LOS ANGELES, February 07, 2010 (AP) – George Hill scored all of his 22 points in the first three quarters against a Los Angeles Clippers squad suddenly faced with yet another transitionary period, and the San Antonio Spurs breezed to a 98-81 victory on Saturday night.

Chris Kaman had 21 points and Eric Gordon added 20 in the Clippers' first game since Mike Dunleavy resigned as coach and was replaced on an interim basis by Kim Hughes following a 2-6 road trip that ended with a 103-97 loss to Atlanta on Wednesday night.

Hughes, who had been Dunleavy's assistant since the 2003-04 season, took over an inconsistent squad that was 21-28 and seven games out of a playoff spot with 33 to play.

Dunleavy, who had the third-longest tenure among current NBA coaches behind San Antonio's Gregg Popovich and Utah's Jerry Sloan, will continue as the team's general manager.

Tony Parker had 14 points and 14 assists — one off his career high — for San Antonio in his second game back after missing three games because of a sprained left ankle. The Spurs, who have made the playoffs in each of Popovich's 12 previous full seasons as head coach and won four NBA titles along the way, are 29-20 and clinging to sixth place in the tightly bunched Western Conference.

The victory was San Antonio's 15th straight over the Clippers, the league's longest current winning streak by one team over another. The Spurs also have won their last 14 against the woeful Nets, whom they will face on March 29 in New Jersey. The Clippers have dropped 22 of their last 23 against San Antonio overall, the only victory coming on March 7, 2006, at Los Angeles.

The Spurs handed the Clippers their 11th loss in 15 games overall, converting 21 turnovers into 31 points. Hill made his first five shots and finished the opening quarter with 17 points — one more than his total output in Thursday's 96-93 loss at Portland.

Hill, the Spurs' first-round draft pick in June 2008, has led the Spurs in scoring in three of their last four games. The second-year guard from Indiana University-Purdue University at Indianapolis was the first player from his school to make it to the NBA.

Kaman and Baron Davis each received technical fouls during an equally frustrating second quarter for the Clippers in which they made only four of 12 shots, were called for eight fouls and committed seven turnovers that were converted into 10 points by a Spurs defense that had forced the fewest turnovers per game in the league coming in (12.6).

If the crowd of 18,258 thought the Clippers would be energized by the coaching change, it wasn't evident at all against a team that has now beaten them eight straight times in Los Angeles.

The Spurs led 49-27 at halftime despite shooting only 39.1 percent. They extended they margin to 65-34 on Richard Jefferson's dunk with 5:06 left in the third quarter, and the Clippers got no closer than 14 points long after Popovich cleared his bench.

Hughes had coached the Clippers a few other times due to extenuating circumstances, most recently in a loss to Denver on November 26, 2008, while Dunleavy was in Dallas for his father-in-law's funeral.