Of course not always, but we always try as hard as we can.” It doesn’t always have to be pretty, but we always get it done - well, not always. “No doubt, that’s who we are. That comes for a reason. Per 's Kevin Arnovitz, after Memphis' series-ending loss to the Spurs, Marc Gasol spoke fondly of his team's organically cultivated grit-and-grind persona: ( Dwight Howard and Pau Gasol of the Los Angeles Lakers combined for 21 per game, but Gasol didn't qualify for the rebound race because he missed 33 games due to various injuries.) No two teammates who both qualified for the rebounding title ripped down more rebounds on a nightly basis than did Gasol and Randolph.
They shouldered a massive load for Memphis throughout the regular season, particularly on the glass, wherein they combined to average 19 rebounds per game. Thanks in no small part to Gasol and Z-Bo. Despite this year's Spurs-induced setback, Memphis can still look back fondly on this season's run as the closest the organization has ever come to so much as sniffing the elusive Larry O'Brien Trophy.
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Gasol and Z-Bo led the Grizz to their first-ever postseason wins and series triumph in 2011, when they smacked around the top-seeded Spurs in six games. This latest four-game flop against San Antonio was Memphis' first playoff series without so much as a single victory since then. Marc's older brother) served as the centerpiece of three squads that were summarily swept out of the first round. The first came between 20, when Pau Gasol (i.e. In their last three campaigns together, Gasol and Randolph have led Memphis to a regular-season record of 143-87 (.622 winning percentage), capped off by a franchise-best 56-26 showing in 2012-13.Įach of those three seasons has ended in the postseason, marking only the second such stretch the Grizz have ever enjoyed. As a tandem, Gasol and Z-Bo have been at the center of the finest stretch in the Grizzlies' tortured history.