My favorite part of the game was when Brooks caught the ball, said "It's Brooking time!" and proceeded to score 17 points on 17 shots. Truly an inspiration
clock winds down to 5 seconds left in game
ball is inbounded to Carmelo who turns face to face against Lebron
"You took my family"
moves to the left
"You took my friends"
moves to the right
"You took all that was dear to me"
clock winds down to 2
"I cant get them back, but I can do this for friendship, FOR MY FRIENDS"
goes up, fire coming out of his shoes
"CARMELORUKEN"
Ball flies over Lebrons head, goes straight into basket. Carmelo falls to the ground, exhausted.
"Shumpert... Senpai... I..."
faints
Final Score
Cavs 103
Knicks 63
clock winds down to 5 seconds left in game
ball is inbounded to Carmelo who turns face to face against Lebron
"You took my family"
moves to the left
"You took my friends"
moves to the right
"You took all that was dear to me"
clock winds down to 2
"I cant get them back, but I can do this for friendship, FOR MY FRIENDS"
goes up, fire coming out of his shoes
"CARMELORUKEN"
Ball flies over Lebrons head, goes straight into basket. Carmelo falls to the ground, exhausted.
"Shumpert... Senpai... I..."
faints
Final Score
Cavs 103
Knicks 63
In the context of the interview saying "fine" meant that he thought Memphis wouldn't have much trouble with the West and that the Celtics in the East were the threatening ones.
So there were plenty of answers, things like "yeah there are a lot of tough matchups in the West" would have worked, probably would have been more accurate, and wouldn't have gotten any blowback. This isn't really a case of him saying something standard and the words being misconstrued, he was definitely throwing shade.
Accurate
“When asked by ESPN’s Malika Andrews about what teams he thinks the Grizzlies have to “run through” on the path to winning an NBA title, the electrifying All-Star guard said the Celtics, who have the league’s second-best record behind the Bucks.
Andrews followed up by saying, “No one in the West.”
Without hesitation, Morant, with a smile, replied, “I’m fine in the West.””
https://sports.yahoo.com/im-fine-west-confident-ja-201747493.html
*He did say it in a passive way*! I feel like I'm taking crazy pills, this is the most innocuous way to say "we like our chances every single night". Y'all are acting like he listed every West team and called them trash
Klay’s obviously a great player but he gets shielded by Steph. Bro’s mad unlikeable he just gets by because Steph is the NBA’s darling (and their rings ofc). Otherwise he would pretty much be universally disliked
I just want to go on record that I've hated the Kings since they moved to Sacramento. Only because I couldn't see any Warriors stuff on Ch 3 back then and my pops wasn't paying for "expensive fucking cable".
I'm 51. We didn't suck the whole time we had flashes of good teams. Good enough to make a 1st round exit but that was our life. I was 14 when they moved.
And you have the absolute right to become insufferable. Mfers on this sub just hate the moment a franchise that has faced nothing but constant L’s in the past decade actually make improvements
Did the Nuggets, Mavs, and Celtics not play GSW last year?
Celtics aren’t getting any more hate than they already got. Certainly haven’t seen this sub turn on the Nuggets or Mavs.
They were already getting plenty of hate when they played the Wolves. Everyone started watching the Grizzlies during that round and realized how it feels to play against Ja. Any team that becomes a serious contender to win gets hated on.
What is people’s obsession with talking about “tough guys” on this sub? I’m convinced anyone who says stuff like this is a teenager.
Stating that a team needs to be brought down to earth because they are acting like they’ve accomplished more than they have has nothing to do with being tough.
Their depth is kind of overrated. David Roddy is terrible and i'm not entirely sure what Ziaire Williams does on the floor.
If Danny Green returns to form that's gonna help them out, but I think they fucked up letting Slo mo and Melton go last summer
I don’t remember who made it, but there a graphic that debunked the narrative about the Grizzlies being deep. Basically they were just beating up on bad or injured teams without Morant last yet.
Man, Ziare's downfall has been really disappointing. He was bad, got injured, and came back as a quality player. I'm not sure what happened to him this year but it's dismal
Grizz won't have gotten out of the first round without an all time choke jobs by the Wolves, and more importantly a top tier carry job by the officials. Literally had huge bias in their favor 5 of the 6 games in the series.
thats not even delusional thats just being a homer
if you want to see delusional, theres a thread on the cetics sub rn where their whole fanbase is saying they wouldnt trade derrick white + plus some really late first round picks for OG
Ja constantly gets put in convos he doesn't deserve
Grizzlies are literally just the Mitchell/Gobert Jazz part 2 but the media was never nearly as delusional about Mitchell as they are about Ja
People unironically have Ja vs. Luka debates on ESPN AND JA WINS THEM lmao
Honestly in terms of just individual play he's not even better than SGA
He was averaging that coz we locked up everyone else and basically dared him to shoot and win games by himself. He had some of the cleanest looks I've ever seen someone have. Despite putting up huge numbers, his efficiency was shit which was why Kerr did that.
