Intro:

Postgame reaction after the San Antonio Spurs beat the Memphis Grizzlies 105-83 in Game 1 of their National Basketball Association (NBA) Western Conference Finals on Sunday (19 May) at the AT&T Center in San Antonio, Texas.

Script:

SOUNDBITE: (English) Lionel Hollins, Memphis Grizzlies Head Coach: (speaks about the match)

"Well, Tony Parker came out really aggressive in the pick and rolls. We weren't up where we were supposed to be, and then he just beat us sometimes. And when Matt Bonner came in the game, he was set a screen and dragged somebody away and we never got back, and the main thing, we just over helped. We were just so hyper just running all over the place on defence. We'd have four guys in the paint and nobody would be out on the perimeter guarding anybody, and that's not how we play defence."

SOUNDBITE: (English) Gregg Popovich, San Antonio Spurs Head Coach: (speaks about the match)

"I thought we worked hard. Zach (Randolph) and Marc (Gasol) are a heck of a combination, probably the best high low combination in the league, and guarding them on the block without the high low is tough enough, but everything they do is really difficult to stick with, and you've got to have a mindset to do it on every down. And I thought that we did the best job we could. You can't be perfect at it. They're just too good. But I thought the effort was there for 48 minutes."

SOUNDBITE: (English) Tony Parker, San Antonio Spurs Guard: (speaks about the performance of himself and his teamates)

"Just one of those games. It happens sometimes. Our ball movement was great tonight and I shot the ball very well. It's just one game, and we'll try to do the same thing in Game 2, but I'm sure they're going to make some adjustments and they're going to try to do different stuff. So we'll see what happens. But tonight when we shoot the ball like that, we're pretty hard to stop. But we know that it's not going to happen every game. I'm not even sure we're going to shoot like that for the rest of the series. Against Golden State we couldn't hit a shot. Tonight we made some."