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PHILADELPHIA (Reuters) – The Philadelphia 76ers given a 21-point advance in the ordinal half before losing 99-94 to the Memphis Grizzlies on Friday.

The 76ers were up by 16 heading into the ordinal lodge but sworn 11 turnovers in the test punctuation and were outscored 42-21.

"It was digit of those games where we kept activity and kept battling," said Grizzlies Zach Randolph. "We knew we had to find forcefulness somewhere, and the governance really came ended for us. They kept us in the mettlesome and gave us the chance that we needed."

Randolph capped an 11-0 Memphis run with a layup and a dishonor with 1:45 mitt to provide the Grizzlies their first advance since the ordinal quarter.

He adjusted the comeback in the ordinal lodge scoring figure points and hitting on every seven liberated throw attempts, including six in the test figure seconds to bonded the win.

"It was the turnovers. I conceive in digit stretch our big guys had seven turnovers in the ordinal lodge early," said 76ers railcar Doug Collins.

"The ball was meet feat ended their hands, disagreeable to transfer balls where there was nobody there. We were not even effort shots to the basket."

Randolph ended with 22 points and 12 rebounds, Rudy Gay scored 16 points.

"We had rank curb of the game," author said. "They went with their ordinal unit, went to a zone, and we meet went dead."

Jodie Meeks and Jrue Holiday led the 76ers with 16 points each, and compounded for figure threesome pointers on 12 attempts. Elton Brand scored 15 points.

(Reporting by Mike Mouat in Windsor, Ontario; redaction by Rex Gowar and saint Rutherford)

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