ew exactly how he wanted it.Jennings senior, 62 now, his moustache bristling in shades of grey, coaches cricket at Dainfern College,

SAN ANTONIO -- Zach Randolphs miserable Western Conference finals debut led to a sleepless night and a long film session. The All-Star power forward and his Memphis Grizzlies are hardly down and out, though. In both rounds of the playoffs so far, Memphis has lost Game 1 before rallying back to knock out the Los Angeles Clippers and then the Oklahoma City Thunder. This time, Randolph had his worst game ever in the playoffs, managing two points in a 105-83 blowout. His only lower-scoring game in 40 playoff appearances was when he played 1 minute as a rookie for Portland in a 2002 game. "Its more frustrating than embarrassing," said Randolph, who missed his first seven shots in Game 1. "Its basketball. It happens to the best of them. "Muhammad Ali, he got knocked down before. What made him the greatest fighter in the world is he always bounced back." It took the Grizzlies two games to get off the mat in the first round, when they suffered a 21-point blowout at Los Angeles and then lost on a Chris Paul buzzer-beater in Game 2. Memphis then won the next four. There werent as many adjustments needed in Round 2, when Kevin Durants spectacular finish lifted Oklahoma City to a two-point win in the opener. Again, the Grizzlies won four straight to advance. So, the panic button is nowhere in sight for these comeback kids with Game 2 on Tuesday night in San Antonio. "Thats what you do in life. Every time you have a bad moment, youve got to bounce back and get up and go again," coach Lionel Hollins said. "You have a bad day, youve got to get up the next morning and make it a good day. Every team has lost games that have been really bad, theyve lost one-point buzzer-beaters, all of those types of things. "If youre going to be in life and live, youve got to get up and go do it again and try to be better." After last years West finals, the Spurs are wary of feeling good about any series lead. San Antonio won the first two games at home last year, and then lost four in a row to the Thunder. "Everything can change real fast," point guard Tony Parker said. The Spurs had a surprisingly easy time against the NBAs best defence in Game 1, shooting 53 per cent and making a franchise post-season-record 14 3-pointers on just 29 attempts. It took Memphis too long to settle in during its first conference finals appearance, and San Antonio was up 17 by the end of the first quarter and 20 in the second quarter. "We found out it wasnt as bad as it looked," Hollins said. "It was a lot of just out of position, playing with hyper speed and doing things that we dont normally do because of the moment and not just playing the game the way its supposed to be played." The mistakes were many. Point guard Mike Conley said Memphis needs to pick up its defence on Parker beyond the 3-point line and keep him from penetrating the lane so easily to set up the 3-point shooters around him. Once in scramble mode, the Grizzlies over-helped and left too many openings. On offence, the ball got stuck, which allowed the Spurs defence to recover and wipe out any scoring opportunities for Randolph around the basket. "All the things that we did wrong -- no pace, no moving the ball, no running back, no communicating -- if we do all that good and we are who we are and we lose, now were going to see," centre Marc Gasol said. "Its hard to get a lot of information about that last game because we just played so poorly." Game 2 provides a clean slate to try again, and Memphis hasnt had two straight poor games yet this post-season. "We adjust, I think, pretty well to teams and this is no different. We have to come out, make the same adjustments, stick to those adjustments and trust them because this team is so disciplined that theyre not going to stop what theyre doing," Conley said. "They do what they do very well. Theyre the best in the league at it." The Spurs were hesitant to take too much credit for what went right. "The ball happened to go into the basket," coach Gregg Popovich said. "Its a game. Some nights you make two, some nights you make 14. Thats a rarity. But theres never really a reason. ... We didnt run anything magical to get the shots. They just went in." It was quite the turnaround from the last round, when San Antonio made 44 per cent and struggled to make shots consistently. "Im a math guy," said Matt Bonner, who made four of his five 3-point attempts. "Its highly improbable were going to shoot at the clip we did last game. Theyve got the best defence in the league. 