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INDIANAPOLIS -- Glenn Robinson III and Myles Turner provided the offense and the Indiana Pacers overwhelmed the Los Angeles Clippers with their defense.Robinson and Turner each scored 17 points and the Pacers forced 20 turnovers in a 91-70 victory Sunday night over the Clippers, who have lost two in a row for the first time this season.We just tried to have active hands and be aggressive defensively, said Jeff Teague, who had 13 points and two steals. Thats a great team over there, great players that they have. We just did a good job of being active and causing a little havoc on defense.The Pacers have forced at least 20 turnovers seven times this season and this time it came while the Clippers tried to bounce back from a 108-97 loss in Detroit on Friday.Blake Griffin had 16 points and nine rebounds, and Chris Paul added 13 points. The Clippers shot just 31.4 percent from the field, were 4 of 24 from 3-point range, and couldnt get going offensively for the second straight game.It was all bad, Paul said. We shot bad, we defended bad. We have to sweep it under the rug. We have to fix it and stop the bleeding at some point.Al Jefferson and Rodney Stuckey created a spark off the bench for the Pacers. Jefferson finished with 16 points and eight rebounds, while Stuckey had 12 points to help Indiana win two straight for just the second time this season.Indiana went on a 12-2 run at the start of the second half and took a 62-44 lead after Robinsons 3-pointer with 6:48 left in the third quarter.Monta Ellis made a 3-pointer at the start of the fourth quarter and Jefferson scored to put the Pacers ahead 79-58 with 10:49 to play.With All-Star forward Paul George on the bench nursing a sore left ankle for the second straight game, Indiana got off to a slow start, but settled in on defense and forced the Clippers to turn it over 11 times in the first quarter.After scoring a career-high 20 points against Brooklyn on Friday while replacing George, Robinson scored six points in the first quarter and had 10 by halftime in his fourth start this season.TIP-INSClippers: Los Angeles scored less than 80 points for the first time with Doc River as coach. ... The Clippers had six turnovers by the 5:04 mark in the first quarter and finished the game with 20.Pacers: Turner had 12 rebounds and Robinson had six. ... Thaddeus Young had 11 points and six rebounds. ... Along with George, the Pacers were without guard C.J. Miles and forward Kevin Seraphin, who are out with left knee injuries.3-POINTERS NOT FALLINGPaul entered Sundays game shooting a career-high 43.0 percent from 3-point range while averaging a career-best 2.2 3-pointers a game. Against the Pacers, he missed all six 3-point attempts and finished 2 of 11 from the field, though he was 7 of 7 from the free throw line.ROUGH ROADWhile the Pacers have won eight games at home, the team has just a single win on the road this season. Now Indiana prepares to hit the road for five games out west. The only road win for the Pacers was a 115-111 overtime victory at Oklahoma City a week ago.UP NEXTClippers: Tuesday they travel to Brooklyn, two weeks after beating the Nets 127-95 in Los Angeles.Pacers: Wednesday they travel to Portland, where Indiana hasnt won since November 2007. Wenyen Gabriel Jersey . Ronaldo produced a spectacular individual performance on Tuesday, scoring all three goals and guiding Portugal into the next years World Cup in Brazil with a 3-2 victory in Sweden. The Real Madrid forward has scored 66 goals in 2013, but the last three may be the boost he needs to upstage Messi after FIFA unexpectedly extended the voting period for the Ballon dOr to Nov. Nemanja Bjelica Jersey . Vokoun departed practice on Saturday morning after discovering swelling in his thigh. He was taken to a local hospital where the clot was revealed. 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He cracks jokes at news conferences, talks freely about how crucial the Sept. 4 season opener against Notre Dame will be, and generally shrugs off the what-if scenarios of the chaos a third consecutive losing season would create at Texas.Make no mistake. Strong knows he has to win this season: no excuses after an 11-14 mark over the past two years.Expectations here are always high, which they should be, Strong said There is no reason for us to go 6-7 and 5-7 and you want to see progress. I totally agree with that and we should.Looking back, Strongs third year at Louisville saw the program get a huge bounce from 7-6 the previous year to 11-2 with a dominating Sugar Bowl win over Florida.Few expect that kind of Longhorns resurgence this season in the Big 12. Not yet, but Texas fans expect to at least get to a bowl game.Some things to watch with the Longhorns in 2016:QUARTERBACK: After six seasons of misfires, everything has been about the quarterback. Freshman Shane Buechele emerged from the spring as the likely starter by the time the season starts but the excitement over his spring performance clouded some of the reality: He completed 52 percent of his passes for 299 yards and two touchdowns. At Texas, thats improvement. But keep in mind: Since 1893, true freshman quarterbacks have started only 19 games at Texas.BULL RUSH: If Texas has anything, its size and power in the backfield in tailbacks Chris Warren III (252 pounds) and DOnta Foreman (249).dddddddddddd If those two can steadily move the chains, they relieve pressure on the quarterback and an offense still looking for consistent play-making threats on the outside.KICKER: Texas had a glaring problem for most of the offseason because it didnt have a kicker. A good one landed in Austin when LSU-transfer Trent Domingue picked the Longhorns. Domingue was a Groza Award semifinalist last season.KEY GAMES: So many to pick from because the final tally of wins and losses likely decides Strongs future. But put the focus on the front end of the schedule, because a bad start likely means a bad end for Strong. Texas hosts Notre Dame on Sept. 4, travels to Cal on Sept. 17 and travels to Oklahoma State on Oct. 1. All three beat Texas last season.SEASON OPENER: Arguably, no team or coach has a more important first game. Notre Dames 38-3 pasting of Texas to open 2015 sent the Longhorns into a shocking tailspin and its fair to say the 2016 season could rest on this game as well. The Longhorns will be determined to make up for being embarrassed and the rematch has been slotted for a Sunday night prime-time national television audience. A win would be a huge boost for the entire program. Lose and the backroom phone calls with demands to replace Strong may start when the final whistle blows.PREDICTION: 7-6. The question is, will a winning season by the slimmest of margins save Strongs job? ' ' '