“I know he was probably joking, but we work hard and we’ve been through a lot”, Randolph said of Miller’s comments.
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With Marc Gasol and Mike Conley forced by injuries to watch from the bench, the Grizzlies have scored only 13 and 11 points in the first quarter of the games in San Antonio. There was no serious rally in Game 2. With only the seventh-seed in the West, the shorthanded Grizzlies were forced to face off against the dominant San Antonio Spurs in a playoff series they are simply not supposed to win. The Spurs won Game 1 by a score of 106-74. “Especially at their place, it’s going to be a whole lot tougher”.
With the NBA’s best defense, the Spurs are more than equipped to handle a team that is relying on scoring from aging veterans.
It seemed to take forever, but the playoffs are finally here. Aldridge had 10 points, eight rebounds and four blocks. “We’re going to forget it”, power forward Zach Randolph said afterward. The dynamics between these teams are well established, and these ragtag Grizzlies can not hope to match the precision and talent of the Spurs. The Silver and Black held the Grizzlies to 32.6 percent shooting, including 2-of-14 from beyond the arc.
“We’ve got to roll the dice a little bit”. “That’s how they play”.
But there are some great teams looming ahead and one of them is the defending champion Golden State Warriors.
The Memphis Grizzlies (42-40) will visit the San Antonio Spurs (67-15) on Tuesday at the AT&T Center.
“We’re coming to a gunfight with some spoons”, he said. We’ve got to still execute. Spurs coach Greg Popovich not happy, thinking it was a foul. We don’t think like that. Game 2 wasn’t much of a contest as the Hawks came out on top 89-72 as Bradley sat out the game. “You just go do the best you can”.
“I heard that”, he said.
“We have got to be prepared to match that physicality and that energy”, Green said.
San Antonio is listed as a consensus 11.5-point road favorite at sportsbooks monitored by Odds Shark and has grown to -100000 to win the series (bet $100,000 to win $100) for those still willing to take that wager. It’s team defense versus him. “Our battles in practice were very physical, very competitive”.
“It’s not just to get the series over with, to appease the rest of the world”, Carter said. I just have to stay positive.
Head to head, the Spurs are 7-2 ATS in the last nine meetings in Memphis and 19-7 ATS in the last 26 meetings overall.
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After Tuesday’s 94-68 final in San Antonio, the series’ first two games have been decided by an average of 29 points. The late tip of two Tuesday playoff affairs is slated to see the opening jump-ball at 9:30 PM ET with the national television coverage on the TNT network.
