On January 5, Beijing time, the NBA regular season continued, and the Memphis Grizzlies visited the East to challenge the Cleveland Cavaliers. As two youth teams that have emerged this season, the confrontation between the two teams has attracted much attention. After four quarters of competition, the Grizzlies won 110-106 and won six consecutive games with a more prominent performance on both ends of the offensive and defensive ends in the final moment.
With the latest six-game winning streak, the Grizzlies have also reached 25-14 this season, ranking fourth in the West and five-game ahead of the fifth-place Denver Nuggets in the West. Just a year ago, they were a team that barely managed to catch the playoffs, and they were out of the first round of the playoffs, but this season they firmly occupied a place in the top four in the West. The rush is eye-catching.
As the core of the team, Morant's performance in this game is still strong, playing 34 minutes, scoring a team-high 26 points on 9 of 21 shooting, grabbing 5 rebounds, sending 5 assists, 2 steals and 2 blocks, the data is comprehensive and efficient. Especially in the last quarter of the game, he scored 10 points in a row of shots and penalties, becoming the key to determining the outcome of the game.
Counting this game, Morant has scored 184 points in the Grizzlies' past 6 consecutive wins, averaging 30.7 points per game, in addition to 6.3 rebounds and 6.2 assists, and the overall shooting rate and outside shooting rate are around 50%.
As the 2019 leaderboard show, Morant is undoubtedly the biggest contributor to the Grizzlies' emergence in these seasons. In his second season, he led the team back to the playoffs, and in the 27 games he played this season, he was able to contribute a staggering 25.1 points, 5.7 rebounds and 6.7 assists, shooting nearly 50% from the field and 40% from three-point range.
The 2019 draft is widely considered to be a big draft year, with a number of teams choosing to fight for Zion Williamson, the young talented player, with the reputation of "Little Zhan Huang"; it also attracted the attention of countless media and fans, making Morant, who was selected after him, somewhat eclipsed, although Morant had just achieved the earth-shattering counterattack from a 0-star high school student to an NBA top-notch show.
However, after just 3 years, Zion was plagued by injuries and could only watch from the sidelines for a long time, even in some games that appeared, he failed to help the team win enough victories; on the contrary, Morant, who was dimly stard at the time, shined and had already shown his potential to become a superstar.