For Clippers, It Only Gets Worse in Rout : Pro basketball: Golden State wins, 141-95, when Clippers tie a team low.

Ron Harper was right.

The Clippers smell. No apology necessary.

Clipper Coach Bob Weiss was too angry to scream at his team after the Golden State Warriors embarrassed the Clippers, 141-95, Thursday night before a sellout crowd of 15,025 at the Oakland Coliseum Arena.

“He was exasperated,” Clipper forward Tom Tolbert said of Weiss. “He just didn’t know what to say. What else can you say after you get beat by 300? You can’t come in and just scream at everybody and tell them they played terrible. Everybody knows they played terrible.”

The 46-point margin of defeat tied the team record that was set in a 139-93 season-opening loss at Denver in 1987.

“I’m concerned with the team, but I don’t buy that we walked out there and didn’t care,” Weiss said. “We just got blitzed tonight. I think there was effort out there tonight.”

Harper, whose comments after the Clippers’ 15-point loss to Milwaukee on Monday night earned him a lecture from Clipper General Manager Elgin Baylor, tried to be more diplomatic.

“I will hold my tongue today,” Harper said. “It was like a YMCA team against a very good team. They came out tonight and played, and we didn’t come out as a team.

“It was pretty ugly.”

The Clippers (10-14) trailed by 41 points going into the fourth quarter as rookie forward Chris Webber, who got his first NBA triple double with 22 points, 12 rebounds and 12 assists, and the Warriors staged a dunking exhibition.

Weiss was so disgusted that he benched the starting lineup of Danny Manning, Loy Vaught, Elmore Spencer, Mark Jackson and Harper at the start of the fourth quarter.

But it got worse. They fell behind by 50 points with four minutes remaining.

Tolbert got to leave early when he yelled at referee Dan Crawford and was ejected after receiving two technical fouls with 7:02 to play.

Manning, who had the first triple double of his career in Wednesday night’s 109-92 victory over the Washington Bullets but missed six of 11 shots, missed all five shots he took in the first half and scored only two points as the Clippers fell behind by as many as 21 points.

He finished with a season-low six points, missing five of seven shots.

Furthermore, Manning received three stitches above his left eye after being elbowed by Billy Owens with 7:12 remaining in the half.

Harper, who scored 24 points against Washington, missed 11 of 17 shots and scored 12 points against Golden State. Harper made his first four shots, then missed 11 of 13.

The Clippers, who are averaging a league-high 19 turnovers, had 21 Thursday, 13 in the first half, which the Warriors converted into 31 points.

The Clippers were outrebounded, 54-41, and played poor team defense as the Warriors shot a season-high 60.2% and made 62 field goals, three shy of the franchise record.

“The way they played today, that’s how you want to be going into the playoffs,” said Mark Aguirre, who scored a Clipper-high 20 points. “I’ve never seen them shoot that well.”

Warrior forward Chris Mullin, who missed 13 of 15 shots in his last game, made nine of 15 shots in a reserve role and scored 21 points in 27 minutes.

Clipper notes

Lewis Schaffel, managing partner of the Miami Heat, said the Clippers have contacted the Heat about trading forward Danny Manning. The Clippers had agreed to trade Manning to Miami for guards Glen Rice and Willie Burton last October, but the deal fell through at the last minute. Said Clipper spokesman Joe Safety: “We don’t talk about rumors. We don’t talk about discussions. That’s our usual club policy.” Said Manning, who is likely to be the subject of trade rumors until the NBA trading deadline of Feb. 24: “For the 10th time, I don’t pay that stuff no mind.”