Horror movie: Also known as Clippers opener

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No, we couldn’t hear Baron Davis airing out his new Clippers teammates when we were on deadline in the media room at Staples Center.

He wasn’t that loud after the Lakers’ 117-79 victory tonight. Not quite.

But one of my Times’ colleagues was much closer to the scene of the dressing room, and heard Mt. Baron rumbling. Davis didn’t call it a team meeting. He said they got together ‘and talked.’ OK, that might have been accurate. It sounded like he talked and they listened.

‘It’s a rude awakening for us to see that mountain we’ve got to climb,’ Davis said. ‘It’s not going to happen overnight. The most important for us as a team is to be patient with each other. Do I expect us to lose like that every night? Nope. Do I expect to start off 0-7 or 0-10? No. But we’re going to have to figure it out on the fly. For a team like that, there’s no excuses. We just ran into a brick wall. That team [the Lakers] is a machine.’

Davis was candid about the Clippers horror show unfolding.

‘It was awful to watch,’ he said. ‘It was awful to play in...We hit adversity and we didn’t know where to go. We couldn’t find that place that we go to get a bucket. We didn’t go to that place we go to to stop the bleeding.’

A few days ago, Davis said that Coach Mike Dunleavy was the producer and he was more like the ‘director’ of the team.

Unfortunately, for the Clippers, there was no shot at another take for this opener.

-- Lisa Dillman