Spanish national Pau Gasol scored 20 points and Memphis snap a three-game losing streak with a 93-82 win over the Milwaukee Bucks on Friday night.

"It's hard, being out for so long and then come back, being in this point of the season where we are playing for so much, with so much on the line," said Gasol, who missed 23 games with plantar fascitis. "But I want to be out there. I want to fight for wins; I want to fight for my team. That's all that matters."

The Grizzlies, often criticized for poor defensive efforts, held the Bucks to just 32 2nd half points.

"It got better in the second half," Memphis coach Mike Fratello said of his team's defense. "Our defense in the first half was not real good, but we got a little bit better."