True to his way of being, made to give a show, Santi Aldama always delight. Even on his worst days. The canary left a play of a lot of class in the victory of the Grizzlies against the Warriors (133-119) despite the fact that he signed his second worst game of the season in terms of scoring, with 4 points in 18 minutes after 2/3 shooting. He also added 3 rebounds, 1 assist and 1 block.
The most surprising thing is that, for the first time this season, Aldama, with 1/14 on the perimeter in the previous four games, he did not take any three-pointers. But, when an attempt is changed for a penetration and it ends like this, nothing to say. “We have executed the game in a brutal way, we have forced them to take the shots we wanted. Dillon Brooks He has simply been very focused”, highlighted the power forward.
Memphis unleashed all its anger on the Warriors, so at home, so “tender” and so “innocent” away from San Francisco in this bipolar disorder that continues without healing before the proximity of some playoffs that are not even guaranteed. Eager to claim your team culture waiting for him to come back I Morant, the Grizzlies left their particular confrontations with Golden State this season in a draw (2-2) to balance this rivalry that has become so accentuated in recent times, cultivated especially by Dillon Brooks, to which Aldama alluded.
But, like the one who doesn’t shut up underwater, Brooks doesn’t even after winning. Groped with a ‘spicy’ question at the end of the game, the forward did not hesitate to enter the rag. “If the Warriors is one of those teams that is easy to get up for? Oh yeah. they made talk to Draymond GreenThey got Klay talking. So it’s very easy to be ready for this match. I was prepared. I only had 4 hours of sleep,” blurted out Brooks, an agitator cheered by the Memphis crowd after taking down 18 points after being fined $35,000 for shoving a photographer at a game against the Heat. One more.
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Brooks does not forget the viral mockery of Klay Thompson on Christmas Day, when he laughed at the forward with it on the ground after the shooting guard hit a shot in the then-win for the Bay Area. Or what he said afterwards. “They can’t talk about being a dynasty when they haven’t won anything,” said one of the brothers. ‘Splash Brothers’ after that Christmas meeting. Nor, of course, did Brooks forget about his recent verbal and physical brushes with Draymond Green, delighted, of course, to get into these ‘scouring’.
The interior finished with 11 points, 7 rebounds and 5 assists, in his line, in which a blurred Thompson could not be, who left Memphis with 14 points after 6/17 in shooting and 2/9 in triples to end the worst plus-minus in Golden State with a striking -30. not much better did Stephen Curry, who finished with 16 points after 5/15 in field goals and 3/8 from the perimeter.
In fact, and by way of irony -since the problem this season for the Warriors has been found in the second unit-, the bench did better, highlighting the 24 points of Jonathan Kuminga after a 4/7 from long distance and 21 from Jordan Poolewith a 5/12 in TC and a 2/3 in triples.
Desmond Bane, also involved in some shady business lately – he was sent off against the Heat for a hit on Kevin Love in the testicles in a penetration-, he shined with 26 points, although the top scorer in Memphis was Jaren Jackson Jr. with 31 points.
Luke Kennard, his immediate performance as the shooter the Grizzlies got at the market close, contributed 14 points from the bench with 4/8 from the perimeter, while David Roddy, Taking advantage of his confidence in this good moment he is living, he registered 11 from the second unit with an effective 3/4 from 7.25. Many of those shots were made possible by Tyus Jones, 13 points but immense at directing with 14 assists. A perfect night that began with a tribute to Zach Randolph, what good times he lived in Memphis with Marc Gasol.
The Grizzlies remain tied for second with the Kings with 43-27, while the Warriors again see themselves out of playoff positions, seventh now with 36-36. It is what they have to get almost nothing away from home, with a 7-29 season and 9 consecutive defeats. As inadmissible as untenable for the champion.
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