Although he entered the final train of the playoffs as the eighth in the West last season, the Grizzlies were eliminated 4-1 by the powerful Jazz in the first round. Because the team does not have a particularly prominent superstar, everyone does not have too many expectations for the Grizzlies, and as a result, they did not think that the season has been so far, the Grizzlies have actually ranked in the top four in the West with a record of 24 wins and 14 losses, and the playoff regulars such as the Nuggets, Clippers, and Lone Rangers have been left behind by them, of course, including the Lakers who have been given high hopes by everyone.
For a small ball market like the Grizzlies, in the case of no way to attract superstars, it can only be excavated from within, and at the level of team investment, the Grizzlies are not like those local tycoon teams that "spend money like dirt". Their total salary this season is only 114.1 million, ranking third from the bottom in the league, and the player with the highest salary in the team is Adams (17.07 million), who has just traded from the Pelicans in the offseason, such as Morant, the absolute core, who is still taking rookie contracts, with an annual salary of only 9.6 million, not to mention that Bane, who has the ability to compete for the best improvement award this year, is still receiving a cabbage contract of 2.03 million.
Unlike the Thunder, who are all gathering high-pick rookies, the Grizzlies seem to be more adept at Taobao some low-ranking UNDERDOG, except for Morant, who is the 19-year list, Jalen Jr. is the No. 4 show in 18 years, and the rest of the main rotation, Dillon Brooks, the team's second-place scorer who averaged 19.3 points per game, is the second round of the 15th pick in 17 years, Bain who averaged 17.6 points per game, is also only the first round of the 30th pick in 20 years, and the substitute starter Danton Nilton is only the second round of the 16th draw in 18 years, and the main rotation of the front line Brandon Clark, although he graduated from the famous basketball school Gonzaga University, but in the 19th draft, he was only a 21st pick and was picked by the Grizzlies.
It is such a group of seemingly "shrimp soldiers and crab generals" lineup collocation, but under the careful tuning of coach Jenkins, it has become a strong team in the upper half of the west, which is really surprising. The success of the Grizzlies in these two seasons is indeed a good reference for those small-ball city teams, in the case of not getting superstars, and not getting high draft picks, combined with the team's own situation, to dig up some baby players, they are likely to become the "next Grizzlies".
The original GDP, in addition to Duncan, Parker and Ginobili are not the rookies in the lottery area, and Jokic, who currently leads the Nuggets to kill the four sides, is also only a second-round show, and the players who can enter the NBA are not idle, but it depends on how the coaching staff uses it.
The Grizzlies have been able to build a number of low-ranking players into the team's main rotation over the years, thanks to the unique vision of management and the bold use of the coaching staff. This season, the Grizzlies have successively cut the Warriors, Nets, Suns and Lakers these popular teams under the horse, enough to prove that their fourth in the West is indeed very large, if they can really rely on low-cost investment, coupled with the success of Taobao low-ranking rookies to make the team successful, and launch an impact towards the championship, such as the Pistons, Pelicans, Magic, these small-scale reconstruction teams, should they continue to stop their own mud can not support the wall of the Buddhist mentality, began to stand on the present?