Ja Morant provided a real highlight with his dunk over Victor Wembanyama. However, the Grizzlies point guard saw nothing special in this action.
“That was what everyone wanted to see. That’s my belated Christmas present,” said Morant after the game (106:98) about his highlight dunk. In the fourth quarter it finally worked for the guard when he drove towards the Frenchman, let the 2.24 meter man get out with a crossover and then furiously stuffed it over the rookie.
Nevertheless, Morant didn’t want to make a big deal about it. “For me it’s not unusual,” said Morant. “I’m a scorer, I want to put the ball in the basket. I wake up every morning and want to dunk over opponents.” The guard also said that his father would describe such dunks as “hard layups.”
But Morant needed a bit of a run-up to achieve his highlight. In the first minute of the game, Wemby cleared away a lay-off from the Grizzlies star, and Morant later retaliated with a step-back three-pointer into the Frenchman’s face. Shortly before his dunk, the playmaker had already beaten Wembanyama once, when he was somehow able to fit an incredibly heavy Leger into the basket.
In an otherwise weak game, the 26 points and 10 assists from Morant, who had been weakened by the flu in the previous games, were enough for Memphis. The Grizzlies are still only in 13th place in the West, with a record of 11-22, Memphis is 5.5 games behind tenth place, which is currently occupied by the struggling Los Angeles Lakers. San Antonio is clearly at the bottom of the West with 5-28, only Detroit (3-30) in the East has lost more times than the Texans.
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2024-01-03 06:12:00
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