If we get through for two minutes only, it will be a start! -The Jam
Public Service Announcement: Ok, here we go! We all knew it was going to bad this season for the Grizz. But this bad? Geez. Just tuhrrible. Round Mound style.
How bad was it? Pretty gosh dern bad. In one of the ugliest games this blogger has ever witnessed, the Houston Rockets dispatched the Grizzlies in inauspicious fashion. The Rockets played badly. Very badly. The Grizz played worse.
The Rockets defeated Memphis, 82-71, sending the Grizzlies to their eighth consecutive loss in a season opener. This loss matches the longest opening-day ineptitude in NBA history. The only other team to lose its opener in eight straight seasons was the Hot ‘Lanta Hawks from 1999 to 2006. Teams that featured Isiaah Rider. Teams that featured Glenn Big Dog Robinson. Teams that featured Antoine Walker. Teams that featured guys like that there. Not very good teams at all.
That was not the only record of incompetence the Grizzlies tied. Oh no. They would not stop there. Memphis went 0-for-13 shooting from beyond the arc. Who cares you say? Big deal you say? I say only one other team in NBA history started its season shooting 0-for-13 on Downtown Freddy Browns. I say only Danny Ferry and the 1997 Cavaliers on Halloween Night matched that mark. Also against the Rockets. Also in Houston.
The Grizzlies are a young team. A team building for the future with the likes of OJ Mayo, Marc Gasol and Rudy Gay. The Grizzlies are not a very good team. They went 22-60 last season and finished dead last in the Western Conference’s Southwest Division. Don’t expect much more. Not this year.
Public Spectacle:
Worst Of The Night (Basketbawful)
Peace out homies. Six two and Even!
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