The Grizzlies have long excelled at mucking up the beautiful game of basketball, turning it into something akin to tug of war. The Spurs, too, have that in their past, but it’s been a decade since the silver and black played the kind of intensely physical defense the Grizzlies bring every night. Without the elegant extremes of the Spurs’ motion offense, Memphis’ games are often disjointed affairs, and Saturday night’s meeting was no exception.
As a result there were more than a few possessions that devolved into a series of inexplicable events.
Hard to even know how to describe a playblike this.