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One of the game's best helped teach the lesson plan for Monday night's installment of Dante Exum's NBA education.

Clippers point guard Chris Paul made life difficult on the Utah Jazz rookie. Paul twice baited Exum into reaching in for the ball, only to watch as Paul swiped underneath his arm to draw a foul. The All-Star and his L.A. teammates also showed Exum the strength and power needed to play at the highest level, forcing the rookie to turn the ball over eight times on the night.

"It was a rough game, definitely a step up from the last game," said Exum, who admitted to playing too fast and trying to do too much at times in Monday's 102-89 win over the Clippers. "But to really learn from the experience is helping my game get stronger. Coach has put a lot of faith in me, and I respect that a lot. I was getting a lot of turnovers and he kept putting me back in. It's a learning process and he knows that."

Quin Snyder did indeed sympathized with Exum's plight.

"I can't imagine what it would have been like to play Chris Paul when I was 19, and I wasn't nearly as good a player as Dante Exum," the coach said. "I think it was a good experience for him, in spite of the mistakes and the turnovers and learning you can't put your hands there. Those are all those little things you have to experience to learn. … The one thing about Dante is he's hungry to learn. He's a sponge. He soaks it up."

Exum did score nine points on 3-of-5 shooting from 3-point range. The guard also handed out four assists.

He'll have a chance on Friday to show Paul just how much he learned. That's when the Clippers host the Jazz for a preseason rematch at Staples Center.

"Chris Paul is a great player and he was pulling some veteran moves on me," Exum said. "It's just about learning from it and making sure the next time we play them on Friday it doesn't happen again. I'm looking forward to it."

Total control

Coming off the bench, center Rudy Gobert pulled down 20 rebounds and scored 11 points. On Tuesday, Snyder was asked if those kind of performances would eventually allow Gobert to "control his playing time."

"No. I control his playing time," Snyder said with a laugh. "He impacts his playing. … But there's not an entitlement because you have a good game. It's about consistency, having another good game and another good game and continuing to build."

Hurry it up

The NBA on Tuesday announced it would experiment with reducing the time of a preseason game between the Celtics and Nets, by trimming one minute off each quarter and reducing the number of timeouts.

"I think it's really interesting," Snyder said. "I don't think the game is significantly shorter only losing a minute. But I think it's interesting. I haven't thought about it enough to say I'd [want] to do it."