Your Memphis Grizzlies Basketball Thread III

[95 Vol Alum]

Vince so sloppy with the ball. He needs to be on the Globetrotters.

 

[TBrown]

Even if we play well, it’s hard to care knowing we are going to give up 45 points in the third.

Only 39!

 

[95 Vol Alum]

What a let down.

 

[tvolsfan]

What a let down.

Just turned into a college team for 5 minutes.

 

[95 Vol Alum]

Once again, only one hand needed to count the 4Q FGs by the Grizzlies.

 

[95 Vol Alum]

CA article on last night. Ja quotes, no. JJJ quotes, no. Desmond quotes, no. I cannot find anything postgame from them.

Just Santi comments. No leadership from the top 3, imo.

Bane, terrible 4Q TOs.
Ja, disappeared in the 2H.
Jaren, back to back 1 rebound games.

Jokic and Gordon 40+ in a critical game. Ja and Des 34.

 

[zjcvols]

 

[BigOrangeMojo]

CA article on last night. Ja quotes, no. JJJ quotes, no. Desmond quotes, no. I cannot find anything postgame from them.

Just Santi comments. No leadership from the top 3, imo.

Bane, terrible 4Q TOs.
Ja, disappeared in the 2H.
Jaren, back to back 1 rebound games.

Jokic and Gordon 40+ in a critical game. Ja and Des 34.

Also 11:00 PM on a Friday night for a dying newspaper.....

 

[BigOrangeMojo]

How you feeling about Ja's 3 now?
You mocked my thought that it had improved early in the season, when it was at 16%.

Outside of a cold 2-game stretch in October with 0-6 & 1-6, he's shooting 35.9%.

Including those (because they still count), he's 29.4% for the season.

Oct: 21.7%
Nov: 33.3%
Dec: 38.5%

His 3P% seems to mostly follow the same trend as high FT%. Last year was an outlier due to, presumingly, the small sample size (only 51 shots across 9 games).

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[YankeeVol]

 

[YankeeVol]

Season should be over tonight

 

[95 Vol Alum]

Season should be over tonight

Well, win or lose, it won't be.

 

[YankeeVol]

Well, win or lose, it won't be.

True. But if they don’t get by GS, I’m not confident they beat the 9/10 winner

And honestly that’s very never paid attention to the play-in format

 

[BigOrangeMojo]

Well, win or lose, it won't be.

Lose tonight and the best case is getting murdered in a 4-0 OKC sweep...

 

[TBrown]

Lose tonight and the best case is getting murdered in a 4-0 OKC sweep...

Win tonight and beat the rockets lol

Lot riding on tonight but no confidence

 

[95 Vol Alum]

Win tonight and beat the rockets lol

Lot riding on tonight but no confidence

I would be down for that happening. Would almost fix this season for me. Lol

 

[zjcvols]

Win tonight and beat the rockets lol

Lot riding on tonight but no confidence

You'll have the best player in the series and if Ja is in the mood, the two best players in the series. You definitely will have 3/4 best.

 

[BigOrangeMojo]

Win tonight and beat the rockets lol

Lot riding on tonight but no confidence

Still think Rockets beat us in a series but that would at least be competitive. I have no faith that Ja isnt completely checked out....

 

[95 Vol Alum]

Still think Rockets beat us in a series but that would at least be competitive. I have no faith that Ja isnt completely checked out....

It's been a couple of years since he was checked in.

 

[BigOrangeMojo]

It's been a couple of years since he was checked in.

Consistently, yes.

It's been hit or miss since. If he is engaged, I think we have a chance against Houston.

I dont think we have enough players 4-8 to win a series....

 

[95 Vol Alum]

Consistently, yes.

It's been hit or miss since. If he is engaged, I think we have a chance against Houston.

I dont think we have enough players 4-8 to win a series....

Imagine two months ago commenting that we don’t have enough players 4-8 given we were playing 10 most nights.

 

[BigOrangeMojo]

Imagine two months ago commenting that we don’t have enough players 4-8 given we were playing 10 most nights.

Big difference playing low leverage games on a Tuesday night in January and high leverage games in April/May

Losing Wells, Clark, and even Smart hurt.

And the reason why we are the 8 seed instead of the 2 is all those games we blew by playing those end of the bench bums with 3 mins to go in a close game....

If we played JJJ 29 mins instead of 27 in those 8-10 games, we wouldnt be putting 80 mins on him the next 2 games...

#FailedBigPictureThinking

 

[TBrown]

It's been a couple of years since he was checked in.

to rehab.

 

[BigOrangeMojo]

Difference between the 2 and 8 seed

In January, lost two close games to the Rockets. During both games, either Jaren, Ja, or Bane was on bench in favor of a bum. Houston played their starters 8-9 mins more per game and their stars 5-6 mins more.

And now receipts.

This one is on Jenkins...

Why do you wait to bring starters in with less than 3 mins down 6?

Not to mention calling TO when Bane was wide open for game tying 3

Jenkins played Jake and Luke til the less than 3 mins with Ja and Jaren on the bench. Tell the rest of GCM wassup....

6:46 to go. Grizz up 8. Ja and Jaren out. Rockets have 4 starters in.

4:57 to go. Ja and Jaren back in. Grizzlies up 1.

 

[95 Vol Alum]

I understand the problem. Was just making light of the long bench strategy again.