Tag: Ja Morant

Because of the nature of my work, my slavish devotion to all things role-playerish and scrublike, I don’t often get to see performances that really wow me. I see a lot of performances that are pretty okay, a role-player getting hot and hitting a bunch of shots usually. But I don’t get to see performances…

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I’ve pretty much already totally forgotten about the Grit’n’Grind era of Memphis basketball. For one thing, it wasn’t very much fun because defense is antithetical to the whole point of basketball IMHO, and for another, all the big names from back then are donezo. Zach Randolph, out of the league. Marc Gasol, partied too hard…

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Ja Morant is averaging the most points among 2019 draftees. Ja Morant is averaging the most assists among 2019 draftees. Do we even need to play the rest of the season, or can we just give Morant the ROTY of the Year award right now? I’m voting in favor of not playing the rest of…

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I know this is a video depicting the exploits of one Ja Morant, one of the most exciting rookies in the NBA right now, but I am very upset about injustice right now and I have to get it off my chest. Isn’t that what all of pubic discourse is about these days? Fighting injustice?…

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The Grit n’ Grind era of Memphis basketball is over (although Jae Crowder seems like he would fit in that era), and you know what? I’m not even feeling that sad about its demise. As much as everyone likes to pretend that they like low-scoring defensive basketball games, the truth is that they don’t. The…

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Ja Morant got off to a very hot start in his debut, making three shots in the first four minutes and causing both the Grizzlies commentators and all Grizzlies fans watching from afar to salivate copiously. If he had kept up that rate of scoring and his coach decided to ride the hot hand by…

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