The Secret Is Out on How Good the Grizzlies Can Be as a new ..
Ja Morant rejected the premise of the question.
He was being asked to think back to the way his last N.B.A. season ended. The Memphis Grizzlies had won one of the first three games of a Western Conference semifinal series against Golden State, then Morant got hurt and missed the rest of it. Golden State won the series in six games and later won the title.
The Secret Is Out on How Good the Grizzlies Can Be as a new ..
What did the Grizzlies learn from that loss to the eventual champions?
Sitting in a postgame locker room in late October, Morant chuckled and looked away.
“I feel like we had it,” Morant said. “So that’s what I took from it.”
Confidence is part of the design for the Grizzlies. Morant is the best-known face of this, but confidence permeates the roster, and players and coaches encourage it in everyone, no matter how many minutes they play.
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For the past three seasons, the Grizzlies have thrived on the premise that nobody else knew how good they could be.
This year the expectation is for us to repeat that same performance as last year,” Grizzlies guard Tyus Jones said. “So now we have a target on our back, and that’s different. We can’t sneak up on anybody anymore.”
They are still a young team — the average age of their starters is 25 — and with a 9-4 record heading into Sunday’s game against the Wizards, they are still figuring out how to win consistently. But now everybody knows how dangerous they are with their explosive offense and a tenacious defense that leads to thrilling fast breaks. Their challenge this year is learning what to do when they aren’t underdogs anymore. The self-assuredness that has come to typify the Grizzlies has not changed. But the Grizzlies are growing up, and so are their ambitions.
The Secret Is Out on How Good the Grizzlies Can Be as a new ..
Ja Morant rejected the premise of the question.
He was being asked to think back to the way his last N.B.A. season ended. The Memphis Grizzlies had won one of the first three games of a Western Conference semifinal series against Golden State, then Morant got hurt and missed the rest of it. Golden State won the series in six games and later won the title.
The Secret Is Out on How Good the Grizzlies Can Be as a new ..
What did the Grizzlies learn from that loss to the eventual champions?
Sitting in a postgame locker room in late October, Morant chuckled and looked away.
“I feel like we had it,” Morant said. “So that’s what I took from it.”
Confidence is part of the design for the Grizzlies. Morant is the best-known face of this, but confidence permeates the roster, and players and coaches encourage it in everyone, no matter how many minutes they play.
READ MORE:Ja Morant Shares Support For Klay Thompson on his…
For the past three seasons, the Grizzlies have thrived on the premise that nobody else knew how good they could be.
This year the expectation is for us to repeat that same performance as last year,” Grizzlies guard Tyus Jones said. “So now we have a target on our back, and that’s different. We can’t sneak up on anybody anymore.”
They are still a young team — the average age of their starters is 25 — and with a 9-4 record heading into Sunday’s game against the Wizards, they are still figuring out how to win consistently. But now everybody knows how dangerous they are with their explosive offense and a tenacious defense that leads to thrilling fast breaks. Their challenge this year is learning what to do when they aren’t underdogs anymore. The self-assuredness that has come to typify the Grizzlies has not changed. But the Grizzlies are growing up, and so are their ambitions.
