PeteyPablo wrote:They seem like they don’t want the win after 9 wins in a row. Maybe they are content or butt hurt that Kawhi is out.
I think what happens is that the Clippers often want to punish themselves. Say they are one win away from a 10-game winning streak, or one point away from winning the game, or one thing that would put them in a pedestal all to themselves, but then they mess up on something so trivial, so common, that tiny microscopic little thing they overlooked because they were so caught up in the potential praise they would receive from the accomplishment instead of getting to it. The feeling of being so close to perfect only to have that tiny little blemish ruin everything makes them want to just lose the game because they blew at being perfect, so they stop caring and just allow to be absorbed by the doom and gloom.
As a sort of analogy, in the arcade video game Street Fighter II, if you win a round without taking any damage, you get a bonus of 30,000 points (later rounds bump that up to 50,000, and I think 80,000 on the final boss). Take a hit, you lose the bonus, and you only get 100 points per pixel of vitality. Some fighting games require perfection in order to unlock a bonus fight or secret feature. Blow the perfect, and your entire session is useless, which is what I sometimes see with the Clippers. There's a difference between perfection and perfect execution - one requires not making a single mistake throughout the game, the other is not making a mistake when it counts the most. This is one of the reasons why I've been referencing the Corpse Bride song "According To Plan" in most of my posts detailing some of the Clipper's fatal flaws.
There is a lesson to be learned here: don't worry about being perfect; we're only human.