NBA: Ja Morant or how to win a Michael Jordan game

Vgoing to play Ja Morant, analyzing their impact on their team’s game, one wonders how the Grizzlies these days without their star, how they continue to exist. It is certainly a huge credit to point to the memphis template that are still fourth in the West.

What of Morant it’s brutal. When you talk about NBA 3.0, the one of the future that is already here, you have to include it in each and every one of the equations. The reality is that we are facing a supernova that has already exploded, who already dominates the games, who has a decisive influence on his team. It doesn’t break as many precocious records as Luka Doncic o Trae Yoing, but it begins to show that it is up to him.

In a test as demanding as that of playing against Phoenix Suns, and as much as the Arizonans have run out of DeAndre Ayton For the covid, Morant obtained a high outstanding by shooting for honor. I played a huge game keeping his team alive against probably one of the league’s two or three fittest teams.

Morant finished with 33 points, four rebounds and four assists in 34 minutes but it was his last second of the game that gave him all the prominence this day.

With a front tripple, Devin Booker hammer the illusions of the Grizzlies with five seconds to go, 113-112. It seemed like a definitive blow.

But the genius of Morant. After a timeout, he grabbed the ball and challenged the Suns defense, especially a Booker that couldn’t stop him. If in the play we imagine Ja in red and with the Bulls jersey, we will see Michael Jordan when in the 90s he used to close the parties in this way. Morant disguised himself as MJ to win the game against the Suns, 113-114, five tenths to go with an extraordinary play that sums up his leadership and importance in the team.

“The idea was to feint with one hand and try to score. And it went well for me“Morant said of his winning prodigy. A marvel of action that makes way for a hulking player.

As the Nets celebrate the imminent return to action of Kevin Durant and give about two weeks to Kyrie Irving to get in shape, they continue to sleep very peacefully while James Harden healthy. ‘La Barba’ may continue to unfairly collect naysayers, but he’s an amazing player.

Harden is this year at an exceptional level. In Los Angeles he nearly hit an overwhelming triple-double with 39 points, 15 assists and eight rebounds and an influence in the game very close to that of the best time of LeBron James. The best of his numbers was that his shooting card was excellent, 15 of 25 in field goals and 4 of 9 in triples, and that he only lost three balls in 40 minutes of play.

With Durant by his side his influence goes down but the qualities of Harden are inexhaustible, although he still does not convince a good handful of detractors that one day they will see him lift the title of NBA champion.

The Covid storm seems to have passed in the Bulls and the team is finally recovering troops. The ‘Windy City’ team defeated the Hawks, 118-130, under the baton of their two great leaders: “It’s our job“DeRozan said naturally after the crash. DeMar he left until he was 35 and Zach LaVine He did 30 to go directly into the history of the franchise that they both try to bring back to glory.

DeRozan and LaVine They are the second pair of Bulls players to finish a game with 30 or more points and 9 or more assists. Before they had only succeeded, of course, Michael Jordan y Scottie Pippen on March 31, 1991.

In addition, the two Bulls players are the first pair of teammates to sign at least 21 points and five assists in a half-game since the NBA adopted the ‘play-by-play’ statistic in 1997-98.

DeRozan and LaVine they are burning stages. Both have had to return from quarantine after the covid and both have done it in good shape to keep their team in the Eastern elite. The Bulls remain one of the biggest threats to the final Nets – Bucks that almost everyone foresees in the East.