The Clippers dropped their fourth game in a row Monday night, this time against the Memphis Grizzlies, and have now won just one game in their last 10 games. 

What makes the losses eve more painful are the flashes of genuine basketball excellence that the Clippers do manage to show from time to time. In the first quarter of Monday night's loss, Los Angeles came out of the gate strong. The team outscored the Memphis by two points in the first quarter, but just as quickly as things began to heat up, they fell apart again. 

The Clippers found themselves handily outscored in the second quarter and their momentum became non-existent as the game went on until they were in too deep of a hole to dig themselves out of even as their performance picked back up. 

Los Angeles has a myriad of problems that all creep up in different times and in different ways in each of their losses and now head coach Ty Lue believes that things are boiling down to mental mistakes and a lack of confidence more than anything else. 

"I think mentally. I think when it gets hard you got to get tougher. We're playing good basketball and then a couple things go wrong and they're like 'here we go again." Lue said. "Instead of having the mindset of we've got to get tougher, we've got to get stronger and then do things even better.

Lue continued, "Not getting discouraged when you miss a couple shots. Not getting discouraged when you turn the basketball over... These last five, six, seven games we haven't been able to do that."

When it came to Monday specifically, Lue felt that his team was outmatched when it came to size. Jaren Jackson Jr. led the way for Memphis offensively with a game-leading 31 points, and his 6'10 frame alone posed plenty of challenges for the Clippers.

The overall size of the team was a tall order for Los Angeles to defend, which opened up the floor for guards like Cam Spencer to take over from three. Spencer shot 7-10 from three point range on his way to a 27 point performance off the bench.

The dynamic offense that the Grizzlies were able to put up put a tremendous amount of pressure on Los Angeles and as Lue has seen far too many times this season, that kind of tension is what can unravel his team.

"I think their size hurt us," Lue said. "I think we did it to ourselves a couple times, not running the right offense. We talked about it at halftime, just understanding how to play the game. We work on it every single day to get in the game, when the pressure is speeding us up we tend to not do what we're supposed to do. They took full advantage of that."