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Memphis Grizzlies - San Antonio Spurs
Wednesday (20 April) 17:31 (GMT +1)
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The possible return of All-Star Manu Ginobili would be about the only significant difference.

Popovich didn't spare his players afterward, ripping them as "dogs" and saying more people needed to "step up and play worth a damn. Points off turnovers, points in the paint, fast-break points, second-chance points? Back then, the Spurs were an underachieving, banged-up No.All season-bests against the Grizzlies.

We did the things we wanted to do and still lost," Spurs coach Gregg Popovich said.Yet when these 61-win Spurs lost Game 1 on Sunday to Memphis - a No 8 seed of playoff novices, from coach Lionel Hollins on down - Popovich never appeared flustered. They had beaten the Grizzlies on the boards. Nor are the top-seeded San Antonio Spurs, who couldn't stop the Memphis Grizzlies from winning their first playoff game in franchise history, shaking things up for Game 2 on Wednesday.They committed the fewest turnovers in five meetings with Memphis. This time last year, Pop didn't let his guys off so easy. The Spurs got the message and ousted the Mavericks in six games. Not when he thought the Spurs did almost everything right.7 seed who lost their playoff opener on the road by six to Dallas.

The Grizzlies aren't taking any chances.They just miss one of their primary playmakers. Instead, the Spurs lost 101-98 as the 33-year-old Ginobili watched from the bench, still resting a sprained right elbow after unsuccessfully lobbying Popovich to let him play.

The Grizzlies were swept from their only three other playoff series -- the last one in 2006 -- and have gone from a team eager to snap a winless streak to one that could become only the fourth

Memphis is in uncharted territory. He lets Tony Parker be in the corner on the wing, and he handles the ball on the pick and roll, and now he throws it back out and there's Tony Parker - who's a jet - attacking the basket," Hollins said.Whether Ginobili, who injured the elbow in the regular-season finale last week, returns for Game 2 likely won't be known until just before tipoff. no 8 seed in NBA history to survive the first round.If you had told me before the game that we would do all those things, I'd say it was a win," Popovich said. Hollins said he's presuming the Argentine will be in the lineup and give San Antonio its second-leading scorer back.

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