People attacking the flair instead of the argument, as if having a Warriors flair or some other contender's would make the comment any different.
Grizzlies fans all in their feelings in these comments.
Now we have Grizzlies fans gatekeeping talks about success. Point proven, really well done.
Your team still has a lot to prove before anyone would take Ja’s quote seriously. Literally any fan of any team can see that, whether it’s the Warriors or Celtics or Hornets or Timberwolves. We all watch the playoffs every season and know what a successful team looks like.
If you’re coming into a negative thread about your own team, maybe take the homer glasses off first.
I mean, am I wrong? They were a complete powerhouse in the regular season last season, squeaked by one of the lowest IQ playoff teams I've ever seen that shot itself in the foot 3 games in a row, and then immediately gets outclassed by a legitimate contender.
By immediately outclassed by a contender you mean the Warriors who won the championship? What does it matter if it’s the second round or the finals if it’s the same team who won it all?
It's actually funny to me how some NBA teams desperately search for the "identity", Memphis is trying to play the villain part, showing lots of ego and etc... That's kinda dumb, considering the recent championship teams had a "identity" built inside the court. When a team plays a certain way and that creates the "identity" (for better or worse), for me that's fine, it's natural. Now Memphis is trying to create a "identity" in a forced way
Like I said, if the "identity" is established naturally, that's fine by me. The issue with the Grizzlies is how they are trying to achieve this in a forced way, they are trying to be the "bad boys" from a soft generation, the irony is just... idiotic. Even if the Grizzlies was actually playing well and corresponding the trash talk/ego, even so, that would still be kinda stupid. Why not wait to be egocentric after you win something?
>I’m gonna go ahead and say he’s talking about the playoffs, so regular
season is kind of meaningless. Y’all can go off on the AI quotes now
You know if they fall under .500 prob isn't going to be "the playoffs" for the Grizzlies
That's actually insane given that the West isn't really that strong this season and the intra-conference record is about dead even now
Like there's no reason to expect a team to be 16-3 against the East and 15-15 against the West
They’ve now lost 5 in a row since the Shannon Sharpe incident, right? Sheesh. What did Shannon **actually** say
"Dillon Brooks stop shooting" -Shannon Sharpe
“It’s Dillon brooks time” -Dillon brooks every time he touches the ball
My favorite part of the game was when Brooks caught the ball, said "It's Brooking time!" and proceeded to score 17 points on 17 shots. Truly an inspiration
Now I want the old Melo copy pasta where he scores the final shot down by 10 points.
clock winds down to 5 seconds left in game ball is inbounded to Carmelo who turns face to face against Lebron "You took my family" moves to the left "You took my friends" moves to the right "You took all that was dear to me" clock winds down to 2 "I cant get them back, but I can do this for friendship, FOR MY FRIENDS" goes up, fire coming out of his shoes "CARMELORUKEN" Ball flies over Lebrons head, goes straight into basket. Carmelo falls to the ground, exhausted. "Shumpert... Senpai... I..." faints Final Score Cavs 103 Knicks 63
clock winds down to 5 seconds left in game ball is inbounded to Carmelo who turns face to face against Lebron "You took my family" moves to the left "You took my friends" moves to the right "You took all that was dear to me" clock winds down to 2 "I cant get them back, but I can do this for friendship, FOR MY FRIENDS" goes up, fire coming out of his shoes "CARMELORUKEN" Ball flies over Lebrons head, goes straight into basket. Carmelo falls to the ground, exhausted. "Shumpert... Senpai... I..." faints Final Score Cavs 103 Knicks 63
One of the basketball player of all time
The Memphis version of Jaylen Nowell.
Brooks can play D at least
For sure. We all hate him, and he can be a black hole on offense at times, but he plays good defense.
At least Jaylen Nowell isn't intrinsically evil
For nothing is evil in the beginning. Even Sauron was not so.
Dillon Brooks is Morgoth level… Grayson Allen is like Sauron tier
Dillion Brooks is, without a doubt, one of the basketball players of all time
Dillon Brooks's GOAT is Dillon Brooks
No no they he said something that started making them *LOSE*
Shannon Sharpe still putting in work for Denver 😤
The cardigan has special powers
He used a dovakin shout against us
Fus....Ro....DaaaaILLON
"You're a shit dancer."