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Vettel, who has already clinched his fourth straight F1 title, enters the finale with a chance to equal Michael Schumachers 13 victories in a year and match the record of nine consecutive wins by Alberto Ascari in the 1952 and 1953 seasons.Keaton Jennings prolific form last summer has earned him his first experience with England Lions but, even as he relishes his opportunities at the Loughborough national performance centre, he is wrestling with the dilemma of whether to abandon his career with crisis-ridden Durham. On one hand lies his natural sense of loyalty, on the other the notion that an England career is not too far away. He has some agonising ahead.Jennings has held several exploratory conversations with Durham about the possibility of captaining them in at least one limited-overs format, with Paul Collingwood, at 41, retaining the role in the Championship. There have been a couple of discussions about captaincy but nothing has been decided - not from Collys point of view either - but there have been discussions, he said.Jennings freely admits that his future remains uncertain following the enforced relegation of Durham to Division Two of the Championship, and the issue of points deductions, by the ECB as punishment for the bailout they required from central funds to avoid bankruptcy. Strict financial controls over forthcoming years question whether they can remain able to compete.It was a wholly different world when Jennings signed a four-year contract and he is adamant that the changed circumstances, in which Durham have also been reconstituted as a community interest company under the chairmanship of Sir Ian Botham, leave him entitled to leave should he so wish. The exact nature of that escape route has not yet been revealed.I was slightly worried when I signed the contract about players staying but at the time I had to make a call and put my head on the block, Jennings admitted. It has been a long summer and I have a lot of thinking to do over the next two or three weeks and a lot of conversations to have.Warwickshire and Yorkshire will be among a clutch of counties monitoring the situation, but they may have to wait a while longer. Jennings, preparing for a Lions trip to Dubai, has other matters on his mind.At the moment I am really excited to be here with the Lions and I really want to focus on that first. It is the first time I have been involved with the ECB in any format and mostly I am trying to enjoy the next couple of weeks. At the end of the day everything is open. I am not saying I would like to leave because I love Durham and I love the guys at Durham.It is a challenging time for him. Much as England seek to plan their international pathway, Jennings, who came close to selection for the Test tour to India - a surfeit of left-handers did not help his cause - has suddenly sprung to prominence, much as have Ben Duckett and Haseeb Hameed, whose international careers are already underway. Duckett has emerged, too, from Division Two of the Championship. Does Jennings think he could do that? Youd better ask the selectors, he said.Strikingly, Jennings negotiated his contract without the help of an agent, which makes him a rare individual in modern-day professional sport, especially as a player with realistic international ambitions.At first meeting he is a genial sort, not immediately recognisable as the son of Ray Jennings, a former South Africa wicketkeeper who gained a reputation as a hard disciplinarian during his coaching years. Clearly, though, he has a similar appetite for self-sufficiency and between them father and son negotiated the contract that might yet hold the key to his future. He has no regrets.I learned quite a lot about myself during the process. It was interesting to call up people and have some hard conversations: in terms of who is the coach going to be, who are the senior players going to be, what role would I play?If I had given that job to an agent I wouldnt have learned as much about myself and made the contacts and friends that I have made. It has been an interesting year in a lot of respects but at the time it was the right call definitely.I have had a few friends and members of the family say we think you are a little bit crazy but I enjoy being hands on. I think my Dad enjoyed it as well. It gave him a little hobby.News of Durhams plight broke in early October when he was back in South Africa, labouring through an accounting exam for which he knew, due to the daily grind of the county circuit, he was not remotely prepared.It was the day I walked into an auditing exam. Id walked into it having not finished my coursework - during the cricket season you tend to run out of time - and I think I failed the exam which didnt help but thats life. Then I walked out of the exam to the news. It is sad what has happened but at the end of the day the guys have got to face the facts I suppose and come back from there.As players we didnt have too much of an idea about the extent of what was going on. I suppose there were the previous years financial statements we could have looked at but I dont think we realised the extent it was at. At the end of the day I am not experienced enough to sit down and analyse those statements but those are the sanctions that have been given and unfortunately that is what we have to live with.During the season there was