Lue leads with a spirit of accountability.

Tyronn Lue’s superstar pairing combined to shoot 0 for 9 down the stretch of the Clippers’ 105-100 loss in Milwaukee on Sunday, turning the clutch moments of that game into the trivia answer to: Which team in the past 10 years had the most misses without a make in the final four minutes of regulation in an NBA game?

Lue’s reaction to Kawhi Leonard and Paul George’s nationally televised, slow-motion, late-game crash a couple of days later?

“I got to be better putting those guys in position to get to their spots and then get the spacing right, so that those guys can make plays for themselves and one another,” the Clippers’ coach said Tuesday before tip-off in Boston.

“When you have great players, they want to close those games out — that is what they are there for. But with that being said, we still got to make the right play and I got to get those guys in the right spots to make those plays.”

That propensity to look inward is a notable aspect of Lue’s approach this season, his first guiding the Clippers after his first head coaching job in Cleveland, where he led the LeBron James-led Cavaliers to an NBA title and two subsequent NBA Finals appearances.

That personal accountability doesn’t go unnoticed — including by opposing coaches.

“He’s got great perspective, he sees the game, he’s got a great way of getting the most out of his team,” Celtics coach Brad Stevens said of Lue, a former Boston assistant. “He’s so well-liked and has such a great reputation. I’ve just gotten to know him since we’ve both been head coaches and I just can’t say enough good things about him as a coach.”