Grizzlies’ Zach Randolph tackles Oklahoma City player (Video)
By Mike Dyce
Memphis Grizzlies’ Zach Randolph basically tackled a guy on the Oklahoma City Thunder team.
The Memphis Grizzlies and Oklahoma City Thunder are squaring off in the ever competitive Western Conference on Friday night. The Grizzlies are currently in third place in the conference and fighting for seeding while the Thunder sit in eighth and they’re fighting for their playoff lives.
Unfortunately for the Thunder’s D.J. Augustin, he found himself in the way of Grizzlies big man Zach Randolph.
Augustin kind of stops running down the court to set up the play, and pulled back to establish the half-court offense. Randolph was still trying to get down court to get into position to play a little defense.
What followed was a scene all too familiar for some NFL quarterbacks. Trying to buy your offense time to make a play, all of the sudden sandwiched by a mammoth defensive lineman out of know where. There aren’t tackles to protect your blind side in the NBA though.
To put it into perspective, Augustin is six-foot flat. Randolph is nine inches taller and a whole lot bigger.
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— BBALLBREAKDOWN (@bballbreakdown) April 4, 2015
And a different angle:
D.J. Augustin saw his life flash before his eyes as Zach Randolph ran him over.#thunder vs #Grizzlieshttps://t.co/l0PKfoJEsS
— Def Pen Hoops (@DefPenHoops) April 4, 2015
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