The Clippers pull ahead late and beat the Spurs for their first win at the Intuit Dome

The film session examined how the Clippers blew double-digit leads in all of their games this season and highlighted how sloppy basketball played a role in four losses.

Maintain your influence, Clippers coach Tyronn Lue urged his players during the session; Stop turning the ball over with such high frequency.

To Lue's dismay, the Clippers got off to a bad start against the San Antonio Spurs on Monday, falling behind by 26 points in the first quarter with their defense on fire with seven turnovers.

But the Clippers didn't back down. They increased their defensive pressure in the second quarter and held the Spurs to 16 points. They didn't have a turnover in the second quarter and scored 34 points in the period to get within eight points of the lead at halftime. Another strong quarter brought the Clippers within eight at the end of the third quarter.

Behind Norman Powell's 23 points and Amir Coffey's 21 points off the bench, the Clippers rolled to a 113-104 fourth-quarter victory over the Spurs on Monday, ending a three-game losing streak and giving the team its first win in the Intuit Dome.

So, Lue was asked, do the Clippers have a new plan?

“What, come down and come back?” Lue asked incredulously. “Man, this is crazy.

“We came down early and hung our heads. But I just told the boys to go for it. Just keep fighting.”

It was the sixth game in which Powell scored more than 20 points this season, the longest such streak of his career.

Clippers center Ivica Zubac dunks in front of Spurs center Victor Wembanyama at the Intuit Dome on Monday.

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There was also a great shot from Coffey, who scored five to six from three-point range for the Clippers (3:4).

“Tonight he was one of the main reasons we won the game,” Lue said.

Ivica Zubac (17 points, 13 rebounds) had one of the game's biggest moments when he grabbed an offensive rebound late in the second quarter and threw a left-handed dunk over Victor Wembanyama. The Clippers center again dove over Wembanyama while being fouled in the fourth quarter.

“I learned today that when he's in the paint that's the only option, that's the only thing you can do against him. You have to hit the body and try to dunk everything,” Zubac said of Wembanyama. “He’s just so big and has the longest wingspan I’ve ever seen. He will block everything if you try to hover over him or grapple him. So you just have to try to go through his chest.”

The 7-foot-3 Wembanyana had 24 points, 13 rebounds and nine blocks for the Spurs, who played the game without legendary coach Gregg Popovich, 75, who is out indefinitely with an unspecified health issue.

But for the Clippers, the deficit they overcame marked the third-largest regular-season comeback in franchise history.

They did it by not giving in and only conceding 11 turnovers.

And finally, as Lue said, the Clippers “got the gorilla out of us” by winning their first home game after losing the first four games in their new arena.

The victory in the $2 billion building built by owner Steve Ballmer even had Ballmer cracking jokes with his players in the locker room after the game.

“He basically said the same thing I said: He had to tear it down and build a new one,” James Harden said with a laugh. “That tells you how much money he got.”

Etc.

Asked if Kawhi Leonard, who missed all seven regular-season games, played this week, Lue replied, “No.” The Clippers have three games left this week: Wednesday night at home against the 76ers and Paul George; on Friday in Sacramento and at home against Toronto.