5-game-set perspective on the season.

4 impressive badly need wins made this the first 5-game-set with a 4-1 record since January 18.  As I said last week this set of teams had a winning percentage of 0.469 and .561 if you take out the NJ game.  Of course, capping off the set with a blow-out win over the Celtics mad this a great week.

The next 5 game set should be another 4 wins and even 5 if the Grizzlies can chomp down hard on the Nuggets and take a little of their golden play away from them.  Denver and Houston are presently the only team with a winning.  The average winning percentage of the next 5 teams 0.457.  With 4 games at home Memphis should better their 19-14 home record.

Looking further ahead, the next 3 roads games are Houston, Sacramento and Golden State.  These are 3 very winnable games for the Griz.  They could up their road record to over 500.

Check out the 5-game-set schedule below.

Well, it seemed to set up fairly well for our Griz. The AARP factor has caught up with Boston lately and teams no longer just put down a "L" for themselves when playing the feared Celtics.

But good grief, I don't think anyone thought it'd be quite like it was.

Sometimes, KG, glaring and intimidation just doesn't make a hill of beans of difference when you get outplayed as badly as the you and your team did this game.

I just can't say enough good things about the team's performance tonight, so I'll just throw out a few things.

Coach Hollins says that the home losing streak is due in part to the caliber of the teams the Grizzlies have played.  Well, the men who dish out the power rankings each week must see that too.  The Grizzlies are higher in every ranking from last week.

Dave Del Grande has a great plan to get every NBA team in the playoffs, which has some merit.  It is sort of like the NCAA tournament for the NBA.  For example, I like this, "And because we've adopted an at-large selection process, we've trashed the embarrassing concept of losing Eastern clubs getting into the postseason while vastly superior Western teams don't. As a result, the playoffs get stronger right from the get-go."

John Schuhmann at NBA.com is a no-show so far for this weeks PR. Thanks jshaggy1983 for giving me the link for NBA.com PR.

Do the Grizzlies deserve to be in the top 15, since that is their actual standing in the NBA?  Check it our below.

If you build it, they will come.
The Voice, Field of Dreams

If I can't get people to come to the games I can't pay anybody. Am I upset? No. I've always said we have to make people want to come. With this team, if we can't make them want to come I don't know what I can do.
Michael Heisley, Commercial Appeal Interview

Ray Kinsella had far less of a fan base when he began plowing his cornfield under to build a baseball field. Of course he did risk losing his home and farm but in the end he built it and the people did come and he was saved.

Maybe Michael Heisley needs to watch that movie. People come after it is build not before. People didn't come to the Iowa fields to watch a few good ghosts throwing the ball around. They waited until the team was together and ready to play a real game. Then they came and they came in droves. Cars as far as a person could see drove to Iowa to see them play.

Hey, as of today the Grizzlies gained some ground on Portland in the last 5 days since the last playoff post.

Well, yea, only 1 game in win column and Portland will probably make that up when they play Sacramento tonight.  At the same time Memphis lost ground to the Spurs as we are now 3 wins and 6 losses down as compared to last week only 2 wins and 6 losses down.

The thin line of hope for the playoffs is growing ever so thin.

As of today the Grizzlies have the toughest schedule left based on the opponents winning percentage.

Below the divide see the remaining schedule and other schedule related info.

Even without the team's unquestionable season MVP, the Grizzlies were able to overcome an absolutely crapalicious third quarter performance to beat the terrible but talented Nets.

Zach Randolph sat out with low back stiffness (although Hollins did say in his postgame presser that he expected him back for the game at Boston Wednesday), OJ Mayo sleepwalked through most of the game, and Marc Gasol battled foul trouble for a lot of the second half.

Two major  things stood out to me about this game, one of which is just the shocker of the century...

To no one's surprise, the San Antonio Spurs are starting to wake up, and the Grizzlies ran into them at the wrong time. Any other time, I'm stoked to watch such a well-drilled team as the Spurs play their brand of defense and ball in general, but not when they play the Grizz.

The Spurs did what they do to win this game, and none of it was all that surprising...