Gasol hit big shots in Grizzlies' double-OT win
NEW ORLEANS -- Marc Gasol hit a 3-pointer at the end of regulation to send the game to overtime and then nailed 17-foot fadeaway jumper over the outstretched arms of Anthony Davis to lift the Memphis Grizzlies to a 110-108 double-overtime win over the New Orleans Pelicans on Monday night at the Smoothie King Center.
Gasol scored 28 points and also grabbed a critical rebound with 3.8 seconds left after Davis drove through the middle of the lane and missed a scoop shot.
After the officials called a jump ball, Davis beat Gasol for the ball, but Langston Galloway's attempt at a game-winning 3-pointer from the right corner missed.
The Grizzlies (14-8) got a team-high 29 points from Troy Daniels.
The Pelicans (7-15) got 28 points and 17 rebounds from Davis and a career-high 26 points from Galloway.
Gasol tied the score 94-94 with 7.6 seconds left in regulation with a 3-pointer from the left key over Terrence Jones. The Pelicans set up an inbounds play, but Solomon Hill's lob pass for Davis hit the front of the rim and Davis never had a chance to tip it in.
The Pelicans scored the first four points of the first overtime -- Davis hit a 15-foot jumper -- to take a 98-96 lead, but both teams looks gassed.
Davis hit a short jumper from the left baseline to put New Orleans up 100-96 with 1:26 left. Tony Allen hit one of two free throws and Daniels came up with a loose ball and nailed a 3-pointer with 14.8 seconds left to tie it at 100.
The Grizzlies are 10-0 this season in games that either went into overtime or were decided by five or fewer points.
Memphis led 81-71 on the strength of Daniels' nine consecutive points, but the Pelicans came right back with a 9-0 run to cut the deficit to 81-80.
The Grizzlies led 89-85 with 3:46 left, but Galloway hit a deep 3-pointer and Jones, off a no-look feed from Hill, hit a layup to put the Pelicans up 90-89 with 2:58 remaining.
The Pelicans led 57-49 before Memphis closed the third quarter with a 25-12 run, sparked by Daniels' 13 points on 3-of-3 shooting from behind the arc. Davis kept it close for New Orleans by scoring 15 points in the third quarter, but the Pelicans trailed 74-69.
The first half was an abysmal display of offense by both teams. At one point early in the second quarter, the Pelicans and Grizzlies had combined to make just 19 of 58 shots from the floor and New Orleans lead 32-24.
The Grizzlies finally found some life behind Gasol, who scored nine points in the quarter during a 16-2 Memphis run to take a 40-34 lead.
The Pelicans rallied in the final four minutes to take a 46-44 halftime lead on Buddy Hield's 3-pointer from the left wing as the clock expired.
David looked tired or disinterested in the first half. He missed 6 of 7 shots and finished with a season-low three points in the first half.
With 2:46 left in the half, New Orleans had only two players -- Galloway and Hill -- with more than one basket.
New Orleans had to make five of its last seven shots on the half to shoot 34.1 percent from the field in the first 24 minutes.
NOTES: Grizzlies F Zach Randolph missed his seventh consecutive game after the unexpected death of his mother. He could return this week during Memphis' three-game homestand. ... The Pelicans' starting backcourt of Jrue Holiday and E'Twaun Moore missed the game with toe injuries, leaving the team with nine players in uniform. Holiday's injury was described as a turf toe. Coach Alvin Gentry said he did not think it was "anything serious" but was "one of those nagging things." ... Gentry is trying not to overreact to another spate of injuries. "Over the past year and a half, this is just the way it's been, and you really can't do anything except plug in who is there and tell them to step up their game and play better," Gentry said. ... The Grizzlies signed combo guard Toney Douglas to add badly needed depth with the lower back injury to starting PG Mike Conley.