INGLEWOOD — Clippers guard Norman Powell isn’t worried about his shooting. He isn’t concerned that he has yet to find a steady rhythm in the first two games of the team’s first-round playoff series against the Denver Nuggets.

Powell is shooting 10 for 26 from the field through eight quarters of play, his most productive stint coming in the fourth quarter Monday when he went 3 for 4 late in the Clippers’ 105-102 victory that evened the best-of-seven series at one game apiece.

The series resumes tonight at Intuit Dome, with Game 4 scheduled for Saturday afternoon.

“Obviously for me, shots or buckets aren’t coming as they have been all year, but it’s just about staying confident, riding the waves of the ups and downs of it, trusting my work and just continuing to take the shots that are open,” Powell said after Wednesday’s practice.

“Every shot that I’ve taken in this series have been shots I’ve made all year (that are) just not going in. But I have unwavering confidence in myself, my teammates, and the coaching staff does (as well).”

Their faith isn’t in vain. In 60 regular-season games, Powell averaged 21.4 points and 48.4% from the field and 41.8% from 3-point range.

So far, he is averaging an uncharacteristic 12.5 points on 38.5% shooting in the postseason.

Still, Clippers coach Tyronn Lue isn’t worried about Powell’s slow starts in Games 1 and 2, making just one of nine shots in the first quarters of both games. In conversations with his starting guard, Lue reiterated that Powell just needs to stay aggressive.

Powell’s three well-timed shots in Monday’s game were testament of him not only staying aggressive, but positive against Denver’s tough defense, eventually finding his spots on the floor

“He puts in too much work to get discouraged, so yeah, we need him to be aggressive,” Lue said. “He has to trust in this work; he works too hard sometimes.

“So, I’m glad he was able to make those three shots in the fourth quarter and hopefully that gets him going throughout the course of the series.”

Kawhi Leonard and James Harden continued to have faith in their teammate, routinely looking to get the ball in Powell’s hands in Game 2. Late in the fourth quarter, Powell came up with a steal, whipped the ball over to Leonard, who then swung it back to Powell for a wide-open 3-pointer that gave the Clippers a 103-100 lead with 1:30 to play.

Powell said having the support of Leonard and Harden means a lot. Both All-Stars said they have the utmost confidence in Powell to take big shots down the stretch.

“It’s really helpful. It just shows that they trust the work and they trusted my abilities as a player, as a teammate around this time, you need that,” Powell said. “You need the confidence of your two star players. You need the confidence of the supporting cast and the role players to go out there and execute and win.

“It’s a team game.”

BACK HOME

Games 3 and 4 are at Intuit Dome, where the Clippers were 30-11 during the regular season, winning 11 of their final 12 home games.

Their dominating record at home means little to Derrick Jones Jr. A game is a game, no matter where it’s played, he said.

“I go in there with the same mindset every night. I give it 110% every night. Whatever I have in my body, I leave out on the floor,” the Clippers forward said. “I don’t change my mindset game to game.”

Nuggets interim coach David Adelman recalled the Nuggets’ lone visit to Intuit Dome early in the season, when the noise level — real or not real — was intense.

“They have the crowd towards our bench, it’s like a high school crowd, which is actually really cool,” Adelman told the Denver-area media Wednesday. “The other thing is they pump sound in the place. That place is so loud. It’s very loud whether the crowd is cheering or not.”

Correction

A headline in Wednesday’s paper had the wrong opponent for the Clippers in their first-round playoff series. The Clippers are playing the Denver Nuggets.