Clippers guard Terance Mann sat in a chair, his head in his palms, in the corner of the visitor's locker room. To his left, point guard Reggie Jackson looked ahead with a thousand-yard stare, still in his blue uniform a half-hour after the final buzzer had ended a night in which little had gone right.
The Clippers entered this season knowing it would take time to see their full potential as they slowly worked Kawhi Leonard and John Wall back, after their long basketball layoffs, into what eventually will be regular rotation roles.
Even against those tempered expectations, they probably never expected to look like they did in Tuesday's 108-94 loss at Oklahoma City, a ragged defeat in which they trailed by as many as 26 to a previously winless opponent that could not shoot.
