After missing two games due to the right pain of the shoulder, JA MORANT returned Wednesday in the programming of Memphis’s grizzly mans against Oklahoma City Thunder. When asked how he was back on the ground, more responded with a word: “terrible”.
For what?
“Because it was,” said journalists after the loss of 120-103, via Matt Field of Action News 5. “I should have been out, but I was there, so, no matter, there will be something that will say.”
Before the game, more was listed as questionable due to a right deltoid bruise. During the second trimester, he seemed frustrated on consecutive possessions in which he attacked the basket, contacted and did not receive a fault. Grizzlies coach Taylor Jenkins broke out after the second, Win a technical fault.
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Asked about making contact with the shoulder, MORANT said: “I think I just said that I probably wouldn’t have played, but I did it. You can put your own answer. No matter what I say, it will be summarized anyway.”
When a journalist prefaced a question by saying that it was not the first time he played through the injury, more interrupted: “I know. I played like that all season, honestly. But that’s what it is.” When he was asked if he thought he should play it for the rest of the season, Morant said, “I don’t know.”
MORANT scored 24 points on a shot of 8 for 22 (2 for 9 on a range of 3 points), with three rebounds, six assists, a flight and five reversals against the Thunder, and the grizzlies were upgraded by 21 points in 32 minutes. In its last seven games, MORANT fired 52 for 140 (37.1%) on the field and 6 for 46 (13%) from Deep. It was a ineffective season for the dyer individuallyAnd the shoulder problem could be to play a role on this subject, but Jenkins does not want him to refuse open looks.
“I want him to work through it”, Jenkins Tell to journalists. “There are no excuses. I mean, he has a good look. The way the ball moves, and he is in a closing situation wide open with a packed painting, I trust him to shoot it. I mean, he has trouble. We have other guys who are also in difficulty. And (no matter) what anyone is dealing with, we just have to keep us confidence.”
Jenkins also said that the Thunder was “absolutely” the most connected defensive team against which Memphis had played, and “they launched him a lot, with (high) pickup points and launching several bodies and changes on him”. He said that the grizzles have managed their pressure “decently” and had to respond to these situations with “collective creation“But” we did not make the gunshot when the ball was expelled. “As a team, Memphis pulled 6 for 23 (26.1%) on the 3 catches at Oklahoma City (and Domino himself fired 1 for 4).
On February 11, the Grizzlies won 11 of the 13 games and finished second in the Western Conference. Since then, they have lost seven of the nine and fell fourth in the West. In a void, however, it is not necessarily worrying – everyone loses against the Thunder, and the three losses preceding it were decided by a total of five points.
What is worrying is that, from February 12 to now, Memphis has granted 121.9 points for 100 possessions in the minutes of time without clearing, the fourth worst brand of the league in this section (they would have granted 111.1 per 100, the sixth brand of the League, before that), according to the cleaning of the glass. And they are struck: All-NBA and the candidate for the defensive player of the year Jaren Jackson Jr. Grade 2 ankle sprain On Monday, and striker Santi Aldama, who really ties the play together, missed the last two games with straight veal pain. Reserve striker John Konchar sat against OKC due to the right knee pain, and the great man newly signed Marvin Bagley III recorded 15 minutes of the bench.
All of this is to say that it is a particularly annoying moment for more to be limited by an injury. It is also, as Damichael Cole of the Memphis Commercial Call underlinedThe second time Morant said after a match he had decided to play Hurt. After being listed as questionable with great left pain in the home opener of Memphis against the Orlando Magic In October, he adapted. He said Reporters (via Action News 5) This “Grizz Twitter” had convinced him to play.
The good news for the grizzleas is that the calendar is about to become easier: their next four games are against the Dallas Mavericks in digital disadvantage, then the Pelicans of New Orleans, Phoenix Suns and Utah Jazz. And it was not all Doom and gloom linked to shoulders after Wednesday’s loss – he also told journalists, Via Bluff City MediaThat the Grizzlies had to “stay strong” despite the recent losses, because it is a “long season” and that there are more games to play.
“I hope we locked ourselves, we put the guys in good health and just go back to play our basketball,” said Morant. “That’s almost everything. I mean, we have gone through a whole season together, ups and downs, difficult practices, travel on the road, fatigue, everything, but we always seem to answer. So, it is not different from here.”
