“This season, Morant is averaging career lows in touches, average touch length and dribbles per touch this season. Morant's 22.4 points per game is his lowest scoring average since 2020-21, his second season, and his field goal percentage (.448) is the worst of his career. That didn't sit well with him, and he voiced his frustrations publicly and privately, sources said.”

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Details Emerge About Ja Morant's Frustration With Team

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  2. That’s what happens when you don’t really improve and guys like JJJ do. Also what happens when you only play in half the games

  4. So you fire your top 5 coach because the problematic player who’s not even the best on the team wants the ball more? Seems like an amazing plan

  5. Isn’t their new offense installed by the new assistant coach they brought in who is now the head coach?

  6. This isn’t really relevant to Jenkins’ firing though, because the Grizzlies cleaned out his entire assistant staff last season. When you do that, that’s usually a sign that the coach is on thin ice.

    If you listen to Chris Vernon, Jenkins was one of Ja’s biggest believers, and he rates Ja more than the organization does.

  7. I’m sorry, but this dude is the opposite of what you want out of your superstar/franchise player.

    He clearly cares more about individual success/accolades than he does winning and team success.

    He’s upset about a lack of touches, despite being 13th in the league in usage percentage this season.

    And you simply can’t trust the kid to handle his business like a professional off the court. At least not at this point in his career.

    Still taking him number 1 overall if we redo that 2019 draft, but I wouldn’t be thrilled hearing this if I were a Grizzlies fan.

  11. He is top 15 in the league for usage rate.

    He sounds like a whiny baby here.

  12. He’s never going to win a title as the main guy

    He’s 25, so he’s got about 5 years of peak athleticism, after that my guess is his career will sink like a stone

    If I were the grizzlies, I’d trade him, get a boat load of picks, move up in this draft, reset with a new cornerstone

  13. People are dunking on him here but it is definitely true that Ja has gotten worse in almost every aspect of his game over the past 2-3 years. He’s a worse shooter, he’s worse at getting to the line, he gives less effort as a defender, and he plays less. At some point it makes sense to change the coach – Ja is really talented and you need to take a swing on the potential that a better coach can make him not shit his pants from a developmental perspective.

  14. I always thought that the new offense was there to ease Ja’s load through the season. Then if it would eventually fall off in the middle of the season or in a playoff series, they would revert back to what they been known to do. I mean they drafted Edey for his fit playing with Ja and seeing that new offense as it is a month before the playoffs, was just a weird thing to see

  15. He got less touches because he keeps getting hurt. Taking out him missing games, why overuse him so it can lead to more injuries? His touches declined because he declined.

  19. Looks like the organization chose to side with Ja over Jenkins in this. Maybe there’s another timeline where instead he gets traded to the Rockets

  21. I said it was just like the fox and Mike brown situation except the grizzlies is what the 5 seed rn? And playoffs is in 2 weeks

  23. Bro said

    > We’re fine in the West

    And nothing was the same…

    I got an eerie feeling that the comment wouldn’t age well… but I didn’t think it’d turn out this bad.

  27. I’m sure the Grizzlies are frustrated he’s only played at least 65 games in one of the six seasons he’s been in the league.

  28. For the “SpAm HiM iN tHe PnR!1!” clowns, here’s are his percentiles as a PnR ballhandler every year of his career

    24-25: 39

    23-24: 79 (this season he played 9 games)

    22-23: 64

    21-22: 71

    20-21: 41

    19-20: 56

    I understand homers are going to stan for their guy but historically he’s really just not that elite as a PnR ballhandler. It’s not effective enough to spam and DEFINITELY not effective enough to build an entire offense around.

    He’s a consistently solid but not elite PnR ballhandler. Building an offense that showcases that on top of the guy not being there like 1/2 of the time makes absolutely no sense.

  29. At what point do you just go, so what Ja? We got the 6th best offense in spite of you.

  30. Ja missed how many games from waving guns around on streams, how many games missed due to his injuries, and he’s complaining about his touches are down?

    The hubris.

    Honestly Ja is probably the most overrated player in the league. He’s talented but how many playoff series that talent won for the Grizzlies?

    I think the man has played in 4 playoff series in his entire career and only won one.

  32. And then they fired the head coach that was trying to get his touches back. Grizzlies about to go full Nico on this franchise.

  37. Is Ja taking into consideration that he is on the bench injured half the time! Then the team has to function without him… this is becoming a frequent occurrence.. just saying!🙏🏾💯

  40. I hate players that start whining when their team is exceeding expectations…

    So, what? You’d rather go back to sucking? But, just so long as you are a bit more famous, personally?

  42. You kind of have two choices if you’re the Grizzlies head coach. You can make a Ja-Centri offensive system and then deal with your inability to run that offense on in every 3 games, or you can create a team-first offense that maximizes all the players around Ja that’ll at least be the same with our workout him.

  43. Per 36, his FGA, FTA, and Assists were all up per 36 minutes this year over last year.

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