After edging out a tightly-fought fourth quarter to down the Atlanta Hawks on Saturday, the Los Angeles Clippers were without six of their top guys as they fell to the Cleveland Cavaliers on Sunday.
If the weekend’s first matchup was contested like it belonged in the postseason, the following night of the back-to-back resembled more of a training exercise for the opposition, though 42 points in the final frame at least made it end respectably.
Here are the takeaways from two very contrasting games…
O ye of little faith
We’ll start at the top of the weekend, the point at which the Clippers released their injury report before their meeting with the Atlanta Hawks, and it revealed that Robert Covington was out due to personal reasons.