The Grizzlies beat the Pelicans 116-115 in overtime to snap a four-game winning streak, and the Grizzlies have not lost a single game since Morant's return. Now no one says that Mo Xiong is stronger, right? Morant's influence is simply visible to the naked eye, he can tear up space when he breaks through, and the title of waist king is not in vain. Coupled with a one-handed tandem, the Grizzlies offense is like mercury, and Smart is also back. At the end of the day, a good role player needs a strong leader.
From the beginning of the first quarter, Morant took the lead in continuous tandem, and Awei Bane felt hot, he scored 14 points in a single quarter, and the Grizzlies led 24-16. In the second quarter, the Fat Tiger exerted his strength, Zion made foul free throws in a row, and the Grizzlies really couldn't stop this, plus Murphy found his touch on the outside, and the Pelicans overtook the Grizzlies 17-2 in a wave. At the critical moment, Morant made a move, he broke through to score a layup, and assisted Roddy and Bane, and the Grizzlies responded with a 10-0 surge. It was just two consecutive hits from Ingram and McCollum, and the Grizzlies trailed by five points at halftime.
Due to the heroic performance in the second quarter, the Pelicans were getting hotter and hotter in the second half, and Ingram went down to the offensive end, and he led the team to a 12-2 run that the Pelicans had a 15-point lead. Seeing that the general trend has gone, the Grizzly Bear Jedi counterattacks in the last quarter. Smart became the vanguard, he hit a three-point shot, Bane broke through 2+1, Morant also fired, and the Grizzlies successfully dragged the game into overtime. In overtime, Sesmart showed the spirit of the Green Army, he completed a deadly steal against Ingram and countered a dragon 2+1, and the Grizzlies led by three points 107-104.
Although Ingram and Zion tied the score, Morant made a key layup to give the Grizzlies a four-point lead. In the end, Morant made an empty dunk and completely killed the game. For the full game, Ingram scored 24 points on the Pelicans' side, Zion had 23 points and 9 boards, Wallan had 17 points and 13 boards, and McCollum had 16 points. For the Grizzlies, Morant deserved to be the MVP, he scored 31 points, 5 rebounds, 7 assists and 2 blocks, Bane 27 points, Smart 13 points and 5 steals, Jalen Jr. 19 points and 10 rebounds, Biyombo 8 points, 7 rebounds and 2 blocks.
In the four games of his comeback, Morant scored 34 points, 20 points, 30 points and 31 points, respectively. That's the talent of Bangyan. Although Zion has suppressed Morant to become the champion with absolute talent, Morant is better than Zion in terms of performance and attendance in the past few seasons. He is indeed worthy of the title of the leader, in the past we all said that there must be a water for the top of the list, and now Zion and Morant are considered to be bright for a while.
It's just a pity that Morant's success makes the teams behind look forward to the emergence of the new Morant. For example, the Rockets, why they got Jalen Green in '21 is because of Morant's success. Morant is a Rockets fan himself and grew up watching games. And Jalen Green's physical talent is not below Morant, he has the ability to start the first step and stay in the air at the historical level, and his waist strength in the sky is on par with Morant. But why Jalen Green is getting worse and worse now is because the Rockets don't consider ball quotient.
The scouting department of the '21 Rockets gave two options, with the statisticians favoring Mobley and Barnes and the valuers favoring Jalen Green. In the end, because of Morant's success, the Rockets top brass took Jalen Green. At that time, it was expected that Jalen Green could replicate the Grizzlies' feat of getting Morant, and now the Rockets have been cheated miserably. It's not that talent is close to Morant, Jalen Green is now a four-in-one and wastes the Rockets a list. At the same time, it also made the Rockets realize the reality, players from the Internet celebrity liar team like the Ignite team should not choose, and should choose a normal university from the NCAA.