DeAndre Jordan goes up for two of his 12 points in Saturday’s 105-100 victory over the Nets in Brooklyn/Associated Press photo by Kathy Kmonicek

The Clippers on Saturday evening had just blown all but two points of an 18-point fourth-quarter lead to stave off the host Brooklyn nets 105-100 at Barclays Center, when Clippers point guard Chris Paul was asked about his team still having difficulty finishing games strongly.

The Clippers led 83-65 with 10:07 to play before the Nets came roaring back to pull within 93-91 with 3:50 left.

“Yeah, we’ve been having big issues with closing out games so far this year,” said Paul, who had 15 points, 14 assists and three steals. “We’ve had leads on teams and
we’ve let them back in, so it’s a negative in that we still let teams back in the game, but it’s a positive in that we were able to close it out.”

The Clippers (14-10) are 3-1 on this five-game road trip and finish it Monday at Detroit.