Rowan Kavner
Score: HOU 107 – LAC 97
HOUSTON – Head coach Doc Rivers said the Clippers viewed their game Saturday like a final matchup of an eight-game trip.
The Clippers looked like a team at the end of a long trip, trailing by as many as 26 points and falling, 107-97, to the Rockets on the second game of a back-to-back. The Clippers had just come off a five-game road trip and returned home to play one game before going right back on the road for a two-game trip to San Antonio and Houston, and they looked a step behind in the latter matchup.