Jamal Crawford scored a game-high 32 points in the Clippers’ win over Orlando on Saturday/Photo courtesy of Los Angeles Clippers
First-year Orlando Magic coach Scott Skiles has done a fine job this season with his team. The Magic entered 11-8 and on a five-game winning streak when they were defeated 103-101 by the Clippers on Saturday at Staples Center.
Orlando led 96-86 with 5:27 left before the Clippers overtook the Magic with a 13-0 run. Skiles preferred to blame his team rather than dole out credit to the Clippers.
“(The ball stopped moving) for sure,” Skiles said. “We were driving into traffic, trying to make shots that we should not have been trying to make. Typically, that is not what we have been doing and we definitely did it tonight. We gift-wrapped this one for them.”
Magic reserve forward Aaron Gordon agreed.
“The ball stopped moving,” Gordon said. “That is what happened. Our flow got messed up, a couple of bad shots here and there and they capitalized. We gave that game away.”