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• Patience: Similar to their loss to the Warriors a few days ago, the Clippers don’t exercise their advantages nearly enough on the offensive end. Toronto is a miserable defensive team (last in the league in defensive efficiency at 109.8), but the Clippers bail them out by not testing them with deep dribble penetration. Instead the Clippers elect to jack up 25 threes in the game, and although quite a few fall down in the first half where the Clippers held the lead at it’s conclusion, the shooters go cold in the second half. It sounds strange, but working for easier looks is outside the comfort zones of all the Clippers, with the exception of Craig Smith and DeAndre Jordan. Butler, Kaman, Blake, Gordon, Outlaw, Gooden and Brown all rely on their jump shot as their primary offensive weapon. As we’ve seen all season, if you get into a jump shooting battle with a team like Toronto, you’re most likely going to lose.

Game 75

4p ET

Fox Sport Prime Ticket

980 AM

Far and away the most compelling sequence of the night:

This is the only time the Clippers body up all night. The Clips have been among a select group of truly awful defensive teams in basketball for more than a month. Tonight, they give up 107 points in 90 possessions (118.9 points per 100) to a team that isn’t all that competent offensively. Milwaukee plays some of the smartest defense in the league, but they’re only 23rd in the NBA in offensive efficiency. When the Brandon Jennings-Andrew Bogut pick-and-roll isn’t producing points, the Bucks don’t have a lot else on the board — unless you give it to them.  More...

Game 74

5p PT

Fox Sports Prime Ticket

980 AM

There’s a ton of behind the scenes number crunching and player evaluation that makes the Houston Rockets a successful team. One of the big curiosities about Houston is how they can survive without a single shot-blocking threat on the court. A quick glance over at Hoopdata.com helps explain how they get it done.

The Rockets have five players that rank in the top 20 for charges taken per game. Five! Jared Jeffries and Kyle Lowry rank number one and two overall, while Luis Scola checks in at #11, Shane Battier is at #14, and post-defender extraordinaire Chuck Hayes is at #17.  More...