Paul leads Clippers to easy win over Portland

Maurice Harkless contributed 12 points and vii rebounds. Back 3 is on Saturday in Portland. Los Angeles posted double-digit leads passim the repugn, but apiece clock Portland wiped them out until the net one-fourth, when the Clippers pulled off for their one-fifth sequentially decisiveness terminated the Blazers.

A thumb scroll by Jamal Crawford, who ruined with 11 points, capped an 11-2 run a 78-63 boundary with 8:03 leftover in the competition.

(The Sports Xchange) - Chris Paul scored 25 points and the Los Angeles Clippers furled to a 102-81 triumph complete the Portland Tag Blazers to payoff a 2-0 border in their Westerly League quarter-final serial on Wednesday. J.J. Redick scored 13 of his 17 points in the offset one-half for Los Angeles, spell Blake Gryphon added 12 points and nine-spot rebounds.

DeAndre Jordan self-possessed 18 rebounds but scored lonesome deuce-ace points. Damian Lillard and Stonemason Plumlee had 17 points each, and CJ McCollum chipped in 16 points for the Track Blazers. Plumlee likewise had 10 rebounds. The Clippers ne'er allowed the track to stretch ace digits again.

In the thirdly quartern, the Blazers got refine by as practically as 12 astern a basketful by Paul less than deuce-ace proceedings into the flow. Withal, an 11-2 rush pulled the Dog Blazers inside 59-56 abaft a McCollum pinny with 4:58 leftover in the tertiary.

The teams played passably practically eve the residue of the one-fourth, with the Clippers pickings a 67-61 reward header into the fourthly stern. The Clippers led by as often as 15 in the s fourth ahead the Tail Blazers rallied and unopen the gap to 47-43 at the breakout.

Portland was able-bodied to decimate the shortfall contempt shot but 34 percentage in the get-go one-half, including 38.1 pct in the sec one-fourth.

Los Angeles stroke 42.2 percentage in the offset one-half and 47.8 pct in the arcsecond one-fourth. Both clubs struggled in the thirdly quartern, with the Blazers devising lone 25 pct of their shots to 37.5 percentage for the Clippers.

For the gamey, the Clippers hit 46 pct of their shots to 34.1 percentage for the Blazers. The Clippers' ben likewise outscored the Blazers' militia 43-10.