The only positive is that the Grizzlies can’t be this bad all night and the Jazz can’t keep hitting everything…

Down 17 at the half after the worst quarter in memory. I’ll take it.

First Steven Adams backdoor bounce pass assist of the night to Ja Morant…

The Grizzlies are 21st in the league in assists, averaging 23.7 AST per 100 poss’s

Despite his slow start with individual assists (2.2 vs 3.4 apg last season), Steven Adams makes the biggest difference of all players to team assists when on the court

on: 26.5 AST
off: 21.0 AST

% of on-ball screens set that connect with the defender…
83.8% Steven Adams (1st)
47.7% Anthony Davis
33.8% Myles Turner (53rd)

Via Nekias article 👇🏼

Team rotations were thrown out yesterday with injuries and Steven Adams foul trouble, but 4th quarter rotations were a mystery…

Adams has closed every game and led the team in +/- (+11 in a 1 point loss), offensive rating, and net rating but only plays 3 mins in the 4th?

Tough game to watch with Steven Adams picking up 3 quick screen fouls

Despite only playing 19 mins, he led the team in rebounds (10), screen assists (5), offensive rating (145), net rating (+24.5) and +/- (+11)

To those saying he didn’t get out to Olynyk 3s - it was a zone…

Steven Adams with 12 offensive rebounds in less than 40 minutes played the last 2 games combined

Steven Adams keeping it alive for the dagger second chance triple

Just want to see Steven Adams flush the put-backs he’s missing or kicking out.

Last season, the majority of Steven Adams’ field goals were put-backs off offensive rebounds.

5 games in and there’s a noticeable change to his shot diet; only 1 put-back, with the majority of shots being self-created post-ups or aggressively taking bigs off the dribble…

Ja Morant’s reaction to Steven Adams doing the stocktake and counting to 4 😂…

Off topic photo from last nights game…but there’s no way anyone with this release should be shooting volume threes in the NBA