The power of the San Antonio Spurs bench was once again in evidence on Tuesday with 56 points scored by reserves that allowed the Texas team won easily at home by 94-68, the decimated Memphis Grizzlies in the second duel of the best of seven series of the first round of the playoffs in the Western Conference.
The win leaves the Spurs to lead 2-0 in the series. The teams now head for Memphis, where they will play the next two games, the first one on Friday at FedExForum.
The franchise of Tennessee is likely to be swept in the series, since no account with Marc Gasol and Mike Conley, two of their key players, and was hit by the Spurs in the two games played in Texas.
The owner reserves Patty Mills paced San Antonio with 16 points, complete with four balls three in six attempts, while the wing Kawhi Leonard wrote down 13 points and was the best of the titular quintet, followed by LaMarcus Aldridge, who got ten points, eight rebounds and four blocked shots.
With the team controlling the opponent from the start of the match, the coach of the Spurs, Gregg Popovich, put your bank into action and made the most of their collective game and player turnover.
Kevin Martin scored ten points, while the Argentine veteran Manu Ginobili provided eight points, and power forward David West and French pivot Boris Diaw noted six points each.
Among the holders, the guard Tony Parker, the pivot Tim Duncan and the wing-guard Danny Green were the ones who had time to rest. However, in the period they were in court, they combined 15 points for the Texan team. Duncan also excelled in the game in the flagon with nine rebounds.
In addition, the veteran power forward reached 243 games played playoffs and is the only one to match the mark of his former teammate Robert Horry, who has the second best in NBA history.
Already the Grizzlies, the wing-guard Tony Allen was the leading scorer with just 12 points, followed by power forward Zach Randolph, who managed a double-double of 11 points and 12 rebounds.
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