The Los Angeles Clippers have quickly turned into a beast to be reckoned with, stringing together six straight wins after a decisive 114-99 win over the Dallas Mavericks on Tuesday. Paul George has been stellar upon returning from injury, but admits his team is becoming a defensive juggernaut, while still figuring things out offensively.

“Offensively, we're still figuring it out,” George said after the game, according to ESPN's Tim MacMahon. “We're still a work in progress, but I think defensively is where each game we're getting better and better. Not even from just me and him, but from the team overall. We're doing stuff instinctively now where we're not even thinking.

“It's just happening. It's a natural habit that we're creating. That's what's most scary because everybody is kind of thinking the same thing when we're on the defensive end, and we're just scrambling.”

The Clippers held the duo of Luka Doncic and Kristaps Porzingis to 37 combined points on 8-of-27 shooting (29.6%) from the floor. The Mavs shot 38% as a team and had 20 turnovers — a surefire recipe for a loss against most teams.

George has no problem laying out the team's identity:

“That's who we are as a team,” said Paul George, who had six steals in the win. “We pride ourselves on defense. Offensively, we've got guys that can score the ball, but we want to make it tough on a nightly basis on whoever we're playing.

“We knew coming into this, we knew what the Clippers had already, and we knew what we could bring. That's what we're doing right now. We're becoming one of the best defensive teams in the league.”

The Clippers already have far and away the best bench in the league and arguably the best defensive tandem in George and Kawhi Leonard — if they start to figure it out offensively, there will be very few teams that can stop them come April.