no talk. TThere were fears that it was not as financially stable as being said but at the end of the day we didnt think we werent going to get paid or the club was going to deteriorate as quickly as the media had perceived.dddddddddddd From a players point of view we thought that everything was alright. When you are in the changing room it was a bit of a bubble and you end up caught within your 15 guys and that is your bubble.Jennings is quick to give much of the credit for keeping spirits high while rumours swirled to Collingwood, who along with the head of the academy and former coach, Geoff Cook, has become symbolic of the good things in Durham cricket while mismanagement has happened all around them and the general economic difficulties pervading the northeast have done their worstCollingwood is a huge influence in terms of social aspects, of vision and of drive, Jennings said. At 40 years old now - he will be 41 next year - he is one of the hardest trainers. After a days play he goes in the gym and he sets a standard of what is expected of you as a professional but then he will go away from cricket and really enjoy his time as well and educate the guys away from cricket about how they got that balance.There is no sense that Jennings is now holding Durham to ransom over the captaincy that Collingwood has fulfilled with such vigour. He recoils at the notion. No, not at all. I have never been a guy to put a club under the pump, to say if you dont give me the captaincy I am going to leave. That is not who I am. For me whatever is right for the team must happen. If it is right for a team that I will captain I will captain. If it is not right then I am more than happy to play a supporting role.In his early years at Durham, watching Jennings bat could be a taxing duty. He was a stilted left-hander, wary of stroke, concentrating largely on survival, especially on the demanding pitches at Chester-le-Street. Last summer, though, something clicked. It was more than just the natural progression of a career. His 1548 Championship runs, with seven centuries, spoke of higher ambitions. His improvement had its roots in some prolonged self-analysis when he questioned whether his cricketing obsession was becoming self-destructive.It was a special year for a lot of respects, he said. I suppose it was down to a slight change of mindset. I had been chatting to my uncle, who was a sports psychologist, over the winter and he went through a process of trying to help be more positive and on the back of that finding happiness and thinking Am I really happy playing cricket or am I happy doing something else? I am generally too attention-to-detail for my own good sometimes.I sat down with my dad and got a bit of happiness outside cricket and I think off the back of that it kind of helped me out. I put a bit more energy into my studies - I am studying financial accounting - although I have deferred it another year and I will finish in 2018.Then within that I did a bit of coaching, spent a little time with my niece and nephew so outside of cricket I had a bit of balance in my life instead of just being all-out cricket: gym, train, go to the ground. I played a bit of golf, enjoyed a beer and I suppose had good downtime with family.Which neatly introduces the topic of his father. When he was coach of South Africa, Jennings was once called by the Telegraph this rabid disciplinarian with his bristling moustache. His perfectionism was taken as read, his demands high, his honesty searing. His son, eager to build a cricketing career, looks on it all with equanimity.My girlfriend says we have been watered down through the generations, he laughed. My dad is very - harsh is the wrong word - he is very stern, he is very firm. He is a huge professional and this is how he puts food on the table for the family.He tells a story of his fathers playing career when, as a wicketkeeper, he grew his own grass at the Wanderers. He used to bring in his own grass seed and grow it to practice on because he knew if he dived on the grass that was there he would hurt his arms. So he grew his own grass and told the guys not to cut it. He knew exactly how he wanted it.Jennings senior, 62 now, his moustache bristling in shades of grey, coaches cricket at Dainfern College, a private co-educational school in Northern Johannesburg. The family lives on a golf estate about 2km from the school. Most days, Ray drives his golf buggy up the road and runs the cricket for 5 to 18-year-olds in the afternoon. Keaton tries to help out when he visits.He has taught me the discipline and hard work aspect of anything in my life. I have never shied away from hard work or doing the hard graft at the right time. He is a character like that - he built his own garden. There was a big unlevelled piece of land where the house is built and he carried in chest-high stones and built this little garden the way he wanted it. He is a hard-working man and very disciplined and I suppose that is what I have taken from him. ' ' '