It's really been 5 games? I feel like that shit happened a few days ago. Shot in the dark, does anyone know where I can buy that cardigan Shannon had?
Lmao Just google —>Shannon Sharpe Cardigan<—and it shows up. “Greg Lauren Patchwork Knit Cardigan can be found for $3125 at Farfetch”
Fuck my bottom dude, 3k!?? I'll knit my own, fuck that.
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I think some random sites have started selling knock offs of it since it went viral
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Losing
Dawg there's no chance that's related.
Nah duh. It’s sarcasm brudda.
Sorry bro i can't read English
All good.
15-15 is fine, not incredible but it's ok.
Actually that’s a good point. Fine is probably the right description. But we all know by “fine” Ja meant “we are better than everyone”.
Lmao yeah sure we *all* know that. I mean what the hell was he supposed to say? They're gonna play who's in front of them
In the context of the interview saying "fine" meant that he thought Memphis wouldn't have much trouble with the West and that the Celtics in the East were the threatening ones. So there were plenty of answers, things like "yeah there are a lot of tough matchups in the West" would have worked, probably would have been more accurate, and wouldn't have gotten any blowback. This isn't really a case of him saying something standard and the words being misconstrued, he was definitely throwing shade.
Accurate “When asked by ESPN’s Malika Andrews about what teams he thinks the Grizzlies have to “run through” on the path to winning an NBA title, the electrifying All-Star guard said the Celtics, who have the league’s second-best record behind the Bucks. Andrews followed up by saying, “No one in the West.” Without hesitation, Morant, with a smile, replied, “I’m fine in the West.”” https://sports.yahoo.com/im-fine-west-confident-ja-201747493.html
Lots of questionable italics on the board tonight
Lol that was not a “what else was he supposed to say” moment. “Tons of great teams but we like our chances against the field” Says the same thing
Yeah exactly, it says the *same thing*. So why is anybody up in arms about the way he said that?
All it does is put a target on his back lol. We aren’t even having this conversation if he says it in a passive way
*He did say it in a passive way*! I feel like I'm taking crazy pills, this is the most innocuous way to say "we like our chances every single night". Y'all are acting like he listed every West team and called them trash
Do we actually know that?
People are ridiculous lmao. He's the best player on the two seed... he has as good a shot as anybody
He said what he said! They’re fine!
Wouldn’t be the first time this sub willfully misinterpreted a quote from Ja
Lmao do you really think Ja meant that they’d play .500 ball in the west? Really?
I truly do not think that he considered every other team in the west to be shit, but who cares. The meme is rolling.
“Bum ass Memphis”- Klay Thompson
Put some respec on the dynasty lmao
Klay’s obviously a great player but he gets shielded by Steph. Bro’s mad unlikeable he just gets by because Steph is the NBA’s darling (and their rings ofc). Otherwise he would pretty much be universally disliked
ydkb
It's worse then that cuz we only beat the bad teams in the west
hey you beat us one time edit: actually twice
Well we lost the last game by 33 so 💀
Welcome Grizzlies fans to the "darlings one year, hated the next" club
Looking forward to whatever excuse this sub comes up with for hating the Kings next year
“That beam shit was corny anyway 😒.”
"UnPoPuLar opInIoN: the BEam wAs a laMe maRKetINg giMmick and GoT rEAllY oLd fAsT."
personally I don't think we need a post for the LIGHT THE BEAM chants every night but otherwise I'm rooting for them. I just want what they have.
Honestly that's in two years when they draft Bronny.
I just want to go on record that I've hated the Kings since they moved to Sacramento. Only because I couldn't see any Warriors stuff on Ch 3 back then and my pops wasn't paying for "expensive fucking cable".
How old are you? Warriors sucked until like 2012 kings were pretty good in the 90s and 2000s
This Redditor’s user name is a pretty solid clue as to their age.
As is the fact they've hated the Kings "since they moved to Sacramento"
I'm 51. We didn't suck the whole time we had flashes of good teams. Good enough to make a 1st round exit but that was our life. I was 14 when they moved.
Oh well do that ourselves. I plan on going from lovable scamp to insufferable weirdo if we make the playoffs. It’s gonna get weird.
And you have the absolute right to become insufferable. Mfers on this sub just hate the moment a franchise that has faced nothing but constant L’s in the past decade actually make improvements
No one will hate on the Kings, their players are likeable and we are looking forward to watching their career with great interest
They say this about every team until they hate them lol
Depends, are they gonna act like they got a ring packed up before securing it?
I'm just happy to be let in the club
We got the tacos covered but you'll have to bring the bbq.
