Yes, Morant’s message, after the Grizzlies lost historically to open their first round playoff series against the Thunder, was direct.
Loss of 51 Memphis points Sunday in Oklahoma City was the sausage in the history of the playoffs of the franchise and led to the superstar of the Grizzlies to declare that “never” would happen again.
“We’ll never play so bad again,” Morant told journalists naturally after the game.
The Grizzlies will surely want to erase their performance on Sunday of their minds, but it is difficult to forget for fans.
ESPN’s investigation called The defeat of Sunday the fifth highest margin in a playoff game of the NBA, with the last defeat so unequal as this occurs in 2015 when the Bulls knocked down the Bucks for 54 points.
Memphis players tried to keep things in perspective when they went to journalists after the loss, with Desmond Bane pointing out the fact that there were still many series to play.
“At the end of the day, it’s a game,” Bane said, In accordance with commercial appeal. “If we lose the 50 or lose in a bell bell, the series is still 1-0. It is not the result we wanted, sure, but still we had a good opportunity to put one on the road in two days.”
Oklahoma City led by up to 56 points and did not play any duration of the fourth quarter.
“Fortunately for us, there is only one form of this, and that is,” said ESPN, interim coach of the Grizzlies, Tuomas Iisalo. “We will analyze it, we will learn from it, and then fix those things that hurt us. But there were many things.”
Morant finished with 17 points in a 6 of 17 shot and recorded four assists.
Memphis will have the opportunity to demonstrate that he can recover from the ugly beginning to the series when playing game 2 on Tuesday in Oklahoma City.
