LOS ANGELES -- Here are several items of note following the Los Angeles Clippers' 112-100 win over the Oklahoma City Thunder at the Staples Center on Monday night.

12 points in 51 seconds

With 1:16 left in the second quarter of Monday's game, the Clippers led the Thunder by just six, 52-46, after Oklahoma City made a quick 11-2 run.

Then the Clips responded with a barrage of 3-pointers to go into the locker room with an 18-point lead. And all it took was 51 seconds.

First Mo Williams made a 3-pointer on an assist from Paul. Then Wiliams got a steal and fed Billups, who fed Butler for a deep 3. Then Reggie Evans picked up a rebound after James Harden missed a 3-pointer on the other end and Williams quickly hit another 3.

Butler stole the ball away from Kevin Durant before the Thunder got across half-court and swung it around to Billups, who hit another 3 with 25 seconds left to close out the scoring. Russell Westbrook turned the ball over on the next possession, but the Clippers couldn't score again with two-plus seconds left.

"I told Mo that might have been the greatest exchange I have been part of since I've been in the NBA," Paul said afterward. "That got the crowd into it.

"Four 3s in under a minute is unbelievable."

The Thunder hadn't been within six since the 5:11 mark of the first quarter. Had they closed out the half well or even just kept the Clippers from scoring, they would've been in position to seize the game in the third period. But they were left to play catch-up for the rest of the contest, never again getting within single digits.

"In that minute that they won the game," Oklahoma City coach Scott Brooks said, adding that a sequence like that "doesn't happen very much."

Said Durant: "We lost this game with a minute and (16) seconds left in the first half. We turned the ball over and they make four threes in a row and that was the game."

Low-key bench play

It wasn't the reason they won the game. But the way the Clippers' bench played Monday was one of the reason why the outcome of the contest was so clear-cut. There were no letdowns from the Clips' three primary subs, Williams, Reggie Evans and Randy Foye.

None of them had negative plus-minuses, a key tell for bench play in a big game. In fact, none of the Clippers had negative plus-minutes at all, except for the three players who checked in with 1:19 to play.

In 44 combined minutes, Williams and Foye had 15 points, six assists, four steals and just three turnovers.

"I thought Mo, Reggie and Randy all gave us very good efforts," Clippers coach Vinny Del Negro said afterward. "It was just a good team effort."

Arguably the biggest knock on the Clippers this season has been their bench depth or perceived lack thereof. The Thunder were missing Thabo Sefolosha, which forced normal reserve James Harden into the starting lineup, but the Clippers' bench did hold its own against an elite Oklahoma City bench unit.

Brooks called the Clippers' reserves "really good."

"I think we're deeper than a lot of people realize," Griffin said. "Our other bigs did a good job of controlling the paint and doing what they were supposed to do."

CP3

This was, without a doubt, Paul's best game of the 2011-2012 season. He finished with 26 points on 12-of-16 shooting and added 14 assists to just two turnovers, truly taking control of the Clippers' offensive game almost whenever he wanted to.

He had more assists than the Thunder in the first quarter. His worst shooting quarter was his 4-of-6 fourth period.

It would be difficult to play a much more efficient game.

There was also a prevailing sense, especially late in the game, that he was scoring the ball whenever he wanted to -- that he was turning it on to seal the game, essentially.

Thunder forward and NBA veteran Nick Collison had an interesting response when asked if Paul was one of a select few NBA players who could "turn it on" whenever they desired.

"If you think turning it on means scoring, then yes," Collison said. "But he's on whenever he's finding guys and setting his team up. I think the misconception there is that when he's scoring he's playing well. That's true, but he's also playing well the rest of the time too."

"He picks his spots to score, but that's just part of the game."

Made more simple: Paul's on his game most of the time, not just when he's scoring.

Final notes

Second-year guard Eric Bledsoe made his season debut with 1:19 left in the game and airballed his only shot attempt, a 20-footer. He had been out for the first 17 games of the season after tearing the meniscus in right knee during offseason workouts...The Clippers sold out their 12th consecutive home game, this time with an announced crowd of 19,404...Small forward Caron Butler scored more than 20 points for the first time this season with his 22-point total. He had reached exactly 20 four prior times. He also reached the 10,000-point milestone for his career in the first quarter.