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NEW ORLEANS -- The New Orleans Pelicans will host the Memphis Grizzlies on Monday night in the second game of a back-to-back.To make matters worse for the New Orleans, the Grizzlies were resting comfortably in their hotel on Sunday while the Pelicans fell 101-92 on the road Sunday night to Oklahoma City.Such is the relentless nature of the NBA schedule. The problem is that the Pelicans (7-14), losers of two straight, are in serious need of some home cooking against the Grizzlies (13-8), who have won two consecutive games despite a seriously depleted roster.The Grizzlies had only nine players available but still defeated the Los Angeles Lakers 103-100 on Saturday night behind a career-high 31 points by Troy Daniels. The victory was proof to coach David Fizdale that his Nasty Nine have played with moxie.Memphis limited the Lakers to 2-of-9 shooting and forced two turnovers in the final five minutes to pull out the home victory. The same thing happened in the Grizzlies previous victory over Orlando, when Memphis forced five turnovers in the final six minutes to win 95-94.(Fizdale) came in and gave us a scolding at halftime (against the Lakers), and guys responded in the second half, said Memphis swingman Tony Allen. It showed in our effort. It showed in the way that we gathered ourselves defensively down the stretch.The Grizzlies will be without point guard Michael Conley, who will miss the next six to eight weeks with a transverse process fracture in his back. Also, Grizzlies forward Zach Randolph is out indefinitely following the death of his mother, Mae. Randolph, averaging 14.2 points and a team-leading 7.9 rebounds per game, has missed the last six games.Fizdale went ballistic at halftime of the Lakers game because he felt his team was not playing hard in Randolphs absence. Memphis allowed 62 first-half points to Los Angeles.I was really unhappy with our effort, Fizdale said. I dont yell at them for execution or breakdowns in coverage or anything like that. But when we dog it and we dont get back on defense or when we dont compete on a high level, I lose it.The Pelicans were down by as many as 15 points at Oklahoma City on Sunday night before closing within four points late in the fourth quarter. But Russell Westbrook would not let the Thunder lose. Westbrook (28 points, 17 rebounds, 12 assists) recorded the 47th triple-double of his career and 10th this season.Westbrooks performance blunted another heroic losing effort by Pelicans forward Anthony Davis, who scored 37 points, grabbed 15 rebounds and had four blocks in 43 minutes.It was Davis 14th 30-point performance in 20 games, but his body is under a lot of stress, He is logging the third-most minutes in the NBA.I thought we had our chances, but we just didnt take advantage of it, New Orleans coach Alvin Gentry said. I thought we did about as good a job on Russell as you can do in the first half, and the guy still ends up with 17 rebounds.One bright spot for New Orleans was a 16-point effort by rookie shooting guard Buddy Hield, who made 4 of 7 from long range while playing back in his adopted home state.I had a lot of jitters, said Hield, who played college ball at Oklahoma. I shot an air ball (on my first shot), and I had to make it up.The Pelicans also moved point guard Tim Frazier to the second unit where he can be the primary ball-handler off the bench. ETwaun Moore started in the backcourt.With her lucky dinosaur lunchbox in her bag, Bryony Page produced a stunning routine to become the first British athlete to win a trampolining medal at the Olympics.Britain had never had a representative in an Olympic final before so when Page and Kat Driscoll broke that barrier, it appeared to be job done.But Page, whose previous best result was fourth at the world championships in 2010, was not finished there and her score of 56.040 was only beaten by Canadas Rosannagh Maclennan.The 25-year-old from Wrenbury in Cheshire only qualified in seventh place and had to wait and watch while a succession of more fancied athletes failed to surpass her.Page said: My target was to go out there and do my best and thats what I did in the final. Im just so happy about that.I wanted to get into a final and I knew I could do that because thats where I qualified a place for the country at a world championships where I finished fifth.Just getting into the Olympic final, going out the back and doing our warm-up, I was like, Im an Olympic finalist!After my performance I was just so happy because that was the best I could have done on that day, and then finding out Id got a medal, I couldnt hold my legs up, I collapsed and I was crying my eyes out.Then when I found out I got the silver I was just so shell-shocked, its just absolutely incredible.Page has been training full-time for a year after achieving a first-class degree in biology from Sheffield University.It is fair to say not many of her rivals will have split their time between bouncing and twisting on a trampoline and studying dinosaurs.I did my dissertation on dinosaurs and what sounds they made or what we think they made, she said.Ive got my dinosaur lunchbox that my little brother got me. Its a little good luck charm.What did Page make, therefore, of recent research indicating dinosaurs made bird-like noises?That disappointed me but they probably diddnt have the vocal cords to be able to roar like they do in the movies, she added, before laughing.dddddddddddd.Clearly she had never expected to be discussing such matters with an Olympic silver medal hanging round her neck.Pages love affair with trampolining began in her back garden before her parents Sarah and Steve, who were in the stands at the Rio Olympic Arena, took her to the local gymnastics club at the age of nine.To the untrained eye it appears a terrifying sport, and Page said: You have to be a bit courageous or crazy to go up 10 metres in the air.The forces that you go through, you get the same G-forces as a Formula One driver or an astronaut. When you hit the trampoline you hit it with 10 times your bodyweight so you have to go through the conditioning and everything.But in a controlled environment I dont feel scared, Ive done these skills over and over. I love that feeling of spinning around in the air.I just absolutely love sport and I love trampolining so Ill continue as long as I can, Ill be there as an old lady with a walking stick, Ill be on a trampoline and coaching and getting people involved and hopefully inspiring them.World champion Dan Li of China sealed the final podium place with 55.885 while Driscoll finished sixth. The 30-year-old, who just missed out on the final in London four years ago, was left with mixed emotions.She said: Coming in the big aim was to make a final -- we have never had a British woman do that before. So to have two of us do it is amazing.But I am disappointed because I felt like my routine was a lot better in the final than it was in the prelims but it didnt really score much different.We are the little sport that no-one really knows about, we get a bit lost in the bigger sports, so its great that we got a medal. ' ' '