The Clippers have mostly played together all year and are STILL a bottom 5 team in closing time (under 5 minutes with the game within 5). The other four teams are all eliminated from play in contention...
The Lakers have dealt with injuries to their top two guys and have still shown the ability to close games, or keep games competitive. Barring any significant extra injury, why would I trust the Clippers over the Lakers with Bron and AD? I've seen these guys playing together, they are front runners who don't like to be punched back and being they've been that way all season, they aren't gonna magically flip a switch into some lockdown heavyweight in the playoffs...
The Lakers will have to fight and claw in that potential series because of what you mentioned, AD and Bron still not 100% and the overall rust that will be there with that and Schroder returning, so I can see the series going 7. But the Clippers aren't good enough to beat them in less than 7, and in a hypothetical Game 7 I know who I like my money on...