Ja Morant was beaming in the aftermath of the Grizzlies’ close win against the Warriors the other day, and with reason.
a Morant was beaming in the aftermath of the Grizzlies’ close win against the Warriors the other day, and with reason. He had just put the finishing touches on a 47-point masterpiece that ensured his place alongside all-time greats Kobe Bryant and LeBron James as the only players in National Basketball Association history with multiple 45-point outings in the postseason.
To say Morant was walking wounded would be an embellishment given his lights-out effort. True, he was poked in the eye early in the second half, and he complained of blurred vision even after the buzzer. Then again, it didn’t seem to slow him down or impair his capacity to find the hoop from inside and out. And, make no mistake, the Warriors threw everything at him.
How the Western Conference second-round set-to between the Warriors and Grizzlies would end up is anybody’s guess. From the outside looking in, it looks to be the type to go seven matches. Either could have gone two and zero, with the breaks deciding the outcome. And, yes, said breaks definitely had an effect in Game Two.
The NBA’s Last two Minute Report gave the Warriors no consolation. In hindsight, neither did the flagrant 2 foul meted on Dillon Brooks for leveling Payton three minutes in. And head coach Steve Kerr’s right; the dangerous hack “broke the code.” For the Grizzlies, it bore the added benefit of unleashing Morant on hapless defenders.
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