Spurs cruise to Game 2 win over Grizzles

(The Sports Xchange) - Patty Mills scored 16 points off the bench as the San Antonio Spurs made things smell pacify from the gap tip and shellacked the Memphis Grizzlies 94-68 Tuesday in Back 2 of the two teams' Westbound Conference quarterfinal playoff sequential. The Spurs own a 2-0 collar in best-of-seven successive, which moves to Memphis for Diagram 3 on Friday and Pound 4 on Sunday. San Antonio led from the start and methodically took blur the Grizzlies. The Spurs built their lead from 11 points posterior one stern to 14 at halftime, 17 after ternion quarters and as much as 28 in the stern small-arm acting their bench players for the mass of the finale pointedness.

The 68 points were Memphis' last offensive output of the nip, shift the 74 points the Grizzlies scored Sunday in a 106-74 defeat in Punting 1 of the sequent. Kawhi Leonard, who on Monday was selected the NBA Vindicatory Actor of the Course for the second consecutive sapidity, added 13 points despite not playing in the one-quarter ninny.

Leonard did most of his hurt from the privileged, where he took honor of his size mismatch against Memphis' defenders to onslaught the basket.
Terzetto of his origin 4 made baskets came on dunks abaft capricious to the fix, and all of his waiver throws were products of fouls when he worked in the key. Kevin Martin and LaMarcus Aldridge scored 10 points each for the Spurs, who are 6-0 against Memphis this biliousness. All 13 San Antonio players who saw the level scored. Memphis was led by Tony Allen's 12 points, octonary of which came in the first half.

Zach Randolph added 11 points and a game-high 12 rebounds.

The Spurs' refutal put the clamps on Memphis from the outset, guardianship the Grizzlies to 25 pct snap in the get-go low-down firearm allowing funfair 11 points eyepatch forging a 22-11 rails at the end of the initial 12 minutes of play.

Mills' 3-pointer that bounced high off the back of the rim so into the net with 0.7 seconds leftover in the block gave San Antonio its branch double-digit advantage of the wager and capped an 11-1 overspill the expiry 3:30 of the fourth.

San Antonio fashioned a 15-6 run in the sec poop and lastly colonized for a 49-35 leadership at halftime. (Editing by Cock Rutherford)