3 Takeaways From the Grizzlies' 129-110 Win Over the Nets

No Grizzlies player scored more than 23 points Saturday night, and Memphis still reached 129.

Cedric Coward's 23 led seven double-figure scorers as the Memphis Grizzlies beat the Brooklyn Nets 129-110 at FedExForum. It was the second night of a back-to-back that opened Friday with a 142-111 win at New Orleans. Memphis is 9-4, and Brooklyn fell to 3-9.

The Grizzlies assisted on 34 of their 46 field goals. Cam Spencer had 8 assists, Javon Small and Cameron Boozer had 5 each, and Coward and Taylor Hendricks had 4 apiece.

Coward had 23, Hendricks 22, Small 19, Spencer 17, and Boozer 15. Isaiah Stewart and Olivier-Maxence Prosper scored 11 each. The Grizzlies made 52.9% of their field-goal attempts and went 15-of-35 from 3-point range.

Memphis made 9 of 11 3-pointers in the first quarter and led 38-23 after it. Spencer made all 3 of his 3-point attempts and finished plus-20 in 33:55. Prosper went 2-of-2 from beyond the arc in 20:03, and GG Jackson hit his only attempt before leaving the game. The Grizzlies finished with 58 bench points.

With that many scorers, Memphis leans on what Grizzlies coach Tuomas Iisalo calls its flow offense to stay as dynamic as possible.

"You can try to emphasize a different type of pace," Iisalo said. "For example, try to [play] faster or try to slow it down and be more deliberate about, let's say, how we attack."

"Or then you can try to attack through scouting the other team's weaknesses, and those weaknesses might be personnel related or they might be related to their concepts," Iisalo explained. "Every concept, every player, no matter how good they are, they have some area where they're not as good, and those are the things we try to attack."

"Now the difficulty with this is it often then slows down the game because it increases the cognitive load a lot," Iisalo continued.

Brooklyn turned it over 16 times, and Memphis scored 30 points off those turnovers. The Grizzlies committed 14 turnovers, 12 by players and 2 team turnovers, and Brooklyn scored 15 points off them. Kris Murray had 4 steals in 19:29, and Coward, Spencer, and Boozer had 2 each for a team total of 11. Memphis finished with 14 fast-break points.

The Grizzlies also went 22-of-29 at the free-throw line. Brooklyn went 11-of-17 and was called for 24 fouls to Memphis' 18. Small made all 6 of his free throws, and Coward made 5 of 6.

Coward said the Grizzlies knew before the game that they had to bring a little extra.

"That's who we need to be," Coward said. "That's part of our culture. That's part of who we are."

Memphis played without Edey, who was ruled out before tip-off and did not dress for left ankle injury management. Brooklyn outrebounded the Grizzlies 43-41 and finished with 19 offensive rebounds to Memphis' 13.

Day'Ron Sharpe had 9 of Brooklyn's offensive rebounds and finished with 16 points and 11 rebounds. Noah Clowney added 7 rebounds. Brooklyn attempted 93 field goals to Memphis' 87 and made 41 of them.

Coward led Memphis with 12 rebounds, and Boozer had 8. The Grizzlies finished with 28 defensive rebounds to Brooklyn's 24. Hendricks had 5 rebounds and Stewart had 3. Memphis scored 23 second-chance points and 62 points in the paint.

Hendricks and Stewart handled the center minutes. Hendricks played 29:01, and Stewart played 15:09 and was called for 5 fouls. Quinten Post, another Memphis center, was inactive in concussion protocol.

Saturday was the second straight game Edey missed.