It was another chill effort from the Clippers on Tuesday night, and not in the good way.

They shot a season-worst 35.5% from the field en route to a 112-97 loss to the Golden State Warriors at the Chase Center.

Still shorthanded with injured All-Stars Kawhi Leonard and Paul George watching from the bench, recently acquired wing Norman Powell also sidelined and, on Tuesday, Robert Covington away (personal), the Clippers – so stubbornly buoyant for most of the season – sure seemed to missed them this time.

But “we can’t stop playing the right way,” said Nicolas Batum, who led the Clippers with 17 points.

At 34-33 and hanging onto the eighth seed in the Western Conference standings – and a potential play-in tournament matchup with No. 7 Minnesota – the Clippers were blown out for the second consecutive game, chasing Sunday’s 116-93 loss to the New York Knicks in L.A. with another lopsided defeat.

The Clippers’ back-to-back clunkers came after they’d reeled off five consecutive victories, including a pair of victories over the Lakers, currently ninth in the Western Conference standings at 28-36.

Against the Knicks on Sunday, the Clippers shot 33 for 88 – 37.5%, their fourth-lowest percentage of the season.

Against the Warriors (44-22) two nights later, the Clippers missed 60 of the 93 shots they took. They missed from close range (14 for 37 in the paint) and from the perimeter (12 for 39 from 3-point range).

And it would have been uglier still if not for Nicolas Batum, who shot 6 for 11 and had his highest-scoring game since he put up 18 points in a loss at Phoenix on Feb. 15.

Rodney Hood – who scored his first points as a Clipper on Sunday, in his sixth game with the team – scored 10 points after checking in and playing 11 minutes in the fourth quarter, which proved the Clippers’ most potent period by far.

They were 20 for 68 through the first three quarters, but 13 for 25 in the fourth, when they outscored the Warriors 36-26 with a late surge that was too little, too late. The closest the Clippers got: 100-89 on Brandon Boston Jr.’s 3-pointer with 2:57 left.

But Klay Thompson (20 points) answered immediately with a leaning bank shot and Jonathan Kuminga (a team-high 21 points) made a pair of free throws to keep the Clippers at arm’s length.

Jordan Poole also scored 20 for the Warriors and Steph Curry added 15.

The good news/bad news for the Clippers: They won’t have to wait even a day to jump it up and try to shake off their two-game slump. On Wednesday, they host the Washington Wizards – against whom they rallied from 35 points down to win in January, pulling off the second-largest comeback in NBA history.

On Tuesday, the Clippers stumbled out of the blocks, scoring just 21 points on 6-for-23 shooting in the first quarter – when, fortunately for them, the Warriors also scored just 21 points.

Between the first and second periods, Clippers coach Tyronn Lue was forthright in his assessment, telling a TNT audience: “We’re just playing bad basketball, not making the right reads, not making the extra pass, forcing bad shots.

“We should be up in this game a little bit, but we gotta keep our composure,” Lue continued. “But we gotta play better.”

But then his team went and had an equally tough time scoring in the second quarter, when they went 6:30 without a point and again shot 6 for 23 from the floor.

At halftime, when the Clippers trailed 54-36, Batum was 4 for 8 from the field for 11 points (which already were the most since he scored 18 against Phoenix on Feb. 15). His teammates were a combined 8 for 38 from the field. Batum also had one of the Clippers’ four 3-pointers in 20 first-half tries.

Golden State entered the game having lost five in a row, including a 131-124 loss in Denver on Monday, when several of their key contributors, including All-Stars Curry and Andrew Wiggins, stayed back and rested.

Midway through the third quarter, Kuminga ripped the ball away from Jackson, who might have hit an open Isaiah Hartenstein in the post to cut the lead to 17 points. Instead, Thompson strode down the floor for a breakaway dunk that pushed the lead to 66-45.

Morris’ aggressive and-1 play did cut it to 17 – 61-51 – but then the Warriors scored the next six points to reassert control.

The Clippers won just one of four regular-season games against Golden State this season.

More to come on this story.