Game Thread: Memphis Grizzlies at Charlotte Bobcats 1/10

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If you are going to the game tonight, good luck digging yourself out.



We'll be here in the chat room where there is plenty of heat and a cabinet full of whiskey

Does the Silas-Era magic continue against the Nation of Grizzlam tonight?

[davcbow]

Hasnt even hardly snowed up here in the Va mountains....

[Ghost Kat]

Snows about ankle deep in Raeford. I'm hoping for another win tonight. This is Grizzlemania, might need Gerald "the people elbow" Henderson to come off that top rope again. I really want Derrick Brown to get more minutes. He usually plays 4 or 5 inutes in the first half then he's never seen again.

[ohara831]

Good win tonight! Way to fight!

[teej]

Amazing what a little confidence can do. We're 5-2 under Silas, should be 6-1 and everyone is having fun. Bad game but we won, that never happened with LB.

[spectre]

The subtle value of Diaw

One of the things I noticed last night after Kwame picked up his 2nd foul and we subbed in Tyrus was how well Boris was pushing Gasol out of the paint. It seems that was a main point of Silas last night...taking away the biggest weapon of the best team scoring inside.

Hopefully Silas can get the defense back to respectable. I know a lot of you guys are enjoying the players "having fun"...but execution (and especially DEFENSIVE execution) is my forte. If they can start getting that to work maybe there is some optimism to be found with this group.

Silas is doing well. A good test should be Chicago on Wednesday and trying to help with Rose.

[Ghost Kat]

Snow was so bad only four ladycats showed up

[LiquidWayno]

If I was playing, I would own you. Totally own you. Hard.
The Memphis Grizzlies: Ah...a classic example of scalpers night off. The official attendance for last night's Care Bears-Bobcraps game was 10,188, but that figure is based on tickets distributed. In reality, there were about 1,000-ish fans in Time Warner Cable Arena.

Matt Carol, who was supposed to throw a free-t-shirt into the crowd, said: "I was looking around and I couldn't find anybody. So I said I was going to throw it up to a zone and see if somebody can get it."

I can think of no better quote to describe Charlotte's current offensive philosophy.

Anyway, as much as I would love to blame the lousy matchup for the lack of warm bodies in the stands, the sparse crowd was actually the result of a "snowstorm" that hit the area. Or, as Basketbawful reader The Other Chris put it:

Also about 12 people showed up to the Charlotte game, it probably snowed two inches in North Carolina and every got a case of giant flapping vaginitis... either that or they remembered how terrible Charlotte is.

Said Stephen Jackson: "We knew we had a job to do, that's come out and play and get a win regardless. You can't expect everybody to come out in this weather and drive."

Especially to see the Grizzlies get blown out.

Memphis actually won the rebounding battle 48-40 -- their total included 17 offensive rebounds -- and outscored the Bobcraps 58-28 in the paint. The Care Bears racked up another 17 points off 18 Charlotte turnovers.

Unfortunately, the Griz missed 33 of their first 42 shots, managed only 31 points in the first half, and fell behind by as many as 23 before losing 96-82.

Mike Conley shot 6-for-17. Rudy Gay was 5-for-16. O.J. Mayo went 1-for-8. Memphis shot 39 percent as a team. Yep. I'd call that an offensive fail.

By the way, I think it's fucking adorable as hell how excited people are getting over Charlotte's 5-2 record under Paul Silas. Let's see, they've beaten the Pistons (12-25), Cavaliers (8-29, Timberwolves (9-29), Wizards (9-26) and Grizzlies (17-21). And their only road outing in the last seven games was in Minnesota.

As always...just sayin'.

- Basketbawful

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Anyway, as much as I would love to blame the lousy matchup for the lack of warm bodies in the stands, the sparse crowd was actually the result of a "snowstorm" that hit the area. Or, as Basketbawful reader The Other Chris put it:

Also about 12 people showed up to the Charlotte game, it probably snowed two inches in North Carolina and every got a case of giant flapping vaginitis... either that or they remembered how terrible Charlotte is.

Said Stephen Jackson: "We knew we had a job to do, that's come out and play and get a win regardless. You can't expect everybody to come out in this weather and drive."

Whatever you do, DO NOT do a google image search on that phrase.