In the coming days the Clippers will meet with players for individual meetings, review the season day by day, reevaluate their internal processes and analyze, for the umpteenth time, how to surround Kawhi Leonard and Paul George to best support a championship run.

But less than a week into an offseason that arrived earlier than the Clippers expected, the coolly analytical approach has been replaced, if only briefly, by the viscerally emotional feeling.

In an hourlong review of the season with reporters Wednesday, president of basketball operations Lawrence Frank described missing the postseason for the first time in four seasons with words including misery, disappointment and pain.

The Clippers finished with the Western Conference’s eighth-best record at 42-40, the franchise’s 11th consecutive winning record, and authored 13 victories when trailing by double digits — including a 35-point comeback in January — despite Leonard missing the entire season while recovering from knee surgery and George missing the majority of the schedule because of an elbow injury.

Yet they played their way out of a postseason berth during the play-in tournament after losing double-digit fourth-quarter leads against Minnesota and New Orleans.

“We watch all these playoff games because there’s a lot of learning to be done, but you do watch it with a degree of emptiness and envy,” Frank said. “But I also think fuel for a great offseason to build great momentum into a great season next year.

“With that being said, we’re not going to allow two games where we came up short to overshadow that it was a special regular season.”

Five months before training camp begins, five things learned from Frank’s review of last season and lookahead to next:

Kawhi Leonard’s timetable to return? Clippers still won’t say

Asked whether he anticipated Leonard being ready to play on October’s opening night of regular season — which will arrive 15 months after Leonard underwent surgery to repair a torn anterior cruciate ligament in his right knee — Frank said he wouldn’t discuss timetables for recovery. Nor would Frank detail what stage Leonard has reached in his recovery.

Frank did credit Leonard with staying disciplined in his recovery despite the “emotional toll” of a long-term injury.