A lot of expressions define the Memphis Grizzlies this morning. Noodle-rimmed ass could be one of them, cuckold’s luck too and we hope not for them, beginner’s luck, although less and less. But the truth ultimately is that this chance, tonight anyway, the players of Taylor Jenkins caused it, because this team clearly deserves everything that happens to them.
The stats of oursonnal advent are right here!
The second place in the Western Conference definitively locked, and a first title of division champion. Not bad as a conclusion to this night of March 30, especially insofar as the affair will have been decided at the last second, on an opposing lay-up which refuses to return. Oh Desmond Bane was there to defend, at another point in the game there might have been a fault but, in the NBA, you don’t whistle this kind of half-contact on a last possession. Race results this victory against Spurs who had nevertheless organized everything to make the perfect robbery and, thus, stay installed in the playinable places, but this season luck smiles on the daring, and the daring win games. Many games, so we are at 54 this morning, two small victories now from the best record in franchise history, which in 2013 was 56, at a time when it was mainly defense that was winning games in Tennessee. Suns, Jazz, Nuggets, Pels and Celtics remain on the menu, not easy easy all that, but if the certainty now exists concerning the final place of the guys from Memphis and that adversity will probably have more serious issues to manage, we say to ourselves finally that the current mood of this band of merry men could well astonish until the last hectometres of the regular, just to make this season 2021-22 a – really – historic season from a local point of view.
54 wins and 23 losses therefore, and tonight the 54th was not the easiest. A gap that makes the accordion against Spurs who do not let go and who will even do better than that in the money time by coming back on the heels of the Bears, inheriting the last ball to dream a little more about the play-in tournament. Unfortunately for the Texans, Keldon Johnson will fail in his attempt but left under pressure from Bane, letting this strange, almost invincible squad explode with joy. Suns too far ahead but now Warriors AND Mavs too far behind with sixth straight win, tenth in 11 games, acquired this time through surprise guests or in any case less often highlighted. De’Anthony Melton who confirms after his last big outings, Dillon Brooks who revs up at the best of times, and this night this incredible Tyus Jones, always so clean, always so perfect, and author this night of one of his best career games with 25 points, 5 rebounds, 6 assists, 2 steals and, the house specialty: zero lost ball. Best back-up leader in the League? Lazy to go into the debate of the century but the fact remains that the Grizzlies are even stronger with Tyus Jones in the lead than with Ja Morant and that’s bad news for the competition, which will soon have to face a infernal doublet on the return of the Martian.
They could have lost it, they should have lost it. But they won it, as often this season, as very often this season. All they do is win, with a smile and with style. Sometimes without, it’s rare, but the important thing is elsewhere, and the Memphis Grizzlies are only a few shots from the parking lot to slam the best season in their history. wow.
