INGLEWOOD — By halftime on Saturday night at the Intuit Dome, the Clippers seemed to have the Lakers snared in a trap game. There was no other way to describe it. The Lakers were down three regulars to start with, Austin Reaves and Deandre Ayton inactive with injuries and Rui Hachimura unavailable with a hip/groin injury suffered the other night against Utah. They lost a fourth – maybe the most critical of all – when Luka Doncic missed the second half with a left leg contusion. And the Clippers, seemingly, were just beating the rush: Instead of disappointing their fans in April or May as is customary, they were doing so at the start of the season. Going into Saturday night’s meeting, they...
