the Spurs and their coach – Gregg Popovich – tried to ruin a good game with their pathetic hack-a-DJ trash. Jordan and the Clippers got the last laugh, of course, by emerging victorious. Jordan scored 26 points with 18 rebounds and three steals. Jordan has now scored 22, 24 and 26 points in the past three games – all victories.

– The Clippers (36-19) are now 3-1 without the injured Blake Griffin. The loss was to OKC, the three wins over Dallas, Houston and San Antonio. That is very impressive.

Glen “Big Baby” Davis had himself quite a game. Not only did he score 10 points with six rebounds, a steal and a block in 16 1/2 minutes off the bench, his enthusiasm was off the charts. More than once, after making a hustle play, Davis whooped it up with the crowd in
demonstrative fashion. Doc Rivers said were it not for Davis, the Clippers would have lost this game.

– As nice of a guy as Jamal Crawford is, it wasn’t hard to tell he wasn’t all that thrilled with his name being mentioned in trade rumors ahead of Thursday’s trading deadline. What does he do? He goes out and scores 26 points while making 5 of 7 from 3-point range. Many of those points were of the clutch variety, and Crawford also had five assists, two steals and a block.

– What can you say about Chris Paul? The man just does it all. He scored 22 points, doled out 16 assists with five rebounds while – as always – showing great leadership on the floor. More than once he took aside a teammate to calmly explain something to him during the game. OK, so he had four turnovers. But he played 40 minutes and, hey, no one’s perfect.