<div class="quote_poster">Quote:</div><div class="quote_post">DALLAS -- Someday, the Memphis Grizzlies will win a playoff game. But it will not come on a night when their star player doesn't get a bucket until the second half. It will not come on a night when they decline to rebound. It will not come on a night when they give the opposition a 24-minute head start. Someday, the Memphis Grizzlies will win a playoff game. But they're going to have to, you know, show up. The Mavericks extended the Grizzlies playoff losing streak to nine with a 103-93 win at American Airlines Arena Sunday night. No, it's not fair to attribute all nine losses to this group. But as Erick Dampier once said, life isn't fair. What? It wasn't Dampier who said that? Well, he just wrenched it away from whomever did. The Grizzlies didn't particularly object, either. Because, like, Erick Dampier is big. Besides, fair or unfair, the incredible, expanding playoff losing streak is how this team is defined. They aren't even the Memphis Grizzlies anymore. They're the Memphis Grizzlies Who Have Never Won A Playoff Game. Small wonder nobody gives them a chance to win this series. That would involve four wins. That's one win, plus another win, plus another win, plus another win. At the current rate, that will happen, uh, never. So the writers for the Dallas Morning News weighed in with their predictions Sunday morning and this is what they said: Eddie Sefko: "The Mavs yawn and gear up for the Spurs." Kevin Sherrington; "A nice tuneup for the Spurs." David Moore: "Pau, pulled pork and Graceland are temporary diversions." Gerry Fraley: "Mavs biggest problem is getting tickets for everyone to go to Graceland. Kevin Blackistone: "A team that hit the 60-win mark won't have trouble with a franchise that has never won a playoff game." Fighting words, eh? Except the Grizzlies didn't fight. They didn't scrap for loose balls, didn't play defense and absolutely, positively didn't rebound. The first half rebounding numbers: 24-6. That's not a misprint. Twenty-four to six! The Grizzlies were ducking rebounds the way the Clippers ducked the fifth-seed. The Grizzlies dance team could have done better than that. And the junior dance team. And the junior, junior dance team. There is no junior, junior dance team? So, what's your point? The junior, junior dance team could certainly have scored as many first-half buckets (0) as Gasol. </div> Source
