--Only three times this season have the Clippers won at least two games in a row. Their longest winning streak is three. On nine occasions the Clippers have lost their next contest after winning their previous one.
--The Clippers shot 41.2 percent against Golden State and fell to 3-39 in games in which they failed to shoot at least 45 percent from the field. The Clippers have shot 50 percent in seven games and are 6-1 when that achievement is met. --G Fred Jones has been mired in a shooting slump ever since an eight-game stretch in which he made 34-of-56 field-goal tries. Over the past six games, he has made 12-of-36 from the field.
QUOTE TO NOTE: "I almost had no doubt when he took the shot that he was going to make it." -- Clippers rookie guard Eric Gordon, describing his feeling when teammate Steve Novak nailed a buzzer-beating three-pointer to defeat the New Jersey Nets.
