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Who: Memphis Grizzlies(44-21) vs. Oklahoma City Thunder(50-17)
When: March 20th 2013
Where: FedEx Forum in Memphis,TN
Time: 7:00 PM CST
Season Series: Tied 1-1
Series Overall: Thunder lead 47-19
TV: SpSo ESPN/ESPN 92.9
Team Trivia: Grizzlies center Marc Gasol and Thunder forward Serge Ibaka were teammates on the Spanish National Team at the 2012 Summer Olympic Games in London, winning a silver medal. Thunder forward Kevin Durant and guard Russell Westbrook won gold with Team USA at the 2012 Olympics, defeating Marc Gasol and Spain, 107‐100, in the gold medal game.





The Grindhouse











Grizzlies Celeb of the Game

Lacey Chabert











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Thunder Starters

expect a really muddy, brown game from downtown. I pity the fool that wear an OKC jersey into FedEx tonight. They're going home crying. On my trip to Denver actually I saw at least a half a dozen people in OKC gear. I guess OKC/Texas folks were all on Spring Break.

Thunder get so many calls.

They're getting us on everything: Zach has multiple 3 second violations. I can't remember the last time I saw that.

Ghggggggggooo Grizz !!! We don't. Bluff city . Pull it off Grizz

I never feel like thunder beat us. They just outwork us on. The whistles

JB on FIRE!!!!!!!!!!!

OT folks!

Great game for the Grizz. We could not buy calls in the paint, but we got the win anyway. Kudos to Bayless and conley for keeping us alive offensively. Also great game by Prince defensively against Durant; even KD's 3rd quarter explosion was against excellent defense from Prince. Great scorers can just hit shots anyway, but Prince kept him in check outside of that few minutes.

However, I think we need to do a better job of getting Marc touches. I don't care what Hollins or anyone else says, Zach's game is slipping and he shouldn't be our go-to guy. He got fouled a lot tonight and was rightfully upset about not getting any calls, but the fact is we shouldn't be dumping the ball into him on the block 15+ times a game. He is no longer strong or quick enough to require a double team down there. Marc is a much tougher cover and a better passer out of double teams.

Side-note: Did anyone else think that it was Durant and not Marc who tipped in that last shot?

Marc's tip-in all the way. I think ZBO is still the man, but definitely agree they need to find Marc the ball more often. But look at it this way - we had a huge lead early when Marc still had ZERO points. Yes he was instrumental in securing the win but I think we can still win in a variety of ways . I thought this morning why we didn't see more of Ed Davis. And I thought Dexter Pittman could have gone in some against Thabeet to give our guys more rest. Why did we bring that goon in?

vanjulio wrote:Marc's tip-in all the way. I think ZBO is still the man, but definitely agree they need to find Marc the ball more often. But look at it this way - we had a huge lead early when Marc still had ZERO points. Yes he was instrumental in securing the win but I think we can still win in a variety of ways . I thought this morning why we didn't see more of Ed Davis. And I thought Dexter Pittman could have gone in some against Thabeet to give our guys more rest. Why did we bring that goon in?

Yeah I think Pittman was just to placate Hollins complaining about the lack of Centers.

That, and we got a 2nd round pick to take him.

I'm not saying he is better than anyone in the DLeague or that Hollins would be happy with him but if he's all you got, the one night to play him is when Thabeet is in there:

I don't really think thabeet's the kind of player you give a **** about when choosing your rotation.

I'd rather see Leuer out there than Pittman.