J.J. Redick is averaging 17.7 points in December/Photo courtesy of Los Angeles Clippers, NBA.com

– It’s easy to say that Utah came in with a record of just 10-20. But the Jazz had won four of five. Included therein was a victory at Memphis. That meant this tired Clippers team got a hard-earned victory over a young team playing with a lot of confidence of late.

– The 12 blocks the Clippers had showed the defensive intensity with which they played. DeAndre Jordan had four of them, which is no surprise. But Matt Barnes tied his career high with three, Blake Griffin had three and Spencer Hawes – playing for the first time in 2 1/2 weeks – had two.

– Reporters made a big deal post-game about Blake Griffin playing all 12 minutes of the fourth quarter, during which he scored 12 of his 24 points. But it should also be noted that sixth-man Jamal Crawford played all but seven seconds of the fourth. The difference was, whereas Griffin shot 4 of 6 from the field in the quarter, Crawford shot 2 of 7. Even so, Crawford had a total of 17 big points off the bench.

– With his 19 rebounds, DeAndre Jordan has raised his league-leading average to 13.8. He led the league this past season with a 13.6 average. And to think that before 2013-14, his highest rebounding average was 8.3 in 2011-12.

– J.J. Redick scored 17 points in this one. He doesn’t get the publicity of Griffin and Chris Paul, but it should be noted that he has been on quite a roll. During the month of December he has averaged 17.7 points to raise his season scoring average to 15.1. He averaged a career-high 15.2 points for the Clippers in 2013-14, but he only played in 35 games because of injuries. He has played in all 32 games this season. In 16 games this month, he has scored 20 points or more in seven of them.