About midway through the first quarter on Wednesday night, the Clippers led the Warriors 10-9.
At the end of the first frame, Golden State led 37-19.
"We set the tone early, just turning the ball over," Clippers head coach Doc Rivers said. "I thought they took us out of our stuff. We stopped trusting, and I really never thought we got our spirit back after the beginning."
In the first 12 minutes, the Clippers turned the ball over nine times and the Warriors turned the giveaways into eight points.
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Blake Griffin alone coughed it up five times.
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Despite the rough start, Los Angeles pulled to within seven points with a little over two minutes remaining in the second quarter.
"I mean Thank God for that second group that a couple times they kind of you know, kept us in the game I guess you would call it," Rivers said. "But other than that, it wasn't much of a game."
With the Warriors entering at 18-3 and the Clippers at 16-6, there was a lot of hype for the first of four matchups between the division rivals.
But Golden State knocked off Los Angeles for the seventh straight time.
"It happens," Rivers said. "You go into a game where you really want to do well, things don't go well for you and you lose it sometimes ... we just didn't play well."
