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Memphis Grizzlies (12-15) @ Houston Rockets (19-11)
08:00 PM ET, Dec 26th, 2013
Toyota Center - Houston, Texas
TV: TNT

Team Trivia: Both Chandler Parsons and Mike Miller played small forward at University of Florida. Grizzlies Nick Calathes was also a teammate of Parsons at Florida.

Grizz Celeb of the Night:

Vera-Ellen from a White Christmas.


Grizzlies Starting 5



Rockettes Starting 5



Bench Heroes

found this on the rockets forum:

WOW SERIOUSLY!? We play on national TV one of the best teams in the league and there's ZERO comments on the game???

I have to say that was a nice game until the 4th and then a total nightmare. I was wearing brand new Grizzlies gear I got for Christmas for the first time and all dialed in then they brought great disappointment in the form of free throws, Jeremy Lin treys, and Donatus Montajunas throwing it down. ZBO should have had 30 & 15 but they were just mugging him down low. no whistles. Really bad calls there in the 4th. I watched all the games on Christmas and I know I am a biased fan of the Grizzlies but I swear I never saw anything like this on any of those games...

A whole lot of things went backwards in the fourth. Not boxing out for rebounds, missed FTs' not taking advantage of D-12 being in foul trouble. Z-Bo playin too many minutes. Perimeter offense being a non-factor. Grizz should've won this game. And watching ZBo leaving the floor the way he did summed the definition of another fourth quarter debacle by the Grizzlies.

There were some positives to take away from the game:

If you didn't know ZBO is the MAN
Prince's tank is not on E just yet
With the addition of Johnson, we have an athletic SF dunking like you know who
Good Tony/Bad Tony made another appearance
Joerger sticks with the reserves way too long, how many leads do they have to lose

dark-child wrote:There were some positives to take away from the game:

Good Tony/Bad Tony made another appearance
Joerger sticks with the reserves way too long, how many leads do they have to lose

Acutually Tony Allen did good job against mustache flopper. But somehow refree helped or keep calling BS foul every times. even though Tony did not foul mustache flopper. Harden did was flop each times.

I really hate way the modern NBA allow to keep BS calling foul against physical defender many times in the game.

Also refree did not call Donatas Motiejunas goaltending and refree called offense foul on Z-BO even tough Z-BO defender foot was in restricted area. That was ridiculous.

Yeah Joeger did not do well on the rotation especially down stretch. Z-Bo was out of gas in 4QT. So he could not keep up with Rockets small ball line up tempo style basketball. Joeger should substitute Z-Bo for Ed or he could try Prince play at PF and Leuer at C until down stretch.