The Clippers, who've beaten Utah five times in a row, also got 19 points apiece from Chris Paul and Jamal Crawford along with 14 points from DeAndre Jordan. As a team, they shot 50 percent compared to a 41.3 percent night for the Jazz.
"They've got a lot of guys who can score the basketball," said Jazz shooting guard Gordon Hayward, who scored 16 points on 5-for-15 shooting. "They've got some veteran guys who know how to play this game, so they can be a difficult team to guard."
The Jazz were both proud that they were able to fight their way back into this one but also disappointed that it unraveled after they took the lead. Utah was upset about making 16 turnovers.
It didn't help that the Jazz had their lowest-scoring quarter in the fourth: 20 points.
"We gave it our all," Derrick Favors said. "We put our best effort out. We just came up short. We've just got to make more shots."
"We definitely had some fight in us, which was good," Hayward said. "We could have laid down pretty easy, but we're not going to do that."
Even so, the Jazz locker room was a somber, tense spot yet again.
That was especially the case when Paul Millsap was asked about being frustrated after not playing in the fourth quarter in favor of Favors.
Millsap bristled a terse reply: "What you think? I'll let you answer that."
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When I glanced at the game the Jazz were down by four, late in the 4th quarter with less than 5 minutes to play, and soon it was 12. They eventually lost by 11.
Defense is a concept in basketball, my friends, that not every franchise More..
Are we to expect the Jazz to be just an average team at best? Is ownership, management, and coaches happy to just stay in the middle of the pack? We certainly do much better than that. How about making some changes starting with some trades? How More..
Actually the jazz are very consistant. They consistantly don't play defense. They consistantly play from behind. They consistantly give away the few games that they are leading. Millsap is getting consistantly worse. They have a consistantly bad More..