Grizzlies player Dillon Brooks complained regarding the whistles directed at him following Memphis’ loss to the Suns tonight. The Canadian would, in his own opinion, be unfairly targeted by the officials.
Dillon Brooks and the umpires don’t really seem on the same page when it comes to rule interpretation. This was once more verified once morest the Suns tonight. The Teddy Bears winger told his teammate Ja Morant during the match that he was not sure he had made a mistake… on a hand in the face of Cameron Johnson, logically sanctioned with a flagrant by the referees. More generally, the former Duck of the University of Oregon seems to have difficulty understanding the treatment of women and men at the whistle towards him in general.
“They have me in their sights every night. I can’t play my game. They don’t let me play physical enough. It’s every night, and I don’t appreciate that. Every night they make me find myself in the red with the faults. I do not like it. I hope that changes” – Dillon Brooks
The Ursidae franchise player, Ja Morant, also defended his teammate, playing the usual “he-is-passionate-he-plays-hard-he-gives-all” card.
“I have a feeling that some people have a certain animosity towards him. He’s just passionate. He gives everything in the game when he is on the pitch. He will always give his all. I feel like people misjudge him for that. Any manager would want a player who is going to give it all up all the time” – Ja Morant
Certainly, it is true that the one who celebrated his 27th birthday yesterday is not the last to put intensity on the ground. And we can certainly not blame him for talking in a vacuum, he who declared in a post-game interview following the victory over the Cavs last week that his Grizzlies were “a bunch of dogs”, “always there to play physical ”. For once, here are the words accompanied by acts well as it should.
Well all the same, for a player who appears in the top 10 of those who commit the most fouls in total AND per game this season (143 and 3.4), perhaps the zeal of the referees, justified or not, is not the only source of the “problem”. And then, let’s face it, knock the arm of the unfortunate Gary Payton II during the last Playoffsthis is certainly not likely to attract the good graces of the game masters. Incidentally, it is probably not this assumed propensity for harshness that risks reducing the number of haters of the troupe of Taylor Jenkins. But hey, that’s the least of the Grizzlies’ worries.
Playing hard and going the physical route is fine. We still have to bear the consequences. And it may be a bit too much coffee on the part of Dillon Brooks to attack arbitration when he himself chose to expose himself to it by his style of play.
Source texte : Commercial Appeal / Team Rankings