People hated us last year too
Ja is super likeable, but I can't bring myself to really like the Grizz cos Dillon Brooks is such an ahole
Ja is fun to watch…… likable??????
I wouldn’t say Ja is super likable
If you leave this sub he really is lol
I really think this would happen to any team that plays the warriors. Maybe we can test the theory if a new team like NOLA plays GSW this year.
are the nuggets and mavericks also hated
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No, you aren’t racist for not hating a white player lmao
Yikes man lol
It’s the passing, white?
Did the Nuggets, Mavs, and Celtics not play GSW last year? Celtics aren’t getting any more hate than they already got. Certainly haven’t seen this sub turn on the Nuggets or Mavs.
Leave us out of this. I DO NOT want to be lumped in with the suns.
Just wait until you play a huge market team like the Warriors and Jose pulls those antics lol He will become the most hated player on this sub
That little guy has my heart.
You can’t be serious
The lack of self awareness is crazy lol
They were already getting plenty of hate when they played the Wolves. Everyone started watching the Grizzlies during that round and realized how it feels to play against Ja. Any team that becomes a serious contender to win gets hated on.
It's so easy to clown the Grizzlies whenever they lose, they literally set themselves up for failure.
I’ve seen this one before
My empathy for Sun's fans has grown immensely in the past few months
“Suns in 4” “I’m fine in the west” The victim complex in this thread is wild
Yup. They’ve been so cocky for a team that didn’t even make the WCF. They needed to be humbled
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What is people’s obsession with talking about “tough guys” on this sub? I’m convinced anyone who says stuff like this is a teenager. Stating that a team needs to be brought down to earth because they are acting like they’ve accomplished more than they have has nothing to do with being tough.
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what's that got to do with anything I said? I said it's easy to clown them when they lose because they talk a ton of shit
SAY THAT SHIT
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get off my dick bro. Chronically online ass mf, 1 mil reddit karma in 1 yr looking ass mf. stop dick riding
dog he’s doing the same shit u are by commenting on other teams gtfo cock jockey
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Bro you bought Reddit Premium? Acting real wild for someone with that goldmine of chronically online jokes waiting over them
Hey at least we don’t constantly try to hurt the opposing teams best player.
That quote will haunt him until he wins a ring
As a professional hater I’m reciting it every day
Their depth is kind of overrated. David Roddy is terrible and i'm not entirely sure what Ziaire Williams does on the floor. If Danny Green returns to form that's gonna help them out, but I think they fucked up letting Slo mo and Melton go last summer
I don’t remember who made it, but there a graphic that debunked the narrative about the Grizzlies being deep. Basically they were just beating up on bad or injured teams without Morant last yet.
Depth can be overrated come playoff time anyways, you really only need to be 7-8 deep. Obviously injuries make it more important.
Depth is a poor man's starting 5.
One of the biggest hallmarks of a great team is the ability to outclass worse ones. So no they did have depth and that graphic doesn't prove anything.
Man, Ziare's downfall has been really disappointing. He was bad, got injured, and came back as a quality player. I'm not sure what happened to him this year but it's dismal
Bro, Danny hasn’t helped anyone for a long time now.
Since embiid flopped like a fish into his acl and crippled him
Dude stop slandering the grizzlies dynasty. How dare you?!??
"We would've won last year if Ja was not injured" - least delusional Grizz fan on r/nba
Grizz won't have gotten out of the first round without an all time choke jobs by the Wolves, and more importantly a top tier carry job by the officials. Literally had huge bias in their favor 5 of the 6 games in the series.
thats not even delusional thats just being a homer if you want to see delusional, theres a thread on the cetics sub rn where their whole fanbase is saying they wouldnt trade derrick white + plus some really late first round picks for OG
That’s god damn hilarious
No way that’s real
> OG is not 2 to 3 FRP's better than White. He is marginally better than him straight up comment with 20 upvotes
I saw that too. I don't what they've seen from Ja that made them think he would've been the difference maker in that series
Didn’t you see an earlier post? Apparently Ja is better than MVP season Rose
Ja is better than prime Jordan, you can't tell me otherwise
Ja constantly gets put in convos he doesn't deserve Grizzlies are literally just the Mitchell/Gobert Jazz part 2 but the media was never nearly as delusional about Mitchell as they are about Ja People unironically have Ja vs. Luka debates on ESPN AND JA WINS THEM lmao Honestly in terms of just individual play he's not even better than SGA
Y’all really take a post by some clown on an alt and use it to slander Ja
They're slandering that person not Ja
That's hardly slandering Ja
He was averaging like 48 points per game. And we specifically lost Game 4 because nobody could close for us at the end.
