Your Grizzlies are off to an 0-5 start. PLUS: the Warriors do the Warriors thing to the Kings AGAIN, the Celtics hang 155 on the scoreboard and the Lakers and Clippers play an instant classic.
It seems clear to me that the Grizzlies largest problem isn't Morant being suspended, but Adams' injury.
Memphis has won a solid percentage of their games without Morant, but without Adams, that's a middling team. Adams makes possible much of what JJJ does, and is far more wiling to do the dirty work. Memphis will get better when Morant returns, but I don't see them winning more than half their games with him.
1) as someone who was extremely skeptical of Christian Wood working out on the Lakers, it warms my heart to see this. It’s so much more fun to see a guy redeem himself than to see him fail to. (See also Westbrook, Russell)
2) I hadn’t seen either of these ESPN announcer duos and I thought they were great! Mark Jones is always excellent, truly loved him and Doris Burke as a team, but the chemistry with McNutt was flawless, easy, joyful in the way it should be. And then I didn’t realize that Bob Myers was doing tv but I thought he was quite good as well - there’s this entrepreneur fallacy of like “a person who is good at one thing is therefore good at whatever else they try” but in this case while obviously a lot of the skills of being a GM are useful in knowing what to say on a tv broadcast, he also had an ease and fluidity that I found impressive.
It seems clear to me that the Grizzlies largest problem isn't Morant being suspended, but Adams' injury.
Memphis has won a solid percentage of their games without Morant, but without Adams, that's a middling team. Adams makes possible much of what JJJ does, and is far more wiling to do the dirty work. Memphis will get better when Morant returns, but I don't see them winning more than half their games with him.
De'Aaron Fox is who Ja Morant *thinks* he is.
Absolutely true.
2 quick notes:
1) as someone who was extremely skeptical of Christian Wood working out on the Lakers, it warms my heart to see this. It’s so much more fun to see a guy redeem himself than to see him fail to. (See also Westbrook, Russell)
2) I hadn’t seen either of these ESPN announcer duos and I thought they were great! Mark Jones is always excellent, truly loved him and Doris Burke as a team, but the chemistry with McNutt was flawless, easy, joyful in the way it should be. And then I didn’t realize that Bob Myers was doing tv but I thought he was quite good as well - there’s this entrepreneur fallacy of like “a person who is good at one thing is therefore good at whatever else they try” but in this case while obviously a lot of the skills of being a GM are useful in knowing what to say on a tv broadcast, he also had an ease and fluidity that I found impressive.
"Chris Paul and Draymond Green provide toxic levels of grit together. Should be an OSHA warning on that..."
ILU. (I also love the Warriors, except when the Celtics are playing them, at which point I watch only sporadically. In fear.)