Muss ( A+ ) -- first of all a hard game to grade since the Grizzlies are going to makle basically everybody look like an All Star, and yet whew! -- we ran into a buzzsaw of suckiness tongiht but we showed them what's what! Jerry West knows the value of a Gasol/Oden or Gasol/Durant pairing, and they are going with it with gusto. But nobody, and I do mean NOBODY, does suck the way we do suck, so we walked right onto their home floor in front of their 17 fans, and just took the loss from them. And no amount of rookies or Chucky Atkinses were going to deny us. They really have only themselves to blame -- they had Jake Tsakalidis on the bench and only broke him out for a single burst of suck in the second quarter. He might have been enough to tip the balance late. But I think that's where our edge lies -- we have managed to master the art of suckling with all of our major players helathy and n the floor. Yeah, our coach has a completely whacked substitution pattern, but in the end we can just throw our "best" out on the court and have them outsuck the best er... worst? er... whatever that you have to offer. Muss actually made some token show of resisting this one, and made some good coaching moves in the 4th. After the Grizz had cut the lead to two in the early 4th he called a quick timeout which actually worked to settle us and break the Grizzlies momentum, allowing us a few more moments before we choked the rest of the game away. And while riding the hot Corliss hand once again, he made the gutsy (stupid?) move to leave Corliss in the game with 5 fouls form the 6 minute mark. One of those things where if Corliss gets #6 a couple of minutes later the coach gets called a fool, but since Corliss played this one out, coach looks "courageous". But in any case, none of that mattered. What mattered is that a) the game got tight, and all of our guys promptly panicked once again, quit moving the ball, and each individually tried, and failed, to play hero; and b) that we allowed the Memphis Grizzlies to score 41 pts on us in the 4th quarter. 41. Now as I've recently found out from the paper, we made 12 steals tongiht, which means that we played good defense despite the 124 pts we gave up on 59% shooting. But 41 in the final quarter seems a tad excessive don't you think? Anyway...had to go A+ here for pulling off the miracle loss. Who would have thunk it against an 11-34 team wiht an interim coach? Kudos.
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