INGLEWOOD — Clippers coach Tyronn Lue sees the games slip by and along with them, opportunities to turn around the season. With their record at 6-18, each loss makes the next game much more critical, down to the minute, even less.

“Every second counts, every day counts, every possession counts,” Lue said after practice on Tuesday. “We’ve played better. We’ve been close. It’s just one turnover that you shouldn’t have (made) or one missed box out or one missed open 3 and you can win the game. We’ve been close.

“Just got to continue to keep plugging away and we got to turn it. … Just we haven’t been able to get over that hump.”

The Clippers currently are second-to-last among the 15 Western Conference teams, just above the woeful New Orleans Pelicans (3-22), and their upcoming schedule make

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