Rockets Perfect, Clippers Perfectly Awful : Pro basketball: Houston wins ninth in a row with total domination, 108-86.

Clipper Coach Bob Weiss slumped on a table in the trainer’s room and shook his head as he stared at the stat sheet.

Weiss had every reason to be disgusted after the Houston Rockets embarrassed the Clippers, 108-86, Saturday night before a crowd of 15,678 at the Summit.

“It was one of those nights where nothing worked,” Weiss said after the Rockets, one of two unbeaten NBA teams, extended their season-opening winning streak to a franchise-record nine games. “When it goes, everything goes wrong.”

Clipper forward Mark Aguirre was livid.

“We did not come to play basketball. That’s the bottom line,” Aguirre said. “I don’t care what else you can say about how great they are. They are a great basketball team and maybe they should have beaten us, but that’s ridiculous, that’s absolutely ridiculous. That’s absolutely, unmistakably, can’t accept it. . . .

“I’m not used to that. That was not right. It was the worst we’ve played. That was terrible. All of us.

“When you’re a team in the hunt for an identity, there are no days off. If you get busted, you get busted playing so hard you can’t stand it. You don’t lose being outhustled by a team that’s far better than you are. That’s ridiculous.

“If you lose, you lose playing hard. That’s how you get better. You don’t get better like that. There ain’t nothing the coaches can do. That’s a player thing. There ain’t no Knute Rockne in here.”

Garbage time came early for the Clippers (4-4), who scored a season-low 16 points in the first quarter and trailed by as much as 26 points in the first half.

“We stunk,” Clipper forward Tom Tolbert said. “Everybody tries to make a big deal out of it. Everybody acts like it’s rocket science and tries to figure how why we stunk. Tonight was ugly.”

Hakeem Olajuwon had 22 points and 12 rebounds and forwards Otis Thorpe and Carl Herrera each had 11 rebounds as the Rockets outrebounded the Clippers, 51-39, to win their 15th consecutive regular-season game over the Clippers at the Summit.

“So far, so good,” Olajuwon said. “We’re playing team defense, offense and just plain team basketball. We’re winning games because everybody is playing their role. The chemistry could not be better and everyone is striving for one goal.”

The Rockets, who lead the league in scoring defense and entered the game ranked second behind the Clippers in field-goal percentage defense, set a franchise record by holding their ninth consecutive opponent under 100 points. The Clippers, who missed nine of their first 11 shots, were also the ninth consecutive team which Houston has held under 50%. They made 37 of 86 (43%).

“That stinks, point blank,” said Clipper guard Ron Harper, who missed six of 10 shots. “I can’t sit here and lie, can I? That wouldn’t be me. It stunk. Ain’t no sugar coating. I ain’t justifying that.

“I’m not faulting nobody on the team. We should know what we have to do and if we don’t realize what we need to do, we all need to retire and that’s that.”

Clipper Notes

Loy Vaught led the Clippers with 24 points. . . . Danny Manning, sidelined with a cracked left ring finger, was re-examined by team doctors Friday, who found that the swelling has decreased and the pain has lessened. Manning, who was placed on the injured list last Monday, will be eligible to return next Saturday when the Clippers host Houston at the Sports Arena. . . . Houston is the 10th team in NBA history to start the season 9-0. Red Auerbach coached the Washington Capitols to a 15-0 start in 1948-49 and also guided the Boston Celtics to a 14-0 start in 1957-58.