Well rested with no games in two days, the Los Angeles Clippers appeared to be in perfect position to take on the Golden State Warriors on Wednesday. The Clippers had two days of practice, were playing at home, and their defense is the best in the league. Yet that didn't matter against the Warriors as -- just like old times -- Golden State took care of business against the Clippers, easily winning 115-98.

The Warriors have now beat the Clippers in their last seven meetings.

Takeaways:

A golden start: The Warriors jumped out to an early lead in the first quarter and never looked back. Their offense was just flowing as freely as ever and Golden State's defense locked up the Clippers, making life uncomfortable for Los Angeles.

Amazingly, the Warriors amazingly weren't raining 3s on the Clippers in the first. They attacked the basket with excellent ball movement (13 assists in the quarter) and scored 22 points in the paint. Golden State also forced nine Clippers turnovers and just killed Los Angeles in transition (12 fast-break points).

At the end of the first, the Warriors were up 37-19 and the Clippers were left attempting to play catchup the rest of the game.

Shut 'em down: Golden State's defense was simply stellar against the Clippers and was the main reason for the blowout.

With their length, active hands (Stephen Curry tied a career high with seven steals) and tenacious effort, the Warriors just took the Clippers completely out of their game plan. The Warriors not only prevented Blake Griffin (12 points, FG: 5-20) or Chris Paul (15 points, FG: 7-14, 3PT: 1-6) from getting going, they also slowed down the Clippers' role players like J.J. Redick, who finished with 2 points on 1-of-4 shooting. Reddick didn't even hit a 3, making it the first time he didn't connect from behind the arc for the first time in 77 games. This was previously the longest active streak in the NBA.

Now, Golden State didn't stop everyone; Jamal Crawford led the Clippers with 21 points. But Crawford is just a scoring dynamo and it was just one of those games when he was just feeling it. Yet without Crawford's scoring, this game would've been even more ugly for the Clippers.

KD was not nice offensively: Durant has been sensational so far in his first season with the Warriors and is perhaps Golden State's MVP so far. But against the Clippers, Durant had his worst performance, scoring-wise, of the season.

Durant did have a nice all-around game, finishing with 16 points, eight rebounds and seven assists. Yet his shot wasn't falling; Durant was 5 for 17 from the field and 1 for 5 from deep. But even with Durant not finishing 10 points shy of his average (26.5), still didn't matter; the Warriors were too good defensively and overall just too talented for the Clippers.

The Staples Center is not kind to Steph: Similar to Durant's lack of offensive production not making that much of a difference, Curry failed to hit a 3-pointer, going 0-for-8 from deep. Which is strange since Curry averages 4.1 of those a game. But Curry actually has had his difficulty shooting the 3 at Staples Center.

In Golden State's three games at the Staples Center this season, Curry has uncharacteristically shot 4 for 28. And as a team, Golden State shot an uncharacteristic 23 percent (7 for 30) from deep Wednesday night. Just strange.

Beautiful basketball: For the 16th time this season, the Warriors finished with 30-plus assists. Golden State had 32 against the Clippers, none more pretty than this Zaza Pachulia assist to Durant, which was the end result of a gorgeous five-pass sequence: