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FORT WORTH, Texas -- Joe Gibbs tries to not get in the middle of things when his drivers leave a racetrack frustrated with one another, as happened this past weekend at Martinsville.He wants his drivers to mend any fences among themselves. The drivers meet weekly at the shop and again throughout the race weekend. Gibbs and other team executives can be in some of the meetings, but not at all of them.I always leave that to them to go over that and straighten that out, Gibbs said about his drivers being angry with each other. All of them are super competitive. Theyre doing everything they can to try to win. Thats why all of our people at our race team think weve got great guys driving for us.After a weekend when?Kyle Busch said the drivers didnt work well together at the end and in some ways gave Jimmie Johnson the victory, the drivers showed a united front Friday at Texas Motor Speedway.Maybe I was expecting a little bit different ... than what transpired in the race on Sunday, but we talked, Busch said Friday afternoon. Forgive and forget. Move on. And here we are.All four of the JGR drivers -- Busch, Denny Hamlin, Matt Kenseth and Carl Edwards -- remain in the Chase, and they know that all four of them cant advance to be eligible for the championship in two weeks at Homestead-Miami Speedway. Johnson clinched one of those four spots with his win at Martinsville.Hamlin, Kenseth and Busch have spots 2-3-4 in the standings thanks to their 3-4-5 finish at Martinsville, with Edwards a distant eighth after he had a tire issue that resulted in a crash.Its just cause we all had a top?three car during the end of the race and we ended up 3-4-5 [across the finish line], Denny Hamlin said. Thats never happy [times].Busch opened the Texas weekend promptly getting loose thanks to the Texas surface bumps and slapping the wall on his first lap of practice. He will have to use a backup car the rest of the weekend.Speeds are really high here at Texas, Busch said. When you lose that grip, typically it happens in a hurry and it just kind of got away from me there. I wish I would have had maybe taken it a little bit more easy, but I really wasnt even trying that hard.?The driver with possibly the best chance at Texas is Edwards, who led 124 of 334 laps in Texas in April before a loose wheel ended up ruining his race-winning hopes. If Edwards doesnt win this week, then he heads to Phoenix, where he battled Kevin Harvick side-by-side on the losing end at the finish line in March.Texas is the first one we circled, Edwards crew chief Dave Rogers said about the Chase races. Phoenix, obviously that door-to-door finish was really exciting for our fans, but we had an extremely strong car at Texas.Edwards has another fast car this weekend. And he doesnt necessarily have to worry about having teammates help him as he doesnt need a spot or two during the course of the next two weeks. He needs a win.Youre going to have times where people are frustrated, Edwards said. Thats part of it. But what we have, though, as a group is something that I think is really special.I can tell you that my three teammates have made me a better race car driver the last two years, and Im grateful for that. When we have issues, we get right to it and we resolve it.Edwards said he got to watch the issues from Martinsville get resolved. Or at least listened to the discussions.The only good thing about having the tire problem is I didnt get caught up in any of that, Edwards said. I didnt see firsthand what happened. ... I know in the discussions afterward everybody had a different perspective but everyone understood one another and got over that very quickly.While he can say that, it will only be proved in how the Gibbs drivers work together Sunday at Texas. Other than Edwards, they are neck-and-neck with each other and could end up battling for positions that determine a spot in the Chase.Every week we talk about what we can do to help each other, and make things better, Kenseth said. But we also realize, when they drop the green on Sunday, its one-against-39 and we have to get the best finish we can.With the elimination-format Chase in its third year, teams and drivers are learning how to manage the Chase. Last year, Busch won the title by doing enough to advance out of each round and not freaking out about whether he was leading laps or winning. He won the season finale and captured the championship.So he will try not to freak out over a few ruffled feathers among teammates.Theres going to be instances where youre mad at other drivers, youre mad at your teammates, Busch said. You express those frustrations. I guess for me, it would have been best probably to talk to my teammates first and kind of figure out what the whole concept was there and the whole idea of what happened, happened.Looking back on it now, weve just got to focus forward and we all try to continue to work together the best we can. 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She was the rock of the family. Its tough, but Im going to continue to go hard for her, and leave it all out there, and do it for her.Its important to get back to working. This is what my mother would want me to do. Dont sit around and be sad. So Im doing it for her.Memphis coach David Fizdale was glad to regain the services of Randolph. The Grizzlies, 15-8 heading into Thursday nights matchup with the Portland Trail Blazers at FedEx Forum, have been shorthanded for some time. Veteran point guard Mike Conley is out for at least another month with a lower back injury. Small forward Chandler Parsons has been out since Nov. 18 with a knee injury that will keep him sidelined for at least another week. Also missing are small forward James Ennis (calf), shooting guard Vince Carter (hip) and forward Brandan Wright (ankkle).dddddddddddd.Even with all the wounded, the Grizzlies have won four in a row and 10 of 13. In the win over Philadelphia, rookie guard Wade Baldwin stepped up with a season-high 11 points and forward JaMychal Green had his third double-double of the season with 13 points and 10 rebounds.The Grizzlies will be looking to avenge a 100-94 loss to Portland on Nov. 6 in Memphis in a game in which the Blazers CJ McCollum matched his career high with 37 points. McCollum has averaged 24.0 points in his past five games against Memphis and has scored at least 20 in each of those contests.The Blazers saw the end of a three-game win streak -- and some improved defensive play -- in a 115-107 loss at Milwaukee Wednesday night at BMO Harris Bradley Center.The Bucks shot .519 from the field, including .417 (10 for 24) from 3-point range, and took advantage of nine fourth-quarter turnovers by the Blazers (12-11). Milwaukee scored 34 points in the third quarter and 30 in the fourth.Were not a really good team right now, Portland coach Terry Stotts told the media afterward. 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