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Never guessed that SA or Dallas would lose the way they did today!
We make Randolph a ing HERO !!
Where is Parker???
What was Manu thinking the last second???
We lost our brain..
Embarrassing...
Never guessed that SA or Dallas would lose the way they did today!
same as last year, no inside help for duncan. oh yeah and the playoffs means bonner does his annual disappearing act along with RJ & Neal hopped on board
The scary thing is, like I said after game one, the really isn't major adjustments to be made. The Grizz are a basic team and they are ramming what they do down the Spurs throats. All the Spurs can do IMO is up the pace a bit and have their big 3 perform better. Nothing special and that's the scary part.
MEM called their shot by tanking and are telling the Spurs "you know what we do and you can't stop it".
The scary thing is, like I said after game one, the really isn't major adjustments to be made. The Grizz are a basic team and they are ramming what they do down the Spurs throats. All the Spurs can do IMO is up the pace a bit and have their big 3 perform better. Nothing special and that's the scary part.
MEM called their shot by tanking and are telling the Spurs "you know what we do and you can't stop it".
Parker didn't have a pulse the entire first half, same with Duncan. Neal was horrible, Hill was below-average. Blair was non-existant.
Spurs played catch up the entire game. you can do that at HOME, but on the road it's harder to dig yourself out of a hole.
you look at the score and you see the low, low score and you think the Spurs didn't have to fix anything different defensively...i disagree with that. the reason the Spurs lost was because of the whole they dug themselves into. and if you watched the game, you know when EXACTLY that started to happen, why, & who the culprits were.
The truth is that I'm not even impressed by Memphis, the only reason they won was because the spurs beat themselves!!!
6TO for TP only in the 2nd half... unbelievable...
this game! Bring on game 4!
And I hope Dice is ok.
Just trying to boost the mood.
ESPN rubbing it in now...showing .4 in a commercial.
They've been airing it a while now, and it was on at least four times during the Spurs game.
when sam young is at center just go with a jeffesron at pf lineup and jack up the 3s. its your iden y go down with the 3s.
with the results of the game today and the non-stop airing of that commercial, they are trying to make Spurs fans tune out of ESPN. What's next? The Manu foul on Dirk shot.
I completely disagree.
grizz aint allowing us to shoot the 3, doesnt help when attacking the rim the refs are not calling the fouls and allowing the grizz get away with physical murder..
doesnt make a difference whether tony allen is fouled out or not, his not the one thats causing us the trouble...its randolf and zbo downlow + the combo of bonner and blair, then u have that re rj who got paid during the summer is playing battier to a stalemate...
its basically 3 vs 8 on the court...
3 day break and this is what the team can conjure up?
3 more ft's than the grizz. and had a 20 something advantage after 2 games in san antonio. how much of an advantage do you want?
No, he's right. The TOs were a killer.
okay mrobvious stop lookin at score sheet and watch the game u clown
Post-game quotes anyone?
We just haven't been the same team since Tim went down. Crucial errors late in the game consistently. This is not Spurs basketball.
Been trying to sniff that out. Figured duncan228 would come up with the goods.
Please win Denver.
Yeah, I don't recognize the Spurs out there. All the turn overs and lack of execution down the stretch has been mind boggling.
It seemed like it all started when Timmy went down and both Manu and Tp failed miserably at closing out the last few end of the season games like the Portland games, etc...
That's not looking so good either.
Some post-game quotes.
http://sports.yahoo.com/nba/recap?gid=2011042329Memphis now win at home, go up 2-1 over Spurs
By Teresa M. Walker
Zach Randolph is known for being a beast in the paint. Now his feathery touch from outside helped the Memphis Grizzlies keep making history.
Even though it’s not the shot anyone expected—except the big power forward.
Randolph scored 25 points, including a clinching 3-pointer with 41.9 seconds left, and the Memphis Grizzlies beat the San Antonio Spurs 91-88 Saturday night for the franchise’s first playoff victory on its home court.
“One would probably think that you’d like Zach to shoot the 3 rather than continue to lay it in against you, so it was a heck of a shot and part of the playoffs is about making shots,” Spurs coach Gregg Popovich said.
Shane Battier passed the ball to Randolph and said later he wished he could take credit for the busted play.
“I think there was a collective holding of the breath at the Forum when that shot was in the air, and it went through,” Battier said. “It was one of those moments where it’s like: ‘No, no, no, no, no, yes. Yes.”
These Grizzlies have been busy this postseason at the Spurs’ expense. They opened this series with their first playoff win, and now the No. 8 seed has a 2-1 lead over the Western Conference’s best team during the regular season. Memphis is trying to become just the fourth team to knock off the top-seeded team.
Game 4 is Monday night in Memphis.
