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When Ja Morant returned to the Memphis Grizzlies and led the team to a four-game winning streak, it felt like for a brief moment that Memphis had a potential playoff run. Those dreams are over now, but Paul Pierce believes they never even began.
On an episode of The Ticket and the Truth, Paul Pierce revealed that he believed the Grizzlies were never going to make a playoff run, even with Morant’s return.
“They wasn’t going to the playoffs,” Pierce said. “I don’t care what Ja did. They wasn’t going to the playoffs. They was too far back.”
In Pierce’s eyes, the Memphis Grizzlies were just too many games behind a play-in spot, even with Morant’s return.
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“They got too much ground to cover,” Pierce said. “When you five, six games from the Play-In, that’s like being two laps behind. If Usain Bolt, and I’m two laps in front of him, and we’ve got two laps to go, he’s not catching me.”
While Pierce’s statement would be a safe bet for anyone to make, the Memphis Grizzlies were really looking like a different team with Ja Morant back. They were beating quality teams during their winning streak and looked capable of making a strong push. However, the bigger question was whether the teams in front of them would fall into a losing streak for the Grizzlies to actually make ground.
Now that Morant is out for the rest of the season, we’ll never know if they were actually going to make that run.
