Game 3

After the debacle in PHX the dubs were as desperate as you could be at 0-2..the lack of team chemistry and spirit in the first 2 games was reason for concern..
The new nellie line up had jax sliding to the 4 and azu being inserted in the starting line up at the 3
curry, monta, buke, jax,beans,,right away you could see the energy that had been lacking was there..but a huge frontline of m-gasol, z-bo, and gay were dominating the boards early and got beans in early foul trouble..mid way thru the first the grizz had pulled away to a 13 point lead when nellie finaly called a timeout..after that the team defence stepped up leading to turn overs and fast breaks getting us back in the game before the quarter was over.. In the second maggs really got going after a a couple of slashes to the hoop and to his credit seemed to bother z-bo on the other end playing him very physical..but gay started heating up from what seemed like every where abusing buke..In comes morrow to match up with a red hot gay....pause....it was interesting to see gay dropped a few jumpers on him and blew by him for a dunk.. but thats what really brought out the competitive juice in morrow.. all of a sudden he was looking for his shot and pulling the trigger with no hesitation..every time gay scored morrow had an answer.. this battle continued well into the 3rd with the score going back in forth.. until nellie switched jax on gay and the vet did his job got him out of rhythm and missed a few..the young grizz went else where for there offense with much less success..while the dubs continued to feed the hot hand in morrow..Id say that was the turning point of the game..as obvious a move as it was you have to credit nellie for putting jax on gay and of course credit jax with the job he did on him. a little lost in morrow's shooting barrage was the play of monta who really had one of his best all around games in his career imo..also would like to give some credit to beans..missing most of the game with foul trouble..down the stretch he made some big hustle plays and hit the boards.. so the monkey is off there back..for now..good win

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