Marc Gasol scored 17 points, Mike Conley had 14 and O.J. Mayo had 10 off the bench for Memphis.
Manu Ginobili led the Spurs with 23 points. Tony Parker had 16, Tim Duncan 13 and George Hill11.
The Spurs only led early and never by more than 1, the last at 12-11. They fell behind by as much as 15 before managing to tie it up twice in the final 8:06, the last at 80 on a Ginobili free throw.
Parker’s reverse layup pulled the Spurs within 88-86 with 1:04 left. The Grizzlies took a timeout, and Randolph looked for an option with the shot clock ticking down, then he put up the 3-pointer over Duncan’s outstretched arm. The ball fell in with 41.9 seconds left for a 91-86 lead that sparked fans to chant his nickname “Z-Bo, Z-Bo.”
“It was 5 seconds on the shot clock,” Randolph said. “I had a little space to see it, so I just shot the shot. It went in, but that’s the shot I work on and I practice every day shooting so it felt good when it left my hand.”
Duncan said he didn’t think that Randolph would try that shot so late in the game.
“I leaned back and tried to make sure that there wasn’t’ a quick big-to-big roll, but he hit a 3 from that range. It was a great shot,” Duncan said.
Memphis coach Lionel Hollins said the play was designed to feed the ball inside to Gasol. When Duncan didn’t come out on Randolph, Hollins said he knew the power forward would shoot away. Not that he’s complaining.
“I’m happy we’re where we are,” Hollins said. “We could be in that other position in that other locker room, so it’s nice to be where we are. And it’s nice to get a victory at home in front of our fans in a playoff game. That’s special as well because they’ve been wanting one and hoping for one, and we came in and got it the first opportunity.”
Ginobili hit a pair of free throws with 31 seconds, but the Spurs couldn’t get off a shot coming up the right side at the end. Ginobili got stopped and looked like he was trying to pass while Duncan tried to call timeout. He was too late as the horn sounded, sparking a big celebration.
“I thought we had a little more time,” Ginobili said.
He credited Gasol and Conley with playing tight defense on him to keep him from getting a shot off and forcing him to try to toss the ball out toward the top of the key.
“But no, there wasn’t enough time,” Ginobili said. “But now it’s easier … I wish we had called a timeout or done something different.”
Gasol said there was no way he was going to let Ginobili take a 3.
“I didn’t care. You can do whatever to get a two. You’re not going to shoot a three,” Gasol said.
The Spurs managed to outrebound Memphis 48-37, but the Grizzlies had a 44-40 edge in the paint as they worked the ball inside to Randolph and Gasol. They also had a 17-9 edge on the fast break against the Spurs. The NBA’s best 3-point shooting team was a meager 2 of 15. Memphis hit only 4 of 11, including Randolph’s big 3.
Antonio McDyess went to the locker room with 2:56 left in pain. He was diagnosed with a neck strain with X-rays negative and his status now day to day. Popovich spoke without knowing McDyess’ status and said it didn’t look good.
The Spurs thought getting Ginobili back and winning Game 2 got them back on track. But San Antonio ended the regular season losing six of their final seven road games, and Memphis won 30 of its 46 games in the FedExForum. The Grizzlies also had just the fifth sellout crowd of the season rooting them on.
Memphis tapped into the city’s past by bringing out wrestler Jerry Lawler to help fire up the sold-out crowd after a party outside the FedExForum in anticipation of the Grizzlies’ first home playoff game since 2006. One fan had a blown-up cutout of Eva Longoria’s head with a Grizzlies’ headband, and it was held up near courtside trying to taunt Parker.
“Did you see that building?” Mayo said. “That was the difference. It was just unbelievable. Our crowd, everybody up swinging a white towel, and everybody on the same sheet of music. If you want to know the difference, it was that home court.”
All the excitement may have been too much as Memphis, with eight Grizzlies in their first home playoff game, missing six of its first seven shots. They settled down and hit nine of the next 11.
The Spurs had made an NBA-best 58 free throws through the first two games, more than the Grizzlies had even attempted. Gasol picked up a foul on the Spurs’ first possession, except Duncan hit only air on his first attempt while clanking the second off the front rim.
The Spurs’ last lead in the first half came when George Hill tipped in a shot at 12-11. Gasol put Memphis ahead with a three-point play, kicking off an 18-8 spurt that left the Grizzlies up 29-20 at the end of the first quarter. The Grizzlies pushed that lead to as much as 15.
NOTES: Randolph was 8 of 43 from 3-point range during the season and had attempted only one in the postseason before his clinching shot. … With Duncan, the Spurs have never won a series they started with home-court advantage only to lose two of the first three. … Memphis had been 0-4 in the playoffs at the FedExForum and 0-6 overall at home.
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