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Coach Mark Jones has slammed Newcastles critics, declaring hes dumbfounded by attacks on his sides performances given their recent injury crisis.Jones was quick to share his dismay at the view of those whod written the Jets off as a poor team, using back-to-back wins as proof that they can turn it on when required.Friday nights 2-1 triumph over Adelaide and last weekends upset of Perth has coincided with the return of key personnel including captain Nigel Boogaard, Daniel Mullen, Andrew Nabbout and Morten Nordstrand.Jones argued it should be obvious those players would lift his side after seven winless rounds.Weve copped a lot of stick for the way we played early on, but we had five players out, Jones saidAnd even then we still tried to play football.Now weve got everyone back weve got better possession and composure - thats why you have experienced players in your side.Ive been very disappointed with some of the comments when we have five players out and were copping flak.Its not rocket science; you get your experienced players back in, you play better.It dumbfounds me.Jones will soon have a full compliment at his disposal with Finnish striker Aleksandr Kokko set to be back for the Boxing Day clash with Wellington.At least until Saturday night, the Jets are sixth and could spend Christmas there depending on other results.Theyll be motivated to continue their climb up the table, but Jones said the team drew more confidence more from winning.The wins more than the position has made us confident, he said.To win three in a row would be magnificent.It just takes us up the table further and (prompts) more reflection that a team from Newcastle can do well.Ive always said they can and I dont cop that Sydney or Melbourne or anyone else is better than us.We play good football, we can beat anyone. 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The 15th-ranked Canadian men lost the opening two games of their European tour: 19-15 to No. 17 Georgia and 21-20 to No. This early in the NBA season, its hard for teams to get familiar with each other. The Minnesota Timberwolves and Memphis Grizzlies are the exception.The two teams play in Memphis for the second time this season on Saturday night. It will be third regular-season meeting after Minnesota and Memphis also met in the preseason. The two teams have split the first two regular-season games, each winning on its home court.The Grizzlies (7-5) will be happy to head home after finishing a four-game road trip in Dallas on Friday night. Memphis finished the road trip with three straight wins after beating the Mavericks 80-64.I was happy to see our defense, Grizzlies coach David Fizdale said. I always tell the guys our defense will travel. Your offense dont always get on the plane with you. But our defense was really stingy tonight.Parsons return to Dallas was one of Fridays storylines. The familiarity between teams played a part in the first half, in which neither team scored more than 19 points in the first two quarters.We stopped being friendly, Fizdale said. If you watched the first quarter, everybody was having conversations with the other team like they were all pals. And we dont have the luxury to be buddies.I think we took it light, like thinking they didnt have their players, but this (Mavericks) is an NBA team with NBA players. We didnt show them respect by playing like that. So I got after them pretty good and they came out in the second half and got after it.Familiarity with Minnesota could breed contempt.The Timberwolves (4-7) opened the season at Memphis and led by as many as 17 early before losing 102-98 as the Grizzlies charged back. Minnesota won the second game handily 116-80 at home as Memphis rested point guard Mike Conley and center Marc Gasol.Fizdale didnt play any of his starters more than 32 minutes on Fridaay with the back-to-back scheduled against the Timberwolves.ddddddddddddMemphis also got guard Tony Allen back after he missed four games with a strained right groin. Allen scored 11 points off the bench in Fridays win.Well have to wait and see how I feel tomorrow, Allen said. I thought I did a good job of icing and stretching. Ill get some rest tonight and see how I feel tomorrow.Minnesota has won three of its past five games, including Thursdays 110-86 dismantling of Philadelphia in which three players posted double-doubles. Andrew Wiggins scored 35 points and tied a career high with 10 rebounds. Karl-Anthony Towns had 25 points and 10 rebounds, and Gorgui Dieng added 12 points and 10 rebounds.I think we character this game as a point in the road that we have to look back and we have to understand and grow from this, Towns said. We held them to, I think, 33 points in the first half. Thats very good for us to do. Weve got to do a better job from here on out, especially in the third quarter.The Timberwolves started Friday as the sixth-highest scoring team in the league. They were also the highest-scoring team in the first quarter. But theyve been the worst in the third quarter, blowing several leads along the way.Wiggins has been the biggest factor in Minnesotas offensive surge. He has scored more than 30 points in three of his past six games. During that stretch, Wiggins has scored 33 points, grabbed 5.3 rebounds and passed out 3.5 assists per game. He shot 50.7 percent from the field while taking 22.67 shots per game.There were times last year where I just drifted to the corner and stayed there, Wiggins said. I think Im just being more active. My awareness is higher. Im just doing more. ' ' '