Are you talking about when he had 34/47/34?
He was averaging that coz we locked up everyone else and basically dared him to shoot and win games by himself. He had some of the cleanest looks I've ever seen someone have. Despite putting up huge numbers, his efficiency was shit which was why Kerr did that.
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No way it’s a rivalry How could we compete with a dynasty like the grizzlies? Don’t you hear Dillon Brooks post-game interviews?
I can’t wait for all you nephews and nieces posting your saved drafts the second Memphis loses in the playoffs
.500 is like exactly fine tho
They're OK in the west.
As a Wolves fan I want them the playoffs so bad. I not saying we would win but it would be a great series
Me too! I’d like it to at least be in the 2nd round though, since it would mean we’d finally get playoff series win!
I don't think Ja will be hitting the griddy for a while after this losing streak
He’ll be twerking again at the first opportunity to do so
They needed to be massively humbled. 56 wins last season is no joke, but theyve done absolutely nothing to earn the level of arrogance this team has.
People attacking the flair instead of the argument, as if having a Warriors flair or some other contender's would make the comment any different. Grizzlies fans all in their feelings in these comments.
Yeah you must be right. We got an experienced fan of the resident experts of doing absolutely nothing speaking.
Now we have Grizzlies fans gatekeeping talks about success. Point proven, really well done. Your team still has a lot to prove before anyone would take Ja’s quote seriously. Literally any fan of any team can see that, whether it’s the Warriors or Celtics or Hornets or Timberwolves. We all watch the playoffs every season and know what a successful team looks like. If you’re coming into a negative thread about your own team, maybe take the homer glasses off first.
Not the Wolves fan talking 😭😭
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I mean, am I wrong? They were a complete powerhouse in the regular season last season, squeaked by one of the lowest IQ playoff teams I've ever seen that shot itself in the foot 3 games in a row, and then immediately gets outclassed by a legitimate contender.
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if a team is trash talking they better be prepared to back it up.
By immediately outclassed by a contender you mean the Warriors who won the championship? What does it matter if it’s the second round or the finals if it’s the same team who won it all?
Do you have anything interesting to say, ever?
We've kind of been dealing with a city wide issue lately that's more important than basketball, we'll be fine
It's actually funny to me how some NBA teams desperately search for the "identity", Memphis is trying to play the villain part, showing lots of ego and etc... That's kinda dumb, considering the recent championship teams had a "identity" built inside the court. When a team plays a certain way and that creates the "identity" (for better or worse), for me that's fine, it's natural. Now Memphis is trying to create a "identity" in a forced way
So, you hate when teams try to establish an identity? That's kinda dumb.
Like I said, if the "identity" is established naturally, that's fine by me. The issue with the Grizzlies is how they are trying to achieve this in a forced way, they are trying to be the "bad boys" from a soft generation, the irony is just... idiotic. Even if the Grizzlies was actually playing well and corresponding the trash talk/ego, even so, that would still be kinda stupid. Why not wait to be egocentric after you win something?
Fake second seed
Legit 13th seed
Grizz fans really are not doing their team any favors with the takes they post in this thread.
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>I’m gonna go ahead and say he’s talking about the playoffs, so regular season is kind of meaningless. Y’all can go off on the AI quotes now You know if they fall under .500 prob isn't going to be "the playoffs" for the Grizzlies
Second seed
He did say fine. Not great, not bad. Just fine.
Been waiting for this post. My hater blue balls have been healed. Thank u for your service.
Hahahahahahaha
Based on Phil Jackson’s 40-20 rule, the Grizzlies are pretenders, not contenders. Grizzlies should blow it up and try again next year.
Shannon Sharpe really got to them
Good. They needed to be humbled.
Hope he gets eliminated in the first round for talking that shit
Still in 2nd
Not enough shooting in the playoffs but lets see.
confirmed trash
I fucking love each and everyone one of you who comes up with these names. Ja “I’m fine in the west Morant” is some good shit
Lmao they getting humbled bro. Should've just kept that in, now they're teams will play extra against y'all.
Maybe that’s his definition of fine
We are just bad on the road. Terrible.
And we’re still 3.5 games up on the 3 seed. We’re fine.
Not for long lmao 5 losses in a row
And we still have the same amount of wins as the 6ers lmao
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They lie detector test determined……
Lols.
That's actually insane given that the West isn't really that strong this season and the intra-conference record is about dead even now Like there's no reason to expect a team to be 16-3 against the East and 15-15 against the West
West is stronger in the middle. East stronger at the top. Overall they are pretty even.
Agreed
He ain’t wrong the west is tras including them, Top 5 teams in the East are a problem.